The nuclear arms race is back … and ever more dangerous now

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Donald Trump has increased spending on America’s arsenal while ripping up cold war treaties. Russia and China are following suit… That’s what happened to the roughly 200,000 people who live in the similarly sized northern Russian city of Severodvinsk on 8 August, after an explosion at a nearby top-secret missile testing range… Yet the incident has been met with surly silence by Russia. – The Guardian

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Trump Confirms Secret About Nuclear Weapons 17 Oct 2019 01:34 Taegan Goddard's Political Wire “President Trump appeared to confirm Wednesday that US nuclear weapons are being housed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, making him the first US official to publicly acknowledge what has been considered an open secret for years,” CNN reports. “Most experts …
Trump appears to confirm open secret about US nuclear weapons in Turkey 17 Oct 2019 01:25 CNN Most experts believe that the US maintains 50 Cold War-era B-61 "gravity" bombs in Turkey. The weapons are part of NATO's deterrence strategy and decisions about them have to be made by a unanimous vote of all 28 member states."We're …
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Archbishop of Lahore: No to nuclear weapons, we choose peace between India and Pakistan 16 Oct 2019 18:47 Asia News Abp. Sebastian Shaw made all the country's bells ring for peace. Both India and Pakistan possess the atomic bomb. For years they have threatened to drop it on the neighbor to definitively resolve the dispute over Kashmir. Lahore (AsiaNews / …
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‘Essentially Hostages’: US Nuclear Weapons At Turkish Airbase 15 Oct 2019 06:19 National Memo Reprinted with permission from Alternet When President Donald Trump pulled American troops out of northern Syria, virtually giving Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the green light to attack the region’s Kurds, he likely didn’t anticipate a key …
U.S. military keeps 50 nuclear weapons on Turkish airbase, and now they're 'Erdogan's hostages' 14 Oct 2019 21:43 Daily Kos No plan, and no regard for the consequences. The chaos resulting from Donald Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue decision to withdraw U.S. troops from their positions in Kurdish-held Syria, greenlighting an all-out Turkish invasion, continues to grow. …
US nuclear weapons are now being held as ‘essentially Erdogan’s hostages’ in Turkey: report 14 Oct 2019 21:34 Raw Story When President Donald Trump pulled American troops out of northern Syria, virtually giving Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the green light to attack the region’s Kurds, he likely didn’t anticipate a key factor that might get caught in the crossfire …
Predictive analytics assesses an India-Pakistan nuclear war 14 Oct 2019 18:21 Digital Journal Any nuclear war would devastating, but how devastating and it does it matter when or where? A further factor is with the continued after-effects of any bombs exploded. Predictive analytics assesses a potential conflict between India and Pakistan. A new …