Nuclear Strategy
How to Guarantee a War with North Korea
By Ted Galen Carpenter
As tensions flare on the Korean Peninsula, concerns mount about North Korea’s nuclear- weapons capability. Secretary of Defense James Mattis recently...
Trump’s National Security Strategy: The return of “great power” military conflict
The new US National Security Strategy released this week and the speech delivered by President Donald Trump Monday to introduce it constitute a grim...
Daniel Ellsberg: U.S. Military Planned First Strike On Every City In...
Daniel Ellsberg – America’s most famous whistleblower, the former military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers which helped end the Vietnam war – has...
The danger of Nuclear War and the Political Paralysis of Europe,...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)
First published 20/10/2017
Never since the Cuban Missile Crisis has there been such an unstable situation in the global political system, including...
Trump administration escalates threat to “utterly destroy” North Korea
The Trump administration is escalating its incendiary threats against North Korea in the wake of the test Tuesday of an intercontinental ballistic missile reportedly...
Experts Warn It Would Take More Than One US General to...
By Jon Queally
“What would happen if a president ordered a nuclear strike, but the commanding general refused, believing it to be illegal? The truth...
A Sick and Mad World
Could anyone stop Trump from launching nukes? The answer: No
By ROBERT BURNS
Nov. 13, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s a question rarely raised before Donald Trump...
US Senate hearing exposes danger of nuclear war
Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the use of nuclear weapons highlighted the acute danger of the eruption of a war that could...
Senator Chris Murphy: We Are Concerned Trump ‘Is So Unstable, Is...
by David Badash
November 14, 2017 12:12 PM
First Time Since 1976 Foreign Relations Committee Has Looked at President's Ability to Use Nuclear Weapons
During a Senate hearing...
US military leaders would reject illegal order for nuclear strike, senators...
US military commanders would refuse a presidential order to carry out a nuclear first strike that they thought was illegal, senators were told on...