Tag: nuclear war
COVID-19 and the parallel nuclear war and climate change threats
We can create a new and better world—but we must fully commit ourselves to it and work for it, “pressing, making changes.”
Doomsday clock moves to 100 seconds before midnight due to threats...
"We ask world leaders to join us in 2020 as we work to pull humanity back from the brink."
The democratic debates need more questions about nuclear war
With the Trump administration unraveling what remains of the U.S. arms control regime, Democratic candidates desperately need to articulate their plans to avert a nuclear crisis.
Nuclear disarmament should be a top 2020 campaign issue but is...
With none of the major presidential candidates raising this kind of nuclear disarmament program, it is up to the US peace movement and Green Party candidates up and down the ticket to inject these demands into the 2020 elections.
If Trump really only wants ‘No Iranian nukes,’ then he should...
So if what Trump wanted was “no nukes,” then he already had that in the form of the JCPOA, which he has tried to destroy!
South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors pull back from the abyss
The international community can only hope that the carnage and chaos of February was the last in a tragic series of encounters between nuclear neighbors that could otherwise lead South Asia to devastation and the world to nuclear winter.
The world’s most dangerous divide
If nuclear war comes, it will happen because of a calculation or miscalculation by India or Pakistan.
Ground zero Nagasaki
It’s essential for us to remember such grim details, not just for the sake of history, but for our future.
‘Alexa, launch our nukes!’
“Humans are not perfect, but they can empathize with their opponents and see the bigger picture. Unlike humans, autonomous weapons would have no ability to understand the consequences of their actions, no ability to step back from the brink of war.”
The US and Russia are playing chicken with nuclear weapon
While the current administration seems to run on uncontrollable testosterone, the problem of nuclear weapons didn’t start with them, even its immediate predecessor helped to bring about this impasses.
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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.