nuclear weapons

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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. 

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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.