Cultivated Lunacy, Nuclear Deterrence and Banning the Nuke
Is international relations a field for cautious minds, marked by permanent setbacks, or terrain where the bold are encouraged to seize the day? In terms of dealing with the existential…
Nuclear War
A Game of Nuclear Chicken with Russia and China
On August 21st, six nuclear-capable B-52H Stratofortress bombers, representing approximately one-seventh of the war-ready U.S. B-52H bomber fleet, flew from their home base in North Dakota to Fairford Air Base in England for several…
John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the End of World
Whether you’re reading this with your morning coffee, just after lunch, or on the late shift in the wee small hours of the morning, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. That’s…
Catholics Against Nukes: Archbishop Wester’s Hiroshima Vigil
In what is a turn-up for the books, a senior voice of the Catholic Church made something of an impression this month that did not incite scandal, hot rage, or…
Revisiting Hiroshima: The Last Cherry Blossom
On August 6, 1945, at 8.15 am, an atom bomb was dropped at Hiroshima to end World War II. Archana Mohan takes us on a journey through a novel which gives the story…
Death From the Sky: Hiroshima and Normalised Atrocities
When US President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by another on Nagasaki a few days later, he…
Reversal
With survival at stake, can weapon makers change course? Today, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer…
“Never again”: In remembrance of August 6, 1945
A mother and child, dressed in traditional clothing, sit on the ground amid rubble and burnt trees, Hiroshima, Japan, December 1945; some four months after the United States had dropped…
Hiroshima 75: The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence!
The human race stands on the verge of nuclear self-extinction as a species, and with it will die most, if not all, forms of intelligent life on the planet earth.…
Nuclear Nightmare
In 2018, I read an article about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It is here: https://archive.org/stream/catholicradical/catholicradical-2018-10 The eyewitness acount to the happening included this information: “... August 6, 1945,…
The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line
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…
People Worldwide Will Soon Demand Americans Stop Planing Nuclear War Endangering Us All!
“We are moving in the direction of a multipolar world,” UN Secretary-General. China is again the world’s greatest economic power as it was through most of human history. As…
The mainstream media and the drive toward WW III
For many weeks much of the mainstream media world-wide, including broadcasters, been warning of potential concessions in the negotiations between the US and North Korea andbetween Donald Trump and Vladimir…
Two Minute To Mid-Night: The Global Nuclear Suicide Machine
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save human way of thinking and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.” Albert Einstein 1946 Figure 1.The Doomsday Machine,…
00:00:10 Seconds To Midnight
I have lived my whole life under the notifications of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and their Doomsday Clock. It is currently set a two minutes to midnight after…
The Middle East’s Nuclear Technology Clock Starts Ticking
The Middle East’s nuclear technology clock is ticking as nations pursue peaceful capabilities that potentially leave the door open to future military options. Concern about a nuclear arms race is…
Normalizing Nukes, Pentagon-Style
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…
Refuting Nuclear Winter Denial
We are all familiar with the climate change denial of Donald Trump and the US Republican Party. Motivated by the greed of giant fossil fuel corporations, climate change denial contradicts…
Mounting Nuclear Portents While Rome Burns
It has been said that in the nuclear age war is obsoleteii, but around the world tribalism and with it the drums of war are on the rise, including talk…
The Fear Driving US Nuclear Strategy
The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. See ‘Nuclear…
God’s Imagination
"A nuclear weapon can be placed in a shipping container or on a small cabin cruiser, transported by sea, and set off remotely by cellular phone." -- from "Haywire"…
Massive Overkill : Brought To You By The Nuclear-Industrial Complex
[This piece has been updated and adapted from William D. Hartung’s “Nuclear Politics” in Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation, edited by Helen Caldicott and just published by the New…
Gambling With The Lives Of US Citizens
In November 2016, a casino owner and reality show host was somehow elected President with 63 million votes. The USA is now a casino. You get what you vote…
Such “Magic” Is Not Needed Anywhere in the World
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and it's very important to know who's running the show." -- Arthur C. Clarke In 1942, when I was born, Walt Disney…
Key Myths And Facts About The Atomic Bombings Of Japan
In 1945, US president Harry Truman (who had dictatorial control over the atomic bomb) and his advisor James Byrnes intentionally prolonged the US war with Japan until, and apparently so…
