Nuclear War Archives ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Visiting the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

By Bradley J. Birzer|2022-05-24T17:44:42-05:00May 24th, 2022|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Cold War, Military, Nuclear War, Senior Contributors|

The barely-populated area of the Great Plains where the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is located is beautiful and peaceful—thus adding, in some strange, ironic, and disturbing way, to the surrealism of weapons designed there to end the world as we know it. We got up early, and we drove nearly two hours to see [...]

Meditations on the Bomb From a Small-Town Cul-de-Sac

By Peter Beaulieu|2023-08-05T21:49:15-05:00August 5th, 2021|Categories: Death, Nuclear War, Truth|

Is Technocracy our God in the modern world? Today, the unthinkable becomes doable, and the doable is unquestioned. Apart from the decision to manufacture the atomic bombs, what about the decision to actually use them on Japan? The struggle to understand why anyone would want to use power to create nothing began for me with [...]