The Tawdry Power of Nuclear Weapons by John Hansen, MD

This essay is dedicated to the Public Domain.

  • "Mass murder-suicide is not an appropriate governmental service nor an appropriate human industry. I hold these truths to be self-evident.
  • Outrageously, all nine nuclear weapon states have placed themselves on a firing line for planetary murder-suicide. As such, they are Nuclear Weapon Rogue States.
  • Moms don't support it. Dads don't either. Kids, they're not for it, especially some of them. And yet, here we have it."
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News

The Guardian

Global Spending on Nuclear Weapons Up 13% in Record Rise

    June 17, 2024
  • "States are on course to spend $100bn a year, driven by a sharp increase in US defence budgets. Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023"
  • Article Link

Nuclear Watch New Mexico logo

NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Budget Takes Huge Jump

    March 11, 2024
  • "Ironically the day after the film Oppenheimer was awarded multiple Oscars, the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) asked Congress for its biggest nuclear weapons budget ever."
  • Link to Full Press Release

The Washington Post logo

Opinion | A Nuclear Weapon in Space is Absurd.
This is an Arms Race to Nowhere.

    March 1, 2024
  • "On Feb. 16, President Biden chose his words carefully about U.S. intelligence reports of a possible Russian nuclear-armed antisatellite weapon in space. 'There is no nuclear threat to the people of America or anywhere else in the world,' he said, adding that such a weapon has not been deployed. Left unsaid: It would pose an enormous danger to satellites upon which billions of people rely."
  • Link to Full Editorial

The Washington Post logo

Opinion |
A Nuclear Weapon in Space is Absurd. This is an Arms Race to Nowhere.

    March 1, 2024
  • "On Feb. 16, President Biden chose his words carefully about U.S. intelligence reports of a possible Russian nuclear-armed antisatellite weapon in space. 'There is no nuclear threat to the people of America or anywhere else in the world,' he said, adding that such a weapon has not been deployed. Left unsaid: It would pose an enormous danger to satellites upon which billions of people rely."
  • Link to Full Editorial

The New York Times

3 Nuclear Superpowers, Rather Than 2,
Usher In a New Strategic Era

    April 19, 2023
  • "China is on track to massively expand its nuclear arsenal, just as Russia suspends the last major arms control treaty. It augurs a new world in which Beijing, Moscow & Washington will likely be atomic peers."
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The New York Times

3 Nuclear Superpowers, Rather Than 2, Usher In a New Strategic Era

    April 19, 2023
  • "China is on track to massively expand its nuclear arsenal, just as Russia suspends the last major arms control treaty. It augurs a new world in which Beijing, Moscow & Washington will likely be atomic peers."
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38 North logo

Siegfried Hecker on the New Russia-DPRK Relationship
and Nuclear Cooperation

    September 21, 2023
  • "Joel Wit engaged Siegfried Hecker to look deeper into what should concern the United States about increased nuclear cooperation between Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea)."
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Links to Organizations

International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons

  • Nobel Peace Prize 2017
  • UN Treaty to Prohibit
    Nuclear Weapons
  • icanw.org

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

International Physicians for
the Prevention of Nuclear War

Global Zero

  • Started by 300 world leaders in 2008
  • Action Plan for Nuclear Weapon
    Abolition 2045
  • globalzero.org

Back from the Brink

"We call on the United States
to lead a global effort
to prevent nuclear war."

preventnuclearwar.org

Nuclear watch
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Links to buy books

Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen. 2024
Also available as an audiobook read by the author.

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The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race And Presidential Power
From Truman To Trump

William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina. 2020
From former US Secretary of Defense, William Perry, and
Director of Policy for The Plowshares Fund, Tom Collina.

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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Daniel Ellsberg. 2018.

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Vladimir Putin

Russia

Russia and the United States have 90% of all nuclear weapons

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Wants the United States to decrease missile defenses before Russia further decreases missiles.

Russia and the United States have 90% of all nuclear weapons

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Keir Starmer

UK

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Scotland and the Church of England advocate signing the TPNW.

Currently increasing nuclear warhead stockpile by 40%

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Scotland and the Church of England advocate signing the TPNW, but the UK is increasing nuclear warhead stockpile by 40%.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Narendra Modi

India

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Emmanuel Macron

France

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Anwar ul Haq Kakar

Pakistan

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Kim Jong-Un

North Korea

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Donald Trump

USA

Policy allows nuclear weapon ‘first-use’

Half of nuclear weapons are on ‘hair-trigger alert’

The USA + Russia have over 90% of all nuclear weapons

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

‘Sole authority’ policy, where one person can launch nuclear weapons.

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Aggressive policies include ‘first-use’, ‘hair-trigger’, ‘sole authority’, robust missile defense, and $2 trillion nuclear weapon rebuild.

Xi Jing-Ping

China

‘No-First-Use’ policy

No routine ‘High-Alert’

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

China has recently increased their number of nuclear weapons, and plans to continue to do so.

Has not signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

‘No-First-Use’, no routine ‘High-Alert’ but they are increasing their nuclear weapons.