nuclear weapons

Lawrence Wilkerson is the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. He is current the Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy in the Government Department of the College of William and Mary. In this interview, Lawrence Wilkerson discusses the Trump administration’s approach to military security. Foreign Policy in Focus ) […]

(Informed Comment) – Hiroshima—Saikoji, a small temple of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism to which a majority of Hiroshima’s citizens belong, stands just across the street from the Atomic Bomb Dome. It often displays selected words of wisdom at the entrance—this month, to mark the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing of August 6, […]

How do you convince current or potential adversaries that in the event of nuclear attack you will respond in kind?

In addition to the mini-nukes to be loaded onto missiles on nuclear subs, Trump is also advocating a modernized anti missile defense system

Back from the Brink: The Call to Prevent Nuclear War, “a national grassroots initiative to fundamentally change U.S. nuclear weapons policy”

( Tomdispatch.com) – 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 […]