The expiry of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty has barely caused a stir. Yet as great power rivalry takes a new form, the logic of Mutually Assured Destruction—and the ghosts of Dr Strangelove—may ...

During the Cold War, the MAD theory — mutually assured destruction — argued that the United States and the Soviet Union had a ...

New START, and treaties like it, represent humanity’s uneasy attempt to coexist with its own capacity for destruction ...

In a badly fractured world with ongoing kinetic conflicts , frequent terrorism driven strikes, unimaginable geopolitical churning and even economics b.

The expiration of the last US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, New START, has raised the spectre of a nuclear arms race ...

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, renewed once in 2010, limits the deployed strategic arsenal for each side to 1,550 warheads and the total number of delivery systems (missiles or bombers) to 800.

Questions about the future of the US dollar have swirled in recent weeks, with a headline in the New York Times proclaiming ...

Two factors are at play here: the perceived risk attached to holding US dollars and dollar-denominated assets has increased, and many observers have noted that foreign holdings of US debt and assets ...

Increasingly, the imperial powers are transforming from industrial-finance capital to finance-vulture capital, led by the US.

The only conclusion must surely be that an independent, sovereign nation is able to make its own policy, free trading and ...

Beijing has been accused of conducting secret nuclear explosion tests and attempting to disguise its violation of a global prohibition treaty.