Ward Hayes Wilson
Aug 22, 2024
" thought I’d try to draw parallels between how Democrats have changed their approach to Donald Trump and how we should change our approach to nuclear weapons."
"We have been so focused on the horror and fear of nuclear weapons that we’ve overlooked the most important truth about them: they’re ludicrous weapons"
What we need to do with nuclear weapons is to exhale and then look calmly, clear-eyed, and objectively at their utility. Tools are kept or tossed based on one criteria: utility. If nuclear weapons are useful, then you have to keep them. If they’re not, then they have to go. Having studied the issue of their utility for forty years, I would welcome a debate that puts “are they useful?” at its center.
Because, believe me, nuclear weapons are virtually useless and very dangerous. And no one keeps technology that is virtually useless and very dangerous.
By Michael E. Mann | August 16, 2024
The GOP threatens to weaponize a potential second Trump term against any and all domestic climate action. But what happens in the United States doesn’t stay in the United States.
(Michael E. Mann is presidential distinguished professor and director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at The University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author with Peter Hotez of the forthcoming book Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World. His most recent book is Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis.)
Stationeringen av höghastighets-, styr- och kryssningsrobotar i Tyskland, som är lämpliga för halshuggningsangrepp, presenteras för befolkningen och parlamentet utan föregående offentlig debatt. Detta är inte bara odemokratiskt, utan äventyrar också säkerheten. Den tyska regeringens förståelse för demokrati står i omvänd proportion till dess hänsynslöshet. Av Bernhard Trautvetter.
By WARWICK POWELL | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-07-29
The ongoing chaos that seems to be the defining characteristic of US domestic politics sets the backdrop for the attempts of the United States to reassert its hegemony across the world through the global expansion of NATO. US political chaos reflects a political economy that is failing to meet the aspirations of the US people, let alone enable the US to recover its position as the unparalleled global military hegemon.
"As a result of investments made under the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, NNSA was able to deliver more than 200 upgraded nuclear weapons to the Department of Defense last year. This is our largest delivery in one year since the end of the Cold War," Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), said at the breakfast of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies "Peace through Strength."
August 19 was the anniversary of the signing of the historic Quebec Agreement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in Quebec City in 1943 for the joint development of the atom bomb by the U.S., the United Kingdom and Canada.
Pressenza By Anton Wagner
Jasmine Owens. The link between colonialism, exploitation, and nuclear weapons is seen most clearly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Eighty percent of the uranium used in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs originated from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the Congo was the number one supplier of uranium to the U.S., and the people of the DRC paid a heavy price."
Sergei Karaganov: "For many years I have studied the history of nuclear strategy and come to an unambiguous, albeit seemingly not quite scientific, conclusion. The creation of nuclear weapons was the result of divine intervention. Horrified to see that people, Europeans and the Japanese who had joined them, had unleashed two world wars within the life-span of one generation, sacrificing tens of millions of lives, God handed a weapon of Armageddon to humanity to remind those who had lost the fear of hell that it existed. It was this fear that ensured relative peace for the last three quarters of a century. That fear is gone now. What is happening now is unthinkable in accordance with previous ideas about nuclear deterrence: in a fit of desperate rage, the ruling circles of a group of countries have unleashed a full-scale war in the underbelly of a nuclear superpower."
Sergei A. Karaganov
Professor Emeritus
National Research University–Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
Academic Supervisor;
Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Honorary Chairman of the Presidium
Karagano speaks abt the necessity of fear.
Debattinlägg, svt.se 13.5.2019
Malin Nilsson
generalsekreterare Internationella Kvinnoförbundet för Fred och Frihet
Clara Levin
t.f. generalsekreterare Svenska Läkare mot Kärnvapen
"Under 1940- och 50-talet hade Sverige hemliga planer på att utveckla kärnvapen. Det var oroliga tider och överbefälhavare Nils Swedlund ansåg att Sverige behövde en atombomb.
Debatten blev en historisk kraftmätning i svensk utrikespolitik, där det socialdemokratiska kvinnoförbundet med Inga Thorsson i spetsen spelade en viktig roll.
