nuclear weapons

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  7/24/2020
  

  A Magazine Story Opened Eyes to Hiroshima’s Horror. White House Allies Plotted to Shut Them Again.

  by Greg Mitchell

  The Hersey article, with its unflinching account of what survivors witnessed in Hiroshima, threatened the official narrative of justification.

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Better Than Silence: The Need for Memorials to the Manhattan Project

  by Stephen Kiernan

  Creating the bomb was both a milestone achievement, and a profound expansion of the limits of warfare. This complexity deserves a permanent public memorial.

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• SOURCE: Z Blogs
  7/16/2020
  

  Making America Feared Again: The Trump Administration Considers Resuming Nuclear Weapons Testing

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Americans who grew up with nightmares of nuclear weapons explosions should get ready for some terrifying flashbacks, for the Trump administration appears to be preparing to resume U.S. nuclear weapons tests.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/16/2020
  

  The Open Mind (Reprinted from 1949)

  by J. Robert Oppenheimer

  The former head of the Manhattan Project wrote about how to advance peace in the nuclear age, just four years after he directed the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/16/2020
  

  Trump Ignores The History Of Nuclear Weapons At Our Peril

  by William Lambers

  We must not become complacent about this threat after so many years and just casually accept their existence. Seventy-five years after Trinity, banning nuclear testing and working toward eliminating nukes is the only sensible path forward.

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• SOURCE: Global Policy
  7/16/2020
  

  “A Tragic Illusion” - Did the Atom Bomb Make the United Nations Obsolete Three Weeks After its Birth?

  by Tad Daley

  President Harry Truman's knowledge of the imminent success of the Manhattan Project led him to fear that the United Nations' charter was inadequate to the task of preventing war; the Cold War meant that a better form of internationalism was never achieved. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/15/2020
  

  ‘Now I Am Become Death’: The Legacy of the First Nuclear Bomb Test

  “They took some effort” to protect the public, Science Historian Alex Wellerstein said. “Would we consider it adequate today? No, not at all. It’s not considered adequate to set off a nuclear bomb, not tell anyone about it and set up a pregnant scientist in a motel with a Geiger counter to monitor radiation.”

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• 12/22/19
  

  Americans Are Ready for a Different Approach to Nuclear Weapons

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Although today’s public protests against nuclear weapons can’t compare to the major antinuclear upheavals of past decades, there are clear indications that most Americans reject the Trump administration’s nuclear weapons policies.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/30/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Briefing Book on Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959

  by William Burr

  During Mid-1960s Turkish Officials Were Interested in Producing an “Atomic Bomb”

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• SOURCE: Des Moines Register
  August 27, 2019
  

  Seventy years after the Cold War began, the world faces an escalating nuclear threat

  by William Lambers

  The first Soviet atomic bomb test, on Aug. 29, 1949, spread political and psychological fallout that has been with us ever since.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/9/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Documents on the First Soviet Nuclear Test Offering New Information on Beginning of Nuclear Arms Race

  by William Burr

  The newly declassified documents reveal the Soviet atomic project posed a major challenge to U.S. intelligence and expands our knowledge of the role of German scientists in advancing the Soviet nuclear program.

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• 8/6/19
  

  Samantha Smith's Dream of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

  by William Lambers

  Samantha Smith taught us your voice matters and you can make a difference in ridding the world of nuclear weapons and achieving peace for all. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/12/19
  

  The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line

  by James Carroll

  The history behind the latest nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  1/27/19
  

  North Korea’s Nukes and the ‘Forgotten War’

  Hampton Sides, author of a new book about a turning point in the Korea war, explores the state of the Koreas and Trump’s forthcoming visit.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  1/18/19
  

  Why Reagan's 'Star Wars' Defense Plan Remained Science Fiction

  Despite criticisms from politicians, many scientists and others that the SDI was impractical, expensive and dangerous, the concept was developed during a frightening era.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  We Need to Revive the Nuclear Disarmament Movement Now

  by Lawrence Wittner

  A practical proposal.

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• 12/2/18
  

  What Has Wheaties – Yes, the Breakfast Cereal – Got to Do with Nuclear Disarmament?

  by William Lambers

  It is the breakfast of champions and nuclear disarmament. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  11/5/18
  

  The Soviet Side of the 1983 War Scare

  Far from being a “non crisis” or a “war scare that wasn’t,” the 1983 US-Soviet confrontation is a profound representation of the “hair trigger” mindset toward which the nuclear arms race can push humanity.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11-4-18
  

  “They Will Not Forgive Us”

  by James Carroll

  Donald Trump Welcomes in the Age of “Usable” Nuclear Weapons

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• 11/18/18
  

  The Trump Administration Nuclear Weapons Policy Could Lead Us to Disaster

  by Lawrence Wittner

  It’s the first administration that has no interest in pursuing nuclear arms control.