nuclear weapons

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/12/19
  

  The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line

  by James Carroll

  The history behind the latest nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  1/27/19
  

  North Korea’s Nukes and the ‘Forgotten War’

  Hampton Sides, author of a new book about a turning point in the Korea war, explores the state of the Koreas and Trump’s forthcoming visit.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  1/18/19
  

  Why Reagan's 'Star Wars' Defense Plan Remained Science Fiction

  Despite criticisms from politicians, many scientists and others that the SDI was impractical, expensive and dangerous, the concept was developed during a frightening era.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  We Need to Revive the Nuclear Disarmament Movement Now

  by Lawrence Wittner

  A practical proposal.

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• 12/2/18
  

  What Has Wheaties – Yes, the Breakfast Cereal – Got to Do with Nuclear Disarmament?

  by William Lambers

  It is the breakfast of champions and nuclear disarmament. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  11/5/18
  

  The Soviet Side of the 1983 War Scare

  Far from being a “non crisis” or a “war scare that wasn’t,” the 1983 US-Soviet confrontation is a profound representation of the “hair trigger” mindset toward which the nuclear arms race can push humanity.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11-4-18
  

  “They Will Not Forgive Us”

  by James Carroll

  Donald Trump Welcomes in the Age of “Usable” Nuclear Weapons

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• 11/18/18
  

  The Trump Administration Nuclear Weapons Policy Could Lead Us to Disaster

  by Lawrence Wittner

  It’s the first administration that has no interest in pursuing nuclear arms control.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  10-26-18
  

  Trump Wants to Leave a Nuclear-Weapons Treaty

  by David Kaiser

  Here’s what happened when arms control failed in the 1930s.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-9-18
  

  Stumbling Toward Armageddon

  by Sergey Radchenko

  Newly declassified documents show why the Americans and the Soviets came so close to war in 1973.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/25/18
  

  Yeltsin: “Let Us ... Get Rid of the Nuclear Footballs”

  Possibly for the first time in U.S. diplomatic history, the “Nuclear Football” became a subject of a heads-of-state discussion when Russian President Boris Yeltsin proposed getting “rid” of it during a meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton in September 1994.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives Daily
  8-13-18
  

  RIP to the Liberal Order

  by Suzy Kim

  American Mourning after the US-North Korea June Summit

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• SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  8-13-18
  

  TV and the Bomb

  by Reba Wissner

  Fictional American television shows featured serious topics such as nuclear weapons pretty frequently during the 1950s and 1960s.

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• SOURCE: The Korea Herald
  6-28-18
  

  Philip Zelikow says step-by-step diplomacy in Korea has failed, so it’s time to try something new

  He should know. He was involved in the step-by-step talks under Bush.

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• 6-18-18
  

  Trump’s Getting Us Ready to Fight a Nuclear War

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Even as he holds out the hope of denuclearizing North Korea, he wants to increase the size and scope of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-12-18
  

  Trump is everything Republicans said Obama was

  by Tom Nichols

  They called Obama an inexperienced, self-serving celebrity. Then their party chose Trump.

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• SOURCE: Brisbane Times
  6-11-18
  

  When Hitler met Hoover

  Dictators have scored presidential face time before.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6-5-18
  

  As Trump Preps for Singapore, a Look at Past Summits That Succeeded—or Flopped

  The bad ones include Yalta and Vienna.

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• SOURCE: Nikkei Asian Review
  6-4-18
  

  Beijing sees 2018 as watershed year reminiscent of 1989

  Both years are critical to understanding North Korea’s decision to develop nuclear weapons.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-2-18
  

  Trump Veers to a Korea Plan That Echoes Failures of the Past

  Rather than sticking with the demand that North Korea disarm immediately, Mr. Trump's opened the door to a prolonged freeze – like Bill Clinton.