Covid-19 is not nuclear war or the medieval black plague. Its strategic effect, if any, will be marginal. Strategic competition and the trade war will not …
Russian gamers race to prevent nuclear ‘war‘
Inside a room styled as a Soviet-era nuclear bunker, a few Russians race to prevent a catastrophic strike on the United States. Their quest — the …
Mea Culpa: a dramatically inaccurate name for a stand-in
The practice is said to have started as a nuclear war contingency in the 1950s, although the names of those designated have been recorded only …
10 Mysterious Places In The US That Are Off-Limits To Everyone (And Why)
In the event of a nuclear war or a zombie apocalypse, US government officials will be gathered and sent to one of the safest places in the world, Mount …
European medical aid for Iran
In the lingering debate on what may cause global economic collapse, the villain of the piece invariably was a nuclear war or global warming. Nobody …
A postpandemic wish list
… Gates warned that the most imminent threat to mankind was not a nuclear war, but a global epidemic for which the world was not prepared.
The world is not ready for a pandemic
When the nuclear attack came, we were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down, and eat out of that barrel. Today the greatest risk of global …
My South Korean coronavirus testing experience – and why the UK should follow suit
It was unnerving and surreal; I felt like I was in a nuclear war sci-fi film. But after 45 seconds I had been tested for coronavirus and was told I would …
COLUMN: The simple but immense joy of coming home
The coronavirus doesn’t frighten me in the stark way that, say, the idea of nuclear war does. Yet the virus — and in particular its effects, being so …
Russia’s K-19: The Submarine Called ‘Hiroshima’
As a part of the Cold War arms race, the United States launched the USS Nautilus in 1958. Being nuclear powered, and thus not dependent on fuel …