Nuclear Warfare

Loose Talk About the End of Everything

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: “There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought.” No one would disagree, even though several officials of both […]

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The Pandemic of Nuclear Trash Talk

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After the world escaped a nuclear exchange during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, it has been generally understood that nuclear-armed nations did not publicly threaten their rivals and enemies with thermonuclear weapons. Of course, there were occasional lunatic exceptions to the rule. Since 2006, when the unhinged North

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