Month: March 2020

And before AIDS, there was a panicked response to a possible nuclear war. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the Cold War, the threat of …

The problem of nuclear war, it seemed to him, was fundamentally not technical but human and historical. He was an iconoclast, too, and enjoyed being …

Interest has been revived by recent wars, in which American forces proved extraordinarily hungry for energy. Early in the Iraq war, fuel made up over a …

… I remember which began watching the Prime Minister board the deadly black whale of a Trident sub to see how a nuclear war would be launched, …

… argued against the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War. The report was one of many he co-authored over his 50 years as a JASON.

The president says he “used to discuss nuclear” with his uncle “all the time,” and in a rambling 2016 campaign speech, … During World War II, Trump worked at the British branch of MIT’s Radiation Laboratory, and after the war he …

In the literature, while the Russian understanding of local conflicts involves limited use of war-fighting capacity and no nuclear weapons, regional wars, …

The nuclear war turned the world into a pandemonium full of hostile mutants. The player leads the lone survivor through the darkness, using limited …

Viral pandemics (along with nuclear war, climate collapse, meteor strikes and, oddly, the invention of over-enthusiastic paperclip-making AI) are …

But there’s a big difference between exploiting a justifiable fear that a candidate is going to start a nuclear war and lying to scare people. Trump has …