We also hear from civil servants who were responsible for making emergency plans in the seemingly inevitable event of nuclear war. Essential …
Jack Friedlander, Joe White: A year without war? It can happen
Nations spend an estimated $2 trillion annually on direct war expenditures. Nuclear testing and arms treaties are being abandoned, and an increasing …
The day after: test case for a greater disaster
It may be a final nuclear war, a scale 10 earthquake, or an invasion of monsters from space. Lake County is an ideal test case for just such a greater …
Nuclear bunkers, icebound submarine wrecks and moss-covered missile silos: Haunting images of …
Fascinating new book Abandoned Cold War Places, by Robert Grenville, explores many of these relics through more than 170 striking photographs, …
How much did Blade Runner, set in November 2019, get right?
… status is achieved through ownership of real animals, instead of artificial ones (the book attributes the wipeout of various species to nuclear war).
What If India’s Missile Defense System Caused a Nuclear War with Pakistan?
The Diplomat magazine suggests that the dummy target this time could have been an Agni, an intermediate-range missile capable of carrying nuclear …
WWII’s atomic bomb program was so secretive that even participants were in dark
Secret cities. Secret work. During World War II, about 130,000 people were involved in the Manhattan Project, a highly classified collective effort that …
Congress Also Bears Blame for Trump’s Disastrous Syria Decisions
Congress should be the institution that declares war because, at best, the Presidency … A declaration of war is a grave and highly symbolic act. …. the President needed the authority to counter a sudden nuclear attack without debate.
LETTER: Let’s talk about what’s ‘terrifying’
The captain of the submarine, Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky, decided that a war might already have started and wanted to launch a nuclear torpedo …
Why Pak Spin Doctors are Zooming in on Gen Rawat
This logic would also view Pakistan’s proxy war on India as a kind of hybrid war, … Consequently, as in 1965, a war initially confined to PoK may escalate … Pir is of course possible if the Modi-Doval duo is willing to risk (nuclear) war.