Saturday, 23 November , 2024

Nuclear Strategy

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...

Lawmakers, US allies seek assurance that Trump won’t rashly launch nuclear...

By Jim Acosta and Barbara Starr, CNN (CNN)A decades-old presidential authority to use nuclear weapons is suddenly coming into question as US allies and...

Trump’s North Korea Delusions

A combination of ignorance and rashness is making President Trump a particularly dangerous leader as he crashes ahead with a possible preemptive war on...

Trump Has Been Thinking About Nuclear War for Decades. Here’s Why...

He seems to think it’s inevitable By David Corn Aug. 11, 2017 It’s been quite some time since Americans—and citizens of other nations—had to worry about nuclear...

The danger of Nuclear War and the Political Paralysis of Europe,...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*) Never since the Cuban Missile Crisis has there been such an unstable situation in the global political system, including the system...

Mikhail Gorbachev: My plea to the presidents of Russia and the...

By Mikhail Gorbachev October 11.2017 Mikhail Gorbachev was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. This December will mark the 30th anniversary of the signing...

Against North Korea, Deterrence of a Different Kind

By Omar Lamrani 5/10/2017 Since the turn of the millennium, war between nuclear powers has never loomed so near. As North Korea sprints toward the finish...

Rival Superpower Strategies: World War III with China

How It Might Actually Be Fought By Alfred W. McCoy Global Research, September 28, 2017 For the past 50 years, American leaders have been supremely confident that...