The strategy is being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, who has long called for the U.S. to prepare to fight a “limited nuclear war,” reports Dave DeCamp.
Pentagon Eyeing Tactical Nuclear Weapons Use
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HIROSHIMA 81: The Looming Risk of Nuclear Disaster
Despite the heroic struggle of the people of Hiroshima, 81 years ago today, and of Nagasaki, the horrors of 1945 have too often been forgotten or ignored, says Peter Kuznick.
Chris Hedges: Trump Has No Soul
When the soulless wage war it is part of a perverted drive to build a monument to themselves. The more they fail, the more they descend into a tyrannical rage.
UK Saw Israel as ‘Chief Problem’ Curbing Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
Mark Curtis reports that Israel’s nuclear arms were seen by British officials as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from the 1990s show.
Hedges Report: Imperial Overreach
So far, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.
Vijay Prashad: Bombs That Polish the Skulls of the Dead
With New START now expired, the United States’ withdrawal from arms control treaties and its embrace of nuclear “warfighting” doctrines are raising the risk of catastrophic conflict between nuclear powers.
START Is Finished
As the arms treaty ends today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been to global thermonuclear annihilation.
When Australia Defied US Nuclear Plans
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, in 1981, established a high-water mark for Australian sovereignty over U.S. nuclear-capable bomber operations, write Richard Tanter and Vince Scappatura.