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Atoms for Peace was never the plan via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/11/06 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter […] After summarily tossing aside the Paley Commission report delivered to his predecessor, President Truman, and which advocated the US choose the solar pathway for energy expansion, Eisenhower embraced a very different report. In 1953, the Atomic Energy … Continue reading →

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The solar world we might have had via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/11/06 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter We needn’t have had Fukushima at all, now 12 years old and still emitting radiation, still not “cleaned up”, still responsible for forbidden zones where no one can live, play, work, grow crops. We needn’t have … Continue reading →

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Links between Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power

Posted on 2023/05/10 by nfield

This resolution was passed at the 23rd World Congress, in Mombasa, Kenya  by the IPPNW International Council – April 30th, 2023 IPPNW affirms that the links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons are such that in order to fully abolish … 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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Transportation Budget Has $3 Million For Nuclear Ship via Roll Call

Posted on 2015/03/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tucked in President Obama’s $94.7 billion Fiscal Year 2016 budget request for the Department of Transportation is $3 million for a ship berthed in Baltimore which has carried neither cargo nor passengers since 1970. The Maritime Administration is seeking the … Continue reading →

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Eugene P. Wilkinson, commander of first nuclear sub, dies at 94 via The Washington Post

Posted on 2013/07/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Eugene P. Wilkinson, a retired Navy vice admiral who helped guide the early development of the Navy’s nuclear-powered fleet and who commanded the Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, when it was launched in the 1950s, died July 11 at his … Continue reading →

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【アトムス・フォー・ピース】トム・ヨーク＆ナイジェル・ゴドリッチが、ついに完成した1stアルバム『アモック』を語る！ via CDJournal

Posted on 2013/04/09 by kojimaaiko

すべての始まりは、トム・ヨークが2006年に発表したソロ作品『ジ・イレイザー』だった。全編エレクトロニックの同作を生楽器で演奏すべく、プロデューサーのナイジェル・ゴドリッチとトムが集めた辣腕プレイヤー（レッチリのフリー、ドラマーのジョーイ・ワロンカー、ブラジル人パーカッショニストのマウロ・レフォスコ）は以来、独立した人格を持つバンド“アトムス・フォー・ピース（Atoms For Peace）”へと進化。綿密な解体と再構築の作業を経てアルバム『アモック（AMOK）』を完成させた彼らのユニークな成り立ちを、首謀者たちが解き明かす。 […] ――ところで、バンド名はアイゼンハワー米大統領が提唱した“平和のための原子力”に因んでいますね。 　トム「今 の時代、多方面で深く共鳴するコンセプトだよね。実は僕の父は原子物理学者で、1950年代末に、何の防護処置もせずにプルトニウムを入れた試験管を持っ て歩き回ってた。それが普通だったんだよ。あの当時我々に原子力を売りつけたそういうナイーヴさと、その裏にある闇との対比に、バンド名を選んだ大きな理 由がある。と同時に、“平和のための原子力”という言葉の響きは一種の運動エネルギーを示唆していて、かつ、静けさをも表現しているし、さらには我々が直 面している、どうやって電力を作り出すかっていう問題にも思索を向かわせるんだよ」 全文は　【アトムス・フォー・ピース】トム・ヨーク＆ナイジェル・ゴドリッチが、ついに完成した1stアルバム『アモック』を語る！

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“The Coming of a Second Sun”: The 1956 Atoms for Peace Exhibit in Hiroshima and Japan’s Embrace of Nuclear Power1 via Japan Focus

Posted on 2012/02/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Ran Zwigenberg In November 2011 when asked about the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) deteriorating finances, a Japanese official commented, “This is a war between humans and technology. While that war is being fought, we should not talk about bankruptcy.”2 … Continue reading →

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Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power” via Japan Focus

Posted on 2012/02/07 by norma field

“The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy” and Hiroshima Yuki Tanaka The ongoing grave situation at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, which continues to contaminate vast areas of surrounding land and sea with high levels of radiation, forces us … Continue reading →

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“The Coming of a Second Sun”: The 1956 Atoms for Peace Exhibit in Hiroshima and Japan’s Embrace of Nuclear Power via Japan Focus

Posted on 2012/02/07 by norma field

Following the March 2011 Fukushima disaster, a host of commentators, in Japan and internationally, decried the corruption, smugness and shortsightedness that led Japan to choose nuclear power in the fifties. These critics more often than not draw a picture of … Continue reading →

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