US National Intelligence Council Predicts Indo-Pakistan Nuclear War In 2028
The US National Intelligence Council has predicted a nuclear war between India and Pakistan in 2028. The prediction came in the Council report released recently under the title: Global Trends:…
The Thorniest Policy-Question That President Trump Will Face
A decision must be made at the start of Donald Trump’s Presidency on one issue, which will shape both his foreign and domestic policies, and so his entire Presidency. Mark…
As the Sun Sets On The Nuclear Wasteland
The problem of nuclear waste has yet to be dealt with. There have been numerous plans made, numerous barrel-loads of dangerous waste dumped into rivers, water-ways and oceans, numerous false…
Trump’s Tweet And The Danger Of Nuclear War
A tweet sent Thursday by President-elect Donald Trump advocating the expansion of the US nuclear weapons arsenal has become the top news story around the world. Trump wrote: “The United…
The Yale Program On Climate Change Communication And My Survey On Our Nuclear Dynamic: Instructive Results for Activists
The degree of resignation spotlighted below is something that activists must pay attention to; there's a clear need to change gears in reaching out to citizens. The Yale Program on…
Election 2016 And The Growing Global Nuclear Threat
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…
Mikhail Gorbachev Appeals For Sanity
President Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, has appealed to world leaders to reduce the dangerous the tensions which…
A Martian View Of The New Cold War
Meet Xkqfbl. He is a Martian. He can pronounce his name, but we can’t. So we'll call him "Marty." Marty is very interested in us earthlings. Moreover, his interest is…
Why U.S. Rulers Don’t Fear Nuclear WWIII With Russia
The United States government has escalated the Cold War against Russia: demonizing Putin as the new Hitler, imposing sanctions on Russian leaders, implementing aggressive NATO military expansion to Russia's border…
German Think Tank Warns Of Growing Nuclear War Danger
In September, the German pro-government think tank “Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik” (SWP) published a study on the implications of US policy towards Russia and European security. [1] The 28-page document…
Montreal Declaration For Nuclear Fission Free World
By Global Network for a nuclear-free world. As citizens of this planet inspired by the Second Thematic World Social Forum for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World, conducted in Montreal from August 8…
Tokyo Trilateral Meet Shows China Is Troubled Of North Korean Adventurism
The developments in Far East since few days are quite complex. Three major developments have taken place. First US and South Korea have been involved in the joint annual drill…
Hiroshima – Nagasaki And U.S. Mythology
The U.S. public has been kept in the dark or misled about foreign policy for much of our history. For example, as we commemorate the 71st anniversary of the dropping…
Why the Modern Nuclear Project Will Persist: At Least Until We Focus Action On Why It Is Persisting
In Hiroshima, Japan, seventy-one years ago exactly from the midnight hour that I’m writing this, most people were asleep except for the night owls and diligent lovers. I’d guess that…
Hiroshima And Nuclear Power: The Truth Of The Matter
On my grandfather’s sixtieth birthday on July 16th, 1945, the atomic bomb was tested in USA’s Nevada desert, and the world lost its nuclear innocence. Twenty-one days later, on August…
UK Parliament Endorses Terracidal Nuclear Terrorism
The UK Parliament recently overwhelmingly supported renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system, with a psychopathic new UK PM Theresa May declaring her preparedness to kill vast numbers of…
Hiroshima Day – ” A Call For Sustaining Life On Earth “
Life on earth can be sustained by closing down all nuclear power plants and dismantling all nuclear war heads. The nuclear war heads present on earth are capable of destroying…
Fooling Most Of The People Most Of The Time Is What American Politics Are About, Even When It Comes To The Threat Of Nuclear War
I read a column recently, and it was imbued with hopeful thinking about America’s political establishment dealing with its constituents concerning the now increasing threat of nuclear catastrophe. The author…
Power And The Bomb: Conducting International Relations With The Threat Of Mass Murder
“Some fell to the ground and their stomachs already expanded full, burst and organs fell out. Others had skin falling off them and others still were carrying limbs. And one…
America Never Says Sorry
A hegemonic power never says sorry. Three recent episodes underscore this truism. When US President Barack Obama offered a floral wreath at the cenotaph of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park…
The Devil’s Century
Our present generation is living out of the spiritually vacuous philosophies of modernism and post-modernism, the cancerous ideologies of free-market economics and unrestrained economic growth, and the corporate and political…
The Doomsday Clock: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, And The Prospects For Survival
[This essay is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books).] In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to…
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