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JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s hard to imagine anything worse than nuclear war. So shouldn’t a federal judge step in to declare nuclear war unconstitutional? So shouldn’t a federal judge step in to declare nuclear war unconstitutional? It’s true that climate change, if left unchecked, will pose dire risks. The answer is no.

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MAY 13, 2022

The post Earth911 Podcast: F4CR’s Rick Wayman on Responding to the Climate and Nuclear War Twin Threat appeared first on Earth911. Mitch welcomes back Rick Wayman, CEO of the Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR), for a.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Ultimately, the Air Force is poised to spend more than $125 billion on 650 Sentinel ICBMs, deploying 400 of them to replace the Cold War-era Minuteman III ICBMs siloed in five Great Plains states. trillion over the next 30 years to replace the entire nuclear arsenal with new weapons and delivery systems. He specifically cited the $4.3

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APRIL 19, 2023

For the first time in the history of the C7, it also presented recommendations on nuclear disarmament. I participated in the newly formed C7 Nuclear Disarmament Working Group and spoke about the need for it at the summit in Tokyo. President Biden supports expensive and unnecessary upgrades to the US nuclear arsenal.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The increasing global focus on regulating artificial intelligence (AI) corresponds with mounting concerns among national security experts and scholars regarding its potential implications for nuclear strategy. Amidst an escalating discourse surrounding AI and its rapid advancement, countries are working to regulate its uses.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Those initial days and weeks after the 2022 invasion were filled with worry and anxiety about the increased risk of nuclear war. For many people, it was the first time they had ever thought about nuclear weapons as presenting a real threat. New START is a crucial treaty for managing nuclear risk and it expires in three years.

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JUNE 28, 2023

I’ll be very interested to see how this particular film, presents the United States’ nuclear weapons origin story. The world’s first nuclear weapons were built against the back-drop of World War II. Even after the war, the harm from the US nuclear weapons program propagated. Who is not a part of the story?

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AUGUST 29, 2022

As the war in Ukraine drags on, scientists are increasingly concerned about the environmental consequences of the destruction. From forests ignited by shelling to wrecked factories spewing pollution to precarious nuclear plants, the long-term impacts could be profound. Read more on E360 ?.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

should prop up fossil fuels, constrain renewables wherever possible, and claw back the federal government’s historic investments in clean energy, while reinvesting in nuclear energy and new nuclear weapons. If you’ve missed the sound of a crowd shouting “Drill, Baby, Drill” you’re in luck. Except for one biggie: the climate crisis.

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MARCH 30, 2023

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to station Russian nuclear weapons on the soil of its neighbor and ally, Belarus. This decision, like Russia’s aggressive rhetoric more broadly, raises the risk of nuclear conflict over the war in Ukraine. This decision is a political move, not a military one.

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MAY 10, 2023

I participated in the development of the C7 recommendations on nuclear disarmament and spoke about the growing nuclear threat at C7 Tokyo Summit , where those recommendations were carried, by government emissaries called sherpas, to the leaders of the G7. I hope they will consider them. I have my doubts.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

By all accounts, the nuclear weapons landscape is shifting. Media attention around nuclear threats has been reinvigorated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea’s frequent missile launches, and a perceived rise in geopolitical tension reminiscent of the Cold War.

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JULY 17, 2023

An interview with María Antonieta Jáquez Huacuja from the Secretariat for Foreign Affairs of Mexico and Martha Mariana Mendoza Basulto from the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL). The United States maintains a nuclear weapons arsenal under the assumption this upholds national security.

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MARCH 1, 2023

President Biden’s recent address in Warsaw , read together with President Putin’s speech in Moscow , suggest we’re heading towards a second cold war in Europe. China is constructing hundreds of new silos observers expect to be filled with new nuclear-armed missiles. The signs are everywhere.

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JULY 26, 2023

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the biggest pop culture event about nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the team of scientists at Los Alamos that designed and tested the first nuclear weapon, became known as the ‘father of the atomic bomb.’ Physicist J.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

It took the Manhattan project three years to develop a nuclear bomb: and only weeks between the first nuclear test explosion and the use of a nuclear weapon in war. Almost 80 years later – how have nuclear weapons evolved? The tests provided the information to increase the sophistication of nuclear weapons designs.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

I witness how the force of the nuclear bomb can destroy the human body, how the vacuum of a nuclear explosion can gouge out a child’s eyeballs, how the atomic burns peel the skin, swell and corrode the face in ways humanity had never seen. But this is a symbol of ashes to the people of my community. The city was paralyzed.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Cold War nuclear weapons tests scattered radioactive waste across the globe. That waste can still be found in trace amounts in the sea, the soil, and — according to a new study — the flesh of wild boars roaming the forests of southern Germany. Read more on E360 →

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JULY 12, 2023

Of particular concern during the crisis were the short- and long-term nuclear risks posed by the potential coup, including whether Russian nuclear weapons stored in bases might be vulnerable to capture by Prigozhin’s forces and what chaos and regime change might mean for Russia’s nuclear posture in the long-term.

