Nukes

Kathryn Bigelow’s new nuclear thriller, A House of Dynamite, has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary chooses to attack the United States with just a single nuclear-armed missile. Such a move would, of course, leave the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! China’s military buildup has reached what a new congressional report calls a "war footing," with hundreds of new missile silos and expanding nuclear capabilities that could erode America’s long-standing deterrence edge in the Indo-Pacific. China has built roughly 350 new intercontinental missile…

When the president in A House of Dynamite , played by Idris Elba, is weighing the future of all mankind as a nuclear missile hurtles toward Chicago, it’s made clear that he’s been thrust into a scenario he’s never rehearsed. In fact, as screenwriter Noah Oppenheim and director Kathryn Bigelow…

When Eisaku Satō, a former prime minister of Japan, received the Nobel peace prize in 1974 after committing his country to not making nuclear bombs, owning them or allowing them on its territory, he assured the audience: “I have no doubt that this policy will be pursued by all future…

The federal government has been urged to look into how a couple came to own a trailer park in Missouri that shares a fence with an Air Force base where the US military launched the B-2 bombers that struck Iran's nuclear facilities over the summer. The demand came from Rep. Mark…

According to German media, the United States plans to increase the number of nuclear bombs stationed in Europe, even as American troops leave both Hungary and Romania. The White House insists there is no troop withdrawal This claim was also raised during Viktor Orbán’s joint press conference in Washington last…

A suicide attack in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, has killed at least 12 people and injured 21 more. The November 11 attack comes a day after a car bomb killed at least eight people and injured 19 others in New Delhi, the capital of India. Analysts fear the attacks could…

A Standard Missile-3 is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam as part of a Missile Defense Agency flight experiment December 10, 2024. Credit: DoD A new shock-and-awe movie might sharpen public concern about American vulnerability to nuclear attack and defense against it. The fictional ”House…

Jerusalem Post / Middle East / Iran News Israel has limited time to act against Iranian regime, senior official warns A senior Israeli official suggests the need to act before Trump's presidency concludes, as tensions rise over Iran's nuclear and missile programs. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a…

For as long as AI has existed, humans have had fears around AI and nuclear weapons. And movies are a great example of those fears. Skynet from the Terminator franchise becomes sentient and fires nuclear missiles at America. WOPR from WarGames nearly starts a nuclear war because of a miscommunication.…