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MercenariesNew indictments in 2007
Blackwater shootings (Nov/December 2013)
30 false
fronts won contracts for Blackwater mercenaries (March/April 2011)
Blackwater said
to approve Iraqi payoffs after shootings (Nov/December 2009)
Blackwater’s
license to kill (Nov/December 2007)
Witnesses testify
in Blackwater lawsuit (Nov/December 2007)
Middle East
MilitarySen.
Martha McSally pushes to criminalize sexual harassment in military (May/June 2019)
Young women on military bases and sailors on
ships at greatest risk for sexual assault (Sept/October 2018)
Pentagon gets huge raise in new
spending plan (March/April 2018)
Lies we tell ourselves about the
military (Jan/February 2018)
Breaking the militarism mindset:
The Pentagon budget (Jan/February 2018)
The Pentagon’s silver-bullet hype
machine (Nov/December 2017)
Pentagon
sees climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ (July/August 2017)
Pentagon ignores watchdog’s calls
for $33.6B in savings (July/August 2017)
Pentagon buried evidence of
$125 billion in bureaucratic waste (May/June 2017)
Retired
generals oppose proposed foreign aid cuts (May/June 2017)
Militarism is financially and
morally bankrupting the USA (Jan/February 2017)
Military plans for climate
change despite skeptics (Nov/December 2016)
Deglamorizing the symbols and trinkets
of militarism (Sept/October 2016)
Amazing things America could have bought
instead of a $1.45-trillion jet fighter (May/June 2016)
Once a Soldier, Always a Soldier (May/June
2014)
Ukraine crisis reveals need to push ahead with
military downsizing (March/April 2014)
Sexism part of military academy culture,
report says (Jan/February 2014)
Air Force’s
sex-abuse prevention honcho charged with sexual battery (May/June 2013)
Drinking, drugs more common
for kids with deployed military parent (May/June 2013)
Pentagon has plenty room to cut
(May/June 2013)
All-volunteer military may desensitize
United States to war (Jan/February 2013)
Governments fall short in fighting defense
corruption (Jan/February 2013)
Military kids initiative launched by Mmes. Obama
and Biden (Nov/December 2012)
How the United States plans to end the
sovereignty of other nations (March/April 2012)
Military doublespeak: How jargon turns gore into
glory (Jan/February 2012)
House boosts military budget in time of
austerity (July/August 2011)
Pentagon to abandon two-war doctrine
(Jan/February 2010)
Many young Americans unfit for military
(Nov/December 2009)
Gates’ military budget plan reshapes
Pentagon’s priorities (March/April 2009)
U.S. axes Navy captain (Sept/October 2008)
It’s patriotic to criticize our generals
(May/June 2007)
U.S. Military Spending vs. World (graph)
A father reflects on war, his son and the
military (July/August 2006)
Wounded soldiers pay for Pentagon errors (May/June 2006)
Leave My Child Alone! - ‘opting out’
of military recruitment (Jan/February 2006)
Military academy sex assaults surveyed (May/June 2005)
Basic training for kids (Nov/December 2004)
Trying to buy security [military budget] (Jan/February
2002)
Murderers and heroes [Timothy McVeigh] (May/June
2001)
Militarism and the Millennium (Sept/October 1999)
Military-Industrial Complex
Non-Proliferation Treaty - NPT
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear power
Nuclear security
Nuclear weapons and war
China will soon surpass Russia as a nuclear threat
(Sept/October 2021) -
Revisiting the case for no first use of nuclear weapons
(May/June 2021)
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Reckless nuclear spending to increase nuclear danger
(May/June 2021)
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Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?
(March/April 2021)
- Aging electronics may limit nuclear weapons reliability
(March/April 2021)
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U.K. expands nuclear arsenal in biggest shift since Cold War (March/April
2021)
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Arms Can Bring No Security
(Jan/February 2021)
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Doomsday Clock close as ever to midnight in 2021 over COVID, nukes, climate change
(Jan/February 2021)
- USAF plans to
expand nuclear bomber bases (Nov/December 2020)
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Trump’s COVID infection
shows why it’s time to retire the nuclear football (Nov/December 2020)
- Nuclear war, nuclear winter,
and human extinction (Sept/October 2020)
- Nuclear weapons are missing from American schools’ curricula
(Sept/October 2020)
- Rethinking land-based nuclear
missiles (July/August 2020)
- How nuclear forces
worldwide are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic (May/June 2020)
- Russia says new
U.S. weapon threatens nuclear war (March/April 2020)
- Doomsday Clock set at 100 seconds to
midnight (Jan/February 2020)
- Tit-for-tat conflicts almost always
spiral out of control (Sept/October 2019)
- Trump nuclear arms control
plans draw criticism (July/August 2019)
- Nuclear weapons experts
alarmed by new Pentagon ‘war-fighting’ doctrine (July/August 2019)
- The inhumanity and immorality of nuclear
deterrence (March/April 2019)
- What would Russia nuke? (March/April
2019)
- The right to life versus nuclear weapons (Jan/February 2019)
- A new nuclear arms race has begun
(Nov/December 2018)
- Artificial
intelligence, cyberattack, and nuclear weapons — a dangerous combination
(Nov/December 2018)
- U.S.
general considered nuclear weapons in Vietnam War (Nov/December 2018)
- Mini-nukes are still a horrible
and dangerous idea (Sept/October 2018)
- 2018 Nuclear Posture Review: Dr.
