Why America Needs War
Wars are a terrible waste of lives and resources, and for that reason most people are in principle opposed to wars. The American President, on the other hand, seems…
Review of John Scales Avery’s book “Nuclear Weapons: An Absolute Evil”
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has recently announced (25/1/18) that they have moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to mid-night. A few days before this…
Forging a new nuclear deal
The introductory note: [This commendable article does, however, not consider, in the main, two things. One, the basic unviability of nuclear power, as graphically demonstrated by Chernobyl and Fukushima, apart…
Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal
The plunging cost of storage, along with that of wind and solar power, appears to have crossed a new threshold after a tender conducted by a major US energy utility…
The President and the Bomb
LRB Vol. 39; 16 November 2017 The President and the Bomb Adam Shatz is a contributing editor at the LRB, based in New York. In 1973, Harold Hering, a decorated Vietnam War…