A sudden flash. A mushroom cloud. A sudden expanding pressure wave. In the event of a thermonuclear attack, seeing these things means its …
The US plan to survive a Soviet nuke was absolutely bonkers
Could Attacks on Oil Tankers in the Persian Gulf Lead to Another War in the Middle East?
Iran brokered a deal with the U.S., the European Union, Russia, China, and Germany in 2015 to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions …
HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries comes with a chilling warning about the war on truth
While most of the town sleeps through the nuclear explosion, in the control room of the power plant, denial is in full swing. The assistant chief engineer …
John Pilger: The Global War on Assange, Journalism & Dissent
Take the Australian war correspondent, Wilfred Burchett, who was the first to reach Hiroshima after the atomic bombing. His report appeared on the …
Fearing nuclear war, rich Florida families once built the country’s largest private bomb shelter
One of the biggest secrets in Central Florida is just 6-feet below an orange grove on the outskirts of Mount Dora. In 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis was …
Question Asked: Could the US Navy Destroy North Korea In a War?
Let’s proceed down the scale of violence, beginning with strategic nuclear strikes … Having ridden out the attack, U.S. SSBN skippers would fire their …
Taking on Tehran
Somewhere between a costly war and an unlikely regime change lies a … reduce the chance of war or Iran’s emergence as a nuclear-armed power, …
If the White House Wants War with Iran, They’re Probably Going to Get It
He’s always wanted war with Iran. In early 2015, when Obama and other world powers were negotiating the Iran Nuclear Deal, he wrote an op-ed …
The US must deploy a sub-launched low-yield nuke
It seems certain that some Russian military planners would assess that the U.S. would not risk global nuclear war by responding to Moscow’s tactical …
A US-Iran War Would Be All Sorts of Awful
We are close to a nuclear deal with Iran, but opponents continue to step up attacks aimed at … (This originally appeared at War is Boring in 2018.) …