nuclear weapons

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/25/2020
  

  New Video Shows Largest Hydrogen Bomb Ever Exploded

  Although the Soviet Union succeeded in testing a hydrogen bomb more than three times more powerful than the largest U.S.-tested weapon, most military leaders in the cold war sought to make the weapons smaller for strategic reasons. Recently declassified Soviet video shows the test. 

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• SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  8/24/2020
  

  A Call for Antiracist Action and Accountability in the US Nuclear Community

  The history of nuclear power and nuclear weapons has historically been entangled with the history of colonialism and global white supremacy. 

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Who Shaped the Story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

  by William Johnston

  Most Americans' knowledge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects how American leaders in 1945 wanted the atomic bombings remembered more than their real history. 

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• 8/9/2020
  

  Honor a Hiroshima Survivor's Legacy: Ban Nuclear Testing and Move to Disarmament

  by William Lambers

  Miyoko Matsubara survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and became an advocate for abolishing nuclear weapons. The United States Senate can honor her and all victims and survivors of nuclear war by ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  Witnessing Nuclear Carnage, Then Devoting Her Life to Peace

  Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima 75 years ago this month, has used the power of her personal story to try to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Worked Under Mushroom Clouds

  Photographs commissioned by Japanese newspapers in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were suppressed by American occupation authorities in both countries. A new book offers Americans a new opportunity to grasp the physical and human toll of nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: Stars and Stripes
  8/4/2020
  

  ‘Irresistible Weapon’: Historians Say American History Oversimplifies Atomic Bombings On Japan

  Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., author and blogger on atomic bomb history, said time has smoothed the wrinkles and simplified the facts that are often taught about the first and, so far, only wartime use of atomic weapons.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/5/2020
  

  In The 75 Years Since Hiroshima, Nuclear Testing Killed Untold Thousands

  The Marshall Islands were exposed to the daily equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima-sized explosions between 1946 and 1958, if the impact were spread evenly.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  7/24/2020
  

  A Magazine Story Opened Eyes to Hiroshima’s Horror. White House Allies Plotted to Shut Them Again.

  by Greg Mitchell

  The Hersey article, with its unflinching account of what survivors witnessed in Hiroshima, threatened the official narrative of justification.

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Better Than Silence: The Need for Memorials to the Manhattan Project

  by Stephen Kiernan

  Creating the bomb was both a milestone achievement, and a profound expansion of the limits of warfare. This complexity deserves a permanent public memorial.

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• SOURCE: Z Blogs
  7/16/2020
  

  Making America Feared Again: The Trump Administration Considers Resuming Nuclear Weapons Testing

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Americans who grew up with nightmares of nuclear weapons explosions should get ready for some terrifying flashbacks, for the Trump administration appears to be preparing to resume U.S. nuclear weapons tests.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/16/2020
  

  The Open Mind (Reprinted from 1949)

  by J. Robert Oppenheimer

  The former head of the Manhattan Project wrote about how to advance peace in the nuclear age, just four years after he directed the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/16/2020
  

  Trump Ignores The History Of Nuclear Weapons At Our Peril

  by William Lambers

  We must not become complacent about this threat after so many years and just casually accept their existence. Seventy-five years after Trinity, banning nuclear testing and working toward eliminating nukes is the only sensible path forward.

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• SOURCE: Global Policy
  7/16/2020
  

  “A Tragic Illusion” - Did the Atom Bomb Make the United Nations Obsolete Three Weeks After its Birth?

  by Tad Daley

  President Harry Truman's knowledge of the imminent success of the Manhattan Project led him to fear that the United Nations' charter was inadequate to the task of preventing war; the Cold War meant that a better form of internationalism was never achieved. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/15/2020
  

  ‘Now I Am Become Death’: The Legacy of the First Nuclear Bomb Test

  “They took some effort” to protect the public, Science Historian Alex Wellerstein said. “Would we consider it adequate today? No, not at all. It’s not considered adequate to set off a nuclear bomb, not tell anyone about it and set up a pregnant scientist in a motel with a Geiger counter to monitor radiation.”

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• 12/22/19
  

  Americans Are Ready for a Different Approach to Nuclear Weapons

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Although today’s public protests against nuclear weapons can’t compare to the major antinuclear upheavals of past decades, there are clear indications that most Americans reject the Trump administration’s nuclear weapons policies.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/30/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Briefing Book on Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959

  by William Burr

  During Mid-1960s Turkish Officials Were Interested in Producing an “Atomic Bomb”

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• SOURCE: Des Moines Register
  August 27, 2019
  

  Seventy years after the Cold War began, the world faces an escalating nuclear threat

  by William Lambers

  The first Soviet atomic bomb test, on Aug. 29, 1949, spread political and psychological fallout that has been with us ever since.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/9/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Documents on the First Soviet Nuclear Test Offering New Information on Beginning of Nuclear Arms Race

  by William Burr

  The newly declassified documents reveal the Soviet atomic project posed a major challenge to U.S. intelligence and expands our knowledge of the role of German scientists in advancing the Soviet nuclear program.

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• 8/6/19
  

  Samantha Smith's Dream of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

  by William Lambers

  Samantha Smith taught us your voice matters and you can make a difference in ridding the world of nuclear weapons and achieving peace for all.