Secret cities. Secret work. During World War II, about 130,000 people were involved in the Manhattan Project, a highly classified collective effort that …
WWII’s atomic bomb program was so secretive that even participants were in dark
Congress Also Bears Blame for Trump’s Disastrous Syria Decisions
Congress should be the institution that declares war because, at best, the Presidency … A declaration of war is a grave and highly symbolic act. …. the President needed the authority to counter a sudden nuclear attack without debate.
LETTER: Let’s talk about what’s ‘terrifying’
The captain of the submarine, Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky, decided that a war might already have started and wanted to launch a nuclear torpedo …
Why Pak Spin Doctors are Zooming in on Gen Rawat
This logic would also view Pakistan’s proxy war on India as a kind of hybrid war, … Consequently, as in 1965, a war initially confined to PoK may escalate … Pir is of course possible if the Modi-Doval duo is willing to risk (nuclear) war.
Peaceful uses of nuclear energy to improve lives
No country now dare go to war with another nuclear-armed state for fear of getting an equal response which entails annihilation for both the attacker …
Letter: What would Goldwater think?
… those words were used against Goldwater to paint him as a war-mongering extremist willing to take us into a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Bygones: Flying Squad set up kitchen high on moors
Escalating tensions between the West and the Soviet Union saw an increase in exercises as fears of a nuclear war grew stronger and by 1956 over …
Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons Won’t End the World
The use of nuclear weapons and escalation to large scale conflict is … To suggest a small nuclear war is not possible is no more than a guess. If Nobel …
Last Major Nuclear Arms Pact Could Expire With No Replacement, Russia Says
At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States collectively possessed tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. After a series of …
Armless Kazakh painter draws works to protest nuclear testing
He joined a citizens’ campaign to close the testing site in the late Cold War period in 1989 while the artist was showing his paintings about nuclear …