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  • President Trump

    Leaked nuclear posture review lays out policy changes that would increase risk of nuclear war

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on January 12, 2018 (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  |

    A draft of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review leaked to the Huffington Post indicates that the White House is planning changes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal and its nuclear-use policy that would increase the risk that nuclear weapons will be used.

  • U.S. Nuclear Weapons Map. (Visual Capitalist)

    We visualized the U.S. nuclear arsenal: It’s not pretty

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on September 15, 2017 (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  |

    International security experts often refer to the twin goals of military policy: to minimize the risk of war and to minimize the damage should war start.

  • How Many Cancers Did Chernobyl Really Cause? (Updated Version)

    Lisbeth Gronlund

    This is an update of my April 7 post on cancers resulting from Chernobyl — this post includes more detailed information and a more recent estimate of the total radioactive dose from the Chernobyl accident. There is a lot of confusion about how many excess cancer deaths will likely result from the 1986 Chernobyl accident […]

  • How Many Cancers Did Chernobyl Really Cause?

    Lisbeth Gronlund

    There is a lot of confusion about how many excess cancer deaths will likely result from the 1986 Chernobyl accident in Ukraine.  As we see below, 70,000 and 35,000 are reasonable estimates of the number of excess cancers and cancer deaths attributable to the accident. Much lower numbers of cancers and deaths are often cited, […]

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Lost & Found

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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