After the Cold War ended, our terror of nuclear war faded from the screen. Now it’s resurgent — and more fatalistic than ever ...

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If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible. A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise ...

On Sept. 12, the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy hosted a promotional screening and discussion of Paul Jay’s documentary “How to Stop a Nuclear War” ...

“The real war,” Walt Whitman famously wrote about the Civil War, “won’t get into the books.” He was thinking about the indescribable horror of that conflict, of a trauma that could not be expressed in ...

This essay contains spoilers for the film A House of Dynamite. In the opening minutes of Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, the unthinkable happens — a single nuclear warhead is ...

Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The United States has the power and a process to respond when it is under nuclear attack, but only ...

A retired Russian admiral has claimed Moscow can "destroy Europe" in an ominous warning to the West over its support for Ukraine. The latest nuclear sabre-rattling came as commentators on Russian ...

“At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.” That is the chilling opening line of Kathryn ...