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Nuclear Weapons

Marshall Islands’ Lawsuits Gain Momentous Support
Leaders from 22 nations offer support for humanity in open letter.

US Nuclear Policy: Taking the Wrong Road
The only foolproof way to assure that nuclear weapons won't be used, by accident or design, is to abolish them.

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Air Force Launches Cosmetic Fixes for “Self-Inflicted Rot” in Nuclear Missile Crews
Investigations will not notice that the “rot” in the missile system is the mission itself: the deliberate, self-conscious participation in an ongoing conspiracy to kill millions of people.

Small Island Country Attempts to Hold the Hegemon to Its Promises
The Marshall Islands' lawsuits against the United States and other nuclear weapon states under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are a bold attempt to keep all of us safe from …

Henry A. Giroux | Remembering Hiroshima in an Age of Neoliberal Barbarism
Like the narratives used to justify the US bombing of Japan, history under the reign of neoliberalism is cleansed of its most critical impulses, thus sustaining the fictions and …

Artesia, New Mexico: Locking up Children from Cold War to War on Immigrants
A new immigrant detention center for children and families is in a place where children once went to school amid a bleak nuclear landscape.

The Marshall Islands Will Not Give Up
The Marshall Islands files Opposition to US motion to dismiss Nuclear Zero lawsuit.

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Briefing the President but Keeping the Public in the Dark
Washington prepared some grim early estimates of the death and destruction that would come from a nuclear war with Russia, but kept the details secret for more than 50 …

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The Cost of Teaching an Old Nuclear Weapon New Tricks
Seven decades after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the United States has long-term plans to modernize its nuclear weapons at a cost of hundreds of …

Noam Chomsky | Hiroshima Day 2014
It is a near miracle that we have escaped destruction so far, and the longer we tempt fate, the less likely it is that we can hope for divine …