Nuclear Survivalist

For smaller or weaker states, owning nuclear weapons helps ensure that a large country will not be able to attack them and overthrow their government.

LUND, Sweden (IDN) — In the Cold War days, some of us used to say, “Better red than dead”—to rebuff those who believed in “role-the-dice” nuclear …

Nuclear war was a nonstarter because it was unwinnable. That seemed, if anything, confirmed by the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 when Russia …

… case of a nuclear blast, or to raise military spending by 25 percent in a single year. “We never thought we’d need to go back to the Cold War …

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought back unsettling memories of the Cold War and the nuclear brinkmanship that came with it.

“The last thing I want to do is engage in a land war or nuclear war with Russia. … I was expressing my outrage at the behavior of this man.

A nuclear war is extremely unlikely. All nuclear powers implicitly operate by the principle of assured destruction—a nuclear attack on them guarantees …

Plausible estimates suggest that the cumulative probability of nuclear war over the next 75 years exceeds 50%. Short of unilateral nuclear disarmament …

Russia announces first official withdrawals in Ukraine and rules out nuclear war. The noises from the Kremlin are becoming less bullish as the …

But, the concern over radiation never waned for those in the American West, who continue to live with the disastrous health consequences from Cold War …