Nukes

Christopher Nolan‘s Dark Knight Trilogy came to an end with The Dark Knight Rises by giving Bruce Wayne the opportunity to leave behind his vigilante life, leaving Gotham City to think that he sacrificed himself by flying a nuclear bomb far off the coast, into the ocean. Believed to be…

An F-15E Strike Eagle flies at Tonopah Test Range in 2019. F-15Es are one of the planes that will be ... able to carry B61-12 nuclear bombs. (Bryan Guthrie / Air Force) Underneath the gray Nevada sky, a fighter released an elaborate dummy. Less than a minute later, the mock…

The memo also calls for examining possible defensive armament options to protect these ships against near-peer threats.USCGU.S. President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on Arctic and Antarctic security today that called on the U.S. Coast Guard to explore the possibility of buying nuclear-powered icebreakers, a type of ship that only…

The Greenhouse George atomic test at Enewetak Atoll on May 8, 1951. Los Alamos National Laboratory Imagine this scenario. A ruthless cyber-attack cripples Russia’s power grid. The internet is out. Houses are dark and cold. Hospitals are running on generators as accidents and crime spike amid the chaos. Nuclear power-plants…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A test over the Nevada desert has confirmed that the latest version of the nation’s B61 nuclear bomb is compatible with the U.S. Air Force’s primary fighter plane, defense officials and researchers at Sandia National Laboratories said Monday. Officials with the lab and the National Nuclear…

PARIS (Reuters) - France demanded on Friday that Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, whom Tehran has sentenced to six years in prison, be released immediately, saying her detention was harming trust between the two countries."One year ago, Fariba Adelkhah was arbitrarily arrested in Iran. It is unacceptable that she is still…

FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense General Jim Mattis speaks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York, September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Gary He(Reuters) - President Donald Trump faced condemnation from respected former leaders of America’s armed forces this week over his approach to civil unrest in a rare series…

The US is protected by what’s known as a nuclear triad: a three-pronged attack force that consists of land-launched nuclear missiles, nuclear missiles on submarines, and aircraft equipped with nuclear bombs and missiles. One of the triad’s legs – the land-based LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) – has been…

David MansfieldIllustration by João FazendaFrom the high ridge in West Orange, New Jersey, where David Mansfield lives, you can see the towers of lower Manhattan on the horizon. Mansfield is a famous musician who plays violin, guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, and Dobro, all of which he has in the…

Key point: Nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrence. If Japan felt it needed them to protect itself, then it would quickly build them.It is perhaps China’s and even North Korea's greatest nightmare: a nuclear-armed Japan. Permanently anchored off the Asian mainland, bristling with nuclear weapons, a nuclear Japan would make…