Nuclear weapons production and testing contaminated many sites across the US and exposed people unknowingly to radiation and toxic materials. Some have gone uncompensated for decades.
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The Christopher Nolan film ‘Oppenheimer’ is set to become a summer blockbuster. But one of the featured sites in the movie is a sobering reminder of the horror of nuclear war.
Putin’s announcement to Russia will no longer participate in the New START pauses the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement between the U.S. and Russia.
Sanctions are clearly not deterring North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. But alternative strategies have huge risks, too.
The British atomic tests at Emu Field in South Australia pre-dated Maralinga by three years. Largely forgotten, they remind us the costs of harmful political decisions are borne by the most powerless.
Radioactive pollution left over from British nuclear tests in South Australia may steadily be leaching into the environment.
In 1946, the US began its nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands – a terrifying thought for many Australians. Some 75 years on, the evidence shows their fears were well-founded.
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Associate professor and co-ordinator of professional development GRS, James Cook University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University; Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University., Georgetown University
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Research officer, Monash University
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Professor of Synchrotron Geosciences, Monash University
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Professor of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Professor Emeritus of Communication, North Carolina State University
