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about statements by then-US Vice President Henry A. Wallace: "We shall decide sometime in 1943 or 1944 ... whether to plant the seeds of World War III." [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Time continued to entitle with or mention in stories the term "World War III" for the rest of the decade and onwards: 1944, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] 1945, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] 1946 ("bacterial warfare ...
LONDON — The world is entering a “third nuclear age,” the head of the British armed forces has warned, with world-ending weapons once again spreading globally and international agreements to ...
These fears were manifested in the popular culture of the time, with images of nuclear war in books, film, music, and television. In the mid-1980s, artists and musicians drew parallels with their time and the 1950s as two key moments in the Cold War. [9] There was a steady stream of popular music with apocalyptic themes.
Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre in Berlin told the FT: "This is the first time that we have seen documents like this reported in the public domain […] They show that the operational threshold for using nuclear weapons is pretty low if the desired result can’t be achieved through conventional means." [49]
The attack reportedly pushed up natural gas prices 5% to €40 per megawatt-hour in Europe, [283] while YouTube and phone networks experienced outages in Russia. [ 284 ] [ 285 ] [ 286 ] The transit of Russian gas through the Ukrainian gas transportation system decreased to 37.25 million cubic metres per day from the usual 42–42.4 million ...
Maps associated with the released plan show nuclear strikes in many NATO states, but exclude both France and the United Kingdom. There are several possibilities for this lack of strikes, the most probable being that both France and the United Kingdom are nuclear weapons states , and as such retain nuclear arsenals that could be employed in ...
Syrian rebel fighters began preparations to seize Aleppo a year ago but the assault was delayed by war in Gaza and ultimately launched last week when a ceasefire took hold in Lebanon, the head of ...
A Second Cold War, [1] [2] Cold War II, [3] [4] or the New Cold War [5] [6] [7] has been used to describe heightened geopolitical tensions in the 21st century between usually, on one side, the United States and, on the other, either China or Russia—the successor state of the Soviet Union, which led the Eastern Bloc during the original Cold War.