It has a ring to it, doesn’t it? We can indulge our fantasies of being superheroes, and the rest of the world will look up to us. More seriously, a case can be made that military strength is good. (And economic, that’s part of it...
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Sprint antiballistic missile, the only use of a neutron bomb, being loaded for a test. Photo from Stephen Schwartz's thread In fact, death rays do not exist. Not neutron bombs,.
Carol Cohn wrote an article in 1987 after spending a year with defense analysts. She is a social scientist who was introduced to that world in 1984 and decided that.
Oppenheimer and other scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project recognized that atomic bombs would change warfighting. Many of them worked toward world government in response. Lewis Strauss and Edward Teller saw a future of more and bigger weapons. The film dramatizes this conflict. But...
The first Soviet atomic test at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, August 29, 1949. The Soviets designated it RDS-1, and the Americans called it JOE-1. There was no need for.
The Harry Truman scene in “Oppenheimer” is accurate in spirit, although Truman made the “crybaby” remark later. The film sticks with the conventional telling of the decision to use the.
It is time for arms controllers and nuclear abolitionists to retire the Oppenheimer/ Manhattan Project myth. The Oppenheimer/ Manhattan Project myth tells us that a group of people can rapidly build something that has never been built before when under the pressure of fear during...
It’s early days, and we will continue to see reactions to “Oppenheimer.” My interest in the response whether any of it is likely to have a political effect on nuclear.
I'm going to Trinity Site today. It's one of the two days in the year that you can visit the site of the first atomic bomb detonation. So here are.
In addition to Vladimir Putin’s geographical ambitions, a renewed Russian Empire must be feared by the world. That is what it means to be an empire. Putin is not getting the response he wants. He’s been trying to spread fear through his nuclear threats, both...
As Russia’s situation deteriorates on the battlefield, concerns grow about the possibility that Vladimir Putin might try to change the situation with a battlefield nuclear weapon. The war is so.
From the film "The Road" A number of people want to up the ante on Vladimir Putin. He made nuclear threats, so let’s threaten him back. He won’t escalate. They.