Nuclear Anxiety, That Staple of 1980s Cinema, Is Back

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

The threat of nuclear war never went away

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Vladimir Putin cronies issue horror threats to destroy Britain with nuclear missiles

The threat came as hours of late night 'peace talks' involving Putin and Trump envoys ended with the Kremlin ruling out ...
The Nation

Have We Normalized Nuclear War?

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 ...
Forbes

Europe Joins U.S. In Arming For Russian Nuclear Strikes In Space

As Russia threatens atomic attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, space powers across Europe are racing to defend against nuclear strikes in orbit.
Chicago Sun-Times

Fictional nuclear threat serves a reminder of the past horrors, potential devastation

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NPR

Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and right) about nuclear war

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 ...
Psychology Today

War and the Horror Genre

“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 ...
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Russia sends horror WW3 threat of 'nuclear apocalypse' - 'We can destroy Europe'

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 ...
Cfr.org

Who Can Start a Nuclear War? Inside U.S. Launch Authority and Reform

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 ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Column: The threat of nuclear war never went away

“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 ...