Tag: 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).
How the US has darkened the nuclear cloud over humanity
A nuclear conflagration is plausible via any one of numerous scenarios.
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Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty the strip
As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.
The country Trump seems dead set on imitating
The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”
Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands
DOGE cuts are killing Americans.
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...
New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
States can take meaningful climate action, even without federal support: Study
The team also found that there was potential for state efforts to impact pollution in neighboring states.