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Jun 13, 2022 · Strategic ambiguity. The Biden administration has intentionally avoided spelling out how it would respond if Russia launched a nuclear attack in Ukraine, leaving open the possibility of ...
Jun 29, 2023 · W e know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation, and nuclear winter depend on where...
- 2 min
- Max Tegmark
May 16, 2022 · Nuclear fallout is the "short-term" radiation—defined here as the radioactive residues of the explosion that remain active for the next few weeks or months (as opposed to years)—that "fall out"...
- 15 sec
Oct 6, 2022 · On October 2, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that U.S. officials were considering possible responses to a Russian escalation of the Ukraine war into a nuclear conflict, but he did not...
- Giulia Carbonaro
Apr 3, 2022 · Published: 4:45am, 3 Apr 2022. Why you can trust SCMP. Russia’s assault on Ukraine and its veiled threats of using nuclear arms have policymakers, past and present, thinking the unthinkable:...
- 3 min
- Associated Press
Oct 5, 2022 · The atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be classified as tactical today by dint of their “modest” explosive power — but they were used for a strategic...
Jan 25, 2023 · Most of Russia's tactical nukes have "a small fraction of the destructive power of the bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945," the Times reports. But "the weapon...
