… spirits of Norse mythology, the bomber was built to penetrate Soviet air defenses in a nuclear war and deliver thermonuclear bombs on targets.
Prague uncovered: A small park in Žižkov hides a Cold War anti-nuclear shelter – and the city’s …
The first point of interest is the entrance to Prague’s largest Cold War–era anti-nuclear shelter that runs underneath the hill. The entrances are covered …
Letters to the Editor: No excuse for panic buying
We do not yet know what tact is next — nuclear war to distract us from his drive and latest actions to make more money from believers off this …
The dangerous history behind the hottest gift purchase on Black Friday
… War tension, when global nuclear war once again seemed a real possibility. … As is the case with “Black Ops Cold War,” an embrace of Cold War …
Lookout for Karl Marx!
… time containing both the threats of nuclear war, and global climate change. Recently, CounterPunch published a superb essay by Peter Linebaugh, …
Failed States of Conscience
… system of networked computers capable of reliably talking to one another even in the event of nuclear war – they called it ARPANET – they breathed …
Biden Is Kim’s to Lose
Along with development of a nuclear deterrent, diplomatic normalization with the United States has been the only consistent North Korean foreign …
New hope on medals for nuclear test veterans plea as decision due after Mirror campaign
The Mirror’s Medal for Heroes campaign demanded in 2018 that the estimated 1,500 survivors of Cold War bomb tests should finally get a gong.
Trump remains in a battle of wills with Iran
One former top defense official warns that the idea of a “clean, limited, surgical strike” against Iranian nuclear facilities is folly; war doesn’t work that …
This Is How the US Navy Dropped a Nuclear Weapon on 95 Warships
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the U.S. military—which used two atomic bombs against Japan in 1945—found that they had barely …