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  • Monthly Review Essays
  •  | Israeli space launch vehicle Shavit sends a military intelligence satellite into space in March 2023 The same Shavit rocket can launch ballistic missiles including the nuclear capable three stage Jericho III intermediate range ballistic missile The Jericho III reportedly has a range exceeding 4000 kilometers enough to reach all of Iran Pakistan Europe and western Russia Israel has not acknowledged the existence of its nuclear weapon arsenal despite being widely known Credit Israel Defense Ministry | MR Online

    The U.S. hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on March 21, 2025 by Victor Gilinsky and Leonard Weiss (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Mar 28, 2025)

    An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons.

  •  | Trump  NOAA | MR Online

    A day without NOAA, a day without the National Weather Service?

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on February 12, 2025 (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2025)

    What is your morning routine? Wake up, maybe make coffee, tea, or other morning beverage or meal, check the weather.

  •  | Photo illustration by Thomas Gaulkin source photographs Scott OlsonGetty Kremlin KCNA | MR Online

    The national missile defense fantasy—again

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on February 4, 2025 by Joe Cirincione (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Feb 07, 2025)

    National missile defense advocates live in a world of magic and make-believe.

  •  | It is now 89 seconds to midnight | MR Online

    Closer than ever: It is now 89 seconds to midnight

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on January 28, 2025 by Science and Security Board Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Jan 30, 2025)

    2025 Doomsday Clock Statement

  •  | The public release on October 27 of the Nuclear Posture Review NPR | MR Online

    A failure to review America’s nuclear posture

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on October 28, 2022 by Joe Cirincione (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Nov 02, 2022)

    President Joe Biden has passed on his best chance to operationalize his stated goal of reducing the role in US security policy of America’s more than 5,400 nuclear weapons with the public release on October 27 of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).

  •  | Global energy related carbon dioxide emissions 1990 2021 Despite declining in 2020 global energy related carbon dioxide emissions remained at 315 gigatonnes which contributed to carbon dioxide reaching its highest ever average annual concentration in the atmosphere of 4125 parts per million in 2020around 50 percent higher than when the Industrial Revolution began In 2021 emissions increased to nearly match their 2019 peak Chart courtesy of IEA Global Energy Review 2021 | MR Online

    At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on January 20, 2022 by John Mecklin (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Jan 25, 2022)

    2022 Doomsday Clock Statement

  •  | Category 5 Super Typhoon Trami on its way to Japan and Taiwan in September 2018 Image courtesy of European Space AgencyAlexander Gerst | MR Online

    Coronavirus is an SOS: Mend our broken relationship with nature, says UN and WHO

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on June 22, 2020 by Damian Carrington (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2020)

    Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature, according to leaders at the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International—and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades.

  •  | A police officer wears a gas mask at a recent protest over police brutality and racism Credit Becker1999 via Flickr CC BY 20 | MR Online

    Why is tear gas banned in war but not from peaceful protests?

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on June 4, 2020 by Matt Field (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Jun 09, 2020)

    In the midst of national protests against racism and police brutality, President Donald Trump on Monday walked a short distance from the White House to St. John’s Church. The visit was for a photo op in which Trump held up a bible as though it were a ticket he had just plucked from a raffle drum.

  •  | Closeup of coronavirus through microscope Image courtesy of Peoples History of the Coronavirus PandemicNational Institutes of Health Rocky Mountain Laboratories | MR Online

    Let evidence, not talk radio, determine whether the outbreak started in a lab

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on May 15, 2020 by Ali Nouri (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted May 19, 2020)

    The president and his secretary of state made a startling claim last week: that there is enough evidence to suggest with a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the source of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

  •  | Figure 1 A visual metaphor for each of our personal carbon dioxide emissions  bright balloons that linger in our skies Image courtesy of Nexus Media Art by Matteo Farinella written by Jeremy Deaton | MR Online

    How to explain climate change? With comic books

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on April 22, 2020 by Matteo Farinella (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2020)

    If you are reading this, you probably already know a lot about climate change. But what images come to mind if I asked you to visualize climate change?

  •  | States with Stay at Home | MR Online

    Declaring victory too soon: Lessons from Europe’s different responses to coronavirus

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on April 24, 2020 by Eileen Choffnes (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2020)

    But do these assumptions hold up to the test? To find out, we must first take a quick look at some recent history.

  •  | Heron taking flight on the Mississippi River Image courtesy of EPA | MR Online

    Trump, coronavirus, and climate change: using a pandemic to gut the EPA

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on April 21, 2020 by Dan Drollette Jr. (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Apr 24, 2020)

    Under the guise of protecting workers and the public from the coronavirus, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two weeks ago that it will not issue fines against companies that violate certain water, air, and hazardous-waste-reporting requirements.

  •  | The White House recently touted its sweeping National Biodefense Strategy saying the plan was helping to guide the administrations response to the coronavirus outbreak But the administrations proposed cuts to public health programs appear to run counter to the goals of its own strategy Credit GangstonTech CC BY SA 40 | MR Online

    Trump touts biodefense strategy but slashes funding to detect and combat outbreaks like coronavirus

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on February 25, 2020 by Matt Field (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Feb 28, 2020)

    t the end of January, at a time when the coronavirus outbreak that began in China was dominating international headlines, The White House announced it was forming a new task force to address the growing crisis, one headed by the secretary of health and human services, Alex Azar.

  •  | Illustration by Matt Field | MR Online

    Top US Army official: Build AI weapons first, then design safety

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on October 22, 2019 by Matt Field (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Oct 26, 2019)

    “We need to decide if we want to live in a world in which autonomous weapons systems identify and attack targets faster than humans can think.”

  •  | A US MQ 9 Reaper assassination drone | MR Online

    Drone warfare: The death of precision

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on May 12, 2017 by James Rogers (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Jul 26, 2017)

    With Obama’s “precision ethos” behind us and the “Trump doctrine” ahead. Neither is perfect, but latter with the priority for percision gone, is much more dangerous.

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng  | A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory smoking a cigar The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS dollar imperialism | MR Online

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

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    Robert W. McChesney  | Bob McChesney on Saving Journalism | MR Online

    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

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