World War 3 warning: Why nuclear-armed Pakistan ‘poses bigger threat to India than China’. DEFENCE analysts have suggested Pakistan could pose …
Nuclear Site Contractors to Pay $58M for Fraud
Hanford was created during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project effort to create an atomic bomb. Plutonium produced at Hanford was used in …
Prepare for DEFCON 1 as Cold War sim Terminal Conflict leaves Steam Early Access
… victory while not overtly upsetting the political knife-edge of peace and nuclear war on which the world rests. A war that could desolate the planet.
Irreconcilable Problems Are Pushing The World Towards Catastrophe
History teaches us that such contradictions are what lead to world wars. And if a Third World War comes, a nuclear war, that will indeed be …
This vanishing moment and our vanishing future
(An atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki, three days later, is thought to have killed as many as 70,000.) In the wake of the first nuclear attack, little was …
Joe Biden’s low bar for debating Donald Trump
Reagan’s task in 1980 was to convey that he was sane enough not to blunder into a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He was under related pressure …
Radical internationalism in the face of climate breakdown: Why we need a Global Green New Deal
… to armageddon in seconds as opposed to minutes, with the twin threats of nuclear war and climate destruction leaving us 100 seconds from doom.
Pain & Politics: How The Neuroscience Of Pain Is Applied In Political Campaigns
On the surface, the ad inspires fear, but what it is doing is serving up a dose of pain, the pain of losing loved ones to nuclear war. As soon as the pain …
Professor Masumi Izumi tells the story of the passage of Title II, in 1950, and its repeal in 1971
… the U.S. was undergoing a “red” scare, a fear of communism and assorted left wing and civil rights groups and also coping with a fear of nuclear war.
Guest Column
It mirrored scenes from the nuclear war aftermath films of the late ’60s, except there were no blowing tumbleweeds. This 2020 pandemic year, …