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The end of nuclear power

Justin Alger and Trevor Findlay (Carleton): Strengthening Global Nuclear Governance. Does the taboo against the use of nuclear weapons only increase their allure? Pakistan doubles its nuclear arsenal: Is it time to start worrying? P. M. Kamath (VPM): Make No First Use of Nuclear Weapons: The First Step towards Global Nuclear Disarmament. A review of The Bomb by Howard Zinn. Ethan Porter reviews How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III by Ron Rosenbaum (and more and more and an excerpt: "In some cases a pre-emptive nuclear strike might be moral while nuclear retaliation might not"). A look at how one nuclear skirmish could wreck the planet. Nuclear weapons: How Cold War major Harold Hering asked a forbidden question that cost him his career. Justin Nobel on 3 unique tours through U.S. nuclear history. What would end-timers do without the threat of nuclear annihilation? Mikhail Gorbachev reflects on lessons learned from the Chernobyl disaster. A political impact as great as 9/11: The nuclear disaster in Fukushima makes it hard to ignore the vulnurabilities of the technology — it could spell the end of nuclear power. A new uncertainty: A fragile bipartisan consensus on nuclear power’s promise for the United States may have dissolved.