Category: Nuclear Weapons
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Why Nuclear Weapons Are Not ‘Immoral’
Although I have talked about the problem with ‘moral arguments’ in a previous post1, I have recently heard many people say nuclear weapons are immoral […]
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Should Ukraine Have Kept Nuclear Weapons?
Particularly at the moment, when nuclear disarmament is mentioned, people say that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Ukraine had kept its nuclear weapons. This is a short post to question that assumption.
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Party Consensus – War With Russia
There is one thing worse than planning a war with Russia, and that is mindlessly sleepwalking into it.
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Ukraine: Red Lines and Nuclear Warnings
Why is Russia so concerned that if Ukraine is given weapons to attack targets inside Russia, it could lead to direct Russia-NATO conflict and possibly […]
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Is The ‘Green’ Party For Or Against Nuclear Weapons?
The simple answer to the question is yes – it is ‘for or against’ nuclear weapons, however, it cannot make up its mind. It has […]
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Should We Stop Supporting The Ukrainian Government
This post was going to be ‘a few notes on the war in Ukraine’. However, I have decided to give it some focus, which will […]
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Nuclear Disarmament – a naive idea?
Jeremy Corbyn’s statements about scrapping the Trident nuclear weapons system has again resulted in responses that such ideas are naive and a gut reaction that […]
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Deterrence: Terrorists
Firstly, it is important to point out that nuclear weapons are terror weapons. They have limited military value and are design to kill large numbers […]
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Nuclear Deterrence: Cuban Missile Crisis
I am not going to give a full account of the crisis, since it has been detailed elsewhere1. However, I would like to point out […]
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Nuclear Weapons: Ending The War With Japan
Ending The War With Japan First of all some pictures: You may think that these are pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, they are Tokyo […]
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Nuclear Weapons: Keeping the peace for 60 years?
One of the arguments for nuclear weapons is that they have ‘kept the peace’ for the last 60 years. Deterring an event is not the […]
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Witch Burning and Nuclear Deterrence
This is the first in a series of posts about nuclear deterrence. Although there are records of witch burning in Europe since very early, there […]
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Odd Socks And The Dangers Of Nuclear Proliferation
Before talking about nuclear proliferation I am going to explain a concept which people may have covered at school – odd socks in a drawer. […]
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Nuclear Proliferation
In light of what is happening in Iran and North Korea it seems strange that there has been very little mentioned about the link between […]
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Thorium and Proliferation
I will probably write about the Thorium cycle a bit more at some later point. There seems to be a growing number of people who […]
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