by John Ward | Sep 4, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
THE LAST TREATY: Will New START Expire Soon? The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia. Signed in 2010, the treaty expires in February 2026 unless both parties agree to...
by John Ward | Aug 29, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
TRINITY: The Dead Man’s Journey Begins It was 5:29 AM Mountain War Time on the morning of July 16, 1945. Eighteen-year-old Georgia Green rode shotgun beside her brother-in-law Joe Wills, driving down Highway 85 about fifty miles north of the high desert valley called...
by John Ward | Aug 22, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE: A New Approach Toward Nuclear Conflict For much of the 20th century, nuclear weapons were framed within a fragile doctrine of balance called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). The concept was simple: if two adversaries had the power to...
by John Ward | Aug 15, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
DISPOSAL OF FISSILE MATERIALS: A Better Way Progress has been made since the height of the Cold War in reducing the number of nuclear weapons. Thousands of warheads have been dismantled and entire missile systems retired. But much remains to be done, just as it does...
by John Ward | Aug 7, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
THE DEADLIEST DOLPHINS: Israel’s Nuclear Submarines A new kind of hunter patrols the deep blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Not with slashing fins and razor-sharp teeth but with stealthy silence and nuclear warheads. This new predator is Israel’s fleet of...
by John Ward | Aug 1, 2025 | Global Nuclear Realities, Understanding the Risks
NIPPED IN THE BUD: A Fissile Approach Toward Nuclear Disarmament The nuclear disarmament movement has long faced a daunting question: how do you eliminate nuclear weapons when several nations still produce and stockpile fissile material – the essential and...
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