People didn’t necessarily know of the programmers’ fear of nuclear war, adds Wills, but the designers were certainly conscious of it. Some even …
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What an Indian-Pakistani Nuclear War Would Do to the World (Something Like This)
Key point: A nuclear war of that scale would threaten all of humanity. Sandwiched between Iran, China, India and Afghanistan, Pakistan lives in a …
Will Congress Allow Trump Administration to Deploy New, More “Usable” Nuclear Weapons?
“Deploying these new, lower-yield nuclear weapons would make a nuclear war more likely. Their low yield reduces the threshold to using nuclear …
Fight the Power: Pompia and Lyons tackle the 10 best protest anthems in popular music
Released in 1963 in response to the Cold War and the nuclear arms buildup, “Masters of War” proved eerily prophetic in the years that followed and, …
The Navy’s oldest nuclear-powered attack sub just arrived in port for the last time
The Los Angeles-class sub, commissioned in 1984, is the Navy’s oldest nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for …
Russia hints that a new arms race is about to begin as it warns there ‘is not enough time’ to draft …
… a new Cold War-style arms race, after a foreign ministry official said there is now not enough time to replace a key nuclear pact with the US (pictured, …
A Bavarian seismological station tracks nuclear tests
Inaugurated in 1989 to monitor nuclear activities related to the Cold War, it has more recently detected North Korean tests and also monitors the …
World War 3: Iran chaos could ERUPT into Middle East war in next 12 months, warns expert
President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the agreement, signed in 2015 with the aim of preventing Iran developing nuclear weapons, earlier this …
How GCHQ helped shape history: From world wars to the Cuban Missile Crisis
How GCHQ helped shape history: From world wars to the Cuban Missile … If they did, the risk was a conflict which could escalate into nuclear war.
Community Voices (Pyatt): Impeachment not the best option, but we have to start somewhere
We live in a dangerous world, and in some ways it is more dangerous than at the end of the Cold War when there were roughly 70,000 nuclear bombs …