Month: March 2021

The nuclear deterrent has always been sold as the weapon of last resort, only to be used in response to an existential threat. The Cold War was a …

“Nuclear weapons are a very blunt Cold War era instrument entirely inappropriate for nuanced reaction to say Russian incursions in the Baltic or China …

Jonny Wilkes talks to Professor Mark White about how the world stood on the brink of World War III and nuclear Armageddon in October 1962 – all it …

But there is almost no scenario in which the US can intervene in a war … a worst-case scenario, American territory could be struck by nuclear missiles.

AMY GOODMAN: These developments come less than two months after the landmark U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into …

By May, after weeks of brutal fighting, French forces surrendered, ending the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the French Indochina War. Western countries …

… grand plan for post-Brexit Britain involves, it turns out, a bigger nuclear weapons stockpile and a more activist approach to climate change.

Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), a high-ranking Soviet officer who has grown wary of Nikita Khrushchev’s (Vladimir Chuprikov) threats of nuclear war.

Second, the success of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in changing the narrative across most nations in the world.

North Korea continues to act against United Nations resolutions calling on the nation to stop its nuclear weapons program. The United States and …