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-5 posts tagged "nuclear weapons"
Selena Ponio | Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Twelve Notre Dame students and recent alumni and five faculty members travelled to the Vatican to meet the pope and attend a conference on a topic that continues to dominate headlines: nuclear weapons. “This was probably the most public and high-level event on this issue since the end of the Cold War,” Gerard Powers, director
Louis Bertolotti | Monday, November 9, 2015
Does the name Vasili Arkhipov ring a bell to you? The odds say that you have no idea who this man is, although he most likely saved your life on a fateful day 53 years ago last week. Arkhipov was a Soviet naval officer aboard the B-59 nuclear-weaponized submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. At
Christopher Newton | Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Let us begin with an insight from everyone’s favorite butler, Alfred Pennyworth, who left us with the adage, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.” Whether the man has been Nero with his fiddle or the fictional Joker of Gotham, it seems there have always been those willing to put the torch to
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, February 3, 2015
“The leaders of nations cannot become complacent, but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.” — Pope John Paul II Nuclear weapons. We read about them in the news, scrawled next to ominous phrases like “mutually-assured destruction” or squeezed into headlines alongside the names of distant countries
Clare Kossler | Tuesday, September 16, 2014
In a lecture Monday titled “The Atomic Monstrosity from ‘Gojira’ (1954) to ‘Godzilla’ (2014)”, Professor Yuki Miyamoto of DePaul University said the issue of nuclear weapons is largely misrepresented and trivialized in the media. “The popular media also contributes … to our deviation, or our not looking … into this issue,” she said. Miyamoto said the media misrepresents