Nuclear Weapons and Advanced Military Systems

European Leadership Network
New Nuclear Divides
European Leadership Network
On July 7th, 2017, 122 nations agreed to prohibit nuclear weapons. It took 72 years after their first and only use. In her deeply moving closing statement, Setsuko Thurlow, an atomic bomb survivor, said, “This is the beginning of the end of nuclear ...
The End Of A Nuclear EraHuffPost UK

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HuffPost UK
The End Of A Nuclear Era
HuffPost UK
A Treaty banning the stockpiling and development of nuclear weapons was adopted by 122 governments at the UN in New York. That is 122 different countries that agree that nuclear weapons are unsafe and unnecessary in the world we live in. This is a ...

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The National Interest Online
The Surprisingly Simple Reason North Korea Has Nuclear Weapons
The National Interest Online
Each of those three, including Pakistan, has treated its weapons reasonably carefully. There has not been the much-feared accidental launch or hand-off to terrorist groups. All appear to think of their nuclear weapons as defensive and for deterrence ...
North Korea could reach US with nuclear weapons as early as next year: reportNew York Post
Duck and cover 2.0: How North Korea is prompting new efforts to prepare for a nuclear attackLos Angeles Times
Worrying update to US assessment of North Korea nuclear threatCBS [...]

Canada needs embrace peace and sign nuclear ban treaty
Toronto Star
Against the will of the nine nuclear weapon states that boycotted the United Nations negotiations, 122 countries voted to adopt the text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It will enter into force after 50 countries sign and ratify it ...

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Vanity Fair
Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House
Vanity Fair
How to stop a virus, how to take a census, how to determine if some foreign country is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or if North Korean missiles can reach Kansas City: these are enduring technical problems. The people appointed by a newly elected ...

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New York Post
North Korea could reach US with nuclear weapons as early as next year: report
New York Post
WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials believe North Korea will have a reliable, intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon as early as next year, according to a report published Tuesday amid a warning from a top Republican lawmaker ...
Duck and cover 2.0: How North Korea is prompting new efforts to prepare for a nuclear attackLos Angeles Times
North Korea Vows to Strike US With a 'Powerful Nuclear Hammer' If Kim Jong Un's Regime is ThreatenedTIME
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
North Korea will have nuclear-capable ICBM in 2018, report says
Las Vegas Review-Journal
WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials believe North Korea will have a reliable, intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon as early as next year, according to a report published Tuesday amid a warning from a top Republican lawmaker ...

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Government Technology
AI as a Weapon Poses Game-Changing Potential Similar to the Airplane, Nuclear Bomb
Government Technology
A recent report from Harvard said the emergence of artificial intelligence as a weapon poses as much game-changing potential as the airplane and the nuclear bomb. They worry it could give small countries and terrorists the long-range strike capability ...

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Citizen Scientists attend nuclear weapons treaty negotiations at UN
The Daily Princetonian
Members of Princeton Citizen Scientists attended the second and final round of negotiations at the U.N. General Assembly over an international treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. The negotiations concluded with a vote and final text on July 7. The ...

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Los Angeles Times
Duck and cover 2.0: How North Korea is prompting new efforts to prepare for a nuclear attack
Los Angeles Times
American cities have long prepared for a terrorist attack, even one involving nuclear weapons or a “dirty bomb,” but North Korea's long-range missile and weapons programs have now heightened concerns along the West Coast over increasing vulnerability ...

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Politico
How Trump should handle Iran
Politico
Thus, leaving the deal would free Iran to sprint for a nuclear weapons capability in a year or less, likely far less time than the United States would need to rebuild the international sanctions regime. Our partners to the deal would be unlikely to go ...

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Greenfield Daily Reporter
Nuclear weaponry acts more like a shield than missile
Greenfield Daily Reporter
When CNN's infographics show Alaska within range of North Korean nuclear weapons, it can be hard to think about anything except how the strange country's rhetoric and actions are aimed at destroying us. However, it's important we stop to consider why ...
South Korea looks to double its firepower to counter rising threat from North KoreaCNBC
Revamping Nuclear Deterrent Safeguards US, Not ProtestsNewsmax
US sees more signs North Korea is preparing another missile testCNN International
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The Chosun Ilbo
South Korea looks to double its firepower to counter rising threat from North Korea
CNBC
"They're clearly on a path to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the United States and to match that with a nuclear weapon," Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in remarks at the Aspen ...
The China Century: Squeaks and Groans as US Gets Used to Being #2Dan's Papers
Hawaii to Conduct Monthly Nuclear Evacuation DrillsThe Chosun Ilbo
North Korea: Hawaii Preps For Nuclear Attack, Ballistic Missiles Could Reach Island Within 20 MinutesThe Inquisitr
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Tehran Times
A rebuttal to critics of the nuclear weapon ban treaty
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
In their Bulletin article of July 16, Scott Sagan and Benjamin Valentino critique the newly negotiated nuclear weapons prohibition treaty as a lost opportunity. They raise important points about nuclear risk reduction for the treaty's supporters to ...
Olli Heinonen: No strong will to create WMD-free Middle EastTehran Times

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Revamping Nuclear Deterrent Safeguards US, Not Protests
Newsmax
The once hopeful post-Cold War world supposedly heralding The End of History has become a New Cold War and what some call a New Nuclear Age, wherein nuclear weapons are again the most powerful instruments of diplomacy and war. Naïve questing ...

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