by John Ward | Oct 17, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
FOOTBALLS AND BISCUITS: Presidents, Protocols, and Nuclear Launch Procedures Launching nuclear weapons is a simple process in the movies—turn some keys or push a button, and off they go. But buttons and keys have very little to do with one of the most sophisticated...
by John Ward | Oct 10, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
AGAINST ETHICAL STANDARDS OF MILITARY CONDUCT: Why Truman Nuked Japan As World War II came to a close, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Estimates of fatalities inflicted by those weapons are seldom accurate. Most...
by John Ward | Oct 3, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
JOINED AT THE HIP: Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are often seen as separate topics—one about clean energy, the other about war and destruction. Yet from their earliest beginnings, the two have been joined at the hip by science,...
by John Ward | Sep 26, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
BY THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH: The Fallacy of Mutually Assured Destruction Humanity has always believed that life could be saved by threatening death. It actually makes sense up to a point. Some nations, and some people, must be forcibly deterred from aggressive action....
by John Ward | Sep 19, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
DRIVER FUEL / TARGET CORE: Nuclear Proliferation in Plain Sight At first glance, the global nuclear landscape appears to be shrinking. Treaties have limited the number of nuclear-armed nations in the world and reduced the number of warheads America and Russia can...
by John Ward | Sep 12, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR ARSENAL: The Hermit Kingdom is Armed and Dangerous North Korea is the most secretive nation on Earth, but it could not hide the underground tests and ICBM launches that confirmed it had a nuclear weapons program. Since North Korea’s first nuclear...
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