The Doomsday Clock is now just 89 seconds from midnight. Here's why
On Tuesday morning, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest it has ever been to midnight in the 78 years since it started running. So what has set off the historic ...
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Nuclear Deterrence and U.S. Missile Defense
Time for Change America's outdated nuclear deterrence policy is hindering the country's missile defense program, constraining ...
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Iron Dome for America: How would it work?
The Trump administration's Iron Dome for America executive order is causing political ripples, but with the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) soliciting industry input on the concept, how would such a ...
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The Bomb Is Back as the Risk of Nuclear War Enters a New Age
For decades, arms-control agreements, technological challenges and fears of mutually assured destruction kept such ... raising the potential of a new arms race. China’s growing stockpile of ...
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The Cold War in 1970
Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of ... with the opening in Helsinki of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons.
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Détente and the economic cost of the arms race
Détente helped the superpowers reduce spending on the arms race and fighting the Cold War. Instead they could focus on problems in their own respective countries. The USA had suffered from ...