During the Cold War, US Army scientists planned to hide hundreds of nuclear warheads underneath the Greenland ice sheet in a covert mission known as “Project Iceworm.” It was 1960 and tensions were mounting between the US and Soviet Union. If nuclear war broke out, the US wanted to be close enough to strike the […]
Read More Cold War Project Led to Discovery of Plant Fossils Under Greenland IceImagine a rapidly escalating conflict between Russian and NATO forces. Compensating for Russiaâs perceived conventional inferiority, Russian commanders execute a limited nuclear strike â a small number of low-yield weapons intended to change conditions on the battlefield. The U.S. president, in turn, authorizes a limited nuclear response just before being evacuated from the White House. […]
Read More Right of Launch: Command and Control Vulnerabilities After a Limited Nuclear Strike – War on the RocksTwo Boeing E-6B Mercury planes were detected flying along both coasts of the U.S. mainland early Friday, around the time President Trump announced he and first lady Melania Trump were diagnosed with coronavirus — but the flights were âpre-plannedâ and the timing was âpurely coincidental,â a U.S. Strategic Command spokesman told Fox News. More about this article in the link below… […]
Read More US military says doomsday planes not mobilized in response to Trump COVID-19 diagnosis – Business InsiderChina dominates the global market in rare-earth minerals, producing 70% of the worldâs exports. But this isnât a gift of nature â itâs the result of 15 years of industrial policy. The Chinese government identified a critical economic chokehold, invested in building companies, subsidized production to underprice and ultimately destroy competition, and then constructed a […]
Read More Ending Chinaâs Chokehold on Rare-Earth MineralsDocuments gained under the Freedom of Information Act show how a number of small drones flew around a restricted area at Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant on two successive nights last September. Security forces watched, but were apparently helpless to act as the drones carried out their incursions before disappearing into the night. Details of […]
Read More âDrone Swarmâ Invaded Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant Last September â TwiceRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday the Russian Navy would be armed with hypersonic nuclear strike weapons and underwater nuclear drones, which the defence ministry said were in their final phase of testing. Emer McCarthy reports. REUTERS Reports More about this in the link below… https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/video-vladimir-putin-says-russian-navy-to-get-hypersonic-nuclear-weapons/
Read More Video: Vladimir Putin says Russian Navy to get hypersonic nuclear weapons, underwater drones – The Globe and Mail(Inside Science) — In “Inside the Third Reich,” a memoir by Albert Speer, the former minister of armament of Nazi Germany recalls an exchange he had with the physicist Werner Heisenberg and Adolf Hitler: “Heisenberg had not given any final answer to my question whether a successful nuclear fission could be kept under control with […]
Read More The Fear of Setting the Planet on Fire with a Nuclear Weapon | Inside ScienceA collapse in negotiations between the Trump administration and Kim Jong Un has left Pyongyang with one option, it says: âTo counter nuke with nuke.âMore about this in the link below… https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2020-06-26/north-korea-threatens-us-with-nuclear-attack?context=amp
Read More North Korea Threatens U.S. With Nuclear Attack | World Report | US NewsMany China experts in government and academia, and anti-nuclear activists such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Federation of American Scientists, appear not to be worried by China’s rapidly growing nuclear capabilities, because Beijing’s official policy promises that China will not be the first to employ nuclear weapons in a conflict. Beijing promises […]
Read More China’s ‘no first use’ nuclear fiction | TheHill
