(Avram) Noam Chomsky spent much of the past year warning about three “existential” crises: 1) the danger of nuclear war; 2) failures to deal with …
Out of Left Field: Noam Chomsky, age 91, still a public scholar
Collapse of arms control
Simply stated, a nuclear war can never be won. The current administration represents indefensible policies that are putting the human community at a …
The Ultimate Hacker Movies List for 2020
We’d eagerly watch (and re-watch) as a young Matthew Broderick hacks his way into nearly triggering a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet …
Doomsday Clock: It is now two minutes to midnight
It was initially set at seven minutes before midnight because back then, there was only one major threat to humanity: nuclear war. The clock was reset …
Thankfully, JFK didn’t bite on nuke plans, by Harry Bubb Jr.
Yet, even more important was Kennedy’s repeated rejection of plans to initiate a nuclear attack on the USSR. This plan, the Single Integrated …
African Americans Brace for a Civil War — Is It Time to Decentralize?
Since the 2016 presidential election when Democratic candidates associated Trump with doomsday scenarios, nuclear wars, and utter decline of the …
The US is facing an unprecedented crisis in its relations with South Korea
Mr Trump likes to claim that, had he not been elected in 2016, the US would have engaged in nuclear warfare with North Korea. That is hyperbole but …
The Biggest Power Move: The Hunger Games returns after a decade-long absence
Societies basically had to ”re-set” – after a nuclear war or deadly plague, for example – and that’s when the nightmare world of a dystopia comes in.
Our Children’s Future
We also face the threat of an all-destroying nuclear war. … A Treaty banning nuclear weapons was adopted by an overwhelming majority vote on the …
Trump Was Right Before He Was Wrong: NATO Should Be Obsolete
It has also contributed to a new arms race, including upgrades in nuclear arsenals, and the largest NATO “war games” since the Cold War.