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Preparing for the Worst: Government Agencies Prepare for Nuclear Disaster

By Jerico Espinas
In Opinion
January 17, 2018
4 Min read
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  Should we be preparing ourselves for nuclear emergency after the increasingly antagonistic (and absurd) exchanges between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un? Some government agencies are starting to prepare for the worst through training and drills that have not been relevant since the Cold War.   On January 2nd, after returning from a vacation in Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump resumed Tweeting...

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A Cautionary Celebration: Nuclear Weapons and ICAN’s Nobel Peace Prize

By Jerico Espinas
In News, Opinion
October 25, 2017
5 Min read
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“We live in a world where the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.” Berit Reiss-Andersen, the leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, made this statement to justify giving the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) the Nobel Peace Prize in early October. ICAN officially launched in Vienna in 2007 after its start in Australia...

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