Information about Iran's nuclear programme is highly secretive, but experts say the bombings may not have been a huge setback ...

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Fewer nuclear-armed competitors made for relatively symmetrical, stable, and predictable competition, with occasional glaring exceptions such as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, most of the U.S. military was ordered to DEFCON 3, and in 1973, President Richard Nixon put some of the U.S. military at DEFCON 3 during the Yom Kippur War as ...

Since the first nuclear weapons test in 1945, there have been more than 2,000 tests. In the 1960s, countries began performing tests underground over fears of radioactive fallout. In the 1990s ...

It’s worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s worse than the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2025; 81 (2): 126 DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2024.2439762 ...

The furthest from midnight the Doomsday Clock has ever been was 17 minutes to midnight in 1991, after the Cold War ended and a new arms treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union greatly reduced ...

The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war.

In response, the clock reaches 2 minutes to midnight — the closest it would remain until the 21st century. 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis, the most dangerous moment of the Cold War, occurs, but the ...