nuclear weapons
Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries
August 10, 2020The U.S. lab is devoting nearly 90% of its over-$2 billion budget for 2020-21 to nuclear weapons; only 2% will go to civilian science.
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Connecticut activists take up Hiroshima mayor’s call: “Unite against all threats”
August 6, 2020"Civil society must reject self-centered nationalism and unite against all threats," warned Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima.
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Hiroshima survivors hammer Japanese government for not signing anti-nuke treaty
August 6, 2020Manabu Isawa, son of a bombing survivor who recently died, said: “Prime Minister Abe’s actions don’t match his words. Japan apparently sides with the United States."
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On 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, nuke threat rises
August 6, 2020Doomsday Clock is only 100 seconds before nuclear war, closest ever since the height of the Cold War.
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Trump threatens to re-start nuclear weapons tests, undoing 50 years of agreements
June 18, 2020Some of this is about making arms manufacturers and generals happy, but it is also about the fact that the last war the U.S. won was Grenada.
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