Month: January 2021

… poised on the edge: the resolution of the Cuban missile crisis had just averted the threat of nuclear war, but was nuclear winter to take its place?

“By our estimation, the potential for the world to stumble into nuclear war – an ever-present danger over the last 75 years – increased in 2020,” said …

… “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood” began conversations that other children’s shows refused to mention: divorce, race relations, and even nuclear war.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists kept the Doomsday Clock at 100 … The Bulletin says that nuclear war and climate change remain major threats …

In 1983, NATO’s ABLE ARCHER exercise simulated a nuclear attack in such a realistic way that it almost led to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

While Navy ballistic missile submarines are intended to be undetectable platforms for waging nuclear war, the Air Force’s fleet of nuclear-capable …

… Shoreham nuclear power plant, had nightmares about nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and that the Challenger disaster embodied all those fears.

In that period, U.S. war planners viewed China’s relatively small nuclear force as a subset of Russia’s rather than as a major threat in its own right.

… to handle the even greater threats posed by nuclear war and climate change. … The Doomsday Clock decision is made by the Bulletin of the Atomic …

When the Soviet Union sent nuclear capable missiles to Cuba, the hawks demanded that the US attack. Kennedy opposed this and ended up …