Viral pandemics (along with nuclear war, climate collapse, meteor strikes and, oddly, the invention of over-enthusiastic paperclip-making AI) are …
Perspective: A Little Girl And A Daisy
But there’s a big difference between exploiting a justifiable fear that a candidate is going to start a nuclear war and lying to scare people. Trump has …
‘Pandemic ventilator’ could offer solution in potential ‘worst case’ coronavirus scenario
So that could be nuclear war, a chemical attack or a biological attack.” Strupat said the coronavirus pandemic is not that far off. “It all has the same end …
Time to Think About Hiroshima and Nagasaki Again
… Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the highlight of which was the option of using low-yield nuclear weapons even in response to a non-nuclear attack.
Submarine Motherships: The Navy Wants Drone-Carrying Subs to Wage War
Imagine a future in which nuclear attack submarines (SSNs) can deploy undersea drones (UUVs) to hunt, and possibly kill, enemy subs. The U.S. …
Surviving The Apocalypse With A Briefcase Full Of Pi
Let’s further imagine that our entire civilization gets upended by an ecological disaster, nuclear war, invaders from Zeta Reticuli, that sort of thing.
A US War With North Korea Would Not Stay Confined To Korea
The next major American outpost in the Pacific, Guam, is home to Submarine Squadron 15, four forward-deployed nuclear attack submarines …
Nukes Denied: In 2007 Israel Wiped out Syria’s Nuclear Reactors
A cyber-attack reportedly pre-empted a defensive Syrian military mobilization, and even the diplomatic outcry was muted. No other Arab governments …
COMMENTARY: Japan silently marks 75th anniversary of the devastating Tokyo bombing
The Japanese have commemorated the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war at Nagasaki and especially Hiroshima with major museums as well …
Chris Freind: American pandemic: What to expect
Matthew Broderick’s character in the classic movie “War Games,” as he contemplated possible nuclear war. The COVID-19 (C19) pandemic, as it now …