Almost 75 years later Meyer Steinberg said the thought of nuclear war remains “terrifying,” calling the ever-present threat that led to decades of Cold …
LETTER: Creeping closer to oblivion
Nuclear warfare is as much a threat now as it was during the Cold War, perhaps more so. While the clouds of that first atomic bomb have gone, 75 years …
Gorbachev renews call to oppose nuclear weapons
It went on to say, “Our nations may soon be entrenched in a nuclear standoff more precarious, disorienting and economically costly than the Cold War.” I …
75 years after Hiroshima, I wonder if the goal of abolishing nuclear weapons is just a dream
6, 1945, as the Second World War was drawing to a close in the Pacific, an American atomic bomb exploded 580 metres above the heart of Hiroshima, …
UK at risk as Russia, China and US jockey for power in space – ‘Rapid route to world war‘
He added: “I think nuclear war is a realistic threat either intentionally or unintentionally as crises get out of hand.” Last week Britain and the US furiously …
Thinking about reducing danger of nuclear war amid a pandemic
This year’s International Symposium for Peace, “The Road to Nuclear Weapons Abolition: Steps Ahead in Global Danger,” had the specific theme of “100 …
Ai Weiwei: History of Bombs, Imperial War Museum, review: Apt and horrifying
The largest nuclear device ever detonated, estimated to be 1,570 times more powerful than those dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined, it is …
Herb Rothschild Jr.: Our enduring call to action, 75 years later
What we know for sure is that he came into office in 1981 talking about fighting and winning a nuclear war. Taking Reagan at his word, a grassroots …
UK warned Putin’s hypersonic nuclear weapons ‘will be impossible to shoot down’
The academic, of SOAS University of London, warned the “existential threat of global nuclear devastation” remains, 30 years after the Cold War ended.
Midlands Voices: SAC’s ‘Looking Glass’ helped provide victory in the Cold War
… with a general flag officer who, by law, assumes authority of the National Command Authority and could command the execution of a nuclear attack.