Tag: nuclear war
A no-win dilemma for US peace voters
Neither of the only two candidates who can win, Trump or Harris, offers any real hope for a peaceful future.
Ask (not) what you can do for your planet
One small miscalculation and boom, there goes the neighborhood!
‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000...
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.”
60 years after Lyndon Johnson’s ‘daisy ad,’ the silence on nuclear...
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.
Nuclear risks: A statement from the Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
“The path to a world without nuclear weapons lies through the TPNW [Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons].”
The triad is not the trinity
It took me some time to realize that the triad was anything but the trinity, that it was instead a product of historical contingency.
Cleaning out the basement of my life
Build a bunker, survive the fallout (but not the blast).
How the US has darkened the nuclear cloud over humanity
A nuclear conflagration is plausible via any one of numerous scenarios.
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143 million Americans may be exposed to toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
Millions of Americans face exposure to toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water, with new EPA data revealing the extent of contamination and fears of regulatory rollbacks under a Trump administration.
House passes bill granting Treasury power to shut down nonprofits without evidence, sparking free...
Legislation dubbed the “nonprofit killer” faces backlash over potential threats to free speech and civil liberties.
Sierra Club sounds alarm, nominee Lee Zeldin ‘unqualified’ to head EPA
“The best-case scenario is that the EPA will lose four years in the fight for the planet. The worst-case scenario should send a shudder down your spine.”
David Huitema confirmed as ethics Czar amid fears of Trump’s return and conflict of...
As Trump’s second term looms, the Senate confirmed David Huitema to lead the Office of Government Ethics. Advocates praise the move, but critics warn of a tough road ahead for government accountability.
Senate rejects Sanders’ push to halt US arms sales as weapons fuel 44,000 deaths...
The Senate overwhelmingly voted against the measures, leaving advocates of peace and human rights questioning U.S. complicity in the alleged war crimes unfolding in Gaza.