While this will not immediately eliminate the threat of nuclear war, it is a significant step in the right direction. Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the …
War and Peace: The Story of Parallel Universes
Here’s a piece of paradoxical news that puts even the looming U.S. presidential election in perspective: Nuclear weapons are now (or soon will be) …
Will India now be pushed to fight America’s wars, asks former MEA Salman Khurshid
Do we need a war with a nuclear neighbour, with another checking out its own weapons? Of course, India will not baulk at a war to defend its dignity …
Month: October 2020
… will “enter into force” in 90 days, on Jan. 22, 2021, and become international law. While this will not immediately eliminate the threat of nuclear war, it …
(US election) (News Focus) Much hangs on line for S. Korea in US presidential election
… between the United States and a nuclear war with the communist North. “His claims of having prevented a war on the Korean Peninsula are …
Good Governance Paper No. 20: Repairing and Strengthening Norms of Nuclear Restraint
The NC3 system inherited from the Cold War has been technologically … The statute defines “imminent” temporally: adversary nuclear attack is …
The dangerous psychology of Donald Trump
One especially frightening arena for pathological behavior of this kind is foreign and security policy, and specifically the threat of nuclear war. Danger: …
Possible but preventable
They imagined a nuclear war between India and Pakistan where the countries collectively dropped one hundred nuclear bombs, each about the size of …
Spotlight: 1960s satirist Tom Lehrer resurfaces
… erudite songs parodied everything from boy scouts, venereal disease, to nuclear warfare, pollution and prudishness, in a gentle and humorous way.
Senate Unanimously Passes Udall, Heinrich Resolution Honoring Nation’s Nuclear Weapons …
“During the Cold War, thousands of New Mexicans made tremendous sacrifices to build the country’s first nuclear weapons and mine the uranium to …