Tag: nuclear war

You might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate catastrophe—a nuclear war.

Neither of the only two candidates who can win, Trump or Harris, offers any real hope for a peaceful future.

One small miscalculation and boom, there goes the neighborhood!

Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”

Today, a campaign ad akin to the daisy spot is hard to imagine from the Democratic or Republican nominee to be commander in chief, who seem content to bypass the subject of nuclear-war dangers.

“The path to a world without nuclear weapons lies through the TPNW [Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons].”

It took me some time to realize that the triad was anything but the trinity, that it was instead a product of historical contingency.

Build a bunker, survive the fallout (but not the blast).

Nukes and climate change in 2024.

A nuclear conflagration is plausible via any one of numerous scenarios.