Month: August 2021

This is a great film about nuclear weapons and deterrence, and the human factor in decision-making. Hmm, I wonder how an AI set-up might have handled the same …

During World War II, President Roosevelt assigned the atomic bomb project to the … uranium used in nuclear weapons by “no later than October 1st, 1950.

While stressing nuclear weapons were meant for deterrence and not actual war-fighting, he said India was “surrounded by two neighbours (China and Pakistan) …

During World War II, Nazi Germany and the US were racing to create nuclear weapons. The Nazis had multiple teams working on the project — Werner …

Instead of spending three trillion dollars on a nuclear war and wiping out half the planet, we can spend a couple of million dollars on a corrupt politician …

“A war in space would be as detrimental to society as a nuclear war and would impact the supply chain, communications, health care and many other other areas,” …

John F. Kennedy’s deft handling of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, which prevented a nuclear war, was another. As was George W. Bush’s success in rallying …

Rawat also asserted that India remained confident of “dealing with both the adversaries” in the conventional domain, adding that nuclear weapons “will only …

As Congress is set to debate whether to build a new generation of nuclear weapons, a conference halfway around the world is shining a light on how …

China believes the US is not willing to solve the North Korean nuclear … like to call “Cold War thinking”—that allows the DPRK to play us off one another.