Nuclear Options
The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating in bad…
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The American Game: Playing and Being Played on the Road to Nuclear War
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of…
Apply the NPT to All Nations Equally
Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs restates an often heard and obvious maxim that speaks to nuclear deterrence. Military analyst Scott Ritter seems to dissent from the maxim of nuclear…
Concerned with growing threat of nuclear threat, the WHO to review health impacts of nuclear war
In the highly surcharged atmosphere due to ongoing war between Russia & Ukraine and Israeli aggression on Gaza, the fear of use of nuclear weapons looms large. People around the…
Nuclear Winter or Climate-Change Summer, What a Choice!
Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an…
From Hiroshima to Hypocrisy: Nuclear Weapons Continuing Threat in the 21st Century
When the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the world crossed a moral and technological threshold from which it has…
Thorium-based nuclear reactors as SMRs raises troubling concerns
Maharashtra has signed a MoU with Rosatom [Ref.1] Russia’s Atomic Energy Corporation, which is responsible for all civil and military nuclear assets in Russia. The ‘Mah-Ros’ MoU for development of…
Speak in loud voice for end to conventional wars to prevent nuclear threat
Humanitarian crisis is at its peak as an aftermath of the wars in Middle East and between Russian & Ukraine. Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas there is no…
A Different Approach is Needed for Survival in the Nuclear Age
Amid growing international chaos, it should come as no surprise that nuclear dangers are increasing. The latest indication is a rising interest among U.S. allies in enhancing their nuclear weapons…
Would it be prudent for the World Bank to lift ban on nuclear power projects? The Bank should resist pressure from nuclear reactors lobby
To Mr Ajay Banga President World Bank Dear Mr Banga, I understand that the World Bank is considering reversing its long-standing policy against funding nuclear power projects, ostensibly on the dubious ground that…
The Script of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination
With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture, states are galloping to whatever point of presumed sanctuary is…
Macron’s Offer: France and the Delusions of Nuclear Deterrence
The singular antics of US President Donald Trump, notably towards supposed allies, has stirred the pot regarding national security in various capitals. From Canberra to Brussels, there is concern that…
Remembering Nuclear Victims 71 Years after the Castle Bravo Test- Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War
by Gerry Condon and Helen Jaccard March 1 marks 71 years since the U.S. used its biggest ever nuclear weapon—on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The bomb was 15…
Top Scientist Warns Against the Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Although the extremely high risks associated with nuclear weapons are widely recognized, it appears from the conduct of policy by some highly educated policy makers in recent times that they…
The Pentagon is recruiting Elon Musk to help them win a nuclear war
According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, there are over 12,000 warheads in the world, the vast majority of them owned by Russia and the United States. While many consider…
Modi-Trump Nuclear Bonhomie: Is India Buying America’s Nuclear Junk?
Clean energy security is central to India's economic growth and sustainable development. However, nuclear power plants take 5 to 17 years longer to construct from planning to production. Additionally, nuclear…
The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
GENEVA – This will be a year of anniversaries linked to the end of World War II in 1945, with the most significant being the invention and first use of…
Nuclear Power Makes a Comeback in Central Asia and Beyond
With the world awash in countless power-hungry cloud-computing and AI data centers, crypto mining farms, growing fleets of electrical vehicles, new all-electric homes and commercial buildings, existing power generation capacity…
Maybe Doom Isn’t Scary Enough
I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. “Dear young people who have never experienced…
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Provides a Way to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe
Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when―pressed by a popular upsurge against…
Angling Toward Armageddon: The Return of Senator Strangelove
A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to…
S.P. Udayakumar Wins Nuclear-Free Future Award
TAKOMA PARK, MD, January 14, 2025-- The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe for their achievements in…
About People’s Protests, Just Asking
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned” ~ Richard Feynman, American Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Laureate People around Arshinakeri (Koppal Dt, Karnataka)…
Three generations have lived under the threat of human-made factors disrupting life and life-nurturing conditions
Earth is universally identified as predominantly the planet of human beings, but actually human beings in their present form have a history of probably just about 0.1 million years (or…
Ironic Dependency: Russian Uranium and the US Energy Market
Be careful who you condemn and ostracise. They just might be supplying you with a special need. While the United States security establishment deems Russia the devil incarnate helped along…
What the Air Force Doesn’t Want Us to Notice on Election Night
Much significance will happen at the end of Election Day, and a countdown will begin at 11:00 p.m. PDT on November 5th. While everyone’s attention will be on who our…
Fukushima: Stumbling Through Deconstruction of Reactor Meltdowns
Here is an AI-Generated Podcast based on the article Melted fuel still vexing test extraction methods Thirteen years on from the catastrophic triple explosions and reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in…
Blind Power: Nuclear plant’s irreversible impact on public and environment
Prerna Gupta talks to Dilnaz Boga about those affected by Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) in India’s thirst for electricity Prerna Gupta is a PhD student at the Institute for…
Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran
The recent string of exaggerated military successes – or at least as they are understood to be – places Israel in a situation it has been previously used to: prowess…
Nuclear Clouds over the Middle East can spread far and wide
In the ongoing war in the Middle East, news that Iran could think of changing its nuclear doctrine is very disturbing but not unexpected. As the situation is developing in…
Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Could Not Have Come at a More Important Moment
With the world, our species, facing the greatest danger of nuclear apocalypse since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this year's Peace Prize will refocus world attention on the urgency of…
