Threat of Nuclear War. In 1945 U.S General Douglas MacArthur proclaimed: “We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more …
Toilet paper not a primary need
This is not a nuclear war, but a health crisis that the experts are working on understanding and eventually containing and snuffing out entirely once a …
Everything Is Impossible Until It Happens—US Foreign Policy as Bernie’s Next Frontier
… nuclear war would be greatly reduced. In this sense, for Sanders, the question has always been less about whether a foreign government was “good …
COLUMN: Buying toilet paper in a time of panic
And before AIDS, there was a panicked response to a possible nuclear war. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the Cold War, the threat of …
Infinite possibilities Freeman Dyson died on February 28th
The problem of nuclear war, it seemed to him, was fundamentally not technical but human and historical. He was an iconoclast, too, and enjoyed being …
Atomic energy Nuclear power plants are coming to the battlefield
Interest has been revived by recent wars, in which American forces proved extraordinarily hungry for energy. Early in the Iraq war, fuel made up over a …
Book of the week: The Gatekeeper by Kate Fall
… I remember which began watching the Prime Minister board the deadly black whale of a Trident sub to see how a nuclear war would be launched, …
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)
… argued against the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War. The report was one of many he co-authored over his 50 years as a JASON.
The truth about Trump’s uncle and what it means for his presidency
The president says he “used to discuss nuclear” with his uncle “all the time,” and in a rambling 2016 campaign speech, … During World War II, Trump worked at the British branch of MIT’s Radiation Laboratory, and after the war he …
Keeping a nuclear exchange limited: Closer look into Pentagon’s recent wargame
In the literature, while the Russian understanding of local conflicts involves limited use of war-fighting capacity and no nuclear weapons, regional wars, …