Month: September 2021

FILE – In this May 11, 2003, file photo, protesters lie on the pavement opposed to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility and weapons testing …

… a U.S. compensation program for people who were exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War.

General Milley, in his enthusiasm, may well have staved off a nuclear war by preventing Trump’s thumb to touch the nuclear trigger.

Essentially, the U.S. doesn’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons, for a number of complicated geopolitical reasons that are beyond the scope of this article.

Nuclear weapons have been around for the past century in the United States, and on several occasions have brought countries to the brink of war.

… kingdom supports efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, … Houthis were rejecting peaceful initiatives to end the war and that Saudi …

His research focuses on strategic security issues, such as nuclear weapons policy, deterrence, arms control, nonproliferation, missile defense, …

… supports efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, as world leaders prepare to resume talks with Tehran to reinstate a 2015 nuclear pact.

They’re vital, the Pentagon avers, to prevent war. But Milley’s method, unlike those others, is cheap. Milley’s fretting over nuclear weapons raises another …

… their ability to escape detection is enviable, and the very fact that they could be armed with nuclear weapons too can deter hostility.