Long before the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, the Cold War had already turned into a dangerous atomic arms race. As the United States rapidly expanded its nuclear ...

As the global arms control regime collapses, France plans to expand and Europeanize its nuclear arsenal. Harrison Stetler French President Emmanuel Macron’s March 2 address on France’s nuclear arms ...

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Summary The Doomsday Clock seeks to capture the severity of the existential threats facing humankind, as understood by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. While initially focused on nuclear ...

The constant undermining of international bodies and international law, combined with a constant sense of imminent danger – which, as we have seen, does not appear so real when looking at the figures ...

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

The end of World War II triggered a fierce technological race that rapidly transformed aviation from propeller-driven aircraft into high-speed jet fighters. Engineers, captured technology, and Cold ...

For three decades after the Cold War ended, wars never truly disappeared. From the Balkans to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Syria, armed conflicts remained a recurring feature of global politics. Yet ...

Sheila Grant’s ‘Passport to Danger’ was released thanks to her husband covertly reviving the novel. She’ll soon do her first ...

The Coming Storm issues an alarming twofold warning. First, we are in an era of multiple Great Powers, some led by unpredictable autocratic leaders, making the risk of cataclysmic war extremely high.