… respectively, avoiding a nuclear war or having one). Or at least, it’s his failure to play them well, to get win-win outcomes—and sometimes, it seems, …
Arthur I. Cyr: France, NATO and mistaken media
Since World War II, France has followed a singularly independent role … nuclear force became a potent symbol of national pride and independence.
The 1989 revolutions and the Peace Movement
I was active in European Nuclear Disarmament (END) along with E.P.Thompson, Robin Cook and others. We saw ourselves as an anti-Cold War …
Why Hypersonics Are the Next Big Catalyst for Lockheed Martin Stock
But what has kept the two Cold War superpowers in check was a concept … While nuclear warfare is thankfully theoretical, conventional warfare to …
FAIR POINT: Remembrances of our past could help bring a better future
… Crisis and the events surrounding Exercise Able Archer in 1983, probably the two occasions when the danger of nuclear war loomed largest, show.
Covert strike may have saved Israel from nuclear attack
Located on the banks of the Euphrates River, the city was rather inconsequential, merely a fragment in the larger civil war devastating Syria. Despite …
Climate Change Is Threatening To Crack Open A Cold War Nuclear Tomb
When the US was flexing its muscles during the Cold War, the Pentagon dropped 67 nuclear bombs on the atolls of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific …
The United States’ Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerously Entangled
In October 1973, an unreliable radiation detector could have caused the end of the world. The setting was the Yom Kippur War between Israel and a …
Maintainers under pressure to keep ‘Doomsday plane’ flying after flood wreaks havoc
… nuclear blast, the iconic blue and white E-4B serves two purposes: to provide a secure and survivable command center in the event of a nuclear war …
The People Reclaiming Religious Freedom from the Christian Right
In Georgia the same year, a group of Catholics broke into a nuclear base and marked it with their own blood to protest the threat of nuclear war.