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The cyberattack on an Iranian nuclear facility, reportedly by Israeli intelligence, is the latest gambit from the coalition of Israeli leaders, Christian fundamentalists, and hawkish Washington neocons who want to block a US return to the JCPOA

U.S. nuclear testing resulted in entire islands vaporized and others uninhabitable due to radioactive fallout, displacing thousands of Marshallese people — many of whom out of necessity now live in the country whose government uprooted them...

Failing to re-join JCPOA, Biden risks war with Iran or acceding to an Iranian nuclear program on steroids — only delaying and multiplying the political risks to his presidency.

What’s often missing from the discussion in the United States, however, is the desires of the South Korean people. For decades, South Korean citizens have been protesting U.S. military bases on their soil.

Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.

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The debate over climate crisis, and more news and analysis from the Mideast, Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America

The New START treaty is the last remaining deal limiting US and Russia nuclear weapons as Trump withdrew from two others.

Can Biden Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War?

The ‘insurrection’ - who dunnit?