Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] railroads’. The authors speculate that a ‘clean’ nuclear weapon might have been ‘an airburst of a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon, so as to minimize fallout effects but kill soldiers, truck drivers, and other logistics personnel in the area through immediate radiation effects.’ (p. 233) Fortunately, Nixon did not initiate a nuclear war, but he […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] “cold war” fought throughout the 1980s in which rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis […]

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