Tag: Nuclear war
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Nation & World
60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear threat feels chillingly immediate
Graham Allison looks at how Kennedy and Khrushchev stepped back from the point of no return and the challenges facing the West in preventing Putin from crossing it.
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Nation & World
Nuclear threats, then and now
Scholars gather at the Harvard Kennedy School for a seminar on the current challenges in avoiding nuclear war — and to marvel at just how drastically the nuclear threat has morphed in the two decades since the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed.