2024-10-12
18 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner, and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
For years, we've sort of imagined this picture of a polar bear floating on a piece of ice.
Those have been the images associated with climate change.
My challenge is to find stories that show you how climate change is affecting our world right now.
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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Kathleen Kingsbury, and I oversee the Opinion report at the New York Times.
This year, we are doing a series to call attention to a burgeoning nuclear age.
As the Cold War closed, many people the United States stopped thinking about nuclear weapons.
Yet now countries like the United States, Russia, and China, the largest nuclear powers on Earth, are spending trillions of dollars to build new arsenals of weapons.
We're really in a new arms race.
In many ways, this has been hidden from the American public.
There is no public conversation about it.
There are no protests in the way that we saw in the 1980s.
And what we saw then was that when the public raised its V, when it raised its concerns with lawmakers, then there was real change and arsenals began to shrink.
As we enter this new nuclear age, I thought it was really important to go and talk to the only people on Earth who have lived through an atomic bombing before and understand the aftermath and the pain and suffering that they have gone through over many, many years.
So last fall, I traveled to Japan with my colleagues, Bill Hennigan, who covers national security for Opinion, and our research assistant, Spencer Cohen.
After we returned from Japan, Bill Hennigan and I sat down to talk about who we spoke with and the themes that we heard from the survivors stories.