American Nukes

About American Nukes

American Nukes tries to do something very simple, but very important: To show people what nuclear weapons look like.

To most people, despite the nuclear threat becoming more visible in recent years, a nuclear weapon is an abstraction. It is a bomb, or a missile, something vague. The weapons are threatening, sure, but in a distant way, looming much deeper in the background than the threats posed by environmental concerns, economic concerns, pandemic concerns, AI concerns, and concerns about social issues.

Nuclear weapons are easy to forget about. Yet of all the worries that plague us today, nuclear weapons remain the only threat that can utterly destroy us. And despite all efforts, nuclear weapons are growing as a threat as their use becomes more plausible and thus more likely.

By creating American Nukes I hope to provide a resource for people to learn about nuclear weapons, to learn about the policy issues surrounding these weapons.

Most of all I want people to see nuclear weapons, to see what they look like, to make them less of an abstraction. Only then can we start to think clearly about how to control these weapons and how to control those who control them.