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
Category: Nuclear Weapons
New START, Ending or Not?
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
Send Up the Mercury E-6Bs
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
The Day After the Debate
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
Super Duper Hydrosonic Nuclear
‘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
U.S. President and a ‘secret’ nuclear weapons system
“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”
August 6, 1945
An Atomic Era nightmare is unleashed in 1945 … We remember Hiroshima … and Nagasaki
The Beginning or the End, an Online Discussion
August 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Author Greg Mitchell and director Rod Lurie (“The Outpost”) on how the White House and Pentagon scuttled the first movie on the atomic bomb. Join into the discussion — Wed, August 5, 2020 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
U.S. China ‘Spats’ Rattle the World
(Associated Press – July 28, 2020) — Antagonisms between the United States and China are rattling governments around the world, prompting a German official to warn of “Cold War 2.0”
On the 75th Anniversary of the ‘Trinity Test’
The birth of the nuclear age was begat at the Trinity site in a barren New Mexico desert named Jornado del Muerto. The “Gadget”, as it was called by Los Alamos scientists who conceived and built the first nuclear bomb, was hoisted up the tower. At dawn, July 16, 1945, it lit up the sky…
The Button, Bolton & Trump
A John Bolton interview. Another warning about command and control of nuclear weapons presents itself. A series of threats, abandoned arms agreements, collapsed diplomacy, escalations and provocations emanate daily in the news. How often, over the years, do we have to be warned of ‘erratic’ decisions delivering catastrophic consequences
Spend Russia and China ‘into oblivion’
As nuclear weapons control agreements have fallen one after another since the Trump presidency commenced, a new US int’l envoy announces a new US nuclear weapons strategy. The Boston Globe quotes Marshall Billingslea: the US is prepared to spend Russia and China ‘into oblivion’. We are now witnessing a new nuclear arms race, a MAD-strategy
A Message from California Governor Brown
A Message to the US President As the Washington Post reveals the Trump administration’s planning to re-start nuclear weapons testing even as it ends another nuclear weapons treaty and announces its intent to allow the last critical nuclear weapons control treaty – New START – to terminate…
Debate Existential Risks? Climate. Nukes. Or Neither?
CBS-moderated US Democratic presidential debate ends without one question being asked about the existential Climate Crisis or New Nuclear Arms Race: Questions of existence are not worthy of discussion, it seems, even as a US president denies Climate science and releases huge new nuclear budget featuring nuclear pits ‘n triggers for new ‘usable’ nukes
New Start, New Nukes, New Threats, Us
Nuclear weapons brinksmenship has a new cold war player. Forgotten collective memory. The collective intelligence of the world’s nations has forgotten the lessons of the Cold War. A new Cold War 2.0 is heating up, everyday and like Global Warming, the existential threat is created by us
A New Decade, A Collapsing International Architecture
As we enter the uncharted realm of 2020 and the coming decade, we have to pause and ask — How fast will the nuclear control dominoes continue to collapse, one arms agreement after another? Who can put in place nuclear arms control agreements now? We have to ask. Who can do?
In Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Pope urges abolition of nuclear weapons
Catholic Doctrine on Nuclear Weapons / Ban the Bomb. Pope Francis: ”With deep conviction I wish once more to declare that the use of atomic energy for purposes of war is today, more than ever, a crime not only against the dignity of human beings but against any possible future for our common home….
