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‘No armies, no budgets’: The quiet power of the planet’s most private peacemakers

Since 2007, a group of retired political giants and humanitarian leaders founded by Nelson Mandela have met up to tackle ...

Starmer urges SNP to drop nuclear weapon opposition

Keir Starmer has urged the SNP to abandon its opposition to nuclear weapons, warning that global threats from Russia and China make the ...
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A 5,000 Year Old Doomsday Clock

A look at an ancient doomsday clock, its history, and what it reveals about early civilizations’ understanding of time. Police investigate mass shooting after six wounded in Tampa, Florida Scientists ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

In memoriam: R. Rajaraman, scholar and citizen-scientist who informed public debate about nuclear weapons in South Asia and beyond

R. Rajaraman, a distinguished Indian theoretical physicist, prominent nuclear weapon policy scholar and advocate for nuclear disarmament, and longtime collaborator with Princeton’s Program on Science ...
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The Doomsday Clock Remains at 100 Seconds to Midnight

The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of global danger, remains the closest it has ever been to midnight. Scientists warn climate change and nuclear threats keep humanity on high alert. Bruce Willis’s wife ...
The Washington Informer

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: A Solemn Anniversary

This month marks the solemn 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used in war. In 1962, Trappist monk and social justice and ...
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Russia and China tick Doomsday Clock toward midnight as Hiroshima bombing hits 80 years

Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of when the U.S. employed the first ever nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed by the bombing of Nagasaki three days later on Aug. 9. But ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

PD Editorial: 80 years after Hiroshima, the nuclear threat is greater than ever

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it has ever been. Editorials represent the views of The Press Democrat editorial board and The Press Democrat as an institution. The editorial board and ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Column: Parallels to atomic bombing 80 years on

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. While the end result was many Japanese dead, the stated ...
Flagpole Magazine

This Week Marks 80 Years Since the First Atomic Bombs Dropped

“First we got the bomb and that was good/ ‘Cause we love peace and motherhood/ Then Russia got the bomb, but that’s OK/ ‘Cause the balance of power’s maintained that way/ Who’s next?” So sang musical ...
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World marks 80 years since US dropped atomic bomb on Japan as global powers still trade nuclear threats

(CNN) — As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again ...
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It’s been 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Time to raise some L.

The A Bomb Dome in Hiroshima stands in 2015. The dome, which was part of the city's industrial exhibition hall, was directly beneath the atomic bomb dropped Aug. 6, 1945. (Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector) ...