Nuclear war News

Could present-day Hollywood produce a satire as bold and subversive as Stanley Kubrick's 1964 masterpiece, “Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”? Not bloody likely. And there are several reasons for that.

Tokyo - Japan and China tensions over East China Sea islands, that both countries claim to own, continue to increase resulting in Japan deciding to increase its defence budget.

Hiroshima - The central theme of the official Hiroshima narrative-- that the United States waged nuclear war against defenseless Japanese cities and civilians as a life-saving last resort-- is deeply flawed.

Newly-released British government documents reveal that UK officials had written a speech to be delivered by Queen Elizabeth II in the event of a nuclear war between the United States (and, by extension, Britain) and the Soviet Union in the early 1980s.

Less than 24 hours after the United States despatched two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers from their base in Missouri to fly dummy bombing runs over South Korea, North Korea has again ratcheted up the rhetoric in the Korean peninsula.

The government of Norway has invited representatives from countries all around the world for two days in Oslo to discuss the international banning of nuclear weapons.

South Korea's Defense Ministry has warned North Korea that if it launches a nuclear attack against it it "the Kim Jong Un regime will vanish from the earth by the will of humanity."

After weeks of threatening to end a peace pact with the South Koreans, the North Koreans have followed through with their threat, ending all non-aggression acts with the South.

Washington - The United States had secret plans to launch a simultaneous "full nuclear attack" against both the Soviet Union and China in the event that the president was killed or disappeared during an attack on America.

Middle East crisis continues as Israeli leaders consider a ground invasion into Gaza as their air defense system stops missile attacks on Ashkelon, while they plan nuclear strikes on Iran. Analyst believe the coming Middle East war will go nuclear.