In the wake of the war, the United States extensively tested the effects of atomic weapons on warships. That testing can inform how we evaluate the …
Atomic Deathmatch: Japan’s Massive Yamato Battleship vs. Nuclear Weapons (Who Wins)?
Homefront: Missile silo becomes vacation stop
Spliced between the I-don’t-know-whether-to-laugh-or-to-cry shots of school children diving under their desks during a nuclear attack drill are pieces …
Kashmir: A Nuclear Flash Point
India has challenged the whole world with nuclear war, the Defense Minister announced to review its policy of no first use of nuclear weapons.
Texas-based brewery slammed for naming beer after US nuclear testing on Marshall Islands
As the U.S. took part in a nuclear arms race against the Soviet Union at the onset of the cold war, it relocated 167 Bikinians to other parts of the island …
Nuclear rethink: A change in India’s nuclear doctrine has implications on cost & war strategy
A nuclear doctrine states how a nuclear weapon state would employ its nuclear weapons both during peace and war. By communicating to the enemy …
REVIEW: Second season of Sacred Games mirrors the ills of today’s India
In Mumbai, police inspector Sartaj (Saif Ali Khan) has just two weeks to save the city from a nuclear attack, which Gaitonde had warned him about.
No first use isn’t dead, but it’s now meaningless
Nuclear use is not something considered on any normal day, so a policy of no first use is a commitment that even in the deepest crisis or war, even if a …
In conversation: Tulsi Gabbard wants to restore America as a model for diplomacy, equality
As a way to quell the growing tensions between the two nations and prevent nuclear warfare, the treaty banned land-based missiles, but in October …
Jingoism over nuclear weapons childish
Long after Cold War, nuclear deterrence is still based on MAD doctrine. This means that any debilitating 1st strike will be responded with massive …
Nuclear Weapons on Aircraft Carriers? Why the US Navy Said “No Way”
The Air Force touted it soon-to-be operational fleet of ten-thousand-mile-range B-36 Peacemaker nuclear bombers as the only vital war-winning …