Nuclear war was averted. Ike’s question to Kennedy is a good lesson for anyone in a leadership position. While leaders do make the ultimate decision, …
A Fresh Take on the End of the World
A second possibility for the demise of humanity would be a nuclear war. An all-out nuclear battle between any nuclear-equipped nation would …
A Big Achievement for US Deterrence Posture Against Russia
Adam Smith, D-Wash., chairman of the committee, maintain the low-yield warhead lowers the threshold for nuclear war and increases instability.
Modernizing our nuclear enterprise infrastructure to keep Americans safe
Finally, when the Cold War ended, few anticipated that the threat posed by other states’ nuclear arsenals would reach its current level three decades …
Let ’em find doomsday on their own
Alas, Babylon (1959) follows Florida survivors after nuclear war. A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) has the Catholic Church again collecting books, …
France will take lead on deterrence as EU’s only nuclear power after Brexit, says Emmanuel Macron
Built by Second World War hero Charles de Gaulle and confirmed by … laying out France’s post-Brexit nuclear strategy at Paris’ Ecole de Guerre.
The biggest threat to space commerce is the sun
Even the U.S. National Intelligence Council in 2012 called such an event, if severe enough, one of its “black swans,” along with nuclear war, a global …
No, The United States Doesn’t Have An Automatic “Dead Hand” Trigger For Its ICBMs
During a nuclear attack, the Air Force could fire rockets with the AN/DRC-8, if necessary, which would then fly very low in space across the missile …
New study resurrects woolly mammoth DNA to explore cause of extinction
TORONTO — Woolly Mammoths may have developed a slew of genetic defects that potentially caused the extinction of a herd found near Siberia, …
AI Weekly: Announcing our AI and security special issue
… is that cybersecurity is a never ending, escalating arms race between good guys and bad guys, and the advent of AI is proverbial nuclear warfare.