Tag: nuclear war
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.
Katrina vanden Heuvel on NATO military spending & avoiding Cold War...
“I would argue that the bipartisan establishment consensus is bankrupt. … We believe you can have secure elections and avoid nuclear catastrophe.”
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UN rights chief says Trump’s boat strikes are illegal as death toll reaches 61
UN human rights officials, independent experts, and rights groups say U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific violate international human rights law, amount to extrajudicial killings, and may constitute a crime against humanity.
States scramble to feed 42 million as Trump blocks SNAP during shutdown
With 42 million people set to lose $8 billion in food assistance on November 1 because the Trump administration refuses to release existing federal funds, governors of both parties are declaring emergencies, shifting state reserves, and suing the federal government to prevent mass hunger.
Terms of surrender: The conspiracy to obstruct justice in Palestine
Normalization of the Israeli regime and its crimes must end. Genocide must be a red line. And Palestine must be free.
Socialism or barbarism
A better country and world is possible.
Trump orders US nuclear weapons testing to resume for the first time in 33...
The president’s directive to restart nuclear weapons testing, announced just before his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, has sparked alarm among arms control experts and lawmakers who warn it could trigger global escalation and radioactive fallout.