80 years ago today, on August 9th, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Three days earlier, the US had dropped a separate bomb on the city of Hiroshima. These bombs changed the course of history.The two bombs are estimated to have killed roughly 200,000 people in both cities. Half of them died on the first day. Many others died of burns and radiation sickness in the days, the weeks, and the months that followed.The destructive power of this new type of weapon was ...

Whether Trump actually ordered US submarines around the globe isn't the issue: It's that he and Medvedev used social media to threaten nuclear war, @stavridisj writes (via @opinion) https://t.co/OmnbaehtZv ...

RT Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion)How worried should we be about nuclear war?@AndreasKluth has 6 reasons why the risk is different — and worse — than the Cold War 📽️ https://t.co/RwjMjN3Hz9 ...

First it was Trump Tarrifs now it’s Totally Trump …Polymarket (@Polymarket):BREAKING: Trump said the United States is “totally prepared” for nuclear war against Russia. ...

Being honest nuclear war is not that bad thing, i don't know why panic ...

In our brave new world, those thinking deeply about preventing nuclear war have no good answers and seem almost nostalgic for the Cold War, says @andreaskuth (via @opinion) https://t.co/0bPhRpL9Rx ...

I believe that we are already at the early stages if not in World War II. It just doesn't look like the wars of the past. And people should understand what is at stake, which is we are one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away, or even one AI generated viral video from nuclear annihilation.Is there anything at all you're doing to prepare. I'm leaving the United States by 2026. But is there anywhere on this map that is safe in a war. So my understanding is that there's actually three safe zones.You are r ...

I deeply believe that China is not a threat to the United States. And I deeply believe the only threat to the United States, period, in the world, given the oceans, given our size, and given the military, is nuclear war. I deeply believe we're close to nuclear war because we have a mindset that leads us in that direction.We have a mindset that everything is a challenge for survival and that escalation is therefore always the right approach. My view is a little bit of prudence could save the whole planet. ...