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Tag Archives: nuclear weapons
Oak Ridge activists challenge disarmament advocates to step up their games
Achieving nuclear disarmament protest requires more than the baby steps that arms control advocates seem content to take today.
Congress attempts to legislate away containment of Iran and replace it with war
Iran could be forgiven for interpreting our coercive diplomacy as a reason, were it so inclined, to arms itself with nuclear weapons.
The award for most inventive use of a nuclear weapon goes to…
During the Korean War, generals devised a novel use for nuclear weapons.
U.S. sides with Israel's nukes over Iran's lack thereof
The United States sides with a state with an illegal nuclear weapons program over one without one.
When nuclear weapons programs fail to ripen
The West needs to give states with weak institutions space while they sabotage their own nuclear-weapons scientists by micro-managing and strong-arming them.
Are nuclear weapons really a "big sin" to Iran's Supreme Leader?
Whether or not Ayatollah Khameini considers nuclear weapons haram shouldn’t be a determining factor in negotiations with Tehran.
Remembering my own atomic angst with The Day After The Day After
I feel like I lived Steven Church’s The Day After the Day After: My Atomic Angst, even if I didn’t grow up in Kansas. Church manages to capture the nuclear angst that overshadowed my own Cold War-childhood. I was too old for “duck and cover,” but Reagan had the arms race in full swing, so the […]
Nuclear pit boondoggle at Los Alamos temporarily scuttled
The postponement of the new plutonium facility at Los Alamos deals a blow to both the U.S. nuclear-weapons program and boondoggles in general.
Rolling out the red carpet for the Second Coming with nuclear war
To some evangelicals and fundamentalists, a nuclear holocaust may be God’s will.
Using pro-life to sell nuclear disarmament
Is the cause of disarmament helped if the pro-life movement hitches its wagon to it?
Dear Secretary Panetta: U.S. taxpayers have better things to do with their money than fund nukes in Europe
The Project for Government Oversight has written a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta reminding him that it’s U.S. taxpayers who pay for nuclear weapons in Europe.
Is disarmament to proliferation as spending is to austerity?
Disarming to prevent nuclear proliferation strikes some as counterintuitive as spending during an economic crisis instead of cutting spending.
When diplomacy with Iran was not only legal, but painless
The Iran Threat Reduction Act’s provision for outlawing diplomacy with Iran could explode in our faces in the event of incident in the Persian Gulf.
Nuclear weapons make rulers of states that possess them Hitlers waiting to happen
Nations still use Nazi Germany’s nascent nuclear-weapons program as a justification for developing or retaining nuclear weapons.
The year's end brings real disarmament that you can touch and feel
It may not be much consolation to most Americans, but cuts to our nuclear-weapons program are a silver lining to our economic crisis.
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