Jack Hassard

The Nuclear Threat

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 25, 2018 | Nuclear Threat

The Nuclear Threat At five years old, I the read the headline in the Boston Globe when the morning paper arrived at our home in Natick, MA. In the boldest letters you can image were the words A-BOMB! It was the second...

The Climate Threat

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 25, 2018

The Climate Threat David Popeik, in the Scientific American guest blog, says that “climate report nails risk communication.” He suggests that the 2014 National Climate Assessment that was released by the White House presented a...

Climate and Nuclear Threats

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 25, 2018 | Nuclear Threat

Climate and Nuclear Threats We live in an age of twin menaces: climate change and nuclear weapons. In a recent book by Robert Lifton, these menaces are intertwined in his book entitled Climate Swerve (public library). As...

The Nightmare of Authoritarianism

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 17, 2018 | Progressive World-View, Resistance Movement

The Nightmare of Authoritarianism Authoritarianism: the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the cost of personal freedom, a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited...

The Degradation of the EPA and the Threat to Scientific Reasoning

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 6, 2018 | Resistance Movement

The Degradation of the EPA and the Threat to Scientific Reasoning Although the EPA received an appropriation equal to its 2018 budget, the White House wanted to cut its budget by nearly 1/3, which would mean the dismantling of...