Just finished episode 9 of 10 of season3 of #TheBomb from the #BBC. I highly recommend all three seasons. #History #NuclearWar https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-bomb/id1524778767
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Donald Trump claims his tariff threats prevented a nuclear war between India and Pakistan last year https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/trump-tariffs-india-pakistan-nuclear-war-ie8vtz72?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #donaldtrump #nuclearwar #pakistan #india
A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
A consciousness of the fact that war means practically total destruction is the reason, I think, for the rising tide to prevent what seems such a senseless procedure. I understand that it is perhaps difficult for some people, whose lives have been lived with a sense of the need for military development, to envisage the possibility of being no longer needed. But the average citizen is beginning to think more and more of the need to develop machinery to settle difficulties in the world without destruction or the use of atomic bombs.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1961-12-20), “My Day”
More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
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AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
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What’s The Likelihood Of A Global Nuclear Arms Race?
What’s The Likelihood Of A Global Nuclear Arms Race?
Russia and China are expected to reciprocally respond to the US’ potential development of new nukes and/or new nuke tests after it just let the New START lapse, which could be exploited by European and East Asian countries to develop their own nukes, thus emboldening some Muslim ones to follow suit.
RT reported on German politician Sahra Wagenknecht’s condemnation of a prominent AfD politician for claiming that Germany “needs nuclear weapons”, which followed ruling CDU lawmaker Roderich Kiesewetter calling for their country to participate in a European nuclear umbrella. The context concerns France’s proposal last year of extending its own such umbrella over the EU amid newfound fears among some European elites that a US invasion of Greenland could lead to it removing the EU from its umbrella.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz just confirmed that Berlin is exploring this. NBC News cited six European officials a week prior to report that options “include improving France’s nuclear weaponry, redeploying French nuclear-capable bombers outside of France, and beefing up French and other European conventional forces on NATO’s eastern flank. Another option under discussion is to equip European countries that do not have nuclear weapons programs with the technical abilities to acquire them.”
RT’s report reminded readers that “Germany is prohibited from developing nuclear weapons under international law, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Two Plus Four Treaty”. Nevertheless, international law is only upheld if there are credible enforcement mechanisms or the political will to unilaterally enforce international law if the aforesaid no longer exist, which is arguably the case at present due to the UNSC’s dysfunctional deadlock over the past decade.
So long as Germany is under someone’s nuclear umbrella and they have the political will to uphold their commitment, whether that’s the US, France, and/or the UK, then it’s unlikely that Russia would risk World War III by attacking Germany if it begins developing nukes. The same goes for any other European country like Poland or the Nordics, the first of which already strongly implied its future intent to develop nukes while a Norwegian lieutenant colonel introduced the second in an article at War On The Rocks.
The “publicly plausible” pretext for either extending France’s and/or the UK’s nuclear umbrella over the EU, including to reinforce the US’ if it isn’t removed, and/or the abovementioned countries developing nukes could be Russia’s reciprocal response to the US’ potential development of new nukes and/or new nuke tests. Trump 2.0’s decision to let the New START with Russia lapse instead of agree to Putin’s proposal for extending it another year releases the US from its legal obligations not to do any of that.
It’s therefore possible that a nuclear arms race could erupt between not only the US on one side and Russia (and China) on the other, but also between the EU and Russia, possibly with the US being the one that transfers nuclear technology to its EU allies. In that scenario, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye might no longer restrain themselves either, the first two driven by perceived threats from China and/or North Korea and the last two by those from Israel (possibly with technical support from Pakistan).
The world is on the brink of a global nuclear arms race. John Mearsheimer argues that “nuclear weapons are a superb deterrent” since “no state is likely to attack the homeland or vital interests of a nuclear-armed state for fear that such a move might trigger a horrific nuclear response”, but this assumes that states are rational, which some EU ones arguably aren’t. Instead of stabilizing the world and preserving peace, a global nuclear arms race might destabilize it and spike the risk of an accidental nuclear war.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
#China #EastAsia #EU #Europe #Geopolitics #NATO #NuclearWar #NuclearWeapons #Russia #Ukraine #USA
Niin, saakeli. Missä ne #rauhanmarssi’t _nyt_ on, hä? Nyt niitä tarvitaan enemmän kuin koskaan.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/08/nuclear-war-risk-rising-global-peace
' The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists recently set its famous Doomsday Clock closer to midnight, indicating a level of risk equivalent to the 1980s, when US and Soviet nuclear stockpiles were increasing rapidly. In those years, massive waves of disarmament protest arose in Europe and the United States. '
#rauha #ydinsota #vittu #saatana #nuclearwar #peace #shit #fuck #shiftuck
US President Trump claims he stopped a nuclear war during "Operation Sindoor." India rejects the mediation narrative. Explore the conflicting accounts of the 2025 ceasefire. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/trump-claims-stopping-india-pakistan-nuclear-war-operation-sindoor-analysis-l3asa6y4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DonaldTrump #IndiaPakistanConflict #nuclearwar
New #ArmsRace looms as clock ticks down on last #Russia - #US #nuclear treaty
The last nuclear treaty between Russia & the US is due to expire within hours, raising the risk of a new arms race in which #China will also play a key role.
