The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has recently announced (25/1/18) that they have moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to mid-night. A few days before this…
The introductory note: [This commendable article does, however, not consider, in the main, two things. One, the basic unviability of nuclear power, as graphically demonstrated by Chernobyl and Fukushima, apart…
The plunging cost of storage, along with that of wind and solar power, appears to have crossed a new threshold after a tender conducted by a major US energy utility…
IT IS 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT 2018: The failure of world leaders to address the largest threats to humanity’s future is lamentable—but that failure can be reversed. It is two…
LRB Vol. 39; 16 November 2017 The President and the Bomb Adam Shatz is a contributing editor at the LRB, based in New York. In 1973, Harold Hering, a decorated Vietnam War…