Nuclear Weapons: America, North Korea, Iran and the World at a Crossroad

At a time when the world again seems to be creeping closer to a nuclear showdown, join Washington National Cathedral in a discussion about the threat of nuclear weapons and global efforts to reduce the likelihood that they will ever be used.

An event held at the Washington National Cathedral, featuring:

• • Former Secretary of State John Kerry (2013-2017)
  • Former Secretary of Defense William Perry (1994-1997)
  • Former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley (2005-2009)
  • Author on arms control and US-Russia issues, Susan Eisenhower
  • Journalist Ray Suarez

• Washington Post columnist David Ignatius

See the complete video/audio recording.

Hawaii brings back Cold War-era nuclear warning sirens amid fears of North Korea strike

As reported by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. in the Washington Post.

Trump and the nuclear button

Washington Post editorial.

North Korea Nuclear Bomb Test May Have Killed Children in School Collapse

As reported by By Sofia Lotto Persio in Newsweek.

This horrorific news is reminiscent of the book Killing Our Own, by Harvey Wasserman, Robert Alvarez, and Norman Solomon--although it was focused on radioactivity releases by the nuclear weapons and power industry, not earthquakes caused by nuclear test blasts.

Another book about the nuclear weapons complex in various countries harming their own domestic populations with radioactivity releases is Nuclear Wastelands. Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, is a co-author.

If Trump wants to use nuclear weapons, whether it’s ‘legal’ won’t matter

See this sobering article, authored by Alex Wellerstein and Avner Cohen in the Washington Post.

(Alex Wellerstein is a historian of nuclear weapons at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. He runs the website Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog.

Avner Cohen is a professor of nonproliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) and the author of “Israel and the Bomb.”)