AM Nukes Roundup – August 6 – Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources say

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August 6: Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing (1945)

August 6: Anniversary of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone (1985)

August 8: Anniversary of "Fire and Fury" (2017)

August 9: Anniversary of Nagasaki bombing (1945)

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NEWS CLIPS

US NUCLEAR

 

Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources say

Gordon Lubold, Dan De Luce, NBC News - August 5

 

Pentagon draws up new nuclear weapons strategy for war with Russia and China

Natasha Leake, The Telegraph - August 5

 

CHINA

 

Why did a Chinese bomber carry a nuclear-capable missile in an anti-ship exercise?

Liu Zhen, Amber Wang, South China Morning Post - August 5

 

IRAN

 

Nuclear experts urge Trump not to let Iran steer talks away from regime's atomic threat

Efrat Lachter, Fox News - August 5

 

Trump warns Iran will be hit 'really hard' if nuclear negotiations collapse again

Michael Sinkewicz, Fox News - August 5

 

Majority of Americans say Iran war has failed, ‘not worth the cost,’ poll shows

Claire Carter, Washington Examiner - August 5

 

Iran Is Staking Everything on Controlling the Strait of Hormuz

Omar Abdel-Baqui, Benoit Faucon, Alexander Ward, Wall Street Journal - August 4

 

ASIA-PACIFIC

 

Hiroshima urges leaders to abolish nuclear weapons on 81st A-bomb anniv.

Keinosuke Taga, Kyodo News - August 6

 

Takaichi pledges to uphold ‘three non-nuclear principles’ on Hiroshima anniversary

Kenji Yoshida, Japan Times - August 6

 

Koizumi’s call for nuclear debate ‘without taboos’ triggers backlash

Asahi Shimbun - August 5

 

Shinjiro Koizumi backs nuke-free world after controversy

Japan Times - August 5

 


OPINION & COMMENTARY

John Carlson: Nuclear safeguards must be strengthened, not compromised

OPINION: Korea Times - August 5

 

Swaran Singh: When the World Stops Fearing the Bomb

OPINION: The Diplomat - August 5

 

Jon Letman: Faith Leaders Collectively Raise Alarm as AI and Nuclear Weapons Systems Merge

OPINION: Truthout - August 5

 

Mark Schneider: The Diversity of Russian Non-strategic (Tactical) Nuclear Weapons

OPINION: RealClearDefense - August 5

 

H. A. Hellyer, Why Trump’s Israel Normalization Demand May Kill the Saudi Nuclear Deal

OPINION: War on the Rocks - August 5

 

Lawrence Wittner: The Collapse of Nuclear Arms Control Puts the World in Peril

OPINION: LA Progressive - August 5

 

Scott Fina: An evening with a Minuteman

OPINION: Santa Ynez Valley News - August 5

 

Iain MacGregor: John Hersey and the horrors of Hiroshima

OPINION: Engelsberg Ideas - August 5

 

Jay Sweeney: Only we have used nuclear weapons

OPINION: The Times Tribune - August 5

 

Bharat Dogra: Nobel Laureates Warned that Nuclear War “Could End Civilisation in an Afternoon” while Calling for its Prevention

OPINION: Countercurrents - August 5

 


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