There is deadly irony in the juxtaposition of Trumpās āanti-nuclear warā on Iran, and the ongoing United Nations Review Conference for the…
āIt is the plot and the act of aggression which we charge to be crimes.ā – Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson…
The widespread cesium-137 contamination that spread far beyond an industrial area in Indonesia has led to radioactive contamination of exported shrimp, cloves,…
āTo initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing from other war…
The nuclear weapons thriller āA House of Dynamite,ā directed by Kathryn Bigelow, depicts the catastrophic failure of U.S. anti-ballistic missiles to shoot…
NATOās standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This yearās thermonuclear dry runādubbed Steadfast Noonāgot…
This August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000…
The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and…
Iām married to a German citizen whoās a life-long resident here in Hamburg, and I spent most of the winter and spring…
All this week, dedicated nuclear weapons abolitionists have been meeting at the United Nations in New York. The up-beat gathering is the…
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