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New Study Warns India-Pakistan Nuclear War Could Kill 125 Million Immediately—Then Spark Global Mass Starvation

So-Called "Limited" Nuclear War Would Actually Be Very Bad and Kill Tens of Millions, Warns New Report

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

A nuclear war would kill millions of people, a new report reminds the Pentagon.

"We urgently need sensible action to reduce and eliminate nuclear risk."

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'Nuclear Weapons Arms Race Is Here': Russians, Anti-Nuke Experts Denounce US Missile Test

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

DoD tests missile

A spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said that "such tests only...

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Pakistan PM Imran Khan Calls on World to Pay Attention to India's "Fascist, Racist Hindu Supremacist Ideology and Leadership"

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, pictured in Beijing, China in November 2018, called on the world Sunday to watch neighboring India's right-wing tilt.

Indian PM Narendra Modi reportedly rejected the comparison in a Monday phone...

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An enormous cloud of smoke from intense wildfires drifted over northern Canada on August 15, 2017. The image is a mosaic composed from several satellite overpasses because the affected area was so large.

Study of Massive Smoke Cloud From 2017 Wildfires Offers Terrifying Hint of How Even Small Nuclear War Would Escalate Climate Crises

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan

Fears of 'Nuclear Chaos and Potential Catastrophe' Rise After US Exits Landmark Cold War-Era Treaty With Russia

Iran's Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi and government spokesman Ali Rabiei

Increasing Pressure on Europe to Salvage Nuclear Deal, Iran Announces Plans to Exceed Uranium Enrichment Cap

An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the "Sidewinders" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 86 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) May 10, 2019 in the Red Sea.

Pentagon Releases, Then Deletes, Document Detailing Use of Nukes to Restore 'Strategic Stability'

National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

North Korea Warns 'Gangster-Like' Tactics of Bolton and Pompeo Undermining Nuclear Talks

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump

'A Major Failure': North Korea Summit Cut Short as Trump Refuses to Lift Sanctions

Popularity of #SayNoToWar Hashtag in India and Pakistan Indicates Appetite For Peace

India's Attack on Pakistan Sparks Fear of Wider War

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With Trump Beating War Drums, Coalition Calls on Congress to Oppose Sanctions, Back Diplomacy With Iran

Facing Decades in Prison, Anti-Nuke Activists Condemn Trump for Putting 'Human Experiment' at Risk With INF Withdrawal

anti-nuke protest

Makers of Nuclear Weapons Only Winners, Warn Critics, as Trump Ditches INF Treaty

'Extremely Concerned' World Leaders and Experts Implore Trump and Putin to Preserve Nuclear Treaty

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Physicians for Social Responsibility

Health Professionals Respond to New Groundbreaking Study by Leading Researchers: "Emphasizes the Urgent Need to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Before They Eliminate Us"...

Beyond Nuclear

Eight Years after Triple Meltdowns and Explosions at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, Major Problems Remain and Many Impacts are Yet to Manifest

Peace Action

No-First-Use Bill Would Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War

Peace Action

Congress Can and Should Restrict the First Use of Nuclear Weapons

Beyond Nuclear

Beyond Nuclear Opposes Second License Extension for Peach Bottom Nuclear Plant Relicensing Could See Aging PA Reactors Run for 80 Years With Deteriorating Safety

Physicians for Social Responsibility

California Votes to Support U.N. Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, Restrict Presidential Authority for Nuclear Strike

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Robert Dodge

Hope and Necessity This International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Medea Benjamin

10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined

Robert Freeman

Conflict With Iran Portends World War III

Eric Margolis

Hair-Trigger Nuclear Alert Over Kashmir

Robert Dodge

Hiroshima and the New Arms Race—No Winners

Rev. John Dear

The Ongoing Call for Nuclear Abolition at Los Alamos

Alice Slater

Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia and to Ban the Bomb

Olivia Alperstein

The U.S. Should Never Start A Nuclear War

Lawrence Wittner

Dear Moderators of the Presidential Debates: How About Raising the Issue of How to Avert Nuclear War?

Ben Armbruster

Media Falsely Portrays Iran's Nuclear Deal Breach as Dash to Bomb