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South Asia’s Nuclear-Armed Neighbors Pull Back from the Abyss
...Barely
• April 4, 2019
• 3,000 Words • 9 Comments • Reply
It’s still the most dangerous border on Earth. Yet compared to the recent tweets of President Donald Trump, it remains a marginal news story. That doesn’t for a moment diminish the chance that the globe’s first (and possibly ultimate) nuclear conflagration could break out along that 480-mile border known as the Line of Control (and,... Read More
Dilip Hiro: India, Pakistan, and a Planet in Peril
• April 4, 2019
• 500 Words • 9 Comments • Reply
There are a few genuinely upbeat news stories when it comes to this planet and people trying to figure out how to save us from ourselves and our fossil-fuel addiction. This at a moment of record global surface temperatures and record ocean heating when, despite the Paris climate accord of 2015, carbon dioxide from those... Read More
Doomsday Redux
The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line
• February 12, 2019
• 2,300 Words • 2 Comments • Reply
Last month, the National Nuclear Security Administration (formerly the Atomic Energy Commission) announced that the first of a new generation of strategic nuclear weapons had rolled off the assembly line at its Pantex nuclear weapons plant in the panhandle of Texas. That warhead, the W76-2, is designed to be fitted to a submarine-launched Trident missile,... Read More
Ground Zero Nagasaki
Living the Nuclear Past -- and Future
• January 17, 2019
• 2,600 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
Landing at Nagasaki Airport last November, I joined a line of Japanese men, women, and children waiting to disembark from our plane. Most were likely returning home on this holiday weekend or arriving to visit family and friends. I wondered how many of them remembered or thought about the nuclear annihilation of this city 73... Read More
Susan Southard: Against Forgetting
• January 17, 2019
• 900 Words • 5 Comments • Reply
Let me tell you a little story about Hiroshima and me: As a young man, I was anything but atypical in having the Bomb (we capitalized it then) on my brain, and not just while I was ducking under my school desk as sirens howled their nuclear attack warnings outside. Like many people my age,... Read More
Michael Klare: On the Road to World War III?
• October 30, 2018
• 400 Words • 10 Comments • Reply
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a warning. As the New York Timesdescribed it: “If the United States deploys new intermediate-range missiles in Europe after withdrawing from a nuclear treaty prohibiting these weapons, European nations will be at risk of ‘a possible counterstrike.’” It was the sort of threat that, in the previous century,... Read More
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The New Global Tinderbox
It’s Not Your Mother’s Cold War
• October 30, 2018
• 3,100 Words • 11 Comments • Reply
When it comes to relations between Donald Trump’s America, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. “Now we have a new Cold War,” commented Russia expert Peter Felgenhauer in Moscow after President Trump recently announced plans to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear... Read More
Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon
Lowering the Nuclear Threshold and Other Follies of the New Nuclear Posture Review
• February 25, 2018
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If you’re having trouble sleeping thanks to, well, you know who... you’re not alone. But don’t despair. A breakthrough remedy has just gone on the market. It has no chemically induced side effects and, best of all, will cost you nothing, thanks to the Department of Defense. It's the new Nuclear Posture Review, or NPR,... Read More
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Avoiding Armageddon in Korea
Or Launching a War for the Ages
• January 18, 2018
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Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or a commando raid launched with the same goal in mind, is likely to initiate a chain of events culminating in catastrophe. That would be true above all for the roughly 76 million Koreans living on... Read More
Rebecca Gordon: Take Your (Tiny) Fingers Off the Button
• October 26, 2017
• 500 Words • 4 Comments • Reply
Once upon a time, long ago in another universe, the end of the world was left in the hands of the gods, not human beings. Today, however, humanity, in its curious ingenuity, has managed to come up with two ways of destroying itself, as well as the very habitat that welcomed and nourished it all... Read More
Trump’s Nuclear Dreams
Nightmares Past and Present
• October 26, 2017
• 3,000 Words • 3 Comments • Reply
Preventing a nuclear war between the United States and North Korea may be the most pressing challenge facing the world right now. Our childish, ignorant, and incompetent president is shoving all of us -- especially the people of Asia -- ever nearer to catastrophe. While North Korea probably hasn’t yet developed the missiles to deliver... Read More
Preparing for Doomsday
A Shelter-in-Place Mentality Is the New American Normal
• July 13, 2017
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Has there ever been a nation as dedicated to preparing for doomsday as the United States? If that’s a thought that hasn’t crossed your mind, maybe it’s because you didn’t spend part of your life inside Cheyenne Mountain. That's a tale I’ll get to soon, but first let me mention America’s “doomsday planes.” Last month,... Read More
William Astore: Returning to Cheyenne Mountain
• July 13, 2017
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My childhood was a nuclear one and I’m not talking about the nuclear family. I’m thinking of those duck-and-cover moments when, with air raid sirens screaming outside, we went under our school desks, hands over head, to test out our readiness for a Cold War nuclear exchange and the coming of the end of the... Read More
Election 2016 and the Growing Global Nuclear Threat
Playing a Game of Chicken with Nuclear Strategy
• November 6, 2016
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Once upon a time, when choosing a new president, a factor for many voters was the perennial question: “Whose finger do you want on the nuclear button?” Of all the responsibilities of America’s top executive, none may be more momentous than deciding whether, and under what circumstances, to activate the “nuclear codes” -- the secret... Read More
Michael Klare: Whose Finger on the Nuclear Button?
• November 6, 2016
• 600 Words • 9 Comments • Reply
I was born on July 20, 1944, the day of the failed officers’ plot against Adolf Hitler. That means I preceded the official dawning of the nuclear age by exactly 369 days, which makes me part of the last generation to do so. I’m speaking not of the obliteration of two Japanese cities by America’s... Read More
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What We Talk About When We Don’t Want to Talk About Nuclear War
Donald and Hillary Take a No-First-Use Pledge on Relevant Information
• October 4, 2016
• 2,400 Words • 46 Comments • Reply
You may have missed it. Perhaps you dozed off. Or wandered into the kitchen to grab a snack. Or by that point in the proceedings were checking outSeinfeld reruns. During the latter part of the much hyped but excruciating-to-watch first presidential debate, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt posed a seemingly straightforward but cunningly devised... Read More
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Bragging Rights
Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
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Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower
How the Security State’s Mania for Secrecy Will Create You
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And Then There Was One
Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
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