Nuclear Survivalist

When I was a kid, my nightmares were of nuclear war. I did not expect the entire planet to be laid low by a microscopic virus. But here we are.

As told by Tom Cooper & Abdallah Emran in their book 1973: The First Nuclear War, only a cross-examination of additional reporting provides a …

… priorities in mind: for it to exist as an over-the-top bachelor pad, and for there to be a readily accessible escape route in case of a nuclear attack.

… from anything short of something like nuclear war? Or entire school systems shutting down indefinitely? Or people embarking on frantic searches for, …

Both governments hoped to avoid war by deterring an attack and by … In the event of a nuclear attack, shelters may well have kept people alive for …

… Rotis and Naan, they have been threatening India with nuclear war, not once but thrice since India has repealed Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.

Coronavirus, climate catastrophe and nuclear war make us feel existential dread about the future of the world. But there is an emergency brake says …

The Soviet Union threatened to deploy troops to reinforce Egypt; the U.S. ramped up its nuclear posture. Rather than risk atomic war, Israel pulled back …

… program was not national security, the emergency evacuation of cities in the event of nuclear attack was cited as a purpose for the project.

Experts generally agree that the world came closest to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. faced off …