#nuclear standoff

[vicky-nanjappa]

Amidst nuclear standoff, some swaps Trump’s and Kim’s haircuts As the world watches with bated breath as to what could be the next course of action on North Korea, someone decided to swap the haircuts of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Read more

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Richard Rhodes is absolutely correct to highlight the importance of remembering our atomic history and applaud the creation of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, a network of US sites at which the first nuclear weapons were developed. The park preserves physical spaces, artifacts, documents, and images that invite us to consider the implications of nuclear weapons for human civilization and planet Earth.

“If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of the nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima.” Even after 70 years without a third use of nuclear weapons, I doubt Oppenheimer would conclude that they have created a better world. 

[joelhar]

How to make the world’s madmen think twice

The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, ‘Ivy Mike’, as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1952. (REUTERS)

By Anne Applebaum Columnist April 2 One friend of mine laughs when he remembers the nuclear “drills” of his childhood, which involved crouching under the desks in his school classroom. Another friend has a vivid memory of a lesson featuring…

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