Our Take: When You Just Can't Quit ‘Deterrence’

Don’t blink. Deterrence is for ‘dreamers’

These Are Still Nuclear Times

Historian Henry Richard Maar III for Nuclear Times: “The entwined history of arms control and peace activism should remind us—we can stop and turn the clock back.”

Keith Haring’s ‘Public Art for a Public Purpose’ galvanized disarmament

Artist Keith Haring used his own money to print and distribute 20,000 haunting posters during the historic 1982 anti-nuclear weapons march in New York.

New Series: Art for Disarmament

Nuclear Times is launching Art for Disarmament. A new series celebrating the myriad contributions of artists and the arts to nuclear disarmament.

Was Nagasaki 'Necessary' or a War Crime, 80 Years Ago Today?

Greg Mitchell shows that “F**ing Up” civilians was the grotesque point of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

"The Buck Stops with Me": President Truman and Ordering the use of the Atomic Bombs

In a recent article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Alex Wellerstein argues that while Truman "deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war," the decision was largely already made from former President Roosevelt to General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, and

The treaty meant to control nuclear risks is under strain 80 years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Stephen Herzog makes the case for the NPT. “I believe that for the sake of humanity’s future, the tragedies of the atomic bombings must remain a stark and unmistakable warning, not a precedent.”

You Folded Your Origami Crane….Now What?

For one week in August every year, thousands of origami paper cranes are folded and shared as a symbol for peace. What can you do for the other 51 weeks a year to eliminate nuclear weapons?

Book Review: How the Manhattan Project ended up in your kitchen

For 82 years, the Manhattan Project has been poisoning our homes. A new book explores the cover-up.

Survivors’ voices 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki sound a warning and a call to action

Masako Toki argues that Japan must reject deterrence and embrace the moral clarity of the hibakusha.

Debunking the Myths of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Did the atomic bombings save "millions" as has been claimed, or was that figure one of many myths that have justified nuclear weapons for eight decades?

Hibakusha: From Ashes to Advocacy

For nearly a decade, the survivors of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were discriminated against, ignored, barred from speaking out or seeking damages. From the ashes, they rose to fight for disarmament and demand “No More Hibakusha.”