Nuclear weapons

The symbolism was unmistakable: Iran had demonstrated its ability to reach Israel’s most sensitive site

Searching for Solace in a Nuclearized World

The Nightmare of Fukushima 15 Years Later: Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

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. […]