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Private contractors run the nuclear warhead complex and build nuclear delivery vehicles. To keep the gravy train running, those contractors spend millions lobbying decision-makers, writes William D. Hartung. By William D. Hartung TomDispatch.com Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for

In a widely read book, he detailed gruesome biological experiments on people at a secret Imperial Army site in occupied China before and during World War II.

The role of health professionals In January 2023, the science and security board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the doomsday clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.1 In August 2022, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned that the world is now in “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”2 The danger has been underlined by growing tensions between many nuclear armed states.13 ...

The Oct. 1, 1945 letter is just three paragraphs typed on onion skin paper, under a curiously sparse letterhead containing only a four-digit P.O. Box located somewhere in Santa Fe. But its subject matter — along with the man whose signature is scrawled at the end — would permanently alter the history of the world in ways that proved both groundbreaking and horrifying. “This letter is to ...

Dr. Donald (Moll) Flanders had dreams of peace as the Manhattan Project’s head of computation. But unlike his boss, Robert Oppenheimer, Moll did not live long enough to crusade for global abolition of the atomic bomb — and of all forms of warfare. 

In truth, the situation couldn’t be simpler: we need to abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us. Hopefully, Oppenheimer will help prepare the ground for progress in that all too essential undertaking, beginning with a frank discussion of what’s now at stake.

More than 100 medical journals, including The BMJ and the Lancet , have issued an urgent call for the elimination of nuclear weapons, warning that the “danger is great and growing.”1 The editorial—cowritten by the editors of leading medical and health journals, the World Association of Medical Editors, and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War—highlights the intensifying situations in Ukraine and Korea and emphasises that any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrop...

The coronavirus wasn’t bad for everyone. It was the event the team at Universa Investments had been waiting for, as detailed in the new book “Chaos Kings”.

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