For years Strategic Demands has pushed for rational controls of nuclear weapons, in particular the critical need for new ‘first use’ controls over the ‘sole authority‘ of the U.S. president to order nuclear war… Now comes a harsh realization this is no academic issue
The U.S. president huddled in the White House on January 6, 2020, isolated in his office watching TV reports of a rally he called to DC and urged on … now an attack on the U.S. Capitol building…. the 45th president’s attempt to stop the election count and block his election loss failed, historically failed
“There’s no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of a U.S. election.” All 10 living former U.S. defense secretaries issue a warning to Trump over threats to use the military to dispute the election. The president’s loss and denial of his election loss are resulting in a constitutional and potential military crisis
On Christmas eve, here in the U.S., hoping that the departing president, who’s railing at his election loss and now has ordered a breach in transition communications between the Defense Department and incoming Biden staff, is not, calamitously, planning to order a war…
Every day comes news and new revelations of presidential planning that may or may not be true. Presidential claims of ‘fraud’ and a ‘stolen election’ escalate. Today the Washington Post reported the tracking database of ‘false and misleading claims’ of the U.S. president has reached 25,653. Now comes the hack…
Bill McKibben, a former adviser for Strategic Demands’ associate GreenPolicy360, reflects on three+ decades of work to bring the breadth and depth of the climate crisis to the world… “Once in a while,” he says as he looks to the big picture, “it’s important to pull back and try to put it all in perspective…”
As the U.S. President continues to tweet that he has “WON THE ELECTION!” and refuses to concede his defeat, questions are being asked about the president’s singular authority to order unilateral military action between now and Inauguration day. One decision looms large, war against Iran…
Today, in one of U.S. President Trump’s 51,282 tweet to his (as of today) 79,517,737 Twitter followers, the president attempted to rescind his acknowledgement yesterday that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Again claiming the November election was ‘rigged’, the president’s attack on the election is a spectacle of denial and threats
Stewards of the Apocalypse ♠
Nuclear-armed states are on the wrong side of history. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will enter into force on 22nd January 2021
As with so many of the current US administration’s international agreements and treaties, the New START nuclear weapons agreement is threatened and, as of public announcements this week, seems to be on the way out… the new nuclear arms race, a Cold War 2.0 is ratcheting up
In an event staged for broadcast US Evening News, the US president arrives from Walter Reed hospital back to the White House where, in live coverage and then a re-enactment for his camera crew, he presented the COVID-19 infection as an illness not too seriously disabling …
The announcement that the U.S. president has contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus has caused a scramble in the White House. What is barely being reported is the scramble in the military
What a spectacle, what a veritable disaster last night’s U.S. presidential ‘debate’ turned out to be. Not unpredictably, but perhaps worse than most anyone had predicted, the Biden-Trump ninety minutes on-stage became a televised verbal brawl. Last night was frightening to witness
A presidential debate in a nation experiencing political turmoil, pandemic (where it leads the world in cases and deaths), an economic recession verging on depression, an angry populace striven by hate speech, division, dissension, blame and fear — what could go wrong tonight?
‘Hydrosonic’ or Hypersonic, Hyperglide or Hydrogen Nuclear Weapon. It’s secret and you want it, but we got it while you scramble to get it … but ours is bigger, so there, take that … Donald Trump
“I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before. We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about… what we have is incredible”
