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Nuclear War

  • by Darris McNeely
Just as news arrived that made us feel safe to go out-of-doors, something happens to make us scramble back into our warm and safe cocoons called home. It is still a dangerous world out there—in spite of what they tell us.
  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
According to The New York Times, "Israel's air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea had used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports" (Oct. 14, 2007).
  • by Melvin Rhodes
Pakistan's pro-Western leader has now survived three assassination attempts and is under increasing pressure from Islamic militants. If he falls, Pakistan will likely fall with him. If that happens, radical Islamists will likely gain control of Pakistan's arsenal of nuclear weapons.
  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
For some 60 years the "doomsday clock" has been ticking in Chicago, sponsored by the directors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. They set it at seven minutes to midnight—midnight being a nuclear holocaust—back in 1947.
  • by Darris McNeely
Longtime Stalinist Kim Jong Il has officially brought North Korea into the nuclear club. Now that North Korea has nuclear devices, what can the rest of the world expect?
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  • by Melvin Rhodes
Iran seems intent on joining North Korea in the nuclear club. Uneasy neighbors will likely soon start their own nuclear programs. What does the proliferation of nuclear weapons mean for the rest of us?
  • by Melvin Rhodes
Five years after 9/11, America is politically divided over how to respond to terrorism. Some see the events of 9/11 as part of a struggle reaching back 1400 years to the birth of Islam. Others view 9/11 as the direct consequence of American foreign policy.