Tag: nuclear warfare

Antiwar and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear weapons don’t have the public’s best interest at heart.

In reality, Americans have never been shy about killing on a mass scale in the alleged cause of righteousness and democracy.

The odds are our commander-in-chief has just given a case of the jitters to the entire defensive—and offensive—apparatus of the nuclear world.

Let’s hope that the Trump administration proves to be the detour on the path to finally bidding farewell to nuclear arms.

If nuclear war comes, it will happen because of a calculation or miscalculation by India or Pakistan.

In 1954, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people and forever changing the lives of those who survived the nuclear attack.

The security breach at the military complex Y-12 sent shock waves through the national-security establishment. While the three Transform Now Plowshares activists faced federal sabotage charges and up to 30 years in prison, they were still out on bail and free to attend the congressional hearings prompted by their act of civil disobedience.