In a just world, the Obama administration could punish Republicans, were they to reject new START, by withholding promised funds for the nuclear weapons industry.
What if nuclear terrorism were just a mouse click away?
With 50 nukes knocked offline, inquiring minds want to know: can hacking be ruled out? Russ Wellen reports at the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points.
Would sweeping disarmament on our part impress Iran?
Conservatives believe that U.S. disarmament holds no water with Tehran and that substantive disarmament measures on the part of the West would have no bearing on any aspirations Iran may have to nuclear weapons. Russ Wellen reports.
No mean feat: justifying Israel's nukes without acknowledging them
Apparently it’s obvious to everyone but Israel and the United States that the Middle-East can’t take the first step to becoming a nuclear-weapons-free zone until Israel acknowledges its own program. Expecting Arab states to go along with the pretense that Israel has no nuclear weapons is a sick joke.
Give me liberty or give me — the extinction of the human race?
In a nuclear exchange, “give me liberty or give me death” means much more death than our founding fathers could have imagined. A state may win a nuclear war, but it loses its soul.
How nonproliferation became a dirty word
Coining a clever euphemism and co-opting a key nuclear term aid pro-nuclear forces in furthering their agenda.
Canceling end-timers' nuclear ticket to Armageddon
Embracing Armageddon, as well as creating the conditions for it, is blatantly un-Christian
Shooting an arrow into the beating heart of nuclear weapons
Nuclear watchdog seeks to stop nuclear weapons where they begin — in the construction of the nuclear pits that house the chain reaction.
"Countdown to Zero" eclipses those on the true frontlines of disarmament
Is Countdown to Zero about nonproliferation for all — or just those with brown skin? Who or what mounts the frontlines of disarmament? Countdown to Zero, disarmament groups, the Obama administration?
If they'd listened to the scientists we might not need to observe Hiroshima Day
Opinions about using the bomb were solicited from Manhattan Project scientists — but not heeded.
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