The imagined terrors of gas warfare in the 1930s were more akin to Cold War nuclear paranoia than the very real impact of Covid-19. But the wheezing, …
President Donald Trump stands, perfecting the art of the lie
On nuclear war: “Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office…There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.” On who is …
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King Opens the Atomic Pandora’s Box
“The atomic bomb has changed everything,” King concluded. “It has made the North of Canada the vulnerable area of attack of this continent.” “If war …
EDITORIAL: Buildings that survived the A-bombs should be saved for history
Preserving and making good use of them is a duty of Japan as the only country that has ever suffered nuclear attacks in war. In Hiroshima, debate is …
Estrich: Nothing really happens at political conventions, so end them
… them to send a telegram supporting Bill Scranton immediately or else Barry Goldwater would win and we would have nuclear war (which was sort of …
Roast chicken from the trash
In Fallout, a worldwide nuclear war has left the Earth a harsh and radioactive wasteland where survivors team up in gangs and mutated monsters …
Has mishandling handling Kashmir helped India?
Pakistan is a nuclear State and it cancels out any misadventure by India, unless the Indian … There could be a war but surely not a nuclear war.
The fall of the American empire
The actual The Syrian war, the active intervention of Russia in it and the … while threatening to launch a nuclear attack on Pyongyang, which would …
Leave no one behind: A commitment we must continue to make
Planners believed that with a nuclear war, there would be no one to rescue, so capabilities focused instead on pilots who crashed on a runway or near …
Defenses may be difficult against supercavitating torpedo able to knife through the water at 200 knots
The Soviets at first used sheer numbers of diesel electric submarines, then more advanced nuclear attack submarines, to whittle down the odds.