nuclear weapons

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• SOURCE: Axios
  7/15/2021
  

  Latinos Forgotten Victims of US Nuclear Testing

  Hispanic and Native residents of New Mexico who were excluded from the first Radiation Exposure Compensation Act are likely to be included in a bill to reauthorize the legislation. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/29/2021
  

  Blackness and the Bomb

  by Erica X. Eisen

  "Throughout the atomic age, civil defense authorities demanded the active participation of Black citizens whom their measures failed to protect."

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• 6/13/2021
  

  It's Time for a "Don't Trust, Do Verify" US-Russia Cybersecurity Treaty

  by Glenn C. Altschuler and Justin Lifflander

  The Reagan-Gorbachev summit meetings that yielded the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and established mutual weapons monitoring weren't expected to succeed, but offer hope that negotiations between Biden and Putin could advance progress toward needed mutual cybersecurity action. 

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• 5/30/2021
  

  Review: Lesley Blume's “Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World”

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Journalist Lesley Blume's book "Fallout" ably tells the story about how John Hersey and the New Yorker navigated government censorship and political opposition to publish Hersey's "Hiroshima," a foundational work in later movements to prevent nuclear war.

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  5/25/2021
  

  Missile Defense is Not a Substitute for Arms Control

  by John Tierney and Samuel M. Hickey

  A former Congressman and an arms control analyst argue that the key goal of upcoming meetings between Biden and Putin is nuclear arms control; the United States can afford to use its technological superiority in missile defense as a chip to ensure this greater goal. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/22/2021
  

  Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known

  Daniel Ellsberg disclosed a page from a 1966 study of the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis that indicate many military leaders were anticipating the necessity of using nuclear weapons to defend Taiwan against the People's Republic of China. 

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• SOURCE: Retro Report
  4/26/2021
  

  Lesson: The Cold War and the Nuclear Weapons Threat

  The Cold War may be over, but an arms race continues, even as safeguards once in place have fallen away. Some experts worry that nuclear weapons may pose a greater threat to humanity than ever before.

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• 4/25/2021
  

  The Fateful Choice: Nuclear Arms Race or Nuclear Weapons-Free World

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Nuclear-armed nations face a choice: to push ahead with a wasteful course that raises the risk of nuclear war, or to lead toward a world without nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4/16/2021
  

  The Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War

  Serhii Plokhy adds new insight to the Cuban Missile Crisis by examining the domestic political context of the Soviet Union and the political incentives toward nuclear brinksmanship. 

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  3/29/2021
  

  ‘Atomic Cover-Up’ Reveals A Previously Unseen Story Of Human Devastation

  The new documentary "Atomic Cover-Up"  reminds that "people of goodwill can differ over whether we did the right thing in order to bring a terrible war to its conclusion or if, instead, we committed unforgivable crimes against humanity. What none of us can do is look away."

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• 3/28/2021
  

  Can Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Overcome the Opposition?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  People who want to end the nightmare of nuclear destruction that has haunted the world since 1945 should consider widening the popular appeal of nuclear weapons abolition by strengthening the UN’s ability to provide international security.

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• SOURCE: Greg Mitchell
  3/22/2021
  

  “Atomic Cover-Up” Premieres

  by Greg Mitchell

  Documentarian Greg Mitchell's new movie about the two film crews – one Japanese, one American – who recorded the human toll of the Hiroshima bombing and had their footage suppressed has premiered. Find out how to view it. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  3/16/2021
  

  The Mythical War Scare of 1983

  by Simon Miles

  "Nuclear weapons are not without danger, to be sure. An overinflation of the risk of Able Archer should not be necessary to remind policymakers of that point."

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal
  2/15/2021
  

  Will the Nuclear Powers Ever Be Willing to Forgo Their Nuclear Weapons?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The collapse of the Soviet Union has paradoxically created a climate where the perceived danger of nuclear weapons has waned, taking energy from a growing movement toward arms control and disarmament. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/18/2021
  

  Apocalypse Averted

  "Newly declassified documents reveal that in November 1983, at the height of Cold War tensions, the United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than historians—and even many officials at the time—have known until now."

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• 1/17/2021
  

  The Great Evasion

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Joe Biden should reverse the nation's long dereliction of duty in leading the world toward nuclear disarmament and reducing the threat of nuclear war.

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  12/16/2020
  

  Virtual Event: Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis 12/21

  The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is typically viewed as marking a first step toward nuclear arms control. But Toshihiro Higuchi argues that it was also one of the first international agreements that addressed a truly global, human-induced environmental problem. He discusses his new book for the Washington History Seminar on Thursday, 12/21 at 4:00 PM EDT.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/30/2020
  

  Iranian American Historian On Assassination Of Iranian Nuclear Scientist

  Abbas Milani of Stanford University discusses the US-Iran relationship and the shocking assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist last week. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/31/2020
  

  George Shultz Speaks Out for Renewing U.S. Leadership Overseas

  The long-serving Secretary of State's new book laments the unwillingness of current leadership to embrace the international cooperation and diplomacy needed to solve the world's largest problems.   

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• 10/18/2020
  

  "The Silent Guns of Two Octobers" Reviewing a New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

  by Sheldon M. Stern

  Longtime JFK Library historian Sheldon Stern offers a review of a new book on the diplomatic resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis.