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Robert Dodge
Robert Dodge

  • August 06, 2022

    Teachable moment

    Seventy-seven years ago the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 and three days later, Nagasaki, resulted in immediate deaths of...

  • January 24, 2022

    Doomsday and hope

    On this 75th anniversary of their Nuclear Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists unveiled their 2022 setting, keeping the time steady for...

  • January 11, 2022

    Must end hypocrisy

    In an open letter to President Biden over 1,000 physicians, health professionals and concerned citizens have called on the president to take bold...

  • June 23, 2021

    Nuclear words

    “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” These words echoing the Reagan – Gorbachev Principle issued thirty six years before in...

  • April 20, 2021

    Biden’s first 100 days

    Each Spring in April we fund our national priorities. This year, as the last, we face an altered reality as we continue to grapple with a global...

  • September 30, 2019

    Eliminate them

    “Nuclear weapons present an unacceptable danger to humanity. The only real way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons is to eliminate nuclear...

  • August 08, 2019

    No winners

    Seventy-four years ago, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. This nuclear weapon resulted in the...

  • January 31, 2019

    Doomsday clock

    This past week witnessed two significant and connected events. We remembered and celebrated the visionary champion of civil rights, social and...

  • September 06, 2018

    No war

    A national collaborative grassroots coalition to abolish nuclear weapons is rapidly emerging in this country. The effort called “Back from the...

  • March 20, 2018

    Nuclear weapons

    We will not invest in our annihilation. Now we can avoid it. Our world and everything we care about is threatened every moment of every day by...

  • December 13, 2017

    Saving humanity

    Since the beginning of the nuclear age and the dropping of the first atomic bombs, humankind has struggled with the reality of being able to destroy...

  • September 12, 2017

    Weapons of disaster

    The world watches as the natural disasters of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the earthquake off Mexico wreak their devastation, waiting for their...

  • January 30, 2017

    Doomsday clock

    The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced its latest nuclear Doomsday Clock. In so doing they moved the symbolic minute hand ahead thirty seconds...

  • January 02, 2017

    Against nukes

    As part of President-Elect Trumps daily tweets this past week he stated: The United States must greatly strengthen its nuclear capability until...

  • November 01, 2016

    Weapons of war

    Nuclear weapons present the greatest public health and existential threat to our survival every moment of every day. Yet the United States and world...

  • May 28, 2016

    Obama in Hiroshima

    President Obama will be the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima since the bombing 71 years ago in 1945. Japan seeks not an apology or...