by Jon Letman | Aug 5, 2026 | AI, Arms Control, atomic bombs, Catholic Church, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, New Mexico, New START Treaty, News, npt, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, Organizing, Pope Francis, Pope Leo
Eighty-one years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nuclear landscape is dire. Experts say arms control is on “life support,” if not dead, while diplomacy and negotiations are overrun by conflict and confrontation. In February, the expiration of the New START Treaty marked the end of more than five decades of U.S.-Russian (Soviet) arms-control treaties.
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by Jon Letman | Dec 29, 2025 | Arms Control, Arms Race, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Militarism, News Analysis, nuclear testing, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons
Faster, stealthier missiles, accelerated weapons development, and the threat of an unrestrained nuclear arms race, set against the backdrop of a withering arms control regime, point to a worsening global nuclear threat as 2025 comes to a close. On top of that, just before meeting with China’s leader Xi Jinping in October, President Donald Trump abruptly, and very imprecisely announced in a social…
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