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John M. Crisp: Doomsday is in the news again

Doomsday” was in the news last week. It’s an Old English word, dating to the 900s, at least. Doomsday originally denoted ...
The quandaries posed by the nuclear film pantheon are the same ones experts in the nuclear threat reduction community face ...
The best movie performances of the 1960s include turns from Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy and Gregory Peck in To Kill a ...
The ticking-clock threat of an imminent missile strike makes for propulsive viewing. It’s long been a go-to setup in Hollywood, from “Dr. Strangelove” on.
So I sat down to watch the new Netflix movie A House of Dynamite by Kathryn Bigelow knowing a few things about nuclear weapons in the real world and in the movies. And overall, I liked the movie it ...
Generation-defining nuclear-war movies seem to come in pairs. Stanley Kubrick’s bleak satire “Dr. Strangelove” arrived in ...
Donald Trump has ordered renewed testing of nuclear weapons, while Vladimir Putin is touting the power of his nuclear-capable ...
Between "Official Secrets" and "Eye in the Sky," Gavin Hood has quietly cemented himself as Hollywood's political thriller tour de force. Starring Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul, "Eye in ...
Jeffrey Lewis, an American expert in nuclear non-proliferation, has dubbed the torpedo Putin’s “doomsday machine”, a ...
Things are about to get real dark — and hilarious — for Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, as Colm and Pádraic, respectively, ...
Former firefighter John Knox's ties to RFK Jr. have landed him atop the agency that helped bring Covid-19 under control.