Nuclear weapon

Russian nuclear weapon use remains unlikely — at least for the moment

This alignment of rogue states will not go away in a flash

Newly revealed documents also shed light on Moscow’s relationship with Beijing

The issue of how Japan’s role in World War Two is portrayed by western media is a live one

We need an international treaty banning the weaponization of nuclear sites

Whoever wins the presidency next year will be responsible for bedding down the defense pact

Psychological aspects of Japan’s wartime death cult have been almost entirely ignored by the revisionist historians

The chief power of nukes is in the dread they inspire, not their absolute destructive potential

There is a range of ‘non-kinetic’ means of punishing Russia for escalation

‘It looks like the whole regime, including the Russian armed forces, was just one big Potemkin village’

Among the most alarming episodes during Donald J. Trump’s tumultuous final weeks in the White House was an announcement by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, on 10 January:  ‘This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [General] Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.’ Almost half a century earlier, there had been a similar – though secret – alarm about another unstable president with his finger on the nuclear button.  At the height of the Watergate Crisis in 1974, when president Richard Nixon,