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Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions – even with fewer weapons

Author Mark Maslin https://theconversation.com/profiles/mark-maslin-108286 Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer has revived morbid curiosity in the destructive power of nuclear weapons. There are now an estimated 12,512 nuclear warheads. A war in…

ON CALLS FOR NUCLEAR WAR [Statement from members of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy denouncing Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine]

Statement of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (SWAP) https://svop.ru/main/48156/ Recently, there have been statements (some of them made by members of the SWAP) which promote, albeit with many…

Indian nuclear weapons, 2022

By - Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda Published online: 11 Jul 2022 ABSTRACT The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation…

India’s Inadvertent Missile Launch Underscores the Risk of Accidental Nuclear Warfare

Complex weapon systems are inherently prone to accidents, and this latest launch is one of a long history of military accidents in India By Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana on April 8, 2022 Last…

How Kazakhstan Fought Back Against Soviet Nuclear Tests

Togzhan Kassenova The secret military exercises would alter the country’s fate—and lands. In July of 1945, U.S. President Harry Truman boasted to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin about a novel weapon…