Friday, July 26, 2024

Tag: nuclear weapons

Donald Trump’s reckless infatuation with nuclear weapons

Trump’s return to power in 2025 or the recklessness of some other leader of a nuclear-armed nation could unleash unprecedented catastrophe upon the world.

Handling—and mishandling—the Iran nuclear program

Biden’s reign of (unforced) error and Trump’s anti-Iran Jihad.

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.

Decades later, the US government called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘nuclear tests’

U.S. military strategists were eager “to use the bomb first where its effects would not only be politically effective, but also technically measurable.”

Can the nuclear weapons genie be put back in the bottle?

The vehicle today for eliminating nuclear weapons is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, passed at the United Nations by a vote of 122 nations in 2017 - and it's not supported by the U.S., Russia, or China.

Putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle

Can it be done? Can nuclear weapons be abolished? 

The hype of a nuclear ‘renaissance

The nuclear industry is banking on a revival.

The numbers BlackRock won’t crunch

A giant with such an enormous appetite should find room for all kinds of facts and figures—but this one’s a bit of a picky eater. 

Prophesies, then and now

Whether you’re talking about actual war or potential nuclear catastrophe, it’s certainly looking mighty ugly right now.

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