It was the autumn of 1963, a year after the deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba had taken the world to the brink of nuclear war. Jean Daniel, a …
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Only later did I discover it was promoting the terrifying BBC drama series Threads, which depicted life in Britain during and after a nuclear war.
Illinois: Urge Your State Lawmaker to Support Legislation to Prevent Nuclear War Illinois
actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. Take a moment to urge your Illinois state …
Silent World is a Korean horror adventure haunting Switch in March
You play as the “lone survivor” of a nuclear war and are looking to escape the general awfulness of your current situation. In particular, the nuclear …
No One Should Ever Wish for North Korea’s Collapse. Ever.
Imagine civil war and factional conflict, loose nuclear weapons, economic implosion and mass starvation, and waves of refugees fleeing the North and …
America and Russia have ended the world almost five times
During the Cold War, “crisis” had a special connotation because every moment of a political conflict opened up the possibility of a nuclear war …
To avoid the next coronavirus, we need a vaccine before the outbreak
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World War 3 warning: Putin targeting UK with ‘more nuclear submarines than Cold War era’
“There are more Russian nuclear attack submarines in the Atlantic off our west coast and off the American east coast than there were at the time of the …
Matt Gurney: In our time of COVID-19, stark lessons in preparedness from the Cold War
“We might label our nuclear weapons ‘instant death.’ There’s no doubt about it — if you live within a few miles of where one of these bombs strike, …
Mathematical prodigy Freeman Dyson dies at 96
Dyson’s distrust of mathematical models had earlier led him to challenge predictions that the debris from atomic warfare could blot out the sun and …