The football, born out of Cold War fears of a nuclear attack against the U.S., has traveled with every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower. According …
Column: The Shuswap’s back-to-the-landers were an amorphous bunch
… politics and the threat of nuclear war. Simmons described the movement as an “optimistic response to a pessimistic interpretation of modern life,” in …
Jeff Bezos’ embarrassing space machismo
… while women’s studies scholar Carol Cohn, attending a nuclear weapons workshop in the summer of 1984, wryly observed that the “lectures were …
In propaganda video, China threatens to nuke Japan after Japan vows to defend Taiwan
A movement is growing worldwide to abolish nuclear weapons, encouraged … The video references Japan’s defeat in World War II before promising …
The Navy Is Looking At Fitting Its Future Attack Submarines With Inflatable Sails
The U.S. Navy is investigating the possibility of having its future nuclear attack submarines fitted with sails — the tower-like structures on their forward …
Pentagon Spending Cuts Essential for Reform
POGO also urges the committee to continue to examine whether new authorities given to the Nuclear Weapons Council in last year’s National Defense …
After 2020, pandemic preparedness budget cuts should be unthinkable
The intentional or unintentional release of a biological agent could be as deadly as a nuclear war, and we need a similarly vigorous system of …
The US Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago – it didn’t go well
It was 1964, the height of the Cold War. U.S. soldiers in the tunnel, 800 miles from the North Pole, were dismantling the Army’s first portable nuclear …
Frigate Bayern in the Pacific: The Return of German Gunboat Diplomacy?
With nuclear weapons in the north, it has also become dangerously explosive in recent years. Therefore in addition to revisiting its post-Cold War …
WW3 fears as Russia warns US not to deploy hypersonic missiles in Europe
According to a bombshell Pentagon report, no potential adversary to the US “has reduced either the role of nuclear weapons in its national security …