Nuclear War

8 Ways We Might Be Causing Our Own Extinction

Fred Guterl | Posted 05.23.2012

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Fred Guterl

Our own success as a species has created new a terrifying risks that didn't exist a few decades ago. By our dominating presence on the planet, we are in danger of upsetting climate systems in ways we don't fully understand.

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Preventing Nuclear Terrorism

Robert Gallucci | Posted 04.05.2012

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Robert Gallucci

Nations with nuclear material -- whether military or civilian -- must secure and eliminate stocks of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. The threat of nuclear terror is not just possible, it is quite plausible; if effective action is not taken, over time, it is probable.

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What Obama and Israel Are Really Up to With Iran, and Each Other

Death Race | Posted 05.10.2012

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Death Race

Tensions remain. But one reason why Monday's meeting between Netanyahu and Obama ended with less rancor than did their last tete-a-tete is that Israel is growing more comfortable with U.S. policy -- secret U.S. policy.

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Israel and Iran Need Diplomacy, Not Destruction

Qasim Rashid | Posted 05.08.2012

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Qasim Rashid

When our arrogance makes us ignorant to the horror that is war -- WWIII will have begun. Recall with humility, then, that WWI and WWII killed 20 million and 60 million respectively and wounded many millions more.

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Joshua Hersh

GOP Leader Argues For War Against Iran

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 03.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A top Republican senator made a strong case for military action against Iran Monday night, calling the Obama administration's policy of ...

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Let's Drop the Big One

Bob Burnett | Posted 05.02.2012

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Bob Burnett

Republican presidential candidates' extreme comments about economics and culture have dominated headlines, but lurking in the shadows is a hawkish Cold War mentality. Gingrich, Romney and Santorum want to beef up the military and put nuclear weapons back on the table.

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Newt Prepared For Outlandish Doomsday Scenario

The New York Times | William J. Broad | Posted 12.12.2011

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Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential hopeful, wants you to know that as commander in chief he is ready to confront one of the most nightmarish o...

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Is a Nuclear War With China Possible?

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 01.30.2012

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Lawrence Wittner

The gathering tension between the United States and China is clear enough. But need this lead to nuclear war? Not necessarily. And yet, there are signs that it could.

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Pacific Standard Time At LACMA: The Untold Story

Harris Silver | Posted 01.22.2012

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Harris Silver

Pacific Standard Time is a sprawling cultural initiative with 68 major museum shows and 125 gallery exhibitions including California Design 1930-1965: 'Living in a Modern Way.'

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The Man Of Peace

Posted 11.15.2011

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From "Eisenhower: The White House Years" by Jim Newton (Doubleday, $29.95) May 1, 1958, was a fairly quiet day in the world. It was international...

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Our Fallout Shelter: Scary Places That Still Haunt Us

John Blumenthal | Posted 01.03.2012

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John Blumenthal

These papers, unpleasant as they were, we kept. They are part of the family history. They will be passed down to our children and then to their children. That is the hope anyway.

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Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Brink of Nuclear War

Lea Lane | Posted 12.21.2011

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Lea Lane

I recently saw two movies dealing with the end of the world -- Melancholia and Tree of Life. These artsy films sparked a remembrance of fears I once f...

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Revealed: Ayn Rand's Script for Hollywood Movie Glorifying the Atomic Bomb

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.02.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Did Ayn Rand hate the Bomb? Hardly. In fact, she extolled its creation as "an eloquent example of, argument for and tribute to free enterprise."

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Press Censorship: Famous War Reporter's Historic Scoop Spiked -- for 60 Years

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.31.2011

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Greg Mitchell

One of the great mysteries of the nuclear age was solved just six years ago: What was in the censored, and then lost to the ages, newspaper articles filed by the first reporter to reach Nagasaki following the atomic attack on that city on August 9, 1945.

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Nuclear Disaster: Japan to Declare Wide Area Around Fukushima 'Uninhabitable'

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.22.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Of course, the Fukushima disaster forced me to relive my own experiences in visiting the atomic cities, and my research into the American "cover-up" since. I was hardly alone.

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Under a Mound in Hiroshima: A City of Ashes the Size of Santa Fe

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.19.2011

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Greg Mitchell

In the northwestern corner of the Hiroshima Peace Park, amid a quiet grove of trees, the earth suddenly swells. It is not much of a mound -- only abou...

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Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.16.2011

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Greg Mitchell

If the great Hiroshima novel remains unwritten, a number of major poets have written brilliantly on nuclear concerns, and they have invoked Hiroshima far more often than the novelists.

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Twice Cursed: The Man who Survived the A-Bomb in Hiroshima -- and in Nagasaki

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.14.2011

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Greg Mitchell

"I felt so dishonored that I had to experience the atomic bomb twice. It's nothing to be boastful about. I could not talk to anyone about it because almost no one else met the bomb twice. So there was no one who could sympathize with me."

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5 Photos That Must Never Be Repeated: He Took the Only Pictures in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.12.2011

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Greg Mitchell

On August 6, 1945, Yoshito Matsushige wandered around Hiroshima for ten hours, carrying one of the few cameras that survived the atomic bombing and two rolls of film with twenty-four possible exposures.

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U.S. Presidents and Hiroshima: Obama's Surprising Move

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.11.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Two cheers for Obama for at least marking what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Next step: an honest American reappraisal and real progress on nuclear abolition.

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66 Years Ago: The Crime of Nagasaki -- The 'Forgotten' A-Bomb City

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.09.2011

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Greg Mitchell

No one in America ever wrote a bestselling book called Nagasaki, or made a film titled Nagasaki, Mon Amour. "We are an asterisk," Shinji Takahashi, a sociologist in Nagasaki, once told me, with a bitter smile.

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From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Lessons for Today's Nuclear Crisis

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.08.2011

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Greg Mitchell

The worst nuclear disaster to strike Japan since a single bomb fell over Nagasaki in 1945 occurred in the spring of 2011 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the epic tsunami.

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The Day After: America's 'First-Strike' Policy and Why Hiroshima Matters Today

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.07.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Over and over, top policymakers and commentators say, "We must never use nuclear weapons," yet they endorse the two times the weapons have been used against cities in a first strike. To make any exceptions means exceptions can be made in the future.

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66 Years Ago: When Truman Opened the Nuclear Era With a Hiroshima Lie

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2011

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Greg Mitchell

On Aug. 6, 1945, President Truman faced the task of telling the world that America's crusade against fascism had culminated in exploding a revolutionary new weapon of extraordinary destructive power. From its very first words, the official narrative was built on a lie.

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66 Years Ago: The Day the Nuclear Age Began With a Bomb and Prayer

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.05.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Sixty-six years ago today, the Nuclear Age began with a tragic bang, with the killing of over 100,000 people in Hiroshima, the vast majority women and children. Decades of a costly nuclear arms race followed.

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