United States Strategic Command, the Pentagon arm responsible for military operations involving nuclear weapons, kicked off annual command and control drills this week. What message do the drills send Washington’s adversaries? And what are the dangers of conducting these kinds of exercises amid heightened global tensions? Sputnik investigates.
There is a significant probability a war between China and the United States could escalate to nuclear threats. It is urgent that the two countries launch talks on nuclear arms control, both to prevent a nuclear arms race and to reassure each other that both want to avoid a nuclear conflict.
The collision between a Russian aircraft and American Reaper drone over the Black Sea is just the latest in a litany of military encounters between the two countries.
"I once was corrupted by the hatred that comes from fear generated by ignorance." The author offers a text of a speech he wrote, but will not be giving at the Feb. 19 antiwar rally in Washington.
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