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This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Here’s how ‘The Day After’...
CNN.com· 6 days agoEditor’s Note: The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global...
America Almost Made a New Route 66 With 22 Nuclear Bombs
THE DRIVE via Yahoo News· 1 day agoNuclear devices with yields between 20 and 200 kilotons would be lowered into each of them for a...
From a Cold War missile silo in Kansas, a pedal steel guitar player makes music for peace
Lawrence Journal-World· 5 days agoNate Hofer grew up in Eudora within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling...
Don’t Believe the Military. We Don’t “Need” More Nuclear Weapons.
The Nation· 3 days agoAs a late-stage baby boomer, a child of the 1960s, I grew up dreaming about America’s nuclear triad....
The Menace of Political Show Trials
Ludwig von Mises Institute· 4 days agoIn recent days, we have had brought home to us what “show trials” are like. Political opponents of Donald Trump charged him with felonies for acts that...
‘Don’t let it go to your head’: Descendants of US presidents bond at Truman museum
Kansas City Star via AOL· 3 days agoThe Berlin Airlift and the Cold War and the forming of NATO and the United Nations. And so much...
Inside the Unbelievable True Story of the Real WWII Fighter That Killed Godzilla
Popular Mechanics· 1 day agoHuman war machines don’t tend to fare well in encounters with Godzilla, who debuted on the silver...
A Pill Hill home alive with history is connected to 'Oppenheimer'
Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJun. 14—ROCHESTER — On the historic streets of Pill Hill, the homes share preservation and elegance. There's even a stucco exterior home that Luis Alvarez, a Manhattan Project contributor depicted ...
What Happens if a Nuke Goes Off in Space?
Scientific American· 2 days agoThe U.S. had just detonated a thermonuclear bomb 100 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. This event, called Starfish Prime, wasn’t the...
