Monday, 25 September , 2023

Tactical Nuclear Arms

Trump’s legacy: From the forever wars to the cataclysmic wars

From the Forever Wars to the Cataclysmic Wars by Michael Klare and Tom Engelhardt Posted on December 08, 2020 Originally posted at TomDispatch. You may have noticed...

Trump Boasts of Nuclear Weapon ‘You Haven’t Even Seen or Heard...

Sep. 9, 2020 Excerpts from journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book “Rage” include comments by US President Donald Trump about the Pentagon having a nuclear weapons...

US push for low-yield nukes makes atomic war MORE likely as...

By Nebojsa Malic 30 Apr, 2020 The US State Department’s case for tactical nuclear weapons is a case study in psychological projection not seen since the...

The threat of a nuclear war between the US and Russia...

By Scott Ritter 29 Feb, 2020 When the Commander of NATO says he is a fan of flexible first strike at the same time that...

Nuclear war ‘more likely’ after US arms subs with low-yield nukes...

25 Feb, 2020 Iran has blasted Washington for deploying submarines with low-yield nuclear warheads, arguing that the move increases the likelihood of unconventional war. "Such provocative...

Dangerous games: US NUKES Russia in ‘mini exercise’ attended by Pentagon...

22 Feb, 2020 US Defense Secretary Mark Esper played himself in a drill at the US Strategic Command HQ in Nebraska, which featured a bizarre...

US deploys “usable” nuclear weapon amid continuing war threats against Iran

1 February 2020 The Pentagon deployed a new, smaller nuclear warhead aboard the ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee as it sailed into the Atlantic last...

The low-yield nuclear warhead: A dangerous weapon based on bad strategic...

By Andrew Facini, January 28, 2020 In the unintuitive world of nuclear weapons strategy, it’s often difficult to identify which decisions can serve to decrease...

With a New Weapon in Donald Trump’s Hands, The Iran Crisis...

By William Arkin 1/13/20 Ten days before Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, the United States nuked Iran. The occasion: a nuclear war...

The Iran Plans

Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? By Seymour M. Hersh April 9, 2006 The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy...