BBC World Histories Magazine

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When have nuclear weapons come closest to destabilising world peace – and how close to the brink of nuclear war did the world come? Benoît Pelopidas: “How close was it?” is a misleading question if asked alone. One also needs to ask: how controllable

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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Here’s a piece of paradoxical news that puts even the looming U.S. presidential election in perspective: Nuclear weapons are now (or soon will be) . . . good Lord, illegal. Armageddon is against the law! Well, sort of. And the Trump administration do

Guardian Weekly

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Meeting last week, the US and Russian presidents issued a joint statement declaring: “a nuclear war should never be fought and could never be won”. This consciously echoes what Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev said in a landmark summit in 1985, wh

Los Angeles Times

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The bombs dropped by the United States on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago, in the final days of World War II, incinerated some 200,000 people, most of them civilians. And they did much more than that. They also transformed the natur

NPR

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The U.S. has reportedly begun patrols with the low-yield weapons, which it says are needed to counter Russia. Critics worry they increase the risk of nuclear war.

Military History

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On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted history’s first test of a nuclear device (code-named Trinity) in the desert scrubland of south-central New Mexico. Weeks later, on August 6 and 9, it became the first—and thus far only—nation to use nucle

The Atlantic

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International officials have confirmed that North Korea conducted its third nuclear weapons test on Tuesday, and that the rogue state may be hinting at more tests to come. Check here for all the latest updates.

The Independent

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It has become commonplace to talk about the climate crisis as the greatest threat to the planet. It is certainly right to focus on an existential issue which we can do something about. But I fear there are other problems which could – at very short n

FactCheck.org

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A day after he threatened North Korea with "fire and fury," President Donald Trump distorted the facts when he boasted that his "first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal" and "it is now far stronger and more powerful

Nautilus

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When opposing nations gained access to nuclear weapons, it fundamentally changed the logic of war. You might say that it made questions about war more cleanly logical—with nuclear-armed belligerents, there are fewer classic military analyses about mo

The Atlantic

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Opening their paper on Friday morning, readers of The Wall Street Journal encountered a financial item of unusually wide interest. “Here’s a question that’s probably not on the CFA exam,” write Mike Bird and Riva Gold. “What happens to financial mark

NPR

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The administration's Nuclear Posture Review mentions a massive, nuclear-armed torpedo capable of incinerating cities. But is it real?

NPR

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to his nation's nuclear forces over the weekend, but their exact meaning is unclear. Russia has more nuclear weapons than any other nation.

TIME

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THE WORLD TODAY IS OVERWHELMED WITH PROBLEMS. Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss. But no problem is more urgent than the militarization of politics and the new arms race. Stopping and reversing this ruinous race must be our top priority.

Nautilus

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When opposing nations gained access to nuclear weapons, it fundamentally changed the logic of war. You might say that it made questions about war more cleanly logical—with nuclear-armed belligerents, there are fewer classic military analyses about mo

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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". . . real security can only be shared . . ." I call it news in a cage: the fact that the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. In other words, how nice, but it has nothing to do with the r

Union of Concerned Scientists

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International security experts often refer to the twin goals of military policy: to minimize the risk of war and to minimize the damage should war start. Because nuclear weapons are so destructive, the goal must be to eliminate—and not just minimize—

You South Africa

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If there was a nuclear strike between Russia and the US, it’s estimated that around three million people could die within 45 minutes. This would be as a result of the heat and the blast of the explosion as well as radiation. Those who didn’t die inst

The Atlantic

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It’s, in fact, a briefcase—but that’s little consolation if you’re faced with annihilation.  

Chicago Tribune

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By the 1950s, just years after U.S. B-29s dropped the first atomic bombs, Americans prepared for nuclear war. They built underground shelters and stocked them with supplies. Children at school practiced duck-and-cover drills. In some cities, schools

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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The annual defense budget, passed recently by both the House (377-48) and Senate (82-8), came in at $738 billion for 2020, up from last year a sweet $22 billion. War hits the motherlode every year. "The money just isn't there" for virtually anything

The Atlantic

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While the treaty faces many barriers to implementation, it signifies a profound international statement.

Futurity

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More than 100 million people could die immediately if India and Pakistan wage a nuclear war, followed by global mass starvation, according to a new study. “Such a war would threaten not only the locations where bombs might be targeted but the entire

Futurity

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The US must do what it can to prevent Russian military from crossing the nuclear threshold, Scott Sagan argues. Nuclear weapons are not just a force used to deter another state from attacking, they can also be a shield behind which one can engage in

Guardian Weekly

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When the most senior figure in Britain’s defence and security establishment warns of the increased risk of accidental nuclear war, the rest of us should pay attention. Even today, when security chiefs speak more often in public than they once did, th

The Atlantic

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We’ve gone from the first decade since the advent of the atomic age to not yield a new nuclear-weapons state to the brink of war between the U.S. and Iran.

Men's Fitness UK

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The Godfather of them all and the ultimate pilgrimage for OCR purists. Like burpees and throwing spears? Fancy yourself as having the legendary endurance of a Spartan? With a series of UK locations, this could be the race for you. A highly rated, fun

The Independent

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Jillian Amodio went with the truth when her 10-year-old daughter had some pointed questions about the war in Ukraine. “When she asked what nuclear weapons were, I explained in simple terms that they're explosive devices used in warfare that are capab

History Revealed

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Wartime collaboration between America and Britain over nuclear weapons ground to a halt in 1946 when Congress passed the McMahon Act, forbidding the US from sharing atomic information with its closest ally. As a result, Clement Attlee’s new Labour go

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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"I'm so honored to be alive at such a miraculous time in history. I'm so moved by what's going on in our world today." This was 2003. The words were those of Robert Muller -- the other one, the one from Costa Rica, former assistant secretary general