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Zero Would Be Nice: The only way to end endless Oppenheimers is to end the Forever Arms Race
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The word “infinity” is frequently misused and abused. It is too often deployed simply to mean something vast, indefinite, or large beyond conception. But the idea of the infinite is…
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For Oppenheimer, a World Government Was the Only Way to Save Us From Ourselves
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Might something like a genuine world republic provide humanity with the tools to get a grip on existential perils like the climate emergency, runaway artificial intelligence, and new weapons of…
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Seven Long Centuries Ago, Dante Imagined the End of War and the Unity of Humankind
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It’s difficult to imagine any sort of connection between the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and something that occurred in an unremarkable bedroom in Italy almost exactly…
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World Government: Mere Science Fiction—Or Future Possibility?
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A Talk to the 2021 LOSCON (The Los Angeles science fiction convention)By Tad Daley, JD, PhD, Director of Policy Analysis at CGS The goal of Citizens for Global Solutions is…
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The Joe Biden Connection
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I didn’t vote for Joe Biden on Super Tuesday, March 3rd. Since the New Year I had been agonizing over whether to vote for Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders at…
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Fifty Years After the Moon Landing, Recalling One Small Misstep
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Why did the first humans to set foot off Planet Earth plant the flag of only part of Planet Earth?