‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

Since then, its threat has shaped and justified global conflict. Both Iraq and Iran have been accused of seeking the bomb, ...
Chicago Tribune

Editorial: The risk of nuclear war waned after the Cold War. It’s back with a vengeance.

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...