Doomsday Clock Statement – Timeline
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…
The President and the Bomb
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…
Global Nuclear Power in 2017 : Bankruptcies, Shutdowns, Abandoned Constructions Show A Deepening Crisis
Myhcle Schneider | WNISR The Year 2017 for Global Nuclear Power in a nutshell: 4 reactor startups (12 less than scheduled), 3 shutdowns, 4 construction starts, 2 abandoned constructions, bankruptcy of Westinghouse, bailout and…
The deterrence myth
In his classic The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (1989), Lawrence Freedman, the dean of British military historians and strategists, concluded: ‘The Emperor Deterrence may have no clothes, but he is still Emperor.’…
A reminder from Hawaii
On January 13, the residents of Hawaii received a startling phone alert: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” Within seconds, fear spread…