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ANYONE wondering why the US and North Korea are threatening each other with nuclear devastation might contemplate Donald Trump’s latest Twitter comments.
“My first order as president was to renovate and modernise our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before,” he boasted.
One provision of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ratified in 1970 and renewed indefinitely in 1995 was that the five acknowledged nuclear powers “pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control.”
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
The US’s bid for regime change in the Islamic Republic has become more urgent as it seeks to encircle and contain a resurgent China, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
VIJAY PRASHAD on why the US attack on Iran was illegal and why the attack could actually spur nuclear weapons proliferation
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from Parliament Square, where a rally slammed the hypocrisy of allowing Israel to bomb Iran and kill hundreds to stop it developing nuclear weapons — the same weapons Israel secretly has and refuses to explain