Month: February 2021

Newly released US intelligence files show how close the Soviet Union came to launching a nuclear attack during a NATO weapons exercise in 1983.

Iran has said it will stop part of International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of its nuclear facilities next week if the West doesn’t implement its own …

The notion was that since war was unavoidable one must get the first blow in. Later the doctrine changed to examine how nuclear weapons might be …

A new report details another juncture where the U.S. and Soviet Union nearly went to nuclear war. By Charles P. Pierce. Feb 18, 2021.

… Nuclear Forces treaty with the United States to limit nuclear weapons. … 1990 – Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for helping end the Cold War.

… such a war, a fact admitted in early 2021 by a senior Air Force official, and there is no telling whether nuclear weapons would be employed or not.

The Soviet Union put fighter-bombers loaded with nuclear bombs on 24-hour alert in East Germany during a NATO nuclear weapons command …

Profoundly disturbed by the threat of nuclear war, he saw an opportunity — and responsibility — for doctors on both sides of the Iron Curtain to oppose …

… and some of the essential conditions, such as response capabilities to North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles, will be satisfied by 2028. This is …

“The Butter Battle Book” (1984) was about the arms buildup and nuclear war threat during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. “Lorax” (1971) dealt with the …