Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Ultimately, the Air Force is poised to spend more than $125 billion on 650 Sentinel ICBMs, deploying 400 of them to replace the Cold War-era Minuteman III ICBMs siloed in five Great Plains states. Doing so, however, increases the possibility of an accidental nuclear war triggered by a false warning. He specifically cited the $4.3

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Physics World

JULY 12, 2022

But international co-operation in particle physics is now threatened by Russia’s savage invasion of Ukraine, which has seriously disrupted the existing post-Cold-War world order. Can the traditional openness of science, she wondered, thrive in a closed culture in which Communist Party members are often looking over scientists’ shoulders?

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters. The last one of these was in mid-June , so we're picking up all the summer stories of scientific mayhem in the Trump era. Trump Has No One in Charge of FEMA or the NOAA, Just in Time for Hurricane Season.

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