DEFCON, short for defence readiness condition, is an alert system used by the United States Armed Forces to indicate the level of risk of nuclear war. It is a system of categorizing the levels of readiness for U.S. military forces, from DEFCON 5 (least ready) to DEFCON 1 (most ready). […]
Nuclear
Nuclear war and the fear of nuclear attack have been on people’s minds of late since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and growing tensions between China and Taiwan. With tensions between eastern nuclear powers such as Russia, China and North Korea and the western powers such as NATO […]