Oct. 30, 2025 6:30 AM PT
To the editor: Eighty years in the past, more than 200,000 people have been killed by two atomic bombs dropped in Japan. Humanity didn’t recoil from that horror. As an alternative, we went on to stockpile around 70,000 nuclear warheads.
As a current op-ed factors out, Kathryn Bigelow’s film “A Home of Dynamite” reminds us of this ever-present existential menace we stay with (“The threat of nuclear war never went away,” Oct. 27). Bigelow’s important message is {that a} livable world requires fewer nuclear weapons. We’ve got lowered the worldwide stockpile of nuclear weapons to about 12,000, but in Bigelow’s film, it’s a single warhead that’s racing to immediately wipe out tens of millions of lives.
One other Los Angeles Occasions article in that very same version described Russian President Vladimir Putin’s veiled menace to make use of Russia’s newly enhanced cruise missiles, a harmful escalation of the nuclear arms race (“Putin says Russia’s nuclear-armed underwater drone was tested successfully,” Oct. 29). This isn’t a scary story; relatively, it’s a scary actuality. There is no such thing as a means this ends nicely besides by working collectively to save lots of ourselves. Humanity shares a typical destiny, whether or not or not it’s good or unhealthy.
Phil Beauchamp, Chino Hills
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To the editor: The atomic-powered missiles being developed by Russia and boasted about by Putin look like a message to President Trump: “We won’t blink once more.”
Then again, Trump has said now we have a nuclear submarine that’s “the best on this planet,” poised “proper off [Russia’s] shores” so it doesn’t “have to go 8,000 miles.” Are these two leaders taking part in with hearth?
It seems nuclear statements from the US and Russia might have, within the lengthy (and even brief) run, apocalyptic outcomes, and will turn into Trump and Putin’s self-fulfilling prophecy. I certain hope that’s not the case.
Hugo Pastore, Harbor Metropolis
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To the editor: Essentially the most harmful villain on this planet is waging struggle on a sovereign nation and boasting about conducting profitable checks on a nuclear-capable underwater weapon.
So how does the Trump administration reply? By sending members of our Navy to worldwide waters off Venezuela to kill civilians (“Mexican president condemns U.S. strikes that killed 14 alleged drug traffickers,” Oct. 28). It appears to the remainder of the world like now we have elected cowards and mob bosses in Washington to run our nation.
Mary Montes, West Hills
