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Nuclear War is Closer Than You Think
Finland and Sweden realize just how necessary a military alliance is in today’s nuclear climate.
But recent claims from Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have put the possibility of membership to a halt, as membership requires unilateral support from all of NATO’s members.
Let’s hope that Turkey is just using this as a negotiating leverage point over NATO and that he will follow through with admitting Finland and Sweden.
Complete solidarity is needed in the face of the highest nuclear tensions seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Our collective future depends on it.
“[U]nder current policy, there is no realistic way to stop a determined president from going nuclear.” — William J. Perry
On July 16th, 2020, we remembered the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Nuclear Test, which took place in New Mexico in 1945. Only doomsday prophets could have predicted the rise of anything remotely similar to nuclear weapons prior to 1945. 80 years later, we are still in awe of the capacity we have to destroy ourselves.
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki cost Japan approximately 200,000 lives, half of which died instantly, and half of which died from radiation burns and other…
