Monday, July 14, 2025

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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Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

Noem calls to eliminate FEMA after delaying Texas flood response by days

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

Common weedkiller ingredient diquat linked to organ damage and gut harm as EPA resists...

New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.

Five facts that show the enormity of American inequality

Whatever wealth exists among America's poor should not be taken away because of some ignorant prejudice of the rich.

Albanese sanctions: Marco Rubio now acting just like Putin, charging human rights officials

An explanation of why this verbiage is arrant nonsense.