Nuclear Survivalist

Retrospective: Inside a Montana nuclear missile launch facility during the Cold War. “Alpha” ICBM installation, 1977. “Alpha” ICBM installation, 1977.

… nuclear-capable missiles, steps whose logic is to place both countries on a course toward waging a “winnable” nuclear war with Beijing or Moscow.

… a momentous period of time that felt especially poignant for Cold War kids like me who grew up with the always-present specter of nuclear war.

“We all know if there’s ever a nuclear war, we would pretty much be decimated,” said Emily Greene, a member of Racial Justice Rising. On Friday, the …

President Biden also should immediately pursue a no-first-use policy that would go hand-in-hand with shared nuclear war decision making. To put it …

DEFCON 2 had been activated and they were poised and ready for the potential of nuclear war. However, “The first words out of his mouth were, ‘It’s …

Unless all these areas are addressed simultaneously on a war-footing … alarming threat of a nuclear warfare, threat of super-volcanic eruptions and …

Designed to carry two nuclear bombs, it was refurbished to hold 60,000 pounds of conventional bombs in the Vietnam War. A B-52 over Vietnam in 1966 …

The Soviet military’s war plans, as subsequently revealed, employed nuclear detonations, and many of them — notwithstanding the Kremlin’s …

But, as nuclear technology advanced during the Cold War, so defence policies changed. It became clear a nuclear attack would come not from bombs …