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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
United States extends nuclear weapons treaty with Russia (March/April 2021)
U.N. nuclear weapons ban begins, Nobel winner asks Biden to abandon them
(Jan/February 2021)
How a U.S. defense secretary came to support the abolition of nuclear weapons
(Jan/February 2021)
Nuclear weapons ban treaty to
enter into force (Nov/December 2020)
Nuclear disarmers
can’t forget the communities that rely on military spending (Nov/December 2020)
Trump’s withdrawal
from the Open Skies Treaty is reckless and self-defeating (July/August 2020)
Russia may have violated the
INF Treaty. The United States appears to have done the same. (March/April 2019)
Mikhail Gorbachev’s plea to the
presidents of Russia and the United States (Nov/December 2017)
50 nations ink U.N. nuclear
ban treaty opposed by big powers (Sept./October 2017)
U.S. Conference of Mayors
calls on President Trump to lower nuclear tensions (July/August 2017)
Chinese President Xi calls for world
without nuclear weapons (Jan/February 2017)
The U.N. makes history on a nuclear weapons ban.
Does the U.S. care? (Nov/December 2016)
Should the United States begin talks to ban nuclear
weapons? (Sept/October 2106)
Future of nuclear arms control looks bleak,
experts say (July/August 2015)
Doomsday Clock set at 3 minutes to midnight
(Jan/February 2015)
Does the “responsibility to
protect” include nuclear disarmament? (Nov/December 2013)
U.N. displays million-signature petition to
ban nukes (July/August 2011)
New START treaty enters into force
(Jan/February 2011)
A royal widow takes on the militarists over nukes
(May/June 2010)
GOP attacks Obama's nuke policy, ignores Pentagon
support (May/June 2010)
New START treaty might be finished in weeks
(Jan/February 2010)
U.N. Security Council adopts measure on nuclear weapons
(Sept/October 2009)
U.S. and Russia announce deal on nuclear arms
reduction (July/August 2009)
Nuke-free world a U.S. responsibility, Obama says
(March/April 2009)
Possibilities for a nuclear weapons-free world
(July/August 2008)
New report calls for steps toward a nuke-free world
(March/April 2008)
WMD report challenges nuclear powers (July/August
2006)
Stockpiling nuclear arms may destroy human race (Aug.
14, 2002)
Nuke Treaty too little, too late (May/June 2002)
Global Assembly works to eliminate nuclear
weapons (Nov/December 2000)
Nagasaki Appeal [complete text] (Nov/December
2000)
Congress fiddles while the world burns (Sept/October
1998)
Where there's a will, there's a way (July/August 1998)
Nuclear power
Nuclear security
Nuclear weapons and war
The precedent the world — and Russia — has rejected
(Fall 2022)
U.N. chief urges end to nuclear weapons for ‘future generations'
(Fall 2022)
Rhetoric in Ukraine has reinforced the fallacy of limited nuclear exchange
(Fall 2022)
Nuclear tragedy in the Marshall Islands
(May/June/July 2022)
Hundreds of scientists ask Biden to cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal
(Jan/February 2022)
Biden team weighs killing Trump’s new nuclear weapons
(Jan/February 2022)
Pentagon warns China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal
(Nov/December 2021)
China will soon surpass Russia as a nuclear threat
(Sept/October 2021)
Nebraska a ‘nuclear sponge’? Let’s move away from this Cold War thinking
(Nov/December 2021)
The British public wants NATO to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons
(Nov/December 2021)
Unearthly Spectacle: The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb
(Nov/December 2021)
Revisiting the case for no first use of nuclear weapons
(May/June 2021)
Reckless nuclear spending to increase nuclear danger
(May/June 2021)
Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?
(March/April 2021)
Aging electronics may limit nuclear weapons reliability
(March/April 2021)
U.K. expands nuclear arsenal in biggest shift since Cold War (March/April
2021)
Arms Can Bring No Security
(Jan/February 2021)
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)
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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The US has a new nuclear proliferation problem: South Korea (Spring 2023)