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Nuclear weapons are sinful.

Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith.

American decline, from a historical perspective.

Survivors of the first nuclear tragedies are now campaigning not only against nuclear weapons, but now also against the dangers of nuclear power.

During war, John Dower explains, “the system filters out the thoughtful and replaces them with the faithful.”

Why we can’t bring ourselves to discuss the worst that could happen at the Fukushima nuclear complex?

Gary Wills's Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State; Elizabeth Arnold's Effacement.

As the nuclear security summit convenes in Washington, the US's "first-use" of nuclear bombs in 1945 still matters.

At last, a believable sighting of that peace president many of us thought we had elected. Give Barack Obama credit, big time, for the startling progress he has made in tempering the threat of nuclear annihilation.