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John Hallam

Pearls and Irritations

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A Christmas truce in Ukraine

07.12.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

John Hallam

Negotiate, don’t escalate

A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. As things now stand, the world is trembling on the brink of the abyss. Instead of going over...

26.11.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

John Hallam

Australia votes ‘Yes’ on UN nuclear war effects resolution

Australia has voted ‘yes’ to a UN resolution mandating the establishment of a research panel on the effects of nuclear war. The L39 resolution has...

06.11.2024 10

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Under the shadow of a NATO-Russia nuclear war, Hibakusha awarded Nobel Peace Prize

As Vladimir Putin deploys mobile missile launchers throughout the Siberian Taiga armed with Yars heavy duty ICBMs, while making nuclear threats and...

14.10.2024 8

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John Hallam

Placing Russian mobile missile launchers on alert a dangerous game

Newsweek has recently (Oct 7) reported that Russian mobile nuclear missile launchers have been placed on combat alert. This could mean nothing –...

10.10.2024 7

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Nagasaki, the forgotten bomb

At 11am Japanese time on 9 August 1945, the second, often forgotten, atomic bomb to be dropped from US B-29 ‘Bockscar’, on a Japanese city...

14.08.2024 10

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Remembering the US atomic bomb that demolished Hiroshima, killed 200,000

On 6 Aug, 1945, approximately 200,000 people in the hitherto untouched town of Hiroshima perished in the worlds first use of a nuclear weapon in...

06.08.2024 6

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John Hallam

Our highest national security priority

The purchase of nuclear submarines via AUKUS is turning into an open–ended nightmare in terms of cost that will deliver nothing positive for...

03.04.2024 10

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John Hallam

Doomsday clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight: Still poised on the brink, closer than we’ve ever been

Nuclear risk reduction, abolition, more, urgent than ever. With the iconic ‘Doomsday Clock’, curated by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...

27.01.2024 8

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