As nuclear scholar Benoit Pelopidas points out, the logic of the clock chimed with the early Cold War belief that nuclear weapons would inevitably …
The Doomsday Clock Robs Us of Political Agency. Apocalypse Is Not Inevitable
What You Don’t Know About Nuclear War
Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories columnist and the author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon …
No, China Can’t Beat America Outright in a War (Yet)
No, China Can’t Beat America Outright in a War (Yet) … It apparently disregards the decisive power of America’s nuclear-powered submarines.
Do not mistake status or style for critical thinking
Petrov’s critical thinking probably saved the world from nuclear war. Critical thinking is neither popular nor unpopular, it is neither right nor wrong — it …
Yes, a Nuclear War With North Korea Would Kill Millions
Key point: A nuclear war would see Pyongyang targeting South Korean and American cities as well as U.S. bases in Japan. The costs of such a …
In 2005, a Navy Submarine Crashed Into an Underwater Mountain—and Still Managed to Limp …
USS San Francisco is a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine. Submarine builder Newport News Shipyard began construction on her in 1977, …
Before they tore down all the Boston el lines, they had to put them up first
… photo that shows elevated RR being built in the Murry’s hometown before Charles Wallace and Gaudior change the timeline to avert a nuclear war.
Russia Is Updating Their Nuclear Weapons: What Does that Mean for the Rest of Us?
As expensive as nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles are, parity … to confront the problems of nuclear war and to look together for solutions.
Pakistan Rejects Indian PM Modi’s ‘War-Mongering’ Remarks”, Warns of “Immediate” Response
The two nuclear armed nations have fought three wars since independence in 1947 from British rule and have been involved in numerous smaller …
Outer space is the next frontier for war
It was devised during the nuclear arms race of the cold war and it only bans the … programme can be traced back to the end of the second world war.