nuclear war

Just an idle thought while I trek home: is it still a distinct and realistic risk that humanity could have a nuclear war? Not just a tactical use of them, in a battlefield situation, but a global exchange a la war games etc. Are we more or less at risk of such a conflagration leading to a...

Thanks to Ari Jokimaki's site, I ran across this recently published study: The role of atmospheric nuclear explosions on the stagnation of global warming in the mid 20th century - http://www.citeulike.org/article/8682491 I realize that many of the involved scientists and advocates were...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21541 is fidel being overly dramatic here? The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity. This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate...

http://maltastar.com/pages/msfullart.asp?an=15214 Fascinating. Just imagine if Mr. Petrov simply reacted without thinking. Would I be here? Would any of you be here?

I know little about the extent to which people believe there will be a nuclear war and when it will happen, so I'm curious. Obviously popular beliefs change with changing international political landscapes, reaching a low right after the fall of the USSR, but this poll is meant to be taken from...