But substantive discussions of foreign policy and the threat of nuclear war were off the table. The same was true in earlier debates, including the …
Local commuter train helps nuclear arms control researchers
With a new crisis seeming to dominate every news cycle, for now the threat of nuclear war has faded into the background of public attention. Yet the …
A Memo to the Anti-War Folks Who Can’t Decide How To Vote
In 2014, Obama launched a coup in Ukraine, on Russia’s border, using actual Nazis as his allies, and risking nuclear war with Russia. Obama’s war in …
Movie review: Love and Monsters
Much as the 1954 film Godzilla reflected fears of a nuclear holocaust during post-war Japan, the “big bug films” fell under the umbrella of the nuclear …
Imagination, Probability, and War
After all, nuclear weapons had capped the most destructive war in human history and represented exponentially more firepower than any other class of …
Next president will face a nuclear-armed Korea increasingly unwilling to disarm
“North Korea’s ability to target American cities with thermonuclear hydrogen bombs could undermine the effectiveness of existing war plans, inhibit …
International Atomic Energy Agency, Director General (1981 – 1997): nuclear power on a knife edge
“Nuclear war is quick suicide and climate change slow,” Blix explained. However, he stressed we shouldn’t fear it, since nuclear power provides so …
SECNAV Braithwaite Calls for Light Carrier, ‘Joint Strike Frigate’ ; Sounds Alarm Over Chinese …
… calls for a fleet of 500 ships that will include building up to 70 to 80 nuclear attack submarines and anywhere from eight to 11 aircraft carriers.
How might the election change the nation’s place on world stage?
And for the past four years they have been under attack — not for their … The danger of nuclear war has been rising, as hostility between the major …
What prevents Japan from ratifying the recently assented Nuclear Ban Treaty?
History remembers Japan as the only country in the world falling victim to a nuclear attack that happened 75 years ago, when the Japanese cities of …