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  • | Illustration by Thomas Gaulkin VectorstockLeremy Gan | MR Online

    Apocalypse never: what coronavirus teaches us about doomsday denial

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist on May 22, 2020 by Jamais Cascio (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist)  | (Posted May 26, 2020)

    he current pandemic is giving humanity a crash course in apocalypse management. Whether COVID-19 is actually apocalyptic or not is debatable, but the pandemic has many of the characteristics that we associate with something of that scale.

  • | A medical team conducting annual medical examinations of Marshallese people who were exposed to radioactive fallout from an atmospheric nuclear weapons test in 1954 Credit US Dept of Energy | MR Online

    The human cost of nuclear weapons is not only a “feminine” concern

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist on November 22, 2019 by Lilly Adams (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist)  | (Posted Nov 26, 2019)

    The nuclear weapons world is full of subtle and not-so-subtle misogyny, and I’ve had my share of experiences: Fighting my way onto an otherwise all-male panel, only to have my speaking time cut short. Meeting a male colleague at a conference for the first time, where he immediately told me that he liked the red […]

  • | Players of Fallout 76 pose in front of their own homemade mushroom cloud Image courtesy Bethesda | MR Online

    The ambivalent nuclear politics of Fallout video games

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist on October 17, 2018 by Cameron Hunter (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist)  | (Posted Oct 22, 2018)

    The late French filmmaker, François Truffaut, once claimed “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film”—referring to the adventure and thrill of combat, the (usually) clear-cut heroes and villains, and the opportunity for the film-maker to indulge in spectacular pyrotechnics and loud, cinema-shaking explosions of sound.

  • | The trouble with geoengineers hacking the planet | MR Online

    The trouble with geoengineers “hacking the planet”

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist on June 23, 2017 by Raymond T. Pierrehumbert (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist)  |

    To be sure, I can actually imagine a world in which a small and strictly limited amount of albedo modification could sensibly be deployed as a complement to strong and largely successful efforts to bring carbon dioxide emissions towards zero, accompanied by successful deployment of technologies for actively removing the gas from the atmosphere. But that would be a world with a truly exceptional level of international agreement, fact-based decision-making, and cooperation towards shared goals. A world where somebody like Donald Trump can become president of a superpower is not that world.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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