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      Russia Warns US Delivery of Depleted Uranium Arms to Ukraine Would Be Akin to Use of Nukes

      "We would regard it as the use of 'dirty nuclear bombs' against Russia, with all the consequences that entails," a Russian official said as the U.S. and Germany prepare to send tanks and armored vehicles capable of firing depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine.

      Brett Wilkins
      Jan 27, 2023

      A Russian official this week responded to the Biden administration's refusal to rule out sending depleted uranium anti-tank munitions to Ukraine by warning that deployment of such weapons—which have been linked to birth defects, miscarriages, and cancer—would be regarded by Moscow as use of "dirty nuclear bombs."

      According to a White House transcript published after a Wednesday press call, an unnamed senior Biden administration official would not say when a reporter repeatedly asked whether the United States would provide armor-piercing depleted uranium (DU) ammunition for the Bradley Fighting Vehicles that are part of a recently announced $2.85 billion aid package to Ukraine. The Bradleys, as well as the U.S. Abrams and German Leopard tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles Ukraine is set to receive, can fire armor-piercing shells with uranium cores.

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      Nuclear Weapons Ruined My Life, and I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way

      Nuclear Weapons Ruined My Life, and I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way

      As someone deeply embedded in a life of anti-nuclear resistance, I know the only way to get rid of these weapons is to never stop thinking about them

      Frida Berrigan
      Apr 21, 2019

      I want to offer you something different than the barrage of facts and figures around nuclear weapons. But let's establish the basics. There are nine countries that possess them: France, China, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea and -- of course -- Russia and the United States. Together these nine countries possess a total of 14,575 nuclear weapons, with the United States and Russia accounting for 92 percent of them.

      Then there's the outlandish nuclear weapons budgets and U.S. plans to modernize and upgrade current nuclear weapons stockpiles at egregious expense. According to a new government estimate, plans for modernizing and maintaining the nuclear arsenal will cost $494 billion over the next decade -- an average of just under $50 billion per year.

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      A Green Future Is One Without War

      A Green Future Is One Without War

      Our near-trillion-dollar military budget, and the endless and needless wars it funds—not to mention the ongoing development of our nuclear arsenal—can’t be quietly, politely ignored as we envision a sane tomorrow

      Robert C. Koehler
      Jan 09, 2019

      Donald Trump and his base -- the leftover scraps of Jim Crow, the broken shards of racist hatred that once were the American mainstream and made the country seem "great" to those who weren't its victims -- have, it appears, a crucial role to play in our future.

      President Trump is the increasingly naked truth. He's what we have wound up with: a raw, uncensored scapegoating and fear-mongering that's too much for most of the American public. And thus the political center, the military-industrial-media consensus that has ruled the country for the past four and a half decades, pushing progressive values to the margins of American politics, is unraveling. Centrist compromise, which birthed the Trump presidency, can't mask the truth anymore.

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