Nuclear Power & Weapons

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A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.
How Green Is the Atom?
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas
Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley
Secretary of State John Kerry continued his meetings in Lausanne with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Under Secretary Wendy Sherman and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz are participating in the meetings.
Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
Bombing Hiroshima
Herd of horses on desert-steppe
A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan
A nuclear power plant located on the Rhine at night.
The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power
A military reservist, called to service in the wake of the disaster, involved in the decontamination process.
Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies
Mushroom cloud over the Bikini Atoll
Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War
The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb
Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape
The mushroom cloud from a 1954 high-yield thermonuclear weapon test.
Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea
An abandoned building in Chernobyl
A Postcard from Chernobyl
Hiroshima Memorial
A Postcard from Hiroshima
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum with a sign announcing the 70th anniversary ceremony.
A Postcard from Hiroshima
Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing
Bombing Hiroshima
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
a man standing on a large bomb
Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea attend a working lunch in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on October 7, 2018.
Kim Jong-un and the “Madman Theory” of Diplomacy
The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe Book Cover
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
President Ronald Reagan Says Goodbye to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev After The Last Meeting at Hofdi House Reykjavik Iceland, 10/12/1986
The Presidential Candidates Should Vow to Complete the Nuclear Arms Reduction Efforts Begun by President Reagan in Reykjavik
Cover of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction by Max Page.
The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
Signal Soldiers train to protect against Nuclear Biological and Chemical threats.
The Nuclear Theft From the Poor and Hungry
The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second biggest UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters (New York City).
The U.N. may be dysfunctional, but it’s the kind of dysfunction that its founders intended
Abandoned nuclear weapons depot in Northern Germany.
What About the WMDs that DO Exist?