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All Cards on the Table: First-Use of Nuclear Weapons
Recent news that President Obama may be considering changes in nuclear deterrence policy has caused a storm of speculation as to whether the time is right for the U.S. government to declare a no first-use policy… By Al Mauroni and David Jonas.
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A brief history of the nuclear triad
There is a lot of buzzing about lately about the future of the United States’ “nuclear triad.” The triad is the strategic reliance on three specific delivery “platforms” for deterrence: manned-bombers, long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Do we need all three “legs” of the triad? By Alex Wellerstein. (July 15th, 2016)
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Fukushima in New York? This Nuclear Plant Has Regulators Nervous
A new documentary explores the fight around Indian Point Energy Center in the wake of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster. By Andrew Lapin.
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Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl
Danny Cooke
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Hiroshima: the Crime That Keeps on Paying, But Beware the Reckoning
On his visit to Hiroshima last May, Obama did not, as some had vainly hoped he might, apologize for the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of the city. Instead he gave a high-sounding speech... By Diana Johnstone.
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America at the Atomic Crossroads
Seventy years ago, at Bikini Atoll, weapons of mass destruction became a form of consumer entertainment. By Alex Wellerstein. (July 25, 2016)
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It’s Alright
Fractures with Matthew Chuang
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Radio War Nerd, Episode #44 — Nukes
Reposting our fascinating and interview with physicist Sunil Sainis in Boston, who has spent much of his life growing up around the world of nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation, and nuclear physics...
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Latour: rethinking ecological crisis from the ground down
In the title for one of his Tokyo lectures, Latour refers to this global ecological crisis as a “new climatic regime,” although elsewhere, it has become more commonly known as the Anthropocene: a proposed epoch that, as the etymology of its title suggests, points to the significant global impact that human activities have had on the Earth’s geology and ecosystems as the definitive characteristic of our current era. By Mike Sunda.
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The Female Spy Who Kept Uranium Out of the Nazis’ Hands
Shirley Chidsey’s love of travel and adventure helped land her in the Congo during World War II, when as an OSS operative she helped the U.S. hoard precious uranium. By Susan Williams.
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Ending the World, For Science!
Should We Start Regulating 'Ultra-Hazardous' Research That Has the Potential to Destroy Us?
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The pyramid at the end of the world
In rural North Dakota, the long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think. By Elmo Keep.
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Scientists Have Detected A Crack In Earth’s Magnetic Shield
“This vulnerability can occur when magnetised plasma from the Sun deforms Earth’s magnetic field, stretching its shape at the poles and diminishing its ability to deflect charged particles,” Katherine Wright explains on the American Physical Society website.
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1990s Doomsday Planners Worried About Feminists Breaching Nuclear Waste Sites
They also feared treasure hunters and the secession of New Mexico. By Cara Giaimo.
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Davy Crockett: King of the Atomic Frontier
On 17 July 1962, a caravan of scientists, military men, and dignitaries crossed the remote desert of southern Nevada to witness an historic event. Among the crowd were VIPs such as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and presidential adviser General Maxwell D. Taylor who had come to observe the “Little Feller I” test shot, the final phase of Operation Sunbeam… By Alan Bellows.
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Fukushima nuclear decommission, compensation costs to almost double: media
Japan’s trade ministry has almost doubled the estimated cost of compensation for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and decommissioning of the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant to more than 20 trillion yen ($177.51 billion), the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday. By Osamu Tsukimori.
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The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb
When they were separated by Heisenberg’s scientific travels or the war itself, Elisabeth and Werner exchanged more than three hundred letters that survived the fighting. Both later wrote accounts of the war years, but their letters, filled with the worries and hopes of ordinary family life, offer a quieter, more intimate picture of the years when Heisenberg ran the program that was going nowhere. Husband and wife both knew that the German secret police were free to open and read their letters at will, and tried to avoid dangerous ground. By Thomas Powers.
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Marie Curie, Ambulance Driver: The Trailblazing Scientist’s Little-Known Humanitarian Heroism and Her Life-Saving Mobile X-Ray Units
How the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and her brilliant teenage daughter set out to mend the ugliness of war with ingenuity and sheer human courage.
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If nuclear war broke out where's the safest place on Earth?
Nuclear tensions appear to be mounting again amidst political upheaval. So if the event of nuclear war, where should you head? By Becky Alexis-Martin.
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Another [US] nuclear weapons contractor pays millions to settle charges of illegally diverting federal funds
Allegations of illegally spending federal funds to lobby for new funds now encompass contractors working at six of eight nuclear sites. By Patrick Malone.
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