Denis Villeneuve's Next Dune Movie Needs To Avoid the Pitfalls of Frank Herbert's 'Dune Messiah'
However, Edric, one of the Guild’s Navigators, is a crucial character in Dune Messiah, as his own prescient abilities conceal the activities of the conspiracy from Paul’s prescient sight. Like all ...
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China Issues Nuclear Weapons Statement on Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Test
China reiterated its call for nuclear-weapons nations to make a declaration on no-first-use of nukes. During a regular press conference in Beijing on Wednesday, Mao Ning, spokesperson of the ...
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How China used a ‘paper tiger’ to emerge as a nuclear weapon superpower
It was a pivotal moment in China’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. The experiment was conducted at a time of immense political challenges: the nation’s alliance with the Soviet Union had fallen ...
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo for group's work toward abolition of nuclear weapons
It won the prize for its "efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons." LONDON -- Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group, has won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work toward ...
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South Korea’s nuclear fuel goal stirs fears of atomic weapons development
But the fuel can also be used potentially to build nuclear weapons in South Korea by extracting fissile material, according to analysts. To secure reprocessing facilities, South Korea needs to ...
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Nobel Increases Pressure on States to Join Nuclear Weapons Ban
Their resilience and determination have ensured the work to ban nuclear weapons will continue. The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a crucial framework for eradicating ...
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For Atomic Bomb Survivors, a Nobel Prize and a Reckoning, 80 Years Later
Toshiyuki Mimaki, the chairman of Nihon Hidankyo, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said his foremost wish was to “please abolish nuclear weapons while we are alive.” By Hannah Beech ...
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Iran’s Nuclear Tipping Point
When it comes to Iran’s capacity and desire to develop nuclear weapons, conventional wisdom in the West has generally held that Tehran treasures its so-called threshold status—in which it possesses ...
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Hibakusha group receives Nobel Peace Prize for “demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”
a grassroots movement formed by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and nuclear weapons testing (or Hibakusha), “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for ...
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese anti-nuclear weapon organization Nihon Hidankyo
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese anti-nuclear weapon organization made of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. “This grassroots ...