Nuclear Threat

Real News about Testing Nuclear Weapons: in the Atmosphere or Underground

Aug 21, 2019

When will humankind ever stop testing nuclear weapons in the Atmosphere? Haven't we learned anything from what we did exploding 2,624 atomic and nuclear bombs in the atmosphere for almost 40 years. Figure 1 shows all of the nuclear detonations in the atmosphere. Click...

The Nuclear Threat

Apr 25, 2018

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 detonation of a nuclear (Atomic) bomb in the...

Climate and Nuclear Threats

Apr 25, 2018

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 Lifton points out, we are in a predicament...