Category: nuclear war

Don’t Worry Too Much About the Bomb

Commentary With daily news about Russian attacks on Ukraine and the building threat of similar strikes by communist China on Taiwan—any of which could escalate to conventional, tactical nuclear, or strategic nuclear war with the United States—more folks are starting to worry. A Washington Post columnist asked readers to effectively throw Taiwan under the bus…


LIVE 1:30 PM ET: Does the CCP Think It Can Fight and Win a Nuclear War?–Webinar by Committee on the Present Danger: China

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been infiltrating the United States and the entire world for years, from corrupting some politicians with dirty money to penetrating sovereign U.S. airspace with a reconnaissance balloon. But how confident are they to even wage war or go engage in a nuclear war against the United States and its…


REPLAY 4:30 PM ET: Does the CCP Think It Can Fight and Win a Nuclear War?–Webinar by Committee on the Present Danger: China

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been infiltrating the United States and the entire world for years, from corrupting some politicians with dirty money to penetrating sovereign U.S. airspace with a reconnaissance balloon. But how confident are they to even wage war or go engage in a nuclear war against the United States and its…


REPLAY 6 PM ET: Does the CCP Think It Can Fight and Win a Nuclear War?–Webinar by Committee on the Present Danger: China

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been infiltrating the United States and the entire world for years, from corrupting some politicians with dirty money to penetrating sovereign U.S. airspace with a reconnaissance balloon. But how confident are they to even wage war or go engage in a nuclear war against the United States and its…


REPLAY: Does the CCP Think It Can Fight and Win a Nuclear War?–Webinar by Committee on the Present Danger: China

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been infiltrating the United States and the entire world for years, from corrupting some politicians with dirty money to penetrating sovereign U.S. airspace with a reconnaissance balloon. But how confident are they to even wage war or go engage in a nuclear war against the United States and its…


Does the CCP Think It Can Fight and Win a Nuclear War?–Webinar by Committee on the Present Danger: China

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been infiltrating the United States and the entire world for years, from corrupting some politicians with dirty money to penetrating sovereign U.S. airspace with a reconnaissance balloon. But how confident are they to even wage war or go engage in a nuclear war against the United States and its…


Protestors Shout Down Rep. Ocasio-Cortez During Town Hall Over Ukraine Aid

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was shouted down by a pair of protestors during town hall on Oct. 12 for her endorsement of military aid to Ukraine. “Congresswoman, none of this matters unless there’s a nuclear war, which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine,” one of the protesters yelled while condemning Ocasio-Cortez for…


Protesters Shout Down Rep. Ocasio-Cortez During Town Hall Over Ukraine Aid

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was shouted down by a pair of protesters during town hall on Oct. 12 for her endorsement of military aid to Ukraine. “Congresswoman, none of this matters unless there’s a nuclear war, which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine,” one of the protesters yelled while condemning Ocasio-Cortez for…


Nuclear War Is Thinkable

Commentary In an address to his nation in September, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would use nuclear weapons if Russia’s territorial integrity were threatened. “This is not a bluff. … Our independence and freedom will be defended—I repeat—by all the systems available to us,” he said. Most military authorities in the West all but…


One in Six Chance of Worldwide Nuclear War: Physicist’s Post Goes Viral

With the Russia-Ukraine war still raging, physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark has estimated the odds of global nuclear war in the near future at one in six, in an article and a social media post that went viral. The Swedish-American MIT professor made the prediction in an Oct. 8 post on LessWrong, a rationalist community…