Category Archives: Nuke

On This Day — Able Archer 1983 : The Brink of Apocalypse (November 7-11, 1983) [UPDATE : “NATO is a leftover Cold War relic doing more harm than good.”]

Posted on November 7, 2025 by L

“The US intelligence had failed to grasp the true extent of their anxiety.” Robert Gates CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence during Able Archer 83 November 7 2025 — Able Archer 83 is the codename for a command post exercise carried … Continue reading →

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On This Day — US Detonates First Thermonuclear Weapon (November 1, 1952)

Posted on November 1, 2025 by L

“The island of Elugelab is missing.” Gordon Dean Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission summarizing the events to President Eisenhower November 1st 2025 — On November 1st 1952, the United States detonated  the first full-scale thermonuclear device on the island of … Continue reading →

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On This Day — The VELA Incident (September 22 1979)

Posted on September 22, 2025 by L

“Now, 40 years later, there is a scientific and historical consensus that it was a nuclear test and that it had to be Israeli.” Avner Cohen (September 22 2019) September 22 2025 — A CIA-sponsored panel of well-respected scientists concluded … Continue reading →

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80 Years Ago — From Victory to Atrocity : Remembering the War Crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Posted on August 10, 2025 by L

 “I voiced to him [U.S. Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country … Continue reading →

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The True Story of Dr A. Q. Khan’s Nuclear Black Market [UPDATE — The US Has Bombed Three Nuclear Facilities in Iran: Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan. What Now?]

Posted on June 23, 2025 by L

“There have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed—usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors—and the ones that are not yet widely known to have failed.” Edward Luttwak May 3 … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Can you solve this 1953 Nuclear Mystery? [TOP SECRET H-Bomb Doc Lost]

Posted on January 6, 2024 by L

“We want to know every step he [US physicist John Archibald Wheeler] had taken, persons with whom he had talked, whether he had gone home after receiving the document, how he had gone to the train, whether he had called … Continue reading →

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40 Years Ago — Able Archer 1983 : The Brink of Apocalypse (November 7-11, 1983)

Posted on November 7, 2023 by L

“The US intelligence had failed to grasp the true extent of their anxiety.” Robert Gates CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence during Able Archer 83 November 7 2023 — Able Archer 83 is the codename for a command post exercise carried … Continue reading →

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On This Day — US Detonates First Thermonuclear Weapon (November 1, 1952)

Posted on November 1, 2023 by L

“The island of Elugelab is missing.” Gordon Dean Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission summarizing the events to President Eisenhower   November 1st 2023 — On November 1st 1952, the United States detonated  the first full-scale thermonuclear device on the island … Continue reading →

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On This Day — The VELA Incident (September 22 1979)

Posted on September 23, 2023 by L

“Now, 40 years later, there is a scientific and historical consensus that it was a nuclear test and that it had to be Israeli.” Avner Cohen (September 22 2019) September 22 2023 — A CIA-sponsored panel of well-respected scientists concluded … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Remembering Hiroshima (August 6 1945)

Posted on August 6, 2023 by L

 “I voiced to him [U.S. Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country … Continue reading →

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