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Introduction: Possible flashpoints for the next major conflict
This July 2025 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists examines a number of similar potential flashpoints—around the world, in the skies above, and even in cyberspace—that, if activated, could ...
The atomic bomb’s first victims deserve to be remembered
Eric S. Singer is a cultural historian and author of “Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” a young readers edition of Kai Bird ...
The National Interest4h
80 Years Ago, the World Entered the Atomic Age
The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.
The Nation on MSN9hOpinion
80 Years After Trinity, the Dangers of Nuclear War Have Never Been Higher
Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.
Column: 80 years since ‘Trinity,’ nuclear threat still looms large
We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons or lose life as we know it on this planet, the Hampton Roads Campaign to Abolish ...
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Is Ukraine still a possible flashpoint for a larger war?
An interview with former US ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer back in May—when negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were ...