Let’s proceed down the scale of violence, beginning with strategic nuclear strikes … Having ridden out the attack, U.S. SSBN skippers would fire their …
If the White House Wants War with Iran, They’re Probably Going to Get It
He’s always wanted war with Iran. In early 2015, when Obama and other world powers were negotiating the Iran Nuclear Deal, he wrote an op-ed …
Taking on Tehran
Somewhere between a costly war and an unlikely regime change lies a … reduce the chance of war or Iran’s emergence as a nuclear-armed power, …
How Iran Could Really Hurt America (And the World): Close the Strait of Hormuz
During negotiations, the JCPOA was marketed as the only option for curtailing Iran’s nuclear program short of war. Supporters of the deal routinely …
A US-Iran War Would Be All Sorts of Awful
We are close to a nuclear deal with Iran, but opponents continue to step up attacks aimed at … (This originally appeared at War is Boring in 2018.) …
The US must deploy a sub-launched low-yield nuke
It seems certain that some Russian military planners would assess that the U.S. would not risk global nuclear war by responding to Moscow’s tactical …
Wasteland remaster looks a whole lot like a remake, and I’m not complaining
It’s a good time to be a fan of humanity’s self-imposed doom via endless nuclear war, it seems. Not only is Wasteland 3 looking full of shooty spidery …
Pelosi: Congress will block Trump’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia
She’s also warning that Trump’s arms deal “includes nuclear technology that he … “I think he probably knows that there’s no appetite for war among the …
Braid: A call to achieve greatness from the radical centre
When I was your age, we all worried about nuclear war, with good reason. I vividly recall the Cuban Missile Crisis, wondering if we would make it …
Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter Talks Iran, China, and Trump’s Late-Night Tweets
Ash Carter: Why I didn’t tolerate hairsplitting in war. Goldberg: …. And nuclear wars are not something that anybody wins in a traditional military sense.