What Can We Learn From the Birth of the #NuclearEra?

By Eric Ross, #CommonDreams
August 3, 2025

"In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals #India and #Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to 2 billion lives worldwide.

"The instability of a global order structured on nuclear apartheid has also come into sharp relief in the context of the recent attacks on #Iran by #Israel and the #UnitedStates. That system has entrenched a dangerous double standard, creating perverse incentives for the #proliferation of world-destroying weaponry, already possessed by nine countries. Many of those nations use their arsenals to exercise imperial impunity, while non-nuclear states increasingly feel compelled to pursue nuclear weapons in the name of national security and survival.

"Meanwhile, the largest nuclear powers show not the slightest signs of responsibility or restraint. The United States, #Russia, and #China are investing heavily in the 'modernization' and expansion of their arsenals, fueling a renewed arms race. And that escalation comes amid growing global instability contributing to a Manichean world of antagonistic armed blocs, reminiscent of the #ColdWar at its worst.

"The nuclear threat endangers not only global peace and security but the very continuity of the human species, not to speak of the simple survival of life on Earth. How, you might wonder, could we ever have arrived at such a precarious situation?

"The current crisis coincides with the 80th anniversary of the #TrinityTest, the first detonation of an atomic weapon that would soon obliterate the Japanese cities of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki and so inaugurate the #AtomicAge. So many years later, it’s worth critically reassessing the decisions that conferred on humanity such a power of self-annihilation. After all, we continue to live with the fallout of the choices made (and not made), including those of the scientists who created the bomb. That history also serves as a reminder that alternative paths were available then and that another world remains possible today."

Read more:
https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/08/03/hiroshimas-history-lesson/

#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #AnotherWorldIsPossible #BeyondNuclear

~American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test~

Ιούλιος 1945, μια παρέα 13χρονων κοριτσιών πάνε κατασκήνωση και κολυμπούν στα νερά του ποταμού Ruidoso του New Mexico. Αυτό που δεν γνώριζαν τα κορίτσια είναι ότι εκεί κοντά, το Manhattan Project πυροδότησε δοκιμαστικά μια πυρηνική βόμβα.
Όλα τα κορίτσια πέθαναν από καρκίνο πριν τα 30 τους, μοναδική επιζών η Barbara Kent, το κορίτσι μπροστά στην φώτο, αναλυτικά στο

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2023-07/collateral-damage-american-civilian-survivors-of-the-1945-trinity-test/

#TrinityTest

💣 Today in History – July 16, 1945

They called it Trinity.

The first successful nuclear test — and the day science gave humanity the power to destroy itself.

#Brewminate #TrinityTest #AtomicAge #NuclearHistory #TodayInHistory

Today marks an absolutely unique day in History: on July 16,1945,with the #TrinityTest,humanity entered the #NuclearEra.

My book #LArmaFinale -based on 23 years of my work on #NuclearWeapons(it will be out July 25) - reconstructs, among other things, massive cover-up and lies