nuclear weapons

(Informed Comment) – Seventy-three years ago, on August 6 and August 9, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This tragic act launched an arms race in nuclear weapons, now spread to nine countries. After the first atomic blast, which killed 100,000 residents of Hiroshima immediately, the grievous […]

North Korea

Why does Trump want to Sabotage the Iran Deal but to Negotiate with North Korea?

Mohammed Nuruzzaman

China will go to bat for Pyongyang but not for Tehran, and Iran is relatively weak

Iran

Could Trump’s Sabre-Rattling against Iran Spoil the North Korea Negotiations?

Neil Thompson

Dissolution of the nuclear agreement may not go over well in Pyongyang.

Donald Trump

Dr. Strangelove in the 21st Century: Trump’s Pentagon lowers Nuclear Threshold

Rajan Menon

( Tomdispatch.com) – If you’re having trouble sleeping thanks to, well, you know who… you’re not alone. But don’t despair. A breakthrough remedy has just gone on the market. It has no chemically induced side effects and, best of all, will cost you nothing, thanks to the Department of Defense. It’s the new Nuclear Posture […]

Donald Trump

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

contributors

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Let’s start with the universe and work our way in. Who cares? Not them because as far as we know they aren’t there. As far as we know, no one exists in our galaxy or perhaps anywhere else but us (and the other creatures on […]

Donald Trump

Lawmakers Scramble to Prevent Trump from Launching a Nuclear War

contributors

By Lisa Fuller | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The most effective way to prevent a nuclear war with North Korea is to reassure them that the U.S. won’t strike first. Former National Security Council Director Peter Feaver recently told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “even a single nuclear detonation” could […]

Donald Trump

Nuclear Apocalypse by Accident? Age of Trump

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By John Buell | (Informed Comment) | – – Ironically, President Trump’s frequent nuclear blustering serves to hide one aspect of the nuclear risk. Focus on his instability and possible impetuous resort to the nuclear trigger may distract from equally significant dangers. Any discussion fo the threat posed by nuclear weapons should include recounting and […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s revival of ‘Tactical Nuclear Weapons’ Idiocy endangers World

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By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Maybe you thought America’s nuclear arsenal, with its thousands of city-busting, potentially civilization-destroying thermonuclear warheads, was plenty big enough to deter any imaginable adversary from attacking the U.S. with nukes of their own. Well, it turns out you were wrong. The Pentagon has been fretting […]

Donald Trump

Just a reminder that Trump has the Nuclear Codes

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By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – [This piece has been updated and adapted from William D. Hartung’s “Nuclear Politics” in Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation, edited by Helen Caldicott and just published by the New Press.] Until recently, few of us woke up worrying about the threat of […]