Strangelove in the Pentagon (May/June 2018)
- How a nuclear attack order is carried
out now (March/April 2018)
- Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight
(Jan/February 2018)
- Hawaii false alarm hints at thin line
between accident and nuclear war (Jan/February 2018)
- Trump’s nuclear weapons
decisions incoherent so far (Nov/December 2017)
- Senate hearing on the
President’s authority to launch a nuclear attack (Nov/December 2017)
- Soviet soldier credited with
averting nuclear war dies (Sept./October 2017)
- Nuclear weapons experts team up to
advise world leaders on how to avoid nuclear war (May/June 2017)
- An open letter to Presidents Trump
and Putin: The world needs Nuclear Zero (March/Appril 2017)
- Why our
nuclear weapons can be hacked (March/April 2917)
- Nuclear arsenal costs ballooning by
billions of dollars (Jan/February 2017)
- Doomsday
Clock advances (Jan/February 2017)
- Trident
missile test failure covered up (Jan/February 2017)
- Risky U.S. nuclear bomb gets green
light (Sept/October 2016)
- The U.S. H-bombs in Turkey (Sept/October
2016)
- Human extinction from nuclear war
isn’t that unlikely (July/August 2016)
- Scale back U.S.
nuclear weapons and stop a new arms race (July/August 2016)
- Navy builds
underground nuke storage facility near Seattle (July/August 2016)
- Scale back U.S. nuclear weapons and stop
a new arms race (May/June 2016)
- U.S. modernization of nuclear weapons
increases possible use in war (Jan/February 2016)
- ‘Doomsday Clock’ reflects grave
threat to world, say scientists (Jan/February 2016)
- New B61-12 nuclear bomb has expanded capability
(Jan/February 2016)
- More bucks for nukes (Sept/October
2015)
- Generals call on United States and Russia
to end nuclear weapons hair-trigger alert (May/June 2015)
- Los Alamos lab contractor loses $57 million
over nuclear waste accident (Jan/February 2015)
- Los Alamos lab employee fired after
publishing critique of nuclear weapons (Nov/December 2014)
- Five alarming facts about nuclear
weapons today (July/August 2014)
- Nuclear missiles keep having trouble
because they’re old (July/August 2014)
- Tiny Pacific nation sues 9 nuclear-armed
powers (May/June 2014)
- Commanders fired in nuclear missile
cheating scandal (March/April 2014)
- Nuclear bomb enhancement violates reducing the
role of nukes (March/April 2014)
- New nuke scandal triggers top-level Pentagon
review (Jan/February 2014)
- Nuke missile troubles run deep; key
officers “burned out” (Nov/December 2013)
- No. 2 U.S. nuke commander suspended amid
gambling probe (Sept/October 2013)
- U.S. bloated nuclear weapon spending comes
under fire (Sept/October 2013)
- Have nuke, will travel (July/August 2013)
- Air Force sidelines 17 nuke
officers for ‘marginal’ performance (May/June 2013)
- Queen Noor presses U.S. to reduce nuclear
stockpile (March/April 2013)
- Nuclear black market extant in former-Soviet
Georgia (Jan/February 2913)
- Reducing the threat of nuclear Armageddon
(July/August 2012)
- For nuclear security, eliminate land-based
‘doomsday’ missiles (May/June 2012)
- No need for U.S. nuclear testing (May/June
2012)
- Doomsday Clock moves forward to five minutes
to midnight (Jan/February 2012)
- If we don’t end nuclear weapons, they
will end us (Sept/October 2011)
- U.S., Russia agree to cut nuclear arsenals
(March/April 2010)
- Shifting from a nuclear weapons triad to a
nuclear dyad (Jan/February 2010)
- Strategic failure: Congressional Strategic
Posture Commission report (July/August 2009)
- Nuclear weapons at a crossroads as Obama takes
office (Jan/February 2009)
- U.S. hydrogen bomb never recovered from Greenland
(Nov/December 2008)
- Nuclear missileers are ever-ready (July/August
2008)
- The bureaucracy of deterrence (May/June 2008)
- Two top Air Force leaders ousted (May/June 2008)
- ‘Nuclear Football’ still being passed
around (March/April 2008)
- Pre-emptive nuclear strike option needed, NATO told
(Jan/February 2008)
- Nuclear weapons mistakenly flown over U.S.
(Sept/October 2007)
- Los Alamos certifies plutonium pit (July/August 2007)
- New warhead design goes to Livermore Lab
(March/April 2007)
- 5 Minutes to Midnight (Jan/February 2007)
- Bush fiddles with nukes while Putin burns
(July/August 2006)
- Nuclear security on the auction block (May/June 2006)
- NNSA seeks to expand Pu pit production for new
warhead (Nov/December 2005)
- Pentagon expands nuclear strike plan (Sept/October
2005)
- Nuke lab bidders getting cold feet (Sept/October 2004)
- Bad nukes and good nukes (August 9, 2004)
- Ronald Reagan and The Bomb (July/August 2004)
- Mordechai Vanunu and U.S. complicity in Israel's
nuclear arsenal (May/June 2004)
- Saudis consider nuclear bomb (Sept/October 2003)
- North Korea nuke threat intensifies (July/August
2003)
- Iran pursues 'peaceful' nuclear program
(July/August 2003)
- Mini-nuke ban lifted (May/June 2003)
- Seven minutes to midnight (March/April 2002)
- Would you survive a nuclear blast? (July/August 2001)
- "A drop in the bucket" (July/August 2001)
- Nuke still loose on U.S. coast (Jan/February
2001)
- Weapons mega-laser fizzling (July/August 2000)
- India's nuclear weapon tests reveal U.S.
hypocrisy (May/June 1998)
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