The cornerstone of Cold War deterrence was the threat of nuclear war. Despite the passage of three decades, Daadler said the deterrent still works.
NATO summit expected to put Canada under pressure on multiple fronts
Gorbachev warns of failure of nuclear ban
“Speakers and politicians, people understand that this, the new cold war, must not be allowed. This might turn out to be a hot war that could mean the …
Donald Trump’s War on Truth and Justice: Crude, Unprecedented and Still Accelerating
“To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”[1]–Plato, The Republic. For US President Donald J. Trump, policy …
Balakot strike is a game changer with Pakistan
If we are to understand the Pakistani strategy as proxy war, then we are … Far from making a nuclear war possible, this has actually diminished its …
No president should have the absolute authority to launch nuclear weapons
The president, on their own, can simply summon the “nuclear football,” open binders of attack options and relay orders to the National Military …
Ultra-Violence, chapter 4: The Lost Generation
It could withstand any external attack, up to and including a nuclear war. This would become the second Jerusalem the Israelis wanted if all else failed.
Sir Michael Howard obituary
At the same time he was deeply alarmed about the possibility of nuclear war. Over 40 years later he revealed to me that in 1958 he had obtained by …
Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea
Others mocked the idea that there would be any survivors of a nuclear attack. You can see a version of this willful blindness in the backgrounds of …
Russia’s nuclear-armed underwater drone may be ready for war in eight years
WASHINGTON — An underwater drone armed with a nuclear warhead is slated to join Russia’s arsenal no earlier than 2027, people familiar with a …
‘Mate, I am the f***ing prime minister’: How Bob Hawke made a cabbie drive 13 revellers to a …
In response to recent surveys revealing that an alarming proportion of young people were so fearful of a nuclear war that they couldn’t see the point in …