Nuclear warfare
Military conflict which majorly contains scaled nuclear armory
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| 2025 |
Nuclear winter
Toon et al. simulated a nuclear scenario involving a potential nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan, modeling atmospheric effects from nuclear weapon detonations ranging from 15 kt to 100 kt on urban areas.
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| 2024 |
Nuclear winter
The Independent Study is scheduled to release its final report, providing a comprehensive assessment of nuclear winter research findings.
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| June 19 2024 |
Peace through strength
President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan publicly reiterated the 'peace through strength' philosophy, stating that peace must be achieved by preparing for potential conflict, emphasizing the need to avoid war through military readiness.
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| 2023 |
Nuclear winter
The U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine initiated an Independent Study on Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War, aimed at comprehensively evaluating existing research on nuclear winter.
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| 2023 |
Nuclear close calls
Reports emerged suggesting that Trump had considered using nuclear weapons against North Korea in 2017.
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| 2023 |
Deterrence theory
A research study finds that while nuclear-armed states are less likely to be targeted by non-nuclear states, they are not necessarily less likely to engage in low-level conflicts with other nuclear states.
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| 2022 |
Deterrence theory
Elon Musk prevents Ukraine from conducting drone attacks on the Russian Black Sea fleet by withholding Starlink communications in Crimea, after receiving a nuclear threat warning from Russia's ambassador.
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| 2022 |
Deterrence theory
Kyungwon Suh publishes a study suggesting that nuclear superiority may not reduce the likelihood of nuclear crisis initiation between nuclear-armed states.
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| 2022 |
Deterrence theory
Brian Blankenship and Erik Lin-Greenberg published a study challenging the effectiveness of high-resolve, low-capability deterrence signals, casting doubt on the traditional tripwire approach in international relations.
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| August 2022 |
Nuclear winter
A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Food revealed that a full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia would result in direct deaths of 360 million people and indirect starvation deaths of over 5 billion people during a nuclear winter.
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| February 2022 |
Deterrence theory
Russia begins invasion of Ukraine, demonstrating a complex scenario of nuclear deterrence where western powers are effectively deterred from direct military intervention due to nuclear threat risks.
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| 2021 |
Nuclear winter
Researchers Coupe et al. conducted a simulation using the CESM-WACCM4 model to study the potential El Niño-like effects following nuclear conflict scenarios. They modeled six different nuclear scenarios producing between 5 to 150 Tg of soot, coining the term 'Nuclear Niño' to describe the resulting long-lasting changes in ocean currents.
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| 2021 |
Mutual assured destruction
Construction begins on the Columbia-class submarines, which will replace the Ohio-class SSBNs as part of the US strategic nuclear deterrent.
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| 2020 |
Nuclear ethics
Cumulative deaths from nuclear weapons testing estimated to have reached up to 43,000 people by this year.
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| November 2020 |
Mutual assured destruction
The United States successfully destroyed a dummy ICBM outside the atmosphere with another missile, which Bloomberg Opinion suggested 'ends the era of nuclear stability'.
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| 2019 |
Nuclear winter
Coupe et al. published a study modeling a scenario of 150 Tg of black carbon release into the atmosphere following a hypothetical nuclear exchange between the United States and Russia, using the advanced WACCM4 climate model.
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| 2019 |
Nuclear winter
Two significant studies on nuclear winter were published, building on previous modeling and describing new scenarios of nuclear winter from smaller nuclear weapon exchanges.
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| 2019 |
Deterrence theory
By this year, the 2015 Ukraine power grid hack remained the only publicly confirmed instance of a cyber attack successfully causing a power grid disruption.
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| 2018 |
Nuclear winter
Research published in the peer-reviewed journal Safety recommended that no nation should possess more than 100 nuclear warheads due to potential 'nuclear autumn' blowback effects on the aggressor nation's own population.
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| 2018 |
Nuclear winter
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers published a multi-scale study on the climate impact of a regional nuclear exchange, finding that black carbon would loft minimally into the stratosphere, challenging previous nuclear winter predictions and concluding that significant global cooling was highly unlikely.
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| 2018 |
Peace through strength
The US National Defense Strategy introduced detailed provisions for 'preserving peace through strength', emphasizing military preparedness and allied cooperation.
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| May 2018 |
Cold War
The television series 'The Americans' concluded its six-season run in May, marking the end of a popular Cold War-themed drama.
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| January 2018 |
Nuclear close calls
Trump tweeted that the United States has a 'bigger nuclear button' than North Korea, further intensifying the diplomatic standoff.
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| January 2018 |
Nuclear close calls
Victor Cha was withdrawn as a pick for U.S. Ambassador to South Korea after expressing opposition to a limited strike against North Korea, raising serious concerns about potential military action.
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| 2017 |
Nuclear close calls
During the United Nations General Assembly, Trump warned that the United States would 'totally destroy North Korea' if forced to defend itself.
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| August 2017 |
Nuclear close calls
U.S. President Donald Trump warned North Korea would be met with 'fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen', escalating tensions between the two countries.
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| January 2017 |
Peace through strength
Donald Trump cited 'Peace Through Strength' as a central principle of his 'America First' foreign policy upon assuming office.
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| 2015 |
Deterrence theory
First publicly acknowledged cyber attack causing a power outage occurred in Ukraine, demonstrating the potential destructive capabilities of cyber warfare.
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| 2013 |
Cold War
The television series 'The Americans', a KGB-sleeper-agents drama set in the early 1980s, was ranked No. 6 on the Metacritic annual Best New TV Shows list.
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