Nuclear Weapons

Biden’s Last Minute US-Saudi Deal Could Start A Nuclear Arms Race

November 11, 2024 Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. Educate! Arms Race, Joe Biden, Nuclear Weapons, Saudi Arabia

A recent report suggests that quiet negotiations are underway between Riyadh and Washington as the two nations work toward securing a U.S.-Saudi security agreement before President Biden’s term concludes. The initiative appears aimed at establishing what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dubbed “the new Middle East.” Before the conflict in Gaza erupted on Oct. 7, 2023, U.S. and Saudi officials were deep in discussions over a controversial security pact. The proposed agreement is part of a sweeping initiative designed to pave the way for normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Media Hawks Make Case For War Against Iran

October 26, 2024 Gregory Shupak, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Iran, Israel, Media, Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The media hawks are flying high, pushing out bellicose rhetoric on the op-ed pages that seems calculated to whip the public into a war-ready frenzy. Just as they have done with Hezbollah (FAIR.org, 10/10/24), prominent conservative media opinionators misrepresent Iran as the aggressor against an Israel that practices admirable restraint. Under the headline, “Iran Opens the Door to Retaliation,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board (10/1/24) wrote that Iran’s October 1 operation against Israel “warrants a response targeting Iran’s military and nuclear assets. This is Iran’s second missile barrage since April, and no country can let this become a new normal.”

Iran’s Bomb Is Real And It’s Here

October 21, 2024 Scott Ritter, Consortium News. Educate! Iran, Israel, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

The outbreak of conflict between Iran and Israel appears to have changed Iran’s stance against possessing a nuclear weapon as Israel is poised to strike after Teheran’s retaliation with two major attacks of drones and ballistic and cruise missiles. Iran has issued at least three statements through official channels since April that has opened the door to the possibility of religious edicts against Iran acquiring nuclear weapons being rescinded. The circumstances which Iran has said must exist to justify this reversal appear to have now been met.

War With Iran More Concerning Than A National Security Leak

October 21, 2024 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! Iran, Israel, Nuclear Weapons, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

President Joe Biden’s administration has deployed at least 100 United States troops to Israel, along with an anti-ballistic missile defense system, to help the Israeli government as it pursues an attack on Iran. When the Israeli military strikes targets in Iran, the U.S. will become a party to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran. "To introduce troops into hostilities, per the 1973 War Powers Act, you either need an authorization from Congress, or there needs to be some urgent and imminent self-defense threat," said former U.S. Army major Harrison Mann, who resigned in protest over Israel's war on Gaza.

Nobel Peace Prize Goes To Qualified Recipient For First Time In A While

October 11, 2024 David Swanson, World Beyond War. Resist! Anti-War, Atomic Bombs, Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Weapons, Peace

Congratulations are in order for Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. The Nobel Peace Prize has for the first time in at least six years gone to a group of people who work to reduce warmaking, people who in fact seek to abolish nuclear weapons. Nihon Hidankyo has relentlessly done the work of educating the world, thanklessly, for many years. This prize should be celebrated far and wide. Congratulations are also in order to the Nobel Committee, for somehow manintaining the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize despite how the committee has mistreated it time and time again, and for — this time — getting it right. May this mark a new principled commitment!

Nuclear Annihilation Threatened By Revival Of Cold War And Red Scare

October 2, 2024 Alice Slater, Global Issues. Strategize! Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

There had been a sense of waiting with bated breath in the wake of Russia's President Vladimir Putin recent announcement that he would lower the threshold for Russia's use of nuclear weapons, as the US and its NATO allies broadcasted their plans to ignore a repeated "red line" articulated by US President Biden not to provide arms to Ukraine which could be launched deep inside Russia. Britain is playing its usual provocative role by sending clear messages that it would welcome US approval to let Ukraine use its "Storm Shadow" long-range missiles. We just got a short breather, in light of this recently issued public US intelligence evaluation.

Why I’m Protesting Outside The Aerospace Summit In Ōtautahi

September 23, 2024 Aurora Garner-Randolph, The Press. Resist! Aerospace, New Zealand, Nuclear Weapons, Space, Wars and Militarism

When I tell someone I’m going to protest against the New Zealand Aerospace Summit, they often react with confusion. People ask hesitantly: “What’s wrong with aerospace? I thought that was just GPS satellites and space missions!” And I don’t blame them. The aerospace industry does huge amounts of public relations work to paint itself as a benevolent, science-focused industry, and it's been pretty successful in its greenwashing efforts. The summit, hosted in Ōtautahi on September 23-24, is themed Aerospace for Good, its website flooded with buzzwords like “sustainability” and “diverse“. But beneath this glossy corporate veneer lies a violent truth about aerospace.

On A Highway To Hell

September 2, 2024 Scott Ritter, Consortium News. Educate! China, Joe Biden, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

An interesting thing happened on the road to Armageddon. In January 2017, then-Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, warned about the dangers inherent in expanding funding for, and by extension increasing the importance of, nuclear weapons. “If future budgets reverse the choices we’ve made, and pour additional money into a nuclear buildup,” said Biden — referring to Obama administration policies that included secured the New START Treaty limiting the size of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals — “it hearkens back to the Cold War and will do nothing to increase the day-to-day security of the United States or our allies.”

