Author: Simanonok

The members of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 face decades in prison for their nonviolent direct action at a naval base last year.

… of the United States Department of Energy and was originally conceived during World War II to design nuclear weapons for the Manhattan Project.

Until World War II, Great Britain was the premier global power, albeit in decline … After the war, London broke and exhausted, made a strategic decision to … to shoulder the U.S. from the Gulf as an arms and nuclear reactors supplier.

“You had the structure and the discipline that was encouraged by nuclear weapons, which meant that [the U.S. and the Soviet Union] had to be …

Before it became a summer hotspot, the area was a military outpost housing artillery, ammunition, and later, nuclear missiles. During World War II, the …

The US government does not publicly acknowledge the presence of nuclear weapons staged overseas, including some 50 B-61 gravity bombs stored …

EPRI alleges that even a worst-case nuclear EMP attack or solar superstorm is not an existential threat to electric power grids and U.S. society, would …

End the practice of supplemental appropriations for war funding, much of … The US has 1550 or more operational nuclear weapons — enough to …

Most likely, the explosion did not occur in the nuclear reactor itself, but … Trying to maintain a large force of nuclear weapons on a shoestring budget …

… Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off in a moment of high diplomatic tension that threatened to tip the world into nuclear war.