A nuclear war could be the end of civilization. I know. Once I was in charge of the atomic bombs that now sit atop our Minuteman missiles at VAFB.
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How China’s First Nuclear-Missile Submarine Was a Total Failure
Rather than pursue a first-strike capability and thousands of nuclear weapons, something it could not afford during the Cold War, the country largely …
Beyond 2020: The Past and the Next 50 Years of the NPT
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) commemorates the 50th … War is described as “show business” with all the trappings: slogans, nicknames …
The Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight
“Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by … cyber-enabled …
The Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight
“Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers — nuclear war and climate change — that are compounded by … cyber-enabled …
Iran MPS call for debate on quitting top nuclear arms treaty
The 1968 NPT has been the foundation of global nuclear arms control since the Cold War, including the 2015 deal Iran signed with world powers that …
EU warning: How defence restrictions were imposed on UK despite WW3 threat
During the Seventies, as the Cold War raged, the UK boasted a huge nuclear arsenal of 520 strong warheads as a continuous deterrent to the Soviet …
William Gibson’s apocalyptic new novel Agency imagines a future as frightening as our own
Despite these apparent existential “wins”, the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war, thanks to a sequence of events involving Turkey, Russia, Syria …
Chapter 8: The nuclear wrap-up
So waste from the Manhattan Project – that’s the name of the World War II project that produced the first nuclear weapons – actually was stored at …
Review: Climate change turns apocalyptic in graphic novel adaptation of ‘Parable of the Sower’
With the Doomsday Clock ticking ever closer to midnight and threats of nuclear war and illness outbreaks, things are a little scary right now, globally.