America’s Nuclear ‘Downwinders’ Deserve Justice

August 26, 2024 Aspen Coriz-Romero and Anila Lopez Marks, Scheer Post. Educate! Colorado, Health Care, History, New Mexico, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Radiation

It’s been nearly 80 years since the first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico. Communities have been reeling ever since. For generations, Americans who live “downwind” of nuclear testing and development sites have suffered deadly health complications. And this summer, funding for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) expired, putting their hard-earned compensation at risk. Coming alongside sky-high spending on nuclear weapons development, this lapse is an outrage. Funding for these communities, which span much of the country, should be not only restored but expanded. Alongside New Mexicans, people in Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, and beyond have suffered health complications from nuclear testing in Nevada. And fallout from decades of tests ravaged the Marshall Islands, which were occupied by the U.S. after World War II.

Pine Gap Readies For US Nuclear War

August 22, 2024 Peter Cronau, Consortium News. Educate! Australia, China, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

The rapid expansion of the Pine Gap satellite surveillance base near Alice Springs, Australia from 35 to 45 satellite dishes, is designed to give the U.S. the edge in a potential nuclear war with China. Where desert oaks and spinifex tufts once baked in the Central Australian sun, three new white domes have mushroomed in a 14 hectare clearing along the western edge of the U.S.’ “most important surveillance base” in the world. Under huge plastic radomes, three of Pine Gap’s new satellite dishes have been built to receive information from a new generation of U.S. spy satellites that bring a heightened level of surveillance of China’s nuclear missile launch sites at a time of increasing confrontation between China and the U.S. and its allies.

US Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki Remembered

August 8, 2024 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Educate! Hiroshima, Hiroshima Day, History, Japan, Nagasaki, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), UN, Wars and Militarism

Over 50,000 people, including representatives from 109 countries, joined an event marking the 79th anniversary of the US’s bombing of Hiroshima. The main ceremony was held at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park on Tuesday, August 6. A total of 344,306 people were killed during the bombing as well as in the aftermath. Despite knowing the widespread destruction and irreversible losses caused by the attack, the US dropped another nuclear bomb on Nagasaki just three days later on August 9, killing 40,000 people immediately. The number of people killed in Nagasaki would double that figure in most estimates.

World-Ending Maneuvers?

August 8, 2024 Hekmat Aboukhater and William D. Hartung, Scheer Post. Educate! Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Pentagon, Wars and Militarism

The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors like Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. And they will do everything in their power to keep that money flowing. This January, a review of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program under the Nunn-McCurdy Act — a congressional provision designed to rein in cost overruns of Pentagon weapons programs — found that the missile, the crown jewel of the nuclear overhaul plan involving 450 missile-holding silos spread across five states, is already 81% over its original budget.

Confrontation Of NATO Vs. SCO; Two Radically Different Summits

July 28, 2024 Sara Flounders, Workers World. Educate! NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

Two major security alliances held summits in July. Each summit consisted of a bloc of major powers and nearby countries. Both alliances hold military exercises. Each summit meeting included guest and observer countries. The two summits could not have been more different in tone and in purpose. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 3-4, to discuss mutual cooperation. A week later the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met in Washington, D.C., on July 9-11 to celebrate 75 years of militarism. At the meeting, NATO dared to demand Russia, China, Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) sever ties with each other.

Billboards Inform Residents Of Nuclear Weapons In Their Back Yard

July 25, 2024 Leonard Eiger, Popular Resistance. Resist! Billboards, Nuclear Weapons, Washington State, Weapons stockpiles

On July 22, and continuing for four weeks, five billboards will display the following paid advertisement: Did You Know, We’re only *** Miles from the Largest Concentration of Deployed Nukes in the World! Let’s Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Included in the five advertisements are maps showing the proximity of the cities and billboards in Everett, Lake Forest Park, Seattle, and Tacoma—to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, homeport for 8 of the Navy’s 14 Trident nuclear-powered submarines. The billboards serve as a public service announcement—informing the reader of the exact number of miles they are at that exact location, to the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the world.

New Military Alliances Forming In The Pacific

July 22, 2024 Alice Slater, Popular Resistance. Educate! Nonproliferation Treaty, Nuclear Umbrella, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea

On the heels of a new alliance announced this summer by Russia and North Korea for a pact pledging mutual defense, with the support of China, it is now shockingly being suggested in South Korea that it review its security policy with the US and end its reliance on the US guarantee, to employ on South Koreas’ behalf, US nuclear weapons as part of its “nuclear umbrella”. The “umbrella” is offered to all NATO states as well as the Pacific states of Japan, Australia, and South Korea. Such questioning is evidence of the growing havoc faced in the world by the failure of the United States to make good on its legal obligation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) for good faith efforts for nuclear disarmament.

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