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Nuclear Weapons

Beyond Nuclear advocates for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and argues that removing them can only make us safer, not more vulnerable. The expansion of commercial nuclear power across the globe only increases the chance that more nuclear weapons will be built and is counterproductive to disarmament. We also cover nuclear weapons issues on our international site, Beyond Nuclear International.

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Monday
Nov272017

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

Saturday
Nov252017

Trump and the nuclear button

Friday
Nov242017

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

As reported by By 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.

Wednesday
Nov222017

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.”)

Tuesday
Nov212017

U.S. Generals Might Stop Trump From an Illegal Nuclear Strike — But Who Will Save Us From a Legal One?