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August 5, 2020

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 […]

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July 29, 2020

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 […]

Posted in: Nukes of Hazard blog, Pentagon Budget, Security Spending, United States

July 28, 2020

Survivor of 1988 Chemical Weapons Attack Shares His Story

Mariwan Hama was 8 years old when he was a victim of a chemical weapons attack. It was 1988, during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq War, and the Iraqi military gassed ethnic Kurdish civilians in their own country with a lethal cocktail of mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents in what would become […]

Posted in: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Nukes of Hazard blog, Nukes of Hazard podcast

June 24, 2020

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula underscore the need for new negotiations

By Zach Glass, Policy Intern On June 16, North Korea blew up the Kaesong Liaison Office, which was built in September 2018 to foster inter-Korean dialogue. This quite literal deterioration of Korean relations occurred one week after Pyongyang announced that it had severed all lines of communication with South Korea, which North Korean state media claimed was the result […]

Posted in: Asia, North Korea, Nukes of Hazard blog

June 18, 2020

Nuclear testing: Just say no

By Abby Pokraka Adding to the list of things that make it feel like the world is falling apart, according to reports, the Trump Administration recently discussed conducting an underground nuclear test for the first time since 1992. Policy experts, grassroots organizations and citizens from across the country were quick to condemn this action. Apparently, even the National Nuclear Security Administration thought it was […]

Posted in: Asia, China, Nukes of Hazard blog, United States

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