Arms race

The war effort demanded developments in the field of science and technology, developments that forever changed life in America and made present-day technology possible.

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Biden broke the long-standing US policy of 'strategic ambiguity,' where Washington helps build Taiwan's defenses but does not explicitly promise to come to the island's help.

1909 cartoon in Puck shows (clockwise) US, Germany, Britain, France and Japan engaged in naval race in a "no limit" game.

Lack of effective regulation means the risk of nuclear war is greater than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Other potentially existential military threats remain similarly uncontrolled.

In 1945, American bomber B-29 “Enola Gay” drops the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima

Because of that 1979 protest and decades of painstaking and difficult struggle, LILCO was stopped in its nuclear push – and Long Island today is nuclear-free.

How big is the world’s nuclear arsenal? Here are the stockpiles of the nine countries with nuclear weapons.

The following is an article from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader The real-life story of a small ball of plutonium, the people it killed, and the researchers who blew it up. THE BOMB On the evening of Tuesday, August 21, 1945, American physicist Harry Daghlian was working at the U.S. government’s ultra-secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He was [...]