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Archives: nuclear weapons

Can Nukes really be Banned? Are we Safe if they Aren’t?

By H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - Against all odds, 122 countries agreed on July 7 to ban nuclear weapons. At the heart of the United Nations treaty is…

Sanders: Trump’s Dangerous Nukes Talk Must be Challenged

By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - 'Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, have understood that our goal must be to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, not expand them.' Deriding…

Growing Global Nuclear Threat – as if Election 2016 weren’t already bad enough

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Once upon a time, when choosing a new president, a factor for many voters was the perennial question: “Whose finger do you…

Balder & Dash: Would our presidential Candidates start a Nuclear War? They won’t answer.

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - You may have missed it. Perhaps you dozed off. Or wandered into the kitchen to grab a snack. Or by that point…

On 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima, the Fear of a Nuclear Trump

TeleSur | - - Donald Trump also recently asked a national security expert three times why, since the US has nuclear weapons, it can’t use them. Japan marked the 71st anniversary of…

Nagasaki, 1945: “The world did not need your experiment”

By H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - Kyoko Hayashi nearly died on August 9, 1945 in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. She was fourteen years old and working at…

Donald “Dr. Strangelove” Trump and some of the Times We almost had a Nuclear War

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I have long wondered why no one in Hollywood has remade Stanley Kubricks's 1964 "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I learned to Stop worrying…

Chomsky: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival

By Noam Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - [This essay is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books).] In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history?

by Akil Awan | (The New Statesman) - - Surely 70 years is long enough for us to put to rest the tired canard of the atomic bombings on Japan being "the…

How Dropping the A-Bomb on Japan initiated the Military-Industrial Complex

By Michael Hiltzik | (Author, Big Science) | - - This summer -- August 6 and 9, to be precise -- marks the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and…

Why Exempt Israel? After Iran Deal, Make Middle East a Nuclear Free Zone

By Farhang Jahanpour | (TFF) | - - The announcement of the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers is a rare moment in history that gives us hope and provides…

US Kneejerk support for Israeli Nukes Torpedoes UN Disarmament Talks

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - After four weeks of negotiations, a revised UN treaty on nuclear disarmament has been torpedoed by the United States, leaving the issue of global disarmament…

Why won’t US, Israel Ratify Nuclear Test Ban Treaty but seek Iran Sanctions?

By Kanya D'Almeida UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - With the four-week-long review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) underway at the United Nations, hopes and frustrations are running equally high, as a…

Iran calls for Nuclear Disarmament by US, Israel, World

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | -- At a summit on Monday, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif turned the tables on the countries demanding that Iran keep its nuclear program…

What if US & UN Sanctioned Israel over its Nukes they way they did Iran?

What if US & UN Sanctioned Israel over its Nukes as they did Iran over Enrichment?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - There is a lot of talk about nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and the ways in which an Iranian bomb would provoke Saudi Arabia…

The von Moltke Fallacy and avoiding another World War, with Iran

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Iran has just de facto announced that it does not want a nuclear weapon, at least in this generation, and probably ever. That American and…

180 Frmr Israeli Security Officials to PM Netanyahu: Cancel US Speech, which pushes Iran toward Bomb

RT | - More than 180 former leaders from Israel’s security apparatus urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel his planned speech to Congress on Tuesday, fearing it may bring Iran closer…

UN General Assembly Demands Israel Mothball its Nuclear Arsenal

By Juan Cole | --- The United Nations General Assembly (where all 193 countries in the world get a vote) has almost unanimously demanded that Israel give up its nuclear weapons and…

Netanyahu’s Nuclear Hypocrisy on Iran; In fact, Everyone in the ME needs to Disarm

By Farhad Malekafzali With negotiations to limit Iran’s enrichment in return for easing of economic sanctions on the verge of failure, hopes for a step-by-step diplomacy to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program are…

A World Multiply Endangered: Horseman of the Four Apocalypses

(Ira Chernus) For those of us of a certain age, it seems as if the world has always been ending. It’s easy now to forget just how deep fears and fantasies about a nuclear…