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Is a New Cuban Missile Crisis Brewing Over Ukraine? Dangers of Nuclear War. John J. Mearsheimer
Is a New Cuban Missile Crisis Brewing Over Ukraine? Dangers of Nuclear War. John J. Mearsheimer Will the U.S. be involved with negotiating with the Russians to bring peace to Ukraine, as did Kennedy in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis? On June 12, three Russian ships and a nuclear-powered submarine arrived in Havana, Cuba. Having […]
RAY McGOVERN: Thanks to a Soviet Navy Captain — We Survived 1962
RAY McGOVERN: Thanks to a Soviet Navy Captain — We Survived 1962 Captain Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov spared humanity from extinction on what has been called “the most dangerous moment in human history.” Oct. 27, 1962, is the date on which we humans were spared extinction thanks to Soviet Navy submarine Captain Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov. Arkhipov insisted on […]
Russia “Prepared For Another Cuban Missile Crisis”, Putin Warns US
Russia “Prepared For Another Cuban Missile Crisis”, Putin Warns US Russia is militarily ready for a “Cuban Missile-style crisis” President Putin said late on Wednesday, commenting on nuclear first strike capability amidst growing tensions with the US. The remarks were given to Russian media following a prior speech wherein he warned Moscow will match any attempt by the […]
Tomgram: Susan Southard, Against Forgetting
Tomgram: Susan Southard, Against Forgetting Let me tell you a little story about Hiroshima and me: As a young man, I was anything but atypical in having the Bomb (we capitalized it then) on my brain, and not just while I was ducking under my school desk as sirens howled their nuclear attack warnings outside. […]
Peace or Armageddon: Take Your Pick
Peace or Armageddon: Take Your Pick Photo by Paul Sableman | CC BY 2.0 I had just turned 15 when the Cuban Missile Crisis suddenly erupted. Like everyone else my age I had been propagandized from early childhood to see the Reds as America’s mortal enemy and to fear their designs to wipe us off […]
The World’s Real Nuclear Menace Isn’t North Korea
The World’s Real Nuclear Menace Isn’t North Korea Photo by Toby Scott | CC BY 2.0 With growing speculation of war with North Korea and familiar apocalyptic rhetoric in recent times, the United States and North Korea have participated in increasingly bellicose exchanges. These recent exchanges range from President Trump calling on other nations to […]
End Games: the Apocalyptic Trope That Swallowed the World
End Games: the Apocalyptic Trope That Swallowed the World Photo by Mikey | CC BY 2.0 Everywhere you look these days, you see the trope: the “end of the world” is nigh from a nuclear war. You see it in somber headlines, in weighty punditry, even in throwaway jokes in the middle of, say, a […]
Ticking Closer to Nuclear Midnight
Ticking Closer to Nuclear Midnight Exclusive: President Obama embraced Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima bomb, but his policies, such as heightening tensions with Russia, have raised the potential for a far worse nuclear catastrophe, explains Jonathan Marshall. Even if you’ve never won an office raffle, a sports pool or a lottery, consider yourself supremely lucky. Unlike […]
When They Killed JFK They Killed America
When They Killed JFK They Killed America In the JFK administration I was a White House Fellow. In those days it was a much larger program than the small insider program it later became. President Kennedy’s intention was to involve many young Americans in government in order to keep idealism alive as a counter to […]
