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Interview: “My Dad Moved the Mormon Church on Nukes”
This interview was conducted by Taylor Barnes for Inkstick Media—a Ploughshares grantee. You can read the full interview on Inkstick’s website. A few years ago, I came across what folks in Utah call “the MX battle,” and ever since, I can’t unsee it. The reason I keep coming back to it is not just…
Atomic Alchemy Issue #3: Prepare, For We Are In a Battle Over Building Dreams of a Better Tomorrow
In the penultimate issue of the Atomic Alchemy zine series, Jasmine Owens explores the weaponization of our fear as fuel for nuclear necropolitical status quo, and the power of radical imagination in the struggle for liberation. Atomic Alchemy Zine #3: “Prepare, For We Are In a Battle Over Building Dreams of a Better Tomorrow” Author…
80 Years Later: Honor the Memory, End the Threat
August 6 and 9 respectively mark 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 people and unleashing generations of suffering. An estimated 38,000 children died in the attacks, many from the immediate impact of the bombs, others from the long-term health effects of radiation. In a moving testament…
NukeTalk Podcast
The most recent season of NukeTalk is The Nuclear Ballot: How the US Election Shapes Nuclear Policy. NukeTalk is currently on hiatus.
9 countries in the world possess nuclear weapons.
Of the approximately 12,121 weapons that exist today, the United States and Russia have a combined total of 10,624, accounting for over 90 percent of the world’s nuclear arsenal.