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MARCH 3, 2023

A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—one that was accompanied by an ominous cloud of allusions to nuclear use issued from Moscow—how goes the age of predatory nuclear-weapon states ? In short, Putin believing he will lose the war if he does not further escalate is one of the likeliest paths to a nuclear conflict.

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APRIL 24, 2023

The proposal focused on respecting sovereignty, protecting civilians, minimizing nuclear risks, reducing the impact on critical supply chains and grain exports, conducting peace talks, and “abandoning the Cold War mentality”. China is becoming an active international conflict mediator.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Undergirding these grim statistics is the terrifying threat, always present, that if the conflict escalates, Russia might use its nuclear weapons. Undergirding these grim statistics is the terrifying threat, always present, that if the conflict escalates, Russia might use its nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons do not keep us safe.

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MAY 30, 2022

Memorial Day began as a day to commemorate the Civil War dead, then became a day to commemorate the dead from many wars. But war’s toll goes beyond direct harm to humans. Even more worrisome are Ukraine’s fifteen nuclear reactors. As the war drags on, the environmental impacts will escalate.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a new report on the projected cost of US nuclear weapons over the next ten years, from 2023 to 2032. These lie in areas like food, housing, healthcare, or gun violence, none of which are improved by spending hundreds of billions on nuclear weapons each year.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

A brilliant geologist, he was recruited in the 1940s by the United States Army and then by the United States Geological Survey, at the height of the McCarthy era. There, he was appointed a principal investigator for NASA on the Apollo project, where he designed the United States’ first lunar sampling program and sent Neil Armstrong to the moon.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Rep Kim also pointed out the necessity of addressing the ongoing legacy from US nuclear testing in the area and the risk of natural disasters. Rep Kim also pointed out the necessity of addressing the ongoing legacy from US nuclear testing in the area and the risk of natural disasters. Young Kim (R-CA-40) and Rep. This is promising.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

We are worried that military conflict may follow, and that such a conflict could result in a nuclear war. But they seem to have forgotten that this international order was built on the lesson its creators learned from World War II, which is that great power competition leads to war. And perceptions can be changed.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We tend to perceive things as permanent and immutable only because their rate of change is imperceptible on the timescales of our own experience. When it comes to geologic time, the disconnect between our lived experience and the magnitude of Earth history is almost irreconcilable. How we mark time, therefore, depends a lot on perspective.

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APRIL 6, 2023

On March 28th, North Korea unveiled a new type of nuclear warhead—a smaller, more compact tactical warhead with battlefield advantages. North Korea is expanding its nuclear arsenals in both quantity and quality—increasing the number while modernizing and diversifying the types of weapons and delivery vehicles.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Beginning with the Manhattan Project and throughout the Cold War, these US nuclear activities poisoned people—they breathed in radiation in mines, drank contaminated milk from local farms, flew military planes through mushroom clouds, saw their cows turn ghostly white and buried lambs born with two heads.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

The third is also involved in an extra-marital affair with Oppenheimer and the fourth was a Manhattan Project scientist who is depicted as trying to shut down the use of the bomb for war purposes. (The In this opening stanza of one of my favorite poems, “La Jornada” by Antonia Quintana Pigno, the speaker laments the disastrous effects of J.

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APRIL 17, 2023

Louis, Missouri, are living with chronic health conditions and an increased cancer burden due to contamination from uranium mining and processes used in the production of nuclear weapons at the start of the atomic age. The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) compensates nuclear weapons complex workers.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Russia’s saber-rattling against Ukraine lifted the possibility of a major nuclear conflict to levels not seen since the cold war. Ahead of a high-profile UN conference, political forecasters issue water warnings. The Nile, cutting here through Cairo, is the heart of Egypt. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Water still matters.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

And what does this mean for nuclear weapons? The still greater energy potential of nuclear fusion was demonstrated seven years later when a fission bomb was used to initiate fusion reactions in the world’s first demonstration of a thermonuclear device. What does this experimental achievement mean for energy production?

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 11, 2021

It was titled; "Savings and the Fear of Nuclear War". economy has been influenced by the changes in the public perception of the threat of a catastrophic nuclear war. The hypothesis is tested by expanding a standard savings function estimation technique to include a measure of the perceived threat of nuclear war.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Also, Suri says, “are those who see him as a war criminal, as a proponent and defender of the misuse of American power and, many would argue, a trend toward breaking down our democracy.” Nobody in all his long career ever called him progressive. We already know that idealists like Pope Francis support climate action. Download as PDF

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AUGUST 6, 2023

The US military officials who occupied Japan at the end of the war did everything they could to bury those images forever. The US military officials who occupied Japan at the end of the war did everything they could to bury those images forever. Post-war American films about Hiroshima shied away from depicting the horrific aftermath.

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