From Hiroshima to Diplomacy: How Learning about the Bomb Changed My Path
In our new series featuring the voices of a new generation, Martyna Szoja describes her path to working for peace.
Could Congressional Resolutions Reverse the New Nuclear Arms Race?
As multiple congressional resolutions compete for attention in the fight against nuclear weapons, the disarmament community faces a crucial question: are we building the next freeze movement, or fragmenting the one we have?
Director Jeff Daniels Unfiltered
The Television Event director on what drove him to make a documentary about a legendary TV movie.
80 years since the end of World War II, a dangerous legacy lingers in the Pacific
The physical legacy of war remains etched into the land and sea in the Pacific.
Nuclear weapons education has disappeared, it’s time to change that
If we are serious about wanting to diversify and expand the field, then we must start educating our students much earlier.
To avoid nuclear war we need strong journalism
Peter Rickwood argues that a younger generation of journalists desperately need more support to understand nuclear weapons
The ‘third nuclear age’ is a politically motivated label that seeks to justify a renewed arms race
Tom Vaughan argues the “third nuclear age” is not the threat; nuclear weapons are.
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