In a Perilous Time: Nuclear Dangers, Politics, and the New Cold War

Historic black-and-white photograph of the Operation Crossroads Baker nuclear test, showing a massive mushroom cloud rising above the ocean after an underwater atomic explosion.

UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.”  New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network of U.S. Indo-Pacific alliances, NATO,  and the Chinese, Russian. North Korean and Belarussian entente. In the US, … Read more