Anne I. Harrington (Cardiff): Power, Violence, and Nuclear Weapons. Andreas Umland (IEAC): The Ukraine Example: Nuclear Disarmament Doesn’t Pay. During the cold war, America wanted to hide nukes in Iceland. A look at how a solar flare almost triggered a nuclear war in 1967. Robert Gallucci on a complex nuclear situation, in a complicated world. Is the world creeping towards a ban on nuclear weapons? The deadly briefcase that never leaves the president’s side: Donald Trump’s views on nukes may be the scariest thing about his candidacy — but how does Potus launch an attack at a moment’s notice? Our nuclear procedures are crazier than Trump: U.S. presidents are currently given a four-minute window to decide whether or not to initiate an irreversible apocalypse. Obama’s last chance to terminate US nuclear policy (thanks to Trump): Joe Cirincione on four ways Obama can make humanity safer from nuclear weapons before anyone else gets the launch codes.
Debate over Trump’s fitness raises issue of checks on nuclear power. Would you trust Trump to handle nukes? Republican senators won’t say. Hillary Clinton should go nuclear on Donald Trump.
