With the 2020 presidential election looming large, it’s a good time to take a look at the absolute power the President of the United States has over U.S. nuclear weapons. Policy Analyst and Host Geoff Wilson sat down with Dr. Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, to discuss the […]
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Trump’s Iran policy is rejected but the political battle wages on
By Samuel Hickey The president of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, Dian Triansyah Djani of Indonesia, has determined that the Security Council cannot proceed with the United States’ effort to snap back sanctions on Iran. After quiet consultations with the 15-member body, he said that he was “not in a position to take further […]
The Final Test of Trump’s Iran Policy
By Samuel M. Hickey Years of the Trump Administration trying to squeeze Tehran, either to the negotiating table or to regime change, have so far failed. As the U.S. general election creeps ever closer, it seems that a last-ditch effort to unilaterally reimpose all previous United Nations (UN) sanctions and more permanently isolate Iran is […]
75 Years Later: the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
August 6 marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the bombing of Nagasaki, on August 9th. In this special episode, Nukes of Hazard host Geoff Wilson narrates a selection from John Hersey’s Hiroshima, written in 1946. We also revisit last year’s episode of Nukes of Hazard, an […]
Defense Contractors’ Coronavirus Graft
By Jessica Budlong, Policy Intern At a time when almost 18 million Americans are unemployed, and 28 million are at risk of losing a roof over their heads, Congress may vote to pad the bank accounts of the already well-funded defense industry. The current National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is set to spend $740 billion on defense, and the […]
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