A Hundred Hiroshimas

Posted: 2nd September 2025

Al Jazeera -

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Hind Hassan examines the prospect of a new nuclear arms race, the companies helping to fuel it, and the dangers it poses.

Eighty years after the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used – the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 – the risk of the unthinkable happening again has never been greater.

The world’s largest nuclear powers – Russia and the United States – are as close as they’ve been to conflict since the height of the Cold War.

Also-

Lt. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara, Dep. Chief of Staff

for Strategic Deterrents and Nuclear Integration

USAF – on bombs from F35s. Excerpt of interest to

UK viewers and peace campaigners, such as the

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), who

believe the presence of US nuclear weapons in

East Anglia may make nuclear incineration of

millions of Britons more, not less likely.

<https://youtu.be/MhO9O9N2VrI>These groups are

also concerned, along with several social justice

and civil liberties organisations, that this

alleged decision has been made without any

democratic scrutiny whatsoever. Revelations from

one of the senior US generals… Russia’s nuclear

arsenal has been almost completely modernized and

the special military operation in Ukraine has not

weakened it, US Air Force Strategic Deterrence

and Nuclear Integration Deputy Chief of Staff

Lieutenant General Andrew Gebara said Donald

Trump would like to conclude a new agreement that

will replace the Russia-US New START Treaty,

Gebara noted The Mitchell Institute is pleased to

feature Lt. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara as its next

Aerospace Nation guest. He is the Deputy Chief of

Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear

Integration for the United States Air Force.

While nuclear deterrence is always important, the

current threat environment heightens the critical

nature of this mission. Added to this is the

reality that the U.S is in the midst of

recapitalising all three legs of its nuclear

triad, plus NC3. In this position, Lt Gen Gebara

is responsible for strategic deterrence policy,

nuclear oversight, arms control and the

Department of Defense foreign clearance program,

as well as providing focus on the nuclear

deterrence and countering weapons of mass

destruction missions for the Air Force. Join us

for what will be a most interesting conversation.