After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

In this powerful first installment of a speculative series, the creator explores a chilling yet carefully reasoned scenario: a global World War 3 fought without nuclear weapons. The video presents a ...

Ro Reddick’s music-infused comedy, set during the Cold War, finishes this year’s edition of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks ...

The Profumo affair led to a government minister's resignation on 5 June 1963. In 1983, Christine Keeler talked to the BBC ...

Iran's nuclear obsession can be explained through three key facts: deterrence failure, religious incentives for apocalyptic ...

‘Mutually assured destruction’: Trump’s and Musk’s quiet day is less détente than Cold War. Trump is the most politically powerful man in the world, Musk is the wealthiest man in the ...

The acronym is a reference to the Cold War era and the Rand-coined MAD, short for mutually assured destruction. Such evocative acronyms, reminiscent of nuclear tensions, are undeniably effective ...

The U.S. and USSR were armed with nuclear weapons that—due to the principle of mutually assured destruction—would inevitably extinguish the human ... The Cold War in a Nutshell. Time Period ...

Russia’s use of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile marks a decisive, and potentially dangerous moment in Moscow’s conflict with the West.

From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers. As the conflict wore on ...