Month: February 2021

Most damaging of all, they would have all the nuclear attack options instantly available around the clock to the US commander-in-chief. That list of …

Hundreds of artifacts from the post-war era when the Soviet Union and US and its allies stood on the brink of nuclear war will be sold in an on-line …

… the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, handing new clout over the defense budget to a state with strong nuclear weapons interests.

The sole mission of the weapons enterprise was to rapidly design, test and deploy increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapons. Over the course of four …

… key existential threats to humanity, including nuclear war, climate change, … itself as covering “unconventional stories about unconventional wars.”.

One big concern: “[M]aking sure the big war does not simply become a series of small wars,” he writes. In addition to vigorous engagement with the …

… $338 billion in savings over the coming years, the advocacy group goes after a number of programs, from ships to nuclear weapons to fighter jets.

There were 17 nuclear bunkers across England and Wales which served in the Cold War with Hope Cove being one of the last to be sold. Hope Cove …

It urges abolition of nuclear weapons worldwide. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II made the U.S. the only country on …

And so the number of nuclear decision-makers multiplied, raising the odds of a terrifying possibility: that one of these powerful weapons might go off.