But what has kept the two Cold War superpowers in check was a concept … While nuclear warfare is thankfully theoretical, conventional warfare to …
FAIR POINT: Remembrances of our past could help bring a better future
… Crisis and the events surrounding Exercise Able Archer in 1983, probably the two occasions when the danger of nuclear war loomed largest, show.
Covert strike may have saved Israel from nuclear attack
Located on the banks of the Euphrates River, the city was rather inconsequential, merely a fragment in the larger civil war devastating Syria. Despite …
Climate Change Is Threatening To Crack Open A Cold War Nuclear Tomb
When the US was flexing its muscles during the Cold War, the Pentagon dropped 67 nuclear bombs on the atolls of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific …
The United States’ Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerously Entangled
In October 1973, an unreliable radiation detector could have caused the end of the world. The setting was the Yom Kippur War between Israel and a …
Maintainers under pressure to keep ‘Doomsday plane’ flying after flood wreaks havoc
… nuclear blast, the iconic blue and white E-4B serves two purposes: to provide a secure and survivable command center in the event of a nuclear war …
The People Reclaiming Religious Freedom from the Christian Right
In Georgia the same year, a group of Catholics broke into a nuclear base and marked it with their own blood to protest the threat of nuclear war.
From the hope of 1989 to a new Cold War
The fall of the wall marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. … This year, the United States withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear …
Iran Nuclear Agreement Continues to Collapse as Risk of War Increases
A byproduct of enriching uranium, however, is weapons-grade nuclear material. Meanwhile, protests in both Iraq and in Lebanon have taken a …
Nigel Farage’s followers must put their faith in Boris Johsnon to stop Jeremy Corbyn destroying Brexit
CORBYN would not have supported our troops in ANY war, we now know. … He backs terrorists waging war on the West or Israel. Ask the … even reckons Labour would only retaliate to a Russian nuclear attack after a Cabinet vote.