Posted by Matt in May 16th, 2008 |
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India,
Nuclear,
Pakistan,
Agricultural Production,
Atmosphere,
Bomb,
Casualties,
Climate Models,
Decade,
Famine,
Imagination,
India And Pakistan,
India Pakistan,
Land Surface,
Military Planners,
Nuclear War,
Nuclear Weapons Material,
Pakistan India,
plutonium,
Policymakers,
Political Leaders,
Rainfall,
Uranium
Their political leaders and military planners seem impervious to the fact that a war between Pakistan and India in which each used only five of their nuclear weapons on the other’s cities could kill several million people and injure many more. The effects of a nuclear war could be much worse if India and Pakistan [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 9th, 2008 |
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Military,
Aircraft Carriers,
Attack Submarine,
Billy Mitchell,
Giant,
Nuclear Attack,
Nuclear Submarine,
Ostfriesland,
Pacific Ocean,
Patrick Tyler,
Policymakers,
Soviet Submarine,
submarines,
Subs,
Top Speed,
Uss Enterprise,
Vulnerability
Similarly, neither U.S. policymakers nor the American public realize the vulnerability of giant aircraft carriers to torpedo attacks from modern fast submarines was demonstrated in 1968 when a fast Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarine matched the USS Enterprise at top speed in the Pacific Ocean. That moment, vividly and thoroughly discussed in Patrick Tyler’s “Running Critical,” [...]
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