WASHINGTON —Just when you thought the arms race, if not the nuclear era, were relics of Cold War history, a breakdown last month of negotiations in Geneva for a comprehensive Test Ban Treaty serves as a discomfiting reminder that nuclear weapons are alive and well. This, even as the Inte...
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Landsman observed that Heisenberg "had only a tentative understanding of the physics and technology of nuclear weapons" [2]. The well founded publications of these highly competent physicists were never recog- nized by historians and have had no impact on the prevailing historical narrative. 3.4. ...
he’d have to go much farther back—maybe all the way back to about 12,000 BC, before the First Agricultural Revolution gave rise to the first cities and to the concept of civilization. If someone from a purely hunter-gatherer world—from a time when humans were, more or less, just an...
An 11 year old delivered food to Jews and to refugees and later delivered weapons to a local resistance group. He didn’t say anything to anybody. He was just helping an older brother and two uncles who were couriers and who needed a helper who wouldn’t arouse suspicion. Nobody talked...
The Ukrainian government has given the private army of billionaire Dnepropetrovsk governor Igor Kolomoysky a day to lay down their weapons, after they occupied and erected a fence around the headquarters of the national oil company. Ukrainian Nazis were behind the coup ...
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Korean peninsula (the U.S. has none there) and to persuade the DPRK to disarm, it’s doomed to failure. I see no alternative to simply leaving sanctions on the country but accepting that, on some dark day, North Korea will have nuclear weapons and the capacity to deliver them long ...