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Editorial: The risk of nuclear war waned after the Cold War. It’s back with a vengeance.
The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...
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80 Years After Trinity, the Dangers of Nuclear War Have Never Been Higher
Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.
The One Place Where Nuclear War Isn’t Abstract
Japan is the one place in the world that has felt, and personally mourned, the staggering damage of nuclear warfare. The ...
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Did You Know That the Risk of Nuclear War Is Greater Now Than in Decades?
China is expanding its nuclear weapons systems, India and Pakistan are locked in a deadly arms race, and North Korea is ...
New Release of Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain” as Nobel Winners Warn of Nuclear Risk on Trinity Test 80th Anniversary
On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear ...
Health-impaired world leaders raise nuclear war fears, study suggests
Many former leaders of the world's nine nuclear-armed nations were impaired by health conditions while in office, raising ...
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Operation Chrome Dome: Nuclear Accidents & Cold War Risk
During the Cold War, Operation Chrome Dome kept U.S. bombers armed with live nuclear weapons in the air 24/7—ready to strike ...
What Trump Doesn’t Understand About Nuclear War
The contours of World War III are visible in numerous conflicts. The president of the United States is not ready.
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Multi-Agency Cooperation Needed to Accurately Model Effects of Nuclear Weapons
A new National Academies report finds that nuclear war modeling needs to incorporate more up-to-date science from a range of ...
Column: 80 years since ‘Trinity,’ nuclear threat still looms large
We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons or lose life as we know it on this planet, the Hampton Roads Campaign to Abolish ...