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Testimony of the Hibakusha of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: No More Nuclear Weapons

CONTENT WARNING: This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever ...
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Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War

At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...
The Diplomat

The World Cannot Afford to Forget the Human Cost of Nuclear Weapons

Each August 29, we should not only mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests but also commit to education and remembrance. The 2nd Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-2, was tested on September 24, 1951 at ...
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The weapon deadlier than the atomic bomb

Invisible weapons devastate humanity beyond nuclear force ...
Wired

Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems. The ...
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These U.S. Weapons Were So Powerful They Almost Shouldn’t Exist

Some of the most powerful weapons ever developed by the United States were designed to dominate the battlefield, but in doing ...
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Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...