30 Jun, 2025
For the Next Steps with Iran, Let’s Work on an International Diplomatic Solution
For the Next Steps with Iran, Let’s Work on an International Diplomatic Solution by Allen Pietrobon 914 words In the...
30 Jun, 2025
19 Oct, 2022
Let’s defuse nuclear war, together
Sixty years ago this week, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was in my mother’s womb. My young, sweet mom was terrified she’d never get to see me be born, as the world teetered on the brink of unimaginable calamity. It’s bewildering to me that nuclear crises bookend my life at this point.
17 Oct, 2022
Shame and hope
The primitive stupidity of the global “security” system in which we continue to drift 60 years after the Cuban crisis is beyond shameful.
14 Oct, 2022
Can Russia’s use of a nuclear weapon in the Ukraine war be prevented?
President Biden surprised his top advisers along with everyone else when, at a fundraising event, he referred to “Armageddon” in the Ukraine war: Russia’s possible use of a nuclear weapon.
16 Mar, 2022
The Tragedy of Ukraine and New Thinking
As we lock horns with the cruel and out-of-touch Putin, once again we’re at a moment that too closely resembles the Cuban crisis of 1962. We really don’t seem to have learned very much since then. Sixty years is a long time not to have figured out that nuclear chicken is a game with no winners.
10 Mar, 2022
Our new normal
Putin’s cruel invasion of the Ukraine reminds us that there are leaders of countries—and not only Putin—who think and act according to the conviction that if they do not get their way, they might turn to nuclear weapons as a last resort.
3 Mar, 2022
Have mercy
"As the Ukrainian people endure horrors that are all the worse for being absurdly unnecessary, it is difficult to avoid pondering the most horrific absurdity of all:..."
3 Aug, 2016
It’s time
“As I turned 12 on 27 October 1962, I asked my Dad if he thought I’d live to go to...