We also hear from civil servants who were responsible for making emergency plans in the seemingly inevitable event of nuclear war. Essential …
Jack Friedlander, Joe White: A year without war? It can happen
Nations spend an estimated $2 trillion annually on direct war expenditures. Nuclear testing and arms treaties are being abandoned, and an increasing …
The day after: test case for a greater disaster
It may be a final nuclear war, a scale 10 earthquake, or an invasion of monsters from space. Lake County is an ideal test case for just such a greater …
Nuclear bunkers, icebound submarine wrecks and moss-covered missile silos: Haunting images of …
Fascinating new book Abandoned Cold War Places, by Robert Grenville, explores many of these relics through more than 170 striking photographs, …
How much did Blade Runner, set in November 2019, get right?
… status is achieved through ownership of real animals, instead of artificial ones (the book attributes the wipeout of various species to nuclear war).
WWII’s atomic bomb program was so secretive that even participants were in dark
Secret cities. Secret work. During World War II, about 130,000 people were involved in the Manhattan Project, a highly classified collective effort that …
What If India’s Missile Defense System Caused a Nuclear War with Pakistan?
The Diplomat magazine suggests that the dummy target this time could have been an Agni, an intermediate-range missile capable of carrying nuclear …
Congress Also Bears Blame for Trump’s Disastrous Syria Decisions
Congress should be the institution that declares war because, at best, the Presidency … A declaration of war is a grave and highly symbolic act. …. the President needed the authority to counter a sudden nuclear attack without debate.
LETTER: Let’s talk about what’s ‘terrifying’
The captain of the submarine, Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky, decided that a war might already have started and wanted to launch a nuclear torpedo …
Why Pak Spin Doctors are Zooming in on Gen Rawat
This logic would also view Pakistan’s proxy war on India as a kind of hybrid war, … Consequently, as in 1965, a war initially confined to PoK may escalate … Pir is of course possible if the Modi-Doval duo is willing to risk (nuclear) war.