Saturday, April 27, 2024

Tag: nuclear weapons

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.

We’ve never been closer to nuclear catastrophe—who gains by ignoring it?

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.

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Trump allies draft plans to seize control over Federal Reserve amid election campaign

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Shock and awe at UT Austin as state troopers in riot gear quash student...

An aggressive show of force by Texas state troopers raises questions about the right to peaceful assembly, as students at the University of Texas at Austin face riot gear and arrests during a Gaza solidarity protest.

Should harming mother Earth be a crime? The case for ecocide

The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court.

Climate confrontation: Over 50 arrested as activists target Citigroup’s climate policies

Protesters descend on Citigroup's Manhattan HQ, igniting a 'Summer of Heat' against banks fueling fossil fuel projects and escalating the climate crisis.