It’s said that ARPANET was designed to survive a nuclear war; there’s plenty of debate about whether that was a specific design goal, but if it was, …
Hackaday Links: November 3, 2019
Tribune Editorial: Herbert shows the best of Utah in welcoming refugees
In an act that, to oversimplify things quite a bit, averted global thermonuclear war, John Fitzgerald Kennedy just pretended that he hadn’t seen the …
Tribune Editorial: Herbert shows the best of Utah in welcoming refugees
That became the basis for rapid negotiations, much of it in secret, that ended the threat of war over the Soviets’ placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What Ever Happened To The Russia’s Cold War Super Weapons?
The title of Soviet Military Power’s chapter on nuclear weapons is not “Strategic Nuclear Warfare” or “Strategic Nuclear Defense,” but the aggressively …
Kashmir and geopolitical imperatives
Kashmir, where the strategic interests of three nuclear powers clash, will thus … Do they have the capacity to “wage war to conquer and annex” these …
Follow Michael Crichton’s Rule
Physicist Freeman Dyson said, “It’s an absolutely atrocious piece of science, but who wants to be accused of being in favor of nuclear war?” Argument …
Napoleon Would Be Jealous: These 5 Weapons Ensure France’s Military Might In Europe
France was the fourth country to attain nuclear weapons capability, and during the Cold War maintained its own triad of land, air, and sea-based nukes …
Modi’s big reason to throw out terrorism and separatism
Ideal peace demands the development of a non-nuclear, war-free, nonviolent peaceful world through conscious global efforts. The old thinking: “If you …
Nasty Russians harassed a sick American diplomat? That’s ‘fake news’ says Foreign Ministry
Evidently, delayed flights are comparable to the world’s biggest superpowers threatening each other with nuclear war. A bold statement, were it true.
Israel, America’s Presidential Election and the Law of Armed Conflict
Under international law, of which the laws of war are plainly an integral and … attacks on European and Japanese cities during World War II. … proxy terror groups, Israel could have to face Palestinian-directed nuclear terrorism.