It was 50 years ago, on 6 October, and I was a nine-year-old boy running around in the New Haven synagogue in Connecticut where my father was the rabbi when I came upon a group of men huddled in a corner. open image in gallery Israel’s defence minister Moshe Dayan at the battlefront during the Yom Kippur war It took …
A cruel irony of advent of peace and the end of war was that the atom bomb became the war’s greatest discovery Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan’s $100m epic is expected to put the nuclear bomb question back on the table. The Film and the Manhattan Project The film is about Julius Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan project – a scientific …
As Russian tanks moved into Ukraine on February 24, President Vladimir Putin warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that any attempt to intervene could lead to “consequences they have never seen”. The Russia-Ukraine war is one symptom of a changing international system, with a public nonchalance toward nuclear weapons. They were aware that American missiles would become prime targets for …