by John Ward | Jul 11, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
LESSONS FROM THE PAST: Does Iran Already Have Nuclear Weapons? Conventional wisdom among Western nations today assumes that Iran was close to building a nuclear weapon before America bombed its nuclear facilities in June of 2025. Observers point to Iran’s 400kg stock...
by John Ward | Jul 4, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
THE MAN WHO STARTED IT: Leo Szilard’s Nuclear Legacy Leo Szilard didn’t drop the atomic bomb. He didn’t even work at Los Alamos building atomic bombs. Yet nuclear power and nuclear weapons still depend upon the principles he discovered nearly a century ago. Szilard...
by John Ward | Jun 28, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
CONFLICT IN ASIA: The Roots of War Between India and Pakistan One of the deadliest nuclear rivalries in the world receives the least attention. For seven decades, India and Pakistan have fought bitter wars over unresolved issues from the past. Each country has a...
by John Ward | Jun 20, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
THE TOMB: Is it Polluting the Pacific Ocean With Radioactive Garbage? On Runit Island, beneath the blue skies of the Marshall Islands, a relic of nuclear testing is disintegrating under the tropical sun. Looking like the top half of a giant flying saucer, Runit Dome...
by John Ward | Jun 13, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
RUSSIA’S UNSTOPPABLE KILLER: The Poseidon Nuclear Torpedo Drone In the ever-evolving nuclear arms race, Russia has unveiled a weapon so devastating, so unconventional, that it defies everything we thought we knew about deterrence. Named after the Greek God of the sea,...
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