Friday’s show of strength came just two days after the US military launched a probe when a Russian nuclear sub surfaced off the Alaskan coast. The …
Extinguishing Prometheus’ Nuclear Flame: International Day Against Nuclear Tests
… and the growing risks of accidental nuclear war and the increasing recognition of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear …
6 Reasons Not To Worry About Delisting Chinese Equities
Unless the U.S.-Chinese relationship reaches a point of no return with substantial escalation to financial “nuclear war,” which would be even more …
Q&A, storm modeler: Resist temptation to focus on worst-case scenarios
The problem with the worst case is a lot of times with the worst case scenario it’s like the nuclear war center, where you throw up your hands and say, …
Q&A, storm modeler: Resist temptation to focus on worst-case scenarios
… worst case is a lot of times with the worst case scenario it’s like the nuclear war center, where you throw up your hands and say, ‘Well, that’s all folks.
China’s Missile Volley Sparked by Cold-War-Throwback Spy Plane
… first photos of offensive missile sites that led to the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis, the closest the U.S. and the Soviet Union ever came to nuclear war.
The Closed Cities Of ‘Tenet’ Are A Real Relic Of The Soviet Union And Beyond
First established in Russian in the wake of the second world war, as the Soviet nuclear programme was gearing up, closed cities are settlements …
The Kill Chain: A new era of world war
Why would such a war break out? … What these technologies allow for is “networked warfare”; a network of nuclear missiles, for example, can all be …
Remembering Inner Southeast in the 1950s
Tensions built between political leaders in both countries, and the threat of nuclear war was an ever-present concern for Americans. Civil defense and …
The experience of Covid-19 shows how easily catastrophe can befall our species
In his reckoning, the chance of nuclear war stands at 1/1,000 in the next 100 years, but the chance of “engineered pandemic” is 1/30 – the …