Three decades after the first cold war, we’ve unfortunately entered a new one. There are about 14,000 nuclear weapons, some hundreds of times more powerful than those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they may be able to create a decade-long nuclear winter that could kill most people on Earth. Yet the superpowers are investing over a trillion dollars making their nuclear arsenals more lethal, which many experts believe increases the risk of nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and accidental nuclear war – which has almost occurred over a dozen times.
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Ariel Conn2016-02-19 12:49:172016-02-22 08:53:26X-risk News of the Week: AAAI, Beneficial AI Research, a $5M Contest, and Nuclear Risks
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Ariel Conn2016-02-12 23:13:052016-02-13 10:25:47X-risk News of the Week: Nuclear Winter and a Government Risk Report
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Ariel Conn2016-01-14 19:02:292016-01-20 16:44:52The Nuclear Weapons Threat and the Political Campaigns
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Ariel Conn2016-01-06 18:08:422018-06-05 12:21:09North Korea's Nuclear Test
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Ariel Conn2015-12-31 13:27:142018-06-05 12:21:092015: An Amazing Year in Review
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a guest blogger2015-12-17 19:39:562015-12-17 19:40:25Santa, Mistakes, and Nuclear War
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Lucas Perry2015-11-22 16:16:572015-11-23 13:07:11FLI at Nuclear Disarmament Conference
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Rob Bensinger2015-11-16 13:13:432015-11-16 13:16:00New report: “Leó Szilárd and the Danger of Nuclear Weapons”
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Lucas Perry2015-11-06 14:25:542018-06-05 12:21:10The Risk of Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan
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Meia Chita-Tegmark2015-10-28 18:59:092015-10-28 18:59:24What You Should Really Be Scared of on Halloween
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