Month: May 2020

Up through the 1960s, most of these films utilized natural disaster, nuclear war or alien invasion as the catalyst for their civilization-toppling cataclysm.

When the end comes for civilization, it will not be terrorism or a meteor or nuclear war that causes it, but rather, “The Blackout”. An unexplained …

Cold Wars are dangerous. In the last one, the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war at least three times. Advertisement.

Of course the last century saw millions die through World Wars I and II. And we almost obliterated ourselves in nuclear war, which might still be a …

Thankfully, Washington and Moscow talked to each other before Soviet paranoia led to a nuclear war. On the night of November 20, 1983, Armageddon …

Casualties from a nuclear war would dwarf Covid-19 in the category of global catastrophes. The cold front in Washington toward China began …

11, 2001, followed by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and suddenly no … How many weapons, of what kind, do we need to deter nuclear war or to …

… World War II. Hiroshima was targeted because of its military connection, with the attack intended to have Japan surrender their position to the Allies.

… to help the planet stave off catastrophes like nuclear war; in doing battle with him, Dolores is fighting for free will, and for humanity’s collective right to …

… signal her opposition to sheltering as a response to talk of nuclear war. “If I could afford it, I’d have put the same message in every newspaper in the …