Tag Archives: Atomic Age

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons via The New York Times

Posted on 2017/10/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In a year when threats from nuclear weapons seemed to draw closer, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to an advocacy group behind the first treaty to prohibit them. The group, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, … Continue reading →

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Nigeria reaffirms Africa’s commitment to nuclear weapons-free world via Vanguard

Posted on 2017/10/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nigeria has pledged Africa’s support to the non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction mass (WMD), saying a world free of nuclear weapons is the ideal society it envisaged. Prof. Tijjani Bande, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, delivered this position … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Power Is ‘On Its Back,’ Former CIA Director Says via Forbes

Posted on 2017/09/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The demise of its nuclear-power industry weakens the United States’ ability to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, a former CIA director said in Chicago Tuesday. An MIT chemist who joined the Department of Energy as its director of research in … Continue reading →

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Vatican at UN calls for nuclear-free world via Vatican Radio

Posted on 2017/09/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

(Vatican Radio) The Vatican Secretary for Relations with States has addressed the United Nations General Assembly, urging governments to do more to prevent wars, protect human dignity and work for a nuclear-free world. Archbishop Paul Gallagher’s speech was delivered on … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Apocalypse Now? via The New York Review of Books

Posted on 2017/09/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Ariel Dorfman Seventy-two years ago, the United States launched a pre-emptive nuclear strike against a hated faraway Asian nation. The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, which killed some 146,000 men, women, and children—and the subsequent devastation of Nagasaki, … Continue reading →

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Bangladesh to sign UN nuclear prohibition treaty via Dhaka Tribune

Posted on 2017/09/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Bangladesh will sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons recently adopted by the United Nations in the next session of the UN General Assembly. The cabinet approved a proposal to this end at its regular meeting at the … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) via Youtube

Posted on 2017/08/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nuclear waste poses a serious threat to public health if it’s not stored in a safe place. John Oliver explains why the United States desperately needs to build a metaphorical toilet for all that waste. Watch the video at Nuclear Waste: … Continue reading →

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Peace Activists Observe Hiroshima Anniversary at “Nuclear Energy” Sculpture via Hyde Park Herald

Posted on 2017/08/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] On Sunday afternoon, a crowd of about 50 people assembled once again on the Ellis Avenue sidewalk to hear speeches, poems and songs from an assortment of peace activists, academics and religious leaders. Most were veterans of a pacifist … Continue reading →

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Under the mushroom cloud: Will Nagasaki’s story be told at Hanford’s new national park? via The Seattle Times

Posted on 2017/08/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Seven decades ago, a U.S. atomic bomb fueled with Hanford plutonium was dropped on Nagasaki. The story of the devastation doesn’t yet have a place in a new national park taking shape in Washington. […] National Park Service officials want … Continue reading →

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Amazing nuclear bomb tests carried out 60 years ago show how little was known about deadly weapons via Mirror

Posted on 2017/07/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Soldiers are seen running towards the bomb minutes after the blast in the Nevada desert – seemingly unaware of the danger it posed An amazing video of an early nuclear bomb test in the 1950s shows how little was known … Continue reading →

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