Wasn't there a John Travolta movie about this? As if losing a nuke was rare, and only a highly-motivatesd wanna-be Volvo stock-owner could manage it.
> A "Broken Arrow" is an unexpected event that results in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of a nuclear weapon. These events are, worryingly, more numerous than you might think. Since around 1950, somewhere in the order of thirty-two...
https://interestingengineering.com/science/missing-nukes-from-the-cold-war-era
#NoNukes #NuclearBombs #Military
/HT @bojacobs

> "Jacobs leaves behind the division of nuclear power into civilian and military spheres. He argues convincingly that propagandists drew this line in order to clear the way for the unhindered pursuit of nuclear weapons. In so doing, he masterfully shows how military leaders waged a limited nuclear war on the environment and human bodies." — #KateBrown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.powells.com/book/nuclear-bodies-9780300230338
#NoNukes #脱原発 #NuclearPower #NuclearBombs @bojacobs

We may be lucky enough not to have nuclear weapons make us extinct as the Russia Ukraine war goes on. So why not start thinking about how to avoid the next war that would risk nuclear annihilation involving the #USA... I started watching #JohnPilger's #ComingWarOnChina a feel bad about the #MarshallIslands #NuclearBombs #NuclearTesting and #Contamination by #Radiation in the #BikinAtoll

'In October 1961 after a decade of mounting personal outcry against the unabating arms race #Russell warned his uneasy listeners at a ban-the-bomb rally in London's Trafalgar Square that they would be lucky if any of them were alive in a year's time... "we have been extremely lucky so far. But I don't see any reason to be optimistic..." '
https://russell-j.com/1327-PI.HTM
a 1963 #PlayBoy interview of #BertrandRussel about the threat of #NuclearBombs.

' Forty years ago, #NuclearApocalypse was a top concern. The risk of it is now higher, but the concern is gone. So, this is a teaching moment, and we may not have many of them left. '

In 1963 even #PlayBoy interviewed #BertrandRussel about the threat of #NuclearBombs.

https://davidswanson.org/40-things-we-can-do-and-know-for-people-in-ukraine-and-the-world/
#DavidSwanson #WarIsALie on #NuclearWeapons as a