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...
by John Ward | Oct 31, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
BROKEN ARROWS: Nuclear Accidents That Should Have Happened Since the dawn of the atomic age, our civilization has been held at risk by nuclear weapons. In some respects, the threat of nuclear war diminished when the Cold War ended. But in other ways, the risk has...
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