A study by Ira Helfand of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War states that 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs could endanger the …
Frances Crowe: Now is the time to stop building nuclear weapons
Anti-nuke Plame still supports lab
As per LANL’s mission statement the lab maintains the existing nuclear … Many who supported nuclear weapons as a deterrent during the Cold War …
Iran’s grand strategy: Gulf crisis keeps US from helping Israel in a two-front war
The crisis goes back to the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the so-called Iran nuclear deal, …
The Terrifying Economic Risks That I Hope Are Keeping You Up at Night
Briefly: North Korean missiles? Russian cyber-wars? Iranian real wars? India vs. Pakistan nuclear wars? Use your imagination. The world, as always, …
After Taking Anti-Nuke Stance, Warren Goes Silent on Hiroshima Day
The 74th anniversary of the United States’ nuclear attack on Japan came and went without comment from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), who last …
Letter to the Editor: Nuclear Weapons
The threat of nuclear war endangers everyone. Today there are 15,000 nuclear weapons around the world, most with explosive yields far greater than …
Trump: Out of the Graveyard and into the Pyre?
And it has reopened an arms race around nuclear weapons that should have been shut down once and for all at the end of the Cold War.
Keeping memory, and hope, alive
Current world leaders should remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world was a breath away from nuclear war but President John F. Kennedy …
Hiroshima and the New Arms Race—No Winners
Nuclear war and climate change are the two existential threats we face today. As the planet warms, competition for scarce natural resources increases …
The New Missile Gap
The INF Treaty banned conventional and nuclear missiles of this range … the Trident II, carried enough warheads to execute the nuclear war plan.