There was the threat of nuclear war, the AIDs crisis, all of our parents divorced. So we watched a lot of television. We were fed by Taco Bell. Nintendo …
China’s rise and the US — the possible outcomes
Nuclear war is a suicide and nobody wins a suicide pact. Thus, it is in interest of the US to accommodate China peacefully. Although China is the …
Beware Politicians Declaring War On Local Power Sources
But refueling a nuclear power plant entails an outage – the reactor has to be taken offline during the process of replacing the uranium fuel rods within the …
Mobile Suit Gundam: 10 Things From The Franchise That Were Inspired By Real Life History
But beyond that, mobile suits themselves also fit the bill as a metaphor for nuclear weapons; while this isn’t a cold war, each of the armies is racing to …
Jeremy Corbyn: pandemic should make leaders realise arms spending does not protect us
… including nuclear war and climate change, peace activists said today. … will honour its commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear …
Amateur Radio Sleuth Rediscovers a Cold War-Era ‘Zombie Satellite’
Military planners, worried about the loss of communications in the event of a nuclear war, wanted to use satellite relays to keep military units …
Homeland series finale recap: Goodbye America
… in which we overhear her boss’ tempered pleasure on the concept of an American-Pakistani nuclear warfare (this display is certainly doing wonders …
Low-Yield Warhead Eliminates Need for Nuclear Buildup, State Says
The United States does not need thousands of non-strategic nuclear weapons for our strategy because we are explicitly rejecting the notion of a war of …
A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at Hanford
From World War II through the Cold War, Hanford churned out plutonium for more than 60,000 nuclear weapons, including the atomic bomb that razed …
Stockpiling – a Swiss civic duty
During the Cold War, emergency stocks were intended to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. At the beginning of the 1950s, such stockpiles were …