{"id":7316,"date":"2019-08-17T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/17\/nuclear-arms-race-is-back-and-more-dangerous-than-before"},"modified":"2019-08-17T22:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T13:00:43","slug":"the-nuclear-arms-race-is-back-and-ever-more-dangerous-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7316","title":{"rendered":"The nuclear arms race is back \u2026 and ever more dangerous now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has increased spending on America\u2019s arsenal while ripping up cold war treaties. Russia and China are following suit<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the uproar if the entire populations of York, Portsmouth or Swindon were suddenly exposed to three times the permissible level of penetrating gamma radiation, or what the nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford termed gamma rays. The outpouring of rage and fear would be heard across the world.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happened to the roughly 200,000 people who live in the similarly sized northern Russian city of Severodvinsk on 8 August, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/13\/russian-villagers-set-for-mini-evacuation-from-fatal-nuclear-blast-area\" title=\"\">an explosion at a nearby top-secret missile testing range<\/a>. Russia\u2019s weather service, Rosgidromet, recorded radiation levels up to 16 times higher than the usual ambient rate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/17\/nuclear-arms-race-is-back-and-more-dangerous-than-before\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has increased spending on America\u2019s arsenal while ripping up cold war treaties. Russia and China are following suitImagine the uproar if the entire populations of York, Portsmouth or Swindon were suddenly exposed to three times the permiss&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,415,221,441,419,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7328,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}