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Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg (YouTube screenshot/VICE news)
April 14, 2018, 6:16 am
Mattis should protect world from Trump, Pentagon Papers whistleblower says
Daniel Ellsberg believes 'situation is closer to the possible use of nuclear weapons since any time in 50 years'
By AFP
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at the daily briefing of the White House in Washington, DC, July 31, 2015 (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
February 17, 2018, 10:27 am
Risk of nuclear war at ‘highest point since Cuban missile crisis’
Ex-US energy secretary Ernest Moniz, who help negotiate Iran deal, says poor diplomacy and better technology increase the risk of an accidental weapons launch
By TOI staff
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveil the 2018 'Doomsday Clock,' January 25, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
January 26, 2018, 12:07 am
Nuclear concerns push ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer to midnight
Now at two minutes to midnight, the metaphorical measure of how close humanity is to destroying itself is the closest it has ever been to apocalypse
By AFP
Retired Adm. Michael G. Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Diane Bondareff/Invision/AP Images/File)
December 31, 2017, 11:22 pm
Former US army chief: US, N. Korea closer to nuclear war than ever
Mike Mullen attributes rising danger to Donald Trump's 'incredibly disruptive' presidency
By AFP
The Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea, November 29, 2017. (Image provided by the North Korean government, Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
December 1, 2017, 3:52 pm
Things that go HEMP in the night
North Korea is fine-tuning its strike capability, and, with it, raises the global existential threat
By Pinchas Landau
Former Soviet missile defense forces officer Stanislav Petrov poses, at his home in Fryazino, Moscow region, Russia, on August 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin/File)
September 19, 2017, 8:36 pm
‘The man who saved the world’ from nuclear war dies at 77
Stanislav Petrov, an ex-military officer, helped prevent Soviet response to a false missile warning at the height of the Cold War
By Vladimir Isachenikov
Screen capture from video calling for a Jewish Day of Unity and prayer issued by the Dirshu organization, September 11, 2017. (YouTube/Day of Jewish Unity)
September 13, 2017, 5:52 pm
Group calls for Jewish Day of Unity to pray for peace and stability
Threat of nuclear war, surge in anti-Semitism, terrorism and hurricanes motivate the Dirshu organization to issue plea to prayer
By JTA
Four US Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft from Kadena Air Base, Japan, conduct a flyover in the vicinity of Osan Air Base, South Korea, in response to provocative action by North Korea February 17, 2016. (US Air Force/Song, Kyong Hwan)
September 4, 2017, 6:11 am
US ready to use ‘nuclear capabilities,’ White House warns North Korea
As tensions spike over Pyongyang nuke test, Trump tells Japanese counterpart that US will protect itself and allies using any means it has
By AFP
This file photo taken on August 9, 2017, shows pedestrians walking past a huge screen in Tokyo displaying news footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. (AFP PHOTO / Kazuhiro NOGI)
September 3, 2017, 7:10 am
North Korea carries out powerful new nuclear test
Move comes just hours after Pyongyang claims to have developed a hydrogen bomb that could be loaded into a long-range missile
By Sebastien BERGER
Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during the 6th Session of the Cuban Parliament at the Conventions Palace in Havana on December 22, 2005. (AFP PHOTO/Antonio LEVI)
November 26, 2016, 7:44 am
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro dies at 90
Rebel chief who took power at 32 in 1959, becoming youngest leader in Latin America, handed over half-century later to brother Raul
By Michael Weissenstein and Peter Orsi
A North Korean propaganda video shows nuclear attack on Washington, DC (YouTube screenshot)
March 26, 2016, 5:06 pm
North Korean video shows nuke attack on Washington
Pyongyang ramps up threats over tensions with US and South, which it warns of a 'merciless military strike'
By AFP
Former Soviet missile defense forces officer Stanislav Petrov poses for a photo at his home in Fryazino, Moscow region, Russia. On Sept. 26, 1983, despite the data coming in from the Soviet Union’s early-warning satellites over the United States, Petrov, a Soviet military officer, decided to consider it a false alarm. If he had decided otherwise, the Soviet leadership could have responded by ordering a retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
September 18, 2015, 10:31 pm
32 years ago, this man saved the world
On September 26, 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov made a decision widely credited with averting a nuclear war. A movie that tells the story opened Friday in the US
By Lynn Berry
Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 (AP/RIA Novosti Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev/Presidential Press Service, File)
From the WebJune 7, 2015, 9:56 pm
Amid tensions with Russia, US may move its nukes to British soil
Analysts warn of 'new cold-war'-style arms race that could feature showdown between Washington and Moscow, The Telegraph reports
People, including survivors of the nuclear bombings in Japan in 1945, front, participate in an anti-nuclear rally in Union Square in New York, Sunday, April 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
April 27, 2015, 7:46 am
As nuclear powers meet, NYC rally demands end to weapons
Activists urge action to rid world of estimated 16,000 nuclear weapons currently held by world powers
By Cara Anna
Illustrative photo of three Danish Royal Navy vessels (screen capture: YouTube)
March 22, 2015, 9:57 pm
Russia threatens to nuke Danish ships
Envoy offers harsh warning to Scandinavian country currently mulling NATO membership
By JAN M. OLSEN
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