The day after the nuclear bomb

The alarm has been sounded, time and again. Not only by the so-called peaceniks, but also by successive secretaries general of the UN, Nobel laureates, and even old Cold Warriors.

The remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 1, 1945, after it was hit by an atomic bomb on Aug. 6 of that year. Earl Turcotte says all the signs are there that another catastrophe could come.UN photograph by DB

Opinion

BY EARL TURCOTTE

October 25, 2017

The day after the next nuclear detonation, it will all be so clear: what we could have done—what we should have done—to prevent it. All the signs were there: a global nuclear arsenal with the capacity to destroy the earth hundreds of times over, with thousands of warheads on high-aler...

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