Month: July 2020

But – hot take here – it has not abolished war. … President Harry S. Truman feared the spectre of atomic war, concluded that the only solution was to …

July 21, 2020 2:31 p.m.. Bruce Blair, an internationally renowned scholar and expert on the risks of accidental nuclear war, died on July 19 in hospital …

Yet, instead of ending in nuclear war, the space race concluded with a handshake in microgravity. Sputnik1a. When the Soviet’s launched humanity’s …

… had been nuclear war in 1962, living in an elaborate underground bunker for 35 years. … He designed it as the ultimate Cold War fallout shelter.

In the 1950s, with schoolchildren learning to duck and cover during a nuclear attack, she refused to let her daughters hide under their desks.

This would be the safest way to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions short of war. [email protected]. Get alerts on Middle Eastern politics & society when …

These EMP-specific fears are wholly divorced from the normal risk calculations of a war between nuclear-armed states and the threat of nuclear oblivion.

… making nuclear war more likely. There is no need for a new generation of nuclear warheads and nuclear-armed missiles, submarines and bombers.

More than 1,200 nuclear weapons were housed across eastern and central North Dakota during the Cold War. Millions of dollars were spent creating …

I was a teenager in 1965 – a time of protests – when Barry McGuire’s song, “Eve of Destruction” warned about nuclear war and said that the whole …