An atomic cloud hangs over the Japanese city of Nagasaki after the U.S. dropped a second nuclear bomb on the country on Aug. 9, 1945. (Hiromichi Matsuda, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By Scott Ritter / Consortium News On June 18, 1945, President Harry Truman, who had taken over the presidency in April 1945 following the death […]
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Presidents Who Gamble With Nuclear Armageddon
Nuclear protest. Photo from Flickr by Cliff Gilmore from June 1, 2010. By Jeffery D. Sachs / Common Dreams The overriding job of any U.S. president is to keep the nation safe. In the nuclear age, that mainly means avoiding nuclear Armageddon. Joe Biden’s reckless and incompetent foreign policy is pushing us closer to annihilation. […]
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The Oppenheimer Package: The Story of Soviet Spy Ted Hall, and Daniel Ellsberg on the Dangers of Nuclear War
Editor’s Note: In light of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” winning Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards, ScheerPost has put together a package on some of the most important interviews on the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear weaponry we have published over the years. Ted Hall: The Los Alamos Scientist Who Gave the Atomic […]