At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over. Treaties are collapsing, some nuclear powers ...
After the war, President Harry S. Truman directed the military to continue testing nuclear weapons. He specifically ordered them “to determine the effect of atomic bombs on American warships.” However ...
During the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War, the U.S. reportedly made a shocking “mistake” regarding its nuclear bomb launch codes. According to a former military officer responsible for ...
where each resident is guaranteed a spot in a bomb shelter in the case of nuclear war, the government is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to update its vast array of Cold War-era bunkers.
Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic ... Spanish Civil War when he was also 14 years old. The shared experience helped Fukahori open up. “On the day the bomb dropped, I ...