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Watchdogs push New Mexico to limit US nuclear waste dump via Journal Star

Posted on 2020/10/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Watchdogs on Wednesday renewed their call for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state environmental regulators to take a stand against the federal government as it looks to extend and expand … Continue reading →

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Up to 1,000 ‘downwinders’ likely got cancer from Trinity test, study says via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2020/09/03 by nfield

By Scott Wyland swyland@sfnewmexican.comSep 1, 2020 Updated Sep 2, 2020 As many as 1,000 New Mexicans living in communities near the Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated 75 years ago, might have developed cancer from the radioactive fallout, says … Continue reading →

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What’s missing from American schools’ curricula? Nuclear weapons via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2020/09/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani This week, students across the United States are heading back to school. While many high schools and universities are still deciding whether classes this semester will happen online, in-person, or in some hybrid combination, one thing is … Continue reading →

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How an Article about the H-Bomb Landed Scientific American in the Middle of the Red Scare via Portside

Posted on 2020/08/31 by nfield

On April 1, 1950, the New York Times carried a sensational front-page headline, “U.S. Censors H-Bomb Data; 3,000 Magazine Copies Burnt.” The story’s lead sentence read: “Gerard Piel, editor of the Scientific American, attacked the censorship policies of the Atomic Energy Commission yesterday … Continue reading →

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Moms creating change | EPA starts process of removing waste from West Lake Landfill via Channel 5

Posted on 2020/08/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

“It makes us hopeful that eventually this will be what it should have been,” said Dawn Chapman one of the women who rallied for the cleanup ST. LOUIS — A radioactive landfill in north St. Louis County has posed a … Continue reading →

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A call for antiracist action and accountability in the US nuclear community via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2020/08/24 by nfield

By Katlyn M. Turner, Lauren J. Borja, Denia Djokić, Madicken Munk, Aditi Verma, August 24, 2020 Authors’ note: This piece was reviewed and edited by Professor Gabrielle Hecht (Stanford University), Professor Susan Silbey (MIT), and several contributors who prefer to remain anonymous, to whom the authors are deeply grateful. … Continue reading →

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‘Fallout’ Tells The Story Of The Journalist Who Exposed The ‘Hiroshima Cover-Up’ via NPR

Posted on 2020/08/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

When the U.S military dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the American government portrayed the weapons as equivalent to large conventional bombs — and dismissed Japanese reports of radiation sickness as propaganda. … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Watch NM Chief Blasts Los Alamos County For ‘Racial Injustice’, Archbishop Voices Support For Nuclear Disarmament via Los Alamos Reporter

Posted on 2020/08/08 by nfield

BY MAIRE O’NEILLmaire@losalamosreporter.com Nuclear Watch New Mexico executive director Jay Coghlan blasted Los Alamos County as a “stark illustration” of how racial injustice “plagues our land” Thursday in a speech recorded for an hour-long virtual national commemoration of the 75th anniversary … Continue reading →

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The American narrative of Hiroshima is a statue that must be toppled via Counterpunch

Posted on 2020/08/07 by nfield

By Robert Jacobs and Ran Zwigenberg […] The American telling of the nuclear attacks focuses on the astonishing accomplishments of scientists involved in developing the weapons, on industrial manufacturers producing the weapons, politicians “deciding” what to do with the revolutionary … Continue reading →

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American’s Chernobyl via Cited

Posted on 2020/08/05 by nfield

SEASON 01: EPISODE 08 (PART 1 OF 2) America’s Chernobyl 00:00:0000:50:49AMERICA’S CHERNOBYLRewind Play Forward    Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of southeastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The … Continue reading →

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