Tag: nuclear war
What do we forget when we remember Hiroshima?
It's been 80 years of talking peace while preparing for nuclear war.
Angling toward Armageddon
You might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate catastrophe—a nuclear war.
A no-win dilemma for US peace voters
Neither of the only two candidates who can win, Trump or Harris, offers any real hope for a peaceful future.
Ask (not) what you can do for your planet
One small miscalculation and boom, there goes the neighborhood!
‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000...
Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”
60 years after Lyndon Johnson’s ‘daisy ad,’ the silence on nuclear...
Today, a campaign ad akin to the daisy spot is hard to imagine from the Democratic or Republican nominee to be commander in chief, who seem content to bypass the subject of nuclear-war dangers.
Nuclear risks: A statement from the Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
“The path to a world without nuclear weapons lies through the TPNW [Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons].”
The triad is not the trinity
It took me some time to realize that the triad was anything but the trinity, that it was instead a product of historical contingency.
Cleaning out the basement of my life
Build a bunker, survive the fallout (but not the blast).
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.