{"id":282776,"date":"2016-12-05T19:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-nuclear-arsenal-poses-threat-to-world-peace-academic\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T23:25:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T22:25:27","slug":"us-nuclear-arsenal-poses-threat-to-world-peace-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-nuclear-arsenal-poses-threat-to-world-peace-academic\/","title":{"rendered":"US nuclear arsenal poses threat to world peace: Academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US military\u2019s nuclear arsenal and Washington\u2019s policy in utilizing them against countries represents a far greater threat to international peace than Russia\u2019s nuclear weapons, an American writer and retired professor says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the presence of nuclear weapons, then the US certainly is a major threat to world peace,\u201d said James Petras, a professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and adjunct professor at Saint Mary&#8217;s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the mere fact that Russia has nuclear arms makes it a threat; I think the question is the politics behind and for which the nuclear weaponry has been constructed,\u201d Petras told Press TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The US was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan near the end of World War 2.<\/p>\n<p>Petras said the US and its allies&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/05\/496606\/US-military-Russia-James-Petras\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military\u2019s nuclear arsenal and Washington\u2019s policy in utilizing them against countries represents a far greater threat to international peace than Russia\u2019s nuclear weapons, an American writer and retired professor says. \u201cIf the presence of nuclear weapons, then the US certainly is a major threat to world peace,\u201d said James Petras, a professor emeritus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}