Month: January 2022

A year since Biden declared that Yemen’s civil war must end, the fighting has spilled over into the Gulf states. But Washington thinks Iran will …

China, U.S., U.K., France and Russia pledge to avoid nuclear war. Biden and Kishida also discussed the situations in Hong Kong and China’s …

Ellsberg draws on his experience as a nuclear war planner to explain the crazy and perilous thinking behind post-WWII nuclear deterrence plans.

… the closest the world ever came to Cold War nuclear annihilation, … were concerned that the nuclear technology they had developed could be …

Russia cannot tolerate NATO weaponry (like the U.S.-managed nuclear weapons NATO has in Germany) to be stationed right along its borders in Ukraine.

… 100 Seconds to ‘Midnight’ as Pandemic, Climate Change, Nuclear War Loom … on the Manhattan Project which produced the first nuclear weapons.

… hoping that Vladimir Putin understands that he is, short of a full-blown nuclear war, he is not in a very good position to dominate the world.

A national security analyst in the 1960s, Ellsberg’s most recent book is “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.”.

The nuclear war-fighting strategies of the Cold War should be put back in “the dustbins of history,” Tierney wrote. Scientists say the clock’s purpose …

Earlier this year, the US, China, Russia, Britain and France issued a rare joint statement pledging never to fight a nuclear war.