The web of #arms control deals negotiated in the decades since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, considered the closest the world ever came to intentional #NuclearWar, was aimed at reducing the chance of a catastrophic nuclear exchange.
Yap.
This explains a lot.
#Russia #Medvedev #Putin #Vodka #Cocaine #Ukraine #NuclearWar #NATO #USA #USPolitics #EU #FuckRussia #SlavaUkraini
🚨 BREAKING: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set its famous Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the world has ever been.
The world almost experienced a full-scale #NuclearWar on #ThisDayInHistory in 1995, when #Russia mistook a #Norwegian #BlackBrantXII research rocket for a US #TridentMissile. People keep ignoring that the Doomsday Clock has only ticked closer to midnight since the #ColdWar ended.
'Somebody perhaps decided to test us': How a Norwegian weather rocket almost sparked a nuclear war
'Somebody perhaps decided to test us': How a Norwegian weather rocket almost sparked a nuclear war
#Norwegianweatherrocket #Nuclearwar
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What a 21st-century nuclear war could look like
What a 21st-century nuclear war could look like
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I think the women of this country, if they face the fact of the present situation, will agree with me that this is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1954-04-16), “My Day”
More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #disarmament #hydrogenbomb #nuclearwar #nuclearweapon #peace #thermonuclearbomb
Happy #FeastOfSaintJanis! (#JanisJoplin's birthday). I've been hearing a LOT of Janis on #WMPG today! Also, I have a physical copy of the book #BeyondArmageddon, and story is on pages 295-325. Registered users can borrow a copy of Beyond Armageddon from the #InternetArchive for one hour -- plenty of time to read the story!
The Feast of Saint Janis • (1980) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the DeadPublication Record # 263174
Editors: Martin H. Greenberg, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Date: 1986
FMI:
https://archive.org/details/beyondarmageddon00mill/page/n13/mode/2up
#DystopianFiction #NuclearWar #PostNuclearWar #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWar
Visionné un espèce d'exposé sur les conséquences d'une guerre nucléaire entre nos super power... Bon, c'est la fin de l'humanité écrite. Et, dans le premier laps de temps, celui des échanges de bombinnettes, 5 milliards d'être humains rayés de l'espace, sans sépulture. Got it ?... Il est juste essentiel que chacun.e écrive, manifeste, fasse du bruit pour faire remonter l'envie de Vivre
#nuclearwar #trump #poutine #xi #stopnucléaire #onu #tnp #laissezvivrelhumanite
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Bleak! Very, very bleak!
“A Second War With Iran Will Probably End Us All”
by Karim/ BettBeat Media in BettBeat’s Newsletter on Substack
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@thegreenparty
@EUCommission
@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@AlJazeera
“We are closer to the end than we have ever been. Not the end of a government or a system or an era—the end of everything”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bettbeat/p/a-second-war-with-iran-will-probably
#Press #US #Israel #Iran #War #Zionism #Imperialism ##DeathCult #NuclearWar
One important factor to understanding the impact of global catastrophes is economics. How might agricultural prices rise? What are the general economic outlooks? In the next post in my living literature review I try to explore exactly this. The literature is scarce, but I still think we can learn some interesting things here.
Advanced screening of the documentary *Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs*, and roundtable in #Eugene at #UO on Feb 11th.
"The film, Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs, is based on Dr. Jacob’s book, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale, 2022). Following the screening, Dr. Jacobs will be joined by experts to discuss the film, his research, and the far-reaching effects of atomic bombs and nuclear testing on the global population.”
Details in the link!
#PDX #nuclear #radiation #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWar #ColdWar
Will the US and Russia Abandon Nuke Restraints When New START Treaty Expires?
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