Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] Russian demands because the United States was too weak to accept the threatened losses to the civilian population that a nuclear exchange would insure. Ironically, the Cuban missile crisis occurred not long after World in Flames was published. In that crisis, both powers went to the edge of nuclear war before working out a […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] . 4 Under this deal BAE systems has supplied the Saudi Government with Tornado and Typhoon fighter bombers (and bombs for the planes), Hawk trainers, minesweepers and missile systems. These have all been used in recent years by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen. This has been characterised above all by a […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] to serve his sentence. We had not seen each other since Dorothy’s funeral. We dined at Yenching Palace, a well-known Chinese restaurant in Washington where the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was 43 See for example . : ‘A long and involved explanation; a thing of which an explanation would be long and involved.’ […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] none of it. He argues that Putin is reacting to a series of Western measures seen by Moscow as threatening and provocative. These include the establishment of missile defence systems in Eastern Europe to ‘within a rocket’s throw from Moscow’, the expansion of NATO towards Russia’s borders (this was a key feature of the […]