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Category: Nuclear weapons

Women are leaders on the path toward a nuclear-weapons-free world

September 12, 2018 Bojan Francuz Activism, International, Nuclear weapons, Widgets: Women, Women One comment

Every year, just as the summer is nearing its end, the world remembers. We remember the unconscionable use of the world’s deadliest weapons—nuclear weapons—seventy-three

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Trump would probably flunk the military’s nuke test

May 7, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Nuclear weapons, Trump Leave a comment

Anyone in the U.S. military with any connection to nuclear weapons is required to pass the Personnel Reliability Program. Donald Trump would most likely

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An act of sanity by Trump: Skipping Correspondents’ Dinner

February 26, 2017 Arthur Lieber Nuclear weapons, Republican Brain, Trump, Uncategorized Leave a comment

At first we couldn’t talk about it. The dictums of the American Psychological Association said that not only was it inappropriate for us as

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The imperative to test Trump’s limits

January 25, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Nuclear weapons, Republican Brain, Republicans One comment

How far will Trump go before it’s too late? We need to test the limits. President Donald Trump has already shown that he is

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Best we can hope for from a President Trump – like Putin

November 3, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Human Rights, Nuclear weapons Leave a comment

Rewind to Trevor Noah’s Daily Show this past Halloween. The show is set during the presidential campaign. Not the 2016 one, but the 2020

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STL landfill fire nears collision with radioactive waste: What’s next?

April 18, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Cities, Energy, Environment, History, Missouri region, Nuclear weapons 4 comments

What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump?  St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In

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“Fallout” [the game] and fallout [the nuclear reality]

October 22, 2015 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, International, Nuclear weapons, Technology Leave a comment

“If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.” –Albert Einstein. Next month, “Fallout 4,” a highly-anticipated

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