“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Mar 19, 2025
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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
I keep saying this over and over, but the news media never seems to catch on: “The number of nuclear weapons in today’s nuclear world doesn’t matter. The numbers are irrelevant. A few is all that’s needed, or in some cases just “One”. One is the trigger that will set the others off, and today’s nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction are dozens of times more powerful than, say, the “Cold War” from 1945 to 1991 when the United States and Russia both increased and eventually reduced the number of nuclear weapons in their arsenal, comforting the world — at least politically and militarily — easing the everyday citizens’ anxiety for awhile. Until now.
What matters is the need for world leaders and international governments and their political and military organizations to quickly find a missing link in their power-crazed minds, and realize that for humanity to survive requires world peace. And that can only happen if we actually understand and practice the human-missing traits that the word “humanity” is supposed to define the way humans live.
There are dozens of peace-loving words to tell us that more narrowly define what “humanity” means, and world “peace” is just one of them. You can make up your own list using words like love, compassion, empathy, sympathy, understanding, care, fellowship, concern, and use them by taking them to heart, passing them along. You can let our nuclear-armed evil and corrupt leaders know about these gentle words — knowing that such an idea as universal kindness, peace, and love actually exists and can be passed along as food for thought to a whole world of others, rather than constantly listening to the hateful, angry, selfish, deceitful and separatist words and ways of life we collectively live today. ~llaw
11 hours ago –World
A new nuke wave washes over the world
There’s an uneasy nuclear weapons future ahead.
The big picture: Decades of order now feel disordered. Proliferation is again a kitchen-table topic; your parents are probably sending you headlines right now.
- An ascendant China, a trigger-happy Russia and rollercoaster politics in the U.S., among other factors, are prompting conversations of the deadliest stakes. Nukes are no joke.
Driving the news: The Federation of American Scientists warned in its latest accounting that Beijing has “significantly expanded” its program by “fielding more types and greater numbers of nuclear weapons than ever before.”
- The effort includes continued development of missile silo fields and bases for road-mobile launchers as well as reassignment of bombers with an air-launched ballistic missile that “might have nuclear capability.”
Meanwhile, weapon whispers are heard in:
- France, where President Emmanuel Macron is mulling the reach of his nuclear umbrella.
- Germany, where Friedrich Merz, the soon-to-be chancellor, welcomed discussions about shared arsenals while also acknowledging the heft of U.S. arms.
- Poland, where President Andrzej Duda called on Washington to send some of its weapons into his country — a move that would abbreviate flight times and anger Russia.
- South Korea, where a cocktail of concerns, namely its neighbors, spur repeat conversations. (Gideon Rose, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Japan would likely follow Seoul in a piece titled “Get Ready for the Next Nuclear Age.”)
And it’s all everyone’s talking about, from large organizations like the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Chatham House to the smaller expert blogs like Strategic Simplicity.
What they’re saying: “I, personally, didn’t have Poland on my bingo card,” Jane Vaynman, an assistant professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University, said at an event when asked by Axios for a global temperature check.
- “There’s a really big connection that’s been studied in the academic literature … between U.S. nuclear guarantees and the nonproliferation agenda.”
Yes, but: Nuclear aspirants need heaps of time, money and willpower — resources in demand everywhere else.
- The world’s most destructive weapons don’t accidentally materialize; they are the product of scientific expertise, coveted materials, manufacturing-and-test footprints and means of delivery.
- “The rule of thumb in the 1990s, when I started in this field, was: Any country can go nuclear. It takes, at a minimum, 10 years and $10 billion,” Jon Wolfsthal, the federation’s director of global risk, told me.
- “You could buy a lot of conventional deterrence with $10 billion.”
Reality check: The Chinese inventory, hundreds of warheads, is dwarfed by American and Russian collections, thousands each.
- Whether Beijing is a nuclear peer to Washington — or ever will be — depends on who you ask. Government assessments clash with those made by outside analysts.
- The Federation of American Scientists notebook, for example, says there is “no evidence that China’s ongoing nuclear expansion will result” in parity.
What we’re watching: How, amid this chaotic juggle, the U.S. deals with its own aging weapons and crumbling infrastructure, including sites managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration.Subscribed
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Nuclear Power Emergencies
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Nuclear War Threats
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Trump’s threats reignite talk of nuclear bombs in Iran – Al Jazeera
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Trump letter, threats. The US president’s threat that “every shot” fired by the Houthis in Yemen will be viewed as an attack from Iran has escalated …
Rewriting the Narrative on Nuclear Weapons: A research-based guide to building a safer future
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NTI and Ploughshares Release Guide to Shift the Narrative on Nuclear Weapons
NTI and Ploughshares Release Guide to Shift the Narrative on Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear War
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Ukraine war: Putin bombs energy plant hours after agreeing 30-day halt with Trump
The Independent
The Ukrainian city of 100000 was left without electricity after the Russian attack on a power grid.
Rewriting the Narrative on Nuclear Weapons: A research-based guide to building a safer future – NTI
NTI
NTI and Ploughshares Release Guide to Shift the Narrative on Nuclear Weapons
NTI
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Macron says France will order more Rafale fighter jets in nuclear deterrence drive
Euronews.com
… nuclear missile technology … “Our country andontinent must continue to defend, equip, and prepare itself if we want to avoid war,” he warned, …
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Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
A brand new volcanic vent opened up in Yellowstone – MSN
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While the expansive volcano shows no hints of an eruption, magma brews beneath the surface, fueling hundreds of geysers and other heated phenomena. In …