When the US was flexing its muscles during the Cold War, the Pentagon dropped 67 nuclear bombs on the atolls of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific …
Climate Change Is Threatening To Crack Open A Cold War Nuclear Tomb
The United States’ Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerously Entangled
In October 1973, an unreliable radiation detector could have caused the end of the world. The setting was the Yom Kippur War between Israel and a …
Maintainers under pressure to keep ‘Doomsday plane’ flying after flood wreaks havoc
… nuclear blast, the iconic blue and white E-4B serves two purposes: to provide a secure and survivable command center in the event of a nuclear war …
The People Reclaiming Religious Freedom from the Christian Right
In Georgia the same year, a group of Catholics broke into a nuclear base and marked it with their own blood to protest the threat of nuclear war.
From the hope of 1989 to a new Cold War
The fall of the wall marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. … This year, the United States withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear …
Iran Nuclear Agreement Continues to Collapse as Risk of War Increases
A byproduct of enriching uranium, however, is weapons-grade nuclear material. Meanwhile, protests in both Iraq and in Lebanon have taken a …
Nigel Farage’s followers must put their faith in Boris Johsnon to stop Jeremy Corbyn destroying Brexit
CORBYN would not have supported our troops in ANY war, we now know. … He backs terrorists waging war on the West or Israel. Ask the … even reckons Labour would only retaliate to a Russian nuclear attack after a Cabinet vote.
BONOKOSKI: A Remembrance Day 30 years ago and an airman lost
If there was going to be a nuclear war, this would light the fuse. … missions in the belly of a Lancaster bomber during the Second World War, dropping …
Pioneering ecologist Paul Ehrlich to present at UNSW Sydney on the sixth mass extinction
… human caused sixth extinction crisis, steadily increasing toxification of the planet, and increasing chance of a large-scale nuclear war,” Ehrlich said.
Air Force full of opportunities
The threat of nuclear war was all too real for Holmes and his fellow soldiers. “We had B-52s bombers at the end of the flight line ready to go. It was very …