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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/08/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Erika Hayasaki for Narratively On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors – and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear war I keep a … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima at 75: A Painful Legacy Tempered by Hope and a Treaty via The Diplomat

Posted on 2020/08/04 by nfield

[…] That morning, August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb for only the second time. Three weeks earlier the Trinity test, conducted in New Mexico, marked the first successful detonation of a nuclear device. The second detonation was … Continue reading →

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It’s Been 75 Years, and America Still Won’t Admit a Nuclear Disaster via the New York Times

Posted on 2020/07/16 by nfield

Remember when we blew radioactive ash over New Mexico? Now the Trump administration is talking about testing bombs again. By Joshua Wheeler Mr. Wheeler is the author of “Acid West.” When America detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at 0529 hours … Continue reading →

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Posted on 2020/06/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Trump apparently wants a nuclear test. It could be bad for your health via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani In recent weeks, the Trump administration reportedly discussed the possibility of doing something the United States has not done since … Continue reading →

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Federal agencies want to extend nuclear waste site to 2080 via Santa Fe/New Mexican

Posted on 2020/04/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Scott Wyland […] The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s permit is set to expire in 2024, but federal officials who oversee the nation’s nuclear programs believe the underground repository near Carlsbad can keep taking radioactive waste for decades to come. … Continue reading →

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LANL cleanup faces $100M cut via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2020/02/18 by nfield

By Scott Wyland […] The agency’s preliminary “budget in brief” shows a proposed 46 percent reduction in funding for the lab’s environmental managemenet, which handles cleanup of legacy waste generated before 1999, including during the Manhattan Project and Cold War. … Continue reading →

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Lise Meitner Helped Discover Nuclear Fission—and Was Then Forgotten via Daily Beast

Posted on 2020/02/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Lise Meitner’s co-discovery of nuclear fission in the 1940s led to nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. But the scientific establishment ignored her ground-breaking work. Janice Kaplan When Lise Meitner was invited to Los Alamos in the early 1940s to work … Continue reading →

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After Gates Foundation picks St. Louis, activist group says Bill Gates needs to work on West Lake Landfill first via KSDK

Posted on 2020/02/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The landfill is owned by Republic Services, a company of which Bill Gates is the largest stakeholder. Justina Coronel BRIDGETON, Mo. — A local activist group is trying to get the attention of a well-known billionaire. Bill Gates’ Foundation picked … Continue reading →

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Risk of Nuclear War Rises as US Deploys a New Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold War via Democracy Now!

Posted on 2020/02/08 by nfield

The Federation of American Scientists revealed in late January that the U.S. Navy had deployed for the first time a submarine armed with a low-yield Trident nuclear warhead. The USS Tennessee deployed from Kings Bay Submarine Base in Georgia in … Continue reading →

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NYC Considers Divesting From Nuclear Weapon Manufacturers via Gothamist

Posted on 2020/01/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY ANNIE TODD The City Council is targeting the nuclear weapons industry with a pair of bills intended to end the city’s passive involvement in the production of these devastating bombs. One resolution calls on the city comptroller to divest from … Continue reading →

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