Tillsammans med kampanjen AMSA manade S-kvinnor regeringen att välja avspänning istället för kärnvapen. De möttes av hård kritik. Inga Thorsson och AMSA anklagades för att vara ogenomtänkta, irrationella och till och med farliga."
Newsweek 13.6.24 Russia's nuclear drills relocated closer to NATO borders this week, in a military district formed after Finland joined the alliance.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on May 21 that the first stage of the drills had started involving the "practical testing of the preparation and use of nonstrategic nuclear weapons" in the country's Southern Military District.
Moscow's second stage of drills began on Tuesday alongside Belarusian troops.
In a statement shared on Telegram on Wednesday, Russia's defense ministry said the country's newly formed Leningrad Military District—stationed close to Finland and the Baltic States—had also joined the nuclear maneuvers. The district was announced in February in response to Finland joining the NATO alliance.
2 april, 2024
Jordan Bardella s’est dit contre une sortie de la France du commandement intégré de l’Otan.
La mesure figure pourtant dans le projet présidentiel du Rassemblement national.
Ce n’est pas la première fois que le patron du RN semble en dissonance avec Marine Le Pen sur la Russie de Vladimir Poutine. Une simple différence de forme ?
Emmanuel Macron s'est dit prêt à ouvrir un débat sur une défense européenne qui, outre les armes de longue portée et antimissiles, pourrait comprendre les armes nucléaires. Des propos qui ont suscité la colère de la classe politique française.
In der Nacht zu Donnerstag greift die Ukraine eine wichtige Radaranlage auf russischem Boden an. Nicht nur in Russland ist die Empörung groß. Doch ein US-Sicherheitsexperte wittert strategisches Kalkül - und eine Botschaft an die US-Regierung.
Iltalehti ti 28.5. klo 22.49. Iskut Venäjän ydinohjusten ennakkovaroitusjärjestelmään ovat uusi käänne Ukrainan sodassa, ja niiden seuraukset voivat olla kauaskantoisia.
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Torstaina 23.5. Ukraina iski Armavirin kaupungissa Krasnodarin alueella sijaitsevaan tutka-asemaan. Heti perään maanantaina se iski tutka-asemaan Orskin kaupungissa Orenburgin alueella.
Huhtikuun puolivälissä Ukraina yritti iskeä Kontainer-järjestelmään Mordvan alueella.
Iida Siimes.: "Diplomatiaa ennen tuomiopäivää" , Voima 2/2024
Norjan Kirkkoniemeltä käsin raportoiva Barents Observer julkaisee uutisia Arktisista alueista ja erityisesti Venäjän valtavista Kuolan niemimaan ydintukikohdista. Kun lehden päätoimittaja Thomas Nilsen vieraili Helsingissä esitelmöimässä journalisteille vuoden 2024 tammikuussa, hän vei yleisöltään yöunet pitkäksi aikaa. Nilsen kertoi, miten veden alla ydinvoimalla kulkevaa ja ydinkärkeä kantavaa nopeaa Poseidon-torpedoa ei voi mitenkään torjua. Kun se on laukaistu liikkeelle, se kulkee vääjäämättä maaliinsa. Jos se räjähtää esimerkiksi Venäjän oletettujen vihollismaiden, kuten Yhdysvaltain tai Britannian rannikolla, sen räjähdysvoima ja aiheuttama tsunami tuhoavat koko rannikon. Myöhemmin ydinlaskeuma tuhoaa vielä lisää.
Tiedeyhteisö ympäri maailmaa nimittää Poseidonia ”tuomiopäivän aseeksi”. Putin on uhonnut rakentavansa näitä ainakin kolmekymmentä.
Venäjällä on maailman suurin ydinasearsenaali. Maa ei kunnioita diplomatian eikä sodan sääntöjä. Venäjä ei ole edes julistanut sotaa Ukrainaa vastaan, mutta se sotii maassa silti, jo yhdennettätoista vuotta.