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Nuclear Weapons

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The United States Re-Balancing in East Asia
At a moment when the United States government hops up and down frantically every time North Korea launches a missile, a group of concerned individuals in policy gathered together …

Why the GCC Should Welcome Iran Nuclear Talks
While most countries have welcomed this diplomacy, opposition to talks has primarily come from Israel and some GCC states. This opposition, however, is mistaken.

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A New Examination for Missile Launch Officers and the Rest of Us
Which is the greater moral failure: cheating on an examination or being willing to launch nuclear-armed missiles that could lead to the deaths of millions of innocent men, women …

Writer, Activist Jonathan Schell, 1943 – 2014
Jonathan Schell, writer, activist, and journalist has died.

US Rejected Israeli Demand for Iran Nuclear Confession
The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons program as a condition for …

The Turn of the Key
Poem on nuclear weapons by David Krieger

The Myth of Nuclear Safety: Fukushima Reveals That Nuclear Power Is Here to Stay
Three years after the Fukushima disaster, the Japanese government has reversed its position of abandoning nuclear power and is developing new nuclear reactors, despite opposition from a majority of …

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Dahr Jamail | Radiation Leak at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Storage Site Highlights Problems
A recent fire and radiation release at a uranium repository in New Mexico has brought renewed focus on what to do with a growing stockpile of radioactive waste.

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A World Awash in a Nuclear Explosive?
Japan is leading a global move towards dangerous reactors fueled by plutonium, Thomas Cochran and other experts say.

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Nukes Now: Obama Worse Than Reagan
Heads-up, veterans of the nuclear freeze movement, anti-Euromissile campaigns and anti-nuke efforts in New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Incoming.