Andreas Kluth “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness,” the American president told the world, friend and foe alike. That was John F. Kennedy, speaking to the United Nations in 1961, in one of his many public entreaties to … [Read more...] about Why is the US fighting nuclear threats behind closed doors?