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Russia Fears US Under Trump Now Ready to Use Nuclear Weapons as 'Viable Political Option'

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of California.

'Today Marks a Countdown to Nuclear Chaos': Trump Urged to Extend Key Treaty With Russia

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Putin, Trump

"The collapse of New START would be a global disaster—and can be avoided at the stroke of a pen."

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Edging World Closer to Nuclear War, Trump Deploys 'Low Yield'—More 'Usable'—Atomic Warhead on US Submarine

Julia Conley, staff writer

"An alarming development that heightens the risk of nuclear war."

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'The Most Dangerous Situation That Humanity Has Ever Faced': Doomsday Clock Now 100 Seconds to Midnight

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

2020 Doomsday Clock

Citing the worsening nuclear threat and inaction on the climate crisis,...

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missile tests

Arms Expert Warns of 'Reckless and Unnecessary Escalation' After Pentagon Tests Missile Banned by INF Treaty That Trump Ditched

Pope Francis on November 24 lays a wreath in remembrance of the victims of the U.S. nuclear attack on Nagasaki.

'An Affront Crying Out to Heaven': Pope Calls for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

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

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

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

DoD tests missile

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

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.

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

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

Newswire

Doomsday Clock Changed: It Is Now 100 Seconds From Midnight – Twin Threats of Nuclear War, Climate Change Seen as Worsening

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

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Robert Dodge

Coronavirus and Our Existential Threats This Presidential Season

Olivia Alperstein

We Need to Treat Nuclear War Like the Emergency It Is

Olivia Alperstein

An Arms Race That No One Can Win

Allen Hester

The Doomsday Clock Is the Call to Action We Need Right Now

Robert C. Koehler

Gerard Boyce

The Dubious Moral Justification for a Nuclear Second Strike

Brian Larkin

Extinction Rebellion: A Flock of Starlings and a Plane Tree

Danny Sjursen

Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction

Sam Husseini

Can the Religious Left Take Down Nuclear Weapons?

Brian Terrell

A Doubtful Proposition: A Reflection on the Trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7