by John Ward | Nov 28, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
STANISLAV PETROV: The Right Stuff During the early morning hours of September 26, 1983, a lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov was serving as the duty officer at a secret installation south of Moscow. It was a difficult time to be in the Soviet military. The...
by John Ward | Nov 21, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
LITTLE BOY: A Message to the Emperor On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. At 8:15 AM, it released a small, untested atomic bomb they ironically named Little Boy. The bomb fell forty-three seconds to an altitude of...
by John Ward | Nov 14, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
THE HALL BROTHERS: American Hero, Soviet Spy During World War II and the early Cold War, two American brothers found themselves on opposite sides of history. One was a decorated US intelligence officer and a brilliant rocket designer known as The Father of the...
by John Ward | Nov 7, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
THE DEAD HAND: Nuclear War by Machine At the height of the Cold War, both superpowers feared a nightmare scenario – a sudden decapitating strike that destroyed leadership before it could act. To discourage that possibility, the Soviet Union built a machine – an...
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