Daily Archives: 2017/12/10

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – Nobel Lecture via Nobelprize.org

(Setsuko Thurlow) I speak as a member of the family of hibakusha – those of us who, by some miraculous chance, survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For more than seven decades, we have worked for the total … Continue reading

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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – Nobel Lecture via Nobelprize.org

[Beatrice Fihn:] […] At dozens of locations around the world – in missile silos buried in our earth, on submarines navigating through our oceans, and aboard planes flying high in our sky – lie 15,000 objects of humankind’s destruction. Perhaps … Continue reading

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Uranium Firm Urged Trump Officials to Shrink Bears Ears National Monument via Washington Post

 uranium company launched a concerted lobbying campaign to scale back Bears Ears National Monument, saying such action would give it easier access to the area’s uranium deposits and help it operate a nearby processing mill, according to documents obtained by … Continue reading

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