Life is precarious by nature and as humans, we are incredibly resilient organisms that are capable of enduring hostile conditions. Humans are also anxious creatures. We are conditioned – primarily by the media and a biased mindset – to expect the absolute worse from our natural environment. To ease our frayed nerves, we undertake many…
As Americans, we have taken our relative domestic safety for granted. Sure, we have our share of unique threats that we must contend with annually. No other nation experiences the sheer carnage and destruction that is wielded by tornados like the United States. We also see an unprecedented level of gun violence that has sadly…
The Doomsday Clock is ticking closer to midnight. With every failed negotiation by the world’s nuclear powers, the international community is skidding closer to proverbial midnight on the infamous Doomsday Clock. Largely symbolic, the clock is analogous to a pulse on world events and how close we are to the collapse of human civilization. Initially…
Do you remember the retro ‘duck and cover’ videos of the 1950s? In these grainy black and white portrayals of this bygone area, classes were interrupted by the threat of an imminent nuclear holocaust. School children were immediately instructed to hide under their desks as a Soviet rocket homed in on their location. A bomb…
History has a way of repeating itself, and recently the world flirted with a blast from the past, as the United States and Russia prepare to break tradition with a longstanding nuclear arms treaty. Such action could inevitably lead to new Cold War. Now is the time to consider an above-ground shelter from U.S. Safe…
Despite desperate pleas from social advocacy groups nationwide, mass shootings – particularly on school and college campuses – have become an all too comfortable and chilling reality. On the last day of classes at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the idyllic southern campus was rocked with loud bursts of gunfire. A campus lockdown…