THIS dark triptych uses common themes of sex and grief. Buried is by David Spencer, whose father, Max, was buried alive in the Second World War, …
Memories of past can help you get through today’s anxieties
Cataclysmic events, whether nuclear war, a natural disaster or terrorist attack, have always been my particular bugaboo. I don’t fret about driving in a …
Digital Strangelove: The Cyber Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
For example, the U.S. had a covert program of electronic warfare options targeting Soviet NC3 in the Cold War. These options might have helped to limit …
Where the Federal Government Might Physically Go If It Can’t Keep Operating in DC Under …
They were built in the ’50s, when bureaucratic prepping efforts began in earnest amid the threat of nuclear war, shelved during the ’90s as our icy …
The Coronavirus & End Times
Threat of Nuclear War. In 1945 U.S General Douglas MacArthur proclaimed: “We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more …
Toilet paper not a primary need
This is not a nuclear war, but a health crisis that the experts are working on understanding and eventually containing and snuffing out entirely once a …
Everything Is Impossible Until It Happens—US Foreign Policy as Bernie’s Next Frontier
… nuclear war would be greatly reduced. In this sense, for Sanders, the question has always been less about whether a foreign government was “good …
COLUMN: Buying toilet paper in a time of panic
And before AIDS, there was a panicked response to a possible nuclear war. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the Cold War, the threat of …
Atomic energy Nuclear power plants are coming to the battlefield
Interest has been revived by recent wars, in which American forces proved extraordinarily hungry for energy. Early in the Iraq war, fuel made up over a …
Infinite possibilities Freeman Dyson died on February 28th
The problem of nuclear war, it seemed to him, was fundamentally not technical but human and historical. He was an iconoclast, too, and enjoyed being …