International diplomacy has largely broken down, with talks over climate change, pandemic relief, and nuclear nonproliferation at a standstill. For most …
Is the US Creating Opportunity for China in Afghanistan?
… at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. … Whitlock wrote in a December 2019 article titled, At War With the Truth.
The shattered cedars of Lebanon
The development of electromagnetic pulse weaponry or tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed in a limited fashion and mainly against the Israeli …
IOC chief Bach to visit Hiroshima despite protests
… toward the realization of a peaceful world without nuclear weapons.” … atomic bombing in 1945 in the closing days of World War II, Nagasaki Gov.
Why I’m a proud solutionist
… and to risks of catastrophe, such as nuclear war. Economic historian Robert Gordon calls himself “the prophet of pessimism.” His book The Rise and …
Events for children in Helston, Cornwall this summer holidays
Set in October 1957 the world lives in fear of nuclear war, Russia has launched Sputnik 1, UFOs are cropping up everywhere – and Stanley is building …
The Roots of Violence – episode 3 – Iran 2001 to 2021
There is an ongoing war in Yemen and there are several other countries that … And the country that originally had the nuclear weapons, promised to …
What does the Biden-Putin summit mean for Euro-Atlantic security?
The most important albeit symbolic signal was a joint declaration that a “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”. Thirty-five years ago at …
Threads: revisiting one of the most terrifying films ever made
… is arguably the first film ever to deal directly and realistically with the idea of a nuclear attack and what it would mean for the human population.
In the trenches of US’ Culture War
The invention of gunpowder raised the ante with firearms and artillery. Nuclear weapons now threaten the annihilation of the world. Thus has been the …