Recently the World Has Been like Responding to Fire by Pouring Gasoline in it
Imagine a high-rise building inhabited by many persons that is on fire. Surely this is the time to forget all differences and get together to extinguish the fire. Unfortunately instead…
October’s Surprise Party
As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins here in New England. Call it October’s Surprise Party. The turning leaves with all their colors come to announce the…
As US prepares to allow NATO weapons to strike Russia, Putin threatens nuclear retaliation
Amid ongoing high-level meetings between NATO leaders and Ukrainian officials at the United Nations over plans to allow Kiev to strike Russian cities with NATO weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin…
A Nuclear War in Ukraine Is a Distinct Possibility
The war in Ukraine has been going on for 2.5 years with no end on sight. Not only that, but we are now close to a nuclear war, according to…
The Armageddon Agenda: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and the Race to Oblivion
The next president of the United States, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will face many contentious domestic issues that have long divided this country, including abortion rights, immigration, racial…
Revisiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Visit to Hiroshima to participate in the All Asia Conference of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 2009 and again on the occasion of 20th World…
AI-controlled apes with apps at 90 minutes to mid-night
What further evidence do the inhabitants of planet Earth need to have to convince them the liveable climate, the lungs of the Earth, is sharply deteriorating, species are dying, the…
The Need for stronger peace movement
There is a strong case for arguing that the number of nuclear weapons at world level should have never been allowed to increase to three digits, let alone four or…
The Quest for Peace and Order Amidst Deepening Humanitarian Crisis
First the Zaporizhzhia and now the nuclear power plant in Kursk under threat are issues of extreme concern. UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on…
Ukraine’s Hiroshima Moment is Drawing Closer
In August 1945, the US atom bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then, nuclear weapons have never been used in conflict. That may soon change as Ukraine…
Sixty Seconds Before Midnight and a Looming War
As world affairs continue to deteriorate with a looming war in the Middle East between Israel and Iran that will surely draw in the US, the possibility of a nuclear…
Poland’s Purchase of Nuclear Power Plants Driven More by Strategic Considerations
Poland became a NATO member in the first controversial eastward expansion of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the subsequent controversy over attempts to make Ukraine a…
US leads G7 in ambassadors’ boycott of ceremony commemorating atomic bombing of Nagasaki
The United States has led a boycott by six G7 members of Friday’s ceremony commemorating the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during World War II. Justified on the basis that the…
America’s Most Criminal Act: The Atomic Bombings of Japan
On December 7, 1941, Japan carried out a premeditated and ruthless attack on U.S. ships at Pearl Harbor. At the time, America was already in World War II on the…
World-Ending Maneuvers? Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today
by William D. Hartung and Hekmat Aboukhater The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large…
The Fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Dangers of Nuclear Energy
The dangers of nuclear energy were understood when the WW2 Allied Forces feared that Hitler’s Germany would produce and use a nuclear bomb, to conclude WW2 in his favour. It…
The Global Backlash Against Globalization
They were all buddy-buddy for the cameras, going for a joy ride in a deluxe limo and toasting each other at a gala dinner. In June, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was…
US Lackey Australian Labor Government Betrays Humanity Over Existential Nuclear Threat: Put Labor Last
Australia under a racist, unprincipled, climate criminal, war criminal, Zionist-subverted and cravenly US lackey Labor Government has betrayed the World in relation to the key existential threats to Humanity from…
Honor the Victims of the Nuclear Age by Bringing It to an End
Taking nuclear disarmament seriously is not only an existential imperative at this very moment, but an obligation of all state parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The following speech was…
Donald Trump’s Reckless Infatuation with Nuclear Weapons
Over the past decade and more, nuclear war has grown increasingly likely. Most nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements of the past have been discarded by the nuclear powers or will…
When diplomacy takes a back seat, Humanitarian crisis is bound to increase, including nuclear danger
The missile attack on Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv, Ukraine on 8th July 2024 by the Russian forces is very disturbing. Since the start of the conflict in Gaza 31 out…
NATO’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War
The world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Back then, however, the fear of total destruction consumed the public; today, few people seem…
The X Factor and Maximum Risk Period in the Quest for Dominance
The most worrying aspect of contemporary world is the possibility of a devastating nuclear war. However several experts say that due to the concept of mutually assured destruction, such a…
Can we rest assured that just because of the unacceptably high costs of nuclear war and World War III, these will never happen?
In the middle of several very serious questions haunting humanity today the one which looms over all others is this terrible one—how high is the possibility of World War 3/…
The Art of the Submarine Or 5,824 Hiroshimas Per Sub
Walk through any art museum and you’re likely to see a mix of the classical and contemporary, impressionist and surrealist, refined and raw, beautiful, eerie, and provocative. Looking at art…
Does Israel Have 90 Nuclear Warheads or 200?
Israel is upgrading its nuclear arsenal maintains the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute(SIPRI). With regards its deathly weapons, Israel maintains what its terms “nuclear ambiguity”, neither confirming nor denying the possession of…
Acting As If It Weren’t Really So
Laughing on the bus/Playing Games with the faces/She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy/I said, “Be careful his bowtie is really a camera” – America by Paul Simon…
Nuclear Armageddon Is Us
As a late-stage baby boomer, a child of the 1960s, I grew up dreaming about America’s nuclear triad. You may remember that it consisted of strategic bombers like the B-52…
Nuclear Pakistan’s Comprador Cowardice
Pakistan's prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, declared the 28th of May as a public holiday. Indeed, the House of Sharif, the family in control of one of the two dynastic political parties…
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