Month: April 2020

The practice is said to have started as a nuclear war contingency in the 1950s, although the names of those designated have been recorded only …

In the event of a nuclear war or a zombie apocalypse, US government officials will be gathered and sent to one of the safest places in the world, Mount …

In the lingering debate on what may cause global economic collapse, the villain of the piece invariably was a nuclear war or global warming. Nobody …

… Gates warned that the most imminent threat to mankind was not a nuclear war, but a global epidemic for which the world was not prepared.

When the nuclear attack came, we were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down, and eat out of that barrel. Today the greatest risk of global …

It was unnerving and surreal; I felt like I was in a nuclear war sci-fi film. But after 45 seconds I had been tested for coronavirus and was told I would …

The coronavirus doesn’t frighten me in the stark way that, say, the idea of nuclear war does. Yet the virus — and in particular its effects, being so …

As a part of the Cold War arms race, the United States launched the USS Nautilus in 1958. Being nuclear powered, and thus not dependent on fuel …

Surface warships and nuclear-powered attack submarines would contribute by launching swarms of Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles against …

… preparedness — from pandemics to nuclear war — while researching his books, World War Z, Germ Warfare and the forthcoming Devolution.