NI559 - The New Nuclear Arms Race - January/February 2026

Ever since the first nuclear bombs were dropped, a global movement has been pushing for their abolition. And while people power has limited their spread, nuclear weapons have become even more destructive than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

This magazine explores how, despite being aware of the risks, political leaders have brought the world closer to nuclear war than it has been in decades. And why it is as important as ever to push for nuclear disarmament.

With reports from across the world, including how survivors of French nuclear testing in the Sahara are still fighting for justice decades later; how the British state spied on the nuclear disarmament movement; the preppers planning to ride out nuclear war in luxury; and how we can still abolish nuclear weapons in today’s insecure world.

84 pages.

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