Nobel Peace Prize To Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Group
The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created by survivors of the two US...
Nuclear weapons
The Unfinished Business Of Kennedy’s Vision For World Peace
Less than a week after her husband’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, Jackie Kennedy granted an interview with...
Nuclear War Would Be More Devastating Than Cold War Predictions
Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer has revived morbid curiosity in the destructive power of nuclear weapons. There are...
Oppenheimer: An Exercise In Assuaging Guilt That Fails Thoroughly
The reactions to the movie 'Oppenheimer' have been revealing. Some viewers have used the epithet 'great' to describe it, others...
Legacy Of Nuclear Arms Race: Contamination, Costs, Culture of Secrecy
Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer has focused new attention on the legacies of the Manhattan Project -- the World War II...
Hiroshima At 78 & Its Lessons Of Unnecessary Mass Destruction
It was 8:15 on a Monday morning, Aug. 6, 1945. World War II was raging in Japan. An American B-29...
What Do Tactical Nuclear Weapons Mean For The War In Ukraine?
Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine,...
UN Chief Urges Nuke Powers To Abide By The No-First-Use Pledge
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries with nuclear weapons to stick to their no-first-use commitment of their...
77 Years On, Hiroshima Prays For Peace, Fears New Arms Race
Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Saturday as the city marked the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing, with...
Russia’s ‘Defensive’ Use Of Nuclear Weapons
Even before the Russian military machine entered Ukrainian territory on February 24, the potential threat of escalation to a nuclear conflict had...
Ukraine: Will Russia Use Its Nuclear Arsenal?
Is Russia now led by someone who would contemplate using nuclear weapons without any great concern? Over Ukraine, Vladimir Putin...
Hiroshima Marks 75 Years Since Atomic Bombing
Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Thursday for the 75th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, with ceremonies downsized due...
Fearing Nuclear Escalation, Europe Rushes To Calm Iran-U.S. Tensions
Europe will look on Friday for ways to guide the United States and Iran away from open conflict, knowing that...
First Official Death In Kashmir Protests; Pakistan Warns Of Seeds Of War
A man has died in Kashmir nearly a month after he was injured in a protest, the first such death...
Pakistan Will Not Use Nuclear Weapons First, Amid Tensions With India: PM Imran Khan
Pakistan will not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday, amid tensions with arch-rival India after...
