Nuclear Arms Race

Reflections on 79 years of the first US atomic bomb test

Reflections on 79 years of the first US atomic bomb test

International, Nuclear Age, Nuclear America, Nuclear Arms Race, Nuclear History, Nuclear Tests, Nuclear Weapons July 23, 2024 at 8:45 pm 0 comments

Dave Lindorff | Counter Punch Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right): Wikipedia. Three Weeks After the first Atomic Bomb Test, They Used It on Two Japanese Cities Teen physicist Ted Hall, who helped perfect the plutonium bomb, passed its secrets to the Soviet Union hoping toRead More

Noam Chompsky, U.S linguist and political critic, gestures during a talk at the press club in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, July 26, 2013. Chomsky has become well known for his critiques of U.S. foreign policy, state capitalism and the mainstream news media. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Russia revokes ratification of CTBT

Nuclear Arms Race, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons November 9, 2023 at 10:54 pm 0 comments

Putin revokes Russia’s ratification of nuclear test ban treaty Al Jazeera | 02 November 2023 Moscow says the abandonment of the 1996 treaty is designed to bring Russia into line with the US. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has revoked his country’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT),Read More

Postnuclear Media Objects of the Anthropocene: Green Glass Rocks and Red Clouds

Postnuclear Media Objects of the Anthropocene: Green Glass Rocks and Red Clouds

Anthropocene, Nuclear Age, Nuclear Anthropocene, Nuclear Arms Race, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons July 22, 2022 at 12:03 pm 0 comments

Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea | Courtesy: Broken Nature Looking toward ground zero at the Trinity nuclear test site, New Mexico, 2017. Photo: Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea This text is part of the research project An Archaeology of Containment: Exhuming the perpetual architectures and territories of nuclear waste. Revision of the English translation by Daniel Lacasta Fitzsimmons. AsRead More

Full Text: Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 76th A-bomb anniversary

Full Text: Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 76th A-bomb anniversary

Documents, Hiroshima, Nuclear Age, Nuclear Arms Race, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Speeches, Nuclear Weapons August 10, 2021 at 4:41 pm 0 comments

The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on Aug. 9 by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue at a ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city: Courtesy: Mainichi News This year saw the passing of a Catholic monk. Toumei Ozaki spent hisRead More

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