Is ‘NATO in Asia’ really getting ready for another decades-long cold war and/or a possible hot war? Every nuclear weapons power except Israel and …
How to renew the purpose of the US-ROK alliance
First of all, the alliance’s mission should go beyond addressing the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons. And it should not be leveraged to …
Khamenei may show more ‘heroic flexibility’ after Iranian elections
The US has promised to lift all nuclear-related sanctions if Iran rolls back its actions following the … With the departure of the Trump administration, Khamenei appears to believe that the danger of a war with the US has diminished.
Six key questions Whitehall must answer about the UK’s decision to raise its nuclear weapons …
The nuclear deterrent has always been sold as the weapon of last resort, only to be used in response to an existential threat. The Cold War was a …
‘180 warheads was already enough to kill millions of people’ Even more nukes not the answer to …
“Nuclear weapons are a very blunt Cold War era instrument entirely inappropriate for nuanced reaction to say Russian incursions in the Baltic or China …
Alternate history: what if the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated?
Jonny Wilkes talks to Professor Mark White about how the world stood on the brink of World War III and nuclear Armageddon in October 1962 – all it …
US officials who are ready to fight China over Taiwan don’t understand how much is at stake
But there is almost no scenario in which the US can intervene in a war … a worst-case scenario, American territory could be struck by nuclear missiles.
“Immoral & Illegal”: US & UK Move to Expand Nuclear Arsenals, Defying Global Disarmament …
AMY GOODMAN: These developments come less than two months after the landmark U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into …
How the US considered helping France nuke its way out of an embarrassing military defeat
By May, after weeks of brutal fighting, French forces surrendered, ending the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the French Indochina War. Western countries …
Boris Johnson Outlines Activist Post-Brexit Vision: Beyond Brexit
… grand plan for post-Brexit Britain involves, it turns out, a bigger nuclear weapons stockpile and a more activist approach to climate change.