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LIVE: Senate Armed Services Committee's Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing on "US nuclear deterrence policy and strategy," with Livermore's Brad Roberts, Yale's Paul Bracken, fmr STRATCOM commander Gen. Robert Kehle

OTD in 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest-ever thermonuclear bomb—a 50-Mt RDS-220 (originally designed for 100 Mt). The device, later dubbed "Tsar Bomba" in the West, was dropped by

THREAD: Fifty-eight years ago today—October 27, 1962—was arguably the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a day when tensions ran so high that World War III could have

Today in 1979, a US Vela nuclear-test-monitoring satellite detected the distinctive double-flash signature of a nuclear explosion over the South Atlantic. Although a White House scientific panel later dismissed the

Tonight in 1980 at Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota, the number five engine on the right wing of a B-52 on ground alert caught fire during a drill. The aircraft

LBJ’s controversial “Daisy” ad—implying his (unnamed) Republican opponent Sen. Barry Goldwater would start a nuclear war—first aired 56 years ago tonight on NBC. Although broadcast only once as a paid

Today in 2007 at Minot AFB, North Dakota, munitions crews accidentally loaded a B-52H bomber with six Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a live W80-1 nuclear warhead with a

When the next pandemic occurs (and make no mistake, it will) and the federal government is unable to respond in a coordinated and effective fashion to protect the lives of

This morning in 1963, as 3 workers were moving partially-disassembled high-explosive assemblies into storage igloo 572 at the Medina Modification Center near San Antonio, Texas (one of six original AEC