From Oct. 22 to 28, 1962, the Cuba crisis dominated world attention, as Washington and Moscow sparred on the edge of thermonuclear war. Lessons …
Imran Khan’s dog days are here
Imran’s threats of nuclear war backfired. “The superpowers of the world have a huge responsibility… whether they support us or not, Pakistan will do …
Russia-Pakistan: Perception Paradigm
A panic and threat of nuclear war followed but somehow common sense prevailed and a second nuclear war was avoided. On May 9, at Kremlin, …
Of Course a US President Can Murder Somebody Without Legal Jeopardy—Ain’t That Great!
As JFK later said, after nuclear war “the living would envy the dead.” And, almost certainly, soon join them as the poison spread and nuclear winter …
Hiding behind the past
There could be plays too about what happens in the event of a war, and a nuclear war in particular, to make it clear to a chest-thumping public on …
Russia And America Barely Avoided An Horrific Nuclear War In 1983
In 1983, the United States and the Soviet Union came dangerously close to nuclear war. That was the conclusion of a highly classified report issued in …
HBO’s Watchmen Disproves Fan Theory About Nite-Owl
… Watchmen’s world has been changed in the aftermath of the successful hoax Adrian Veidt perpetrated to save the world from nuclear war in 1985.
On Nuclear Madmen and Their Perilous Bluffs
During the Cold War, and in particular, the Nixon era, the US’s Nuclear Deterrence Strategy had at times flirted with the idea of its leadership playing …
This week marks the anniversary of the worst space accident
… valve, Nedelin ordered engineers up on ladders to perform the step manually, saying, “There would be no time for such things in nuclear war.”.
Russia Almost Built A Nuclear-Armed Supersonic Bomber That Could Float On Water
But for a period during the early Cold War, those floating flying machines would have been dropping nuclear bombs over America and Russia.