Nuclear weapons

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just moved its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to nuclear midnight, four seconds closer than ever before.

Nuclear arsenal

Our Enduring Nuclear Nightmare: The End of New START

Tomdispatch

It’s the height of naivety to believe that a global system built on the supposed security of nuclear weapons can endure indefinitely

Nuclear weapons

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

Michael T. Klare

Russian and American leaders will face no barriers to the expansion of those thermonuclear arsenals

Nuclear weapons

A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger

William J. Astore

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General […]

Climate Crisis

Trump as a Slow-Motion Apocalypse

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Imagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over… well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, or the United States. I guarantee you one thing: the news headlines would be (and I use the word advisedly) explosive for days (weeks, months?) on end, assuming of course […]

Nuclear weapons

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

Tomdispatch

By Eric Ross ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and […]

Climate Crisis

Climate Change Summer or Nuclear Winter in Trumpworld

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it’s no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of course, is the long-term, slow-motion version of planetary destruction that we’ve come to call climate change. […]

Nuclear weapons

Angling toward Armageddon: The Return of Senator Strangelove

William D. Hartung

( Tomdispatch.com ) – 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 prevent the ultimate catastrophe — a nuclear war. But you would be wrong. A small, hardworking contingent of elected officials is […]

Nuclear weapons

Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today

Tomdispatch

By Hekmat Aboukhater and William D. Hartung ( Tomdispatch.com ) – 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 chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors like Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and […]