Tag Archives: Cold War

The low-level nuclear threat via Nature

Posted on 2012/02/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Europe is making a good start on learning about the health risks of low-dose radiation with a programme to share cold-war data and set research priorities. But the effort needs to be global. Fear of the effects of an atomic … Continue reading →

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Last Cold War-era B53 nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas via BBC

Posted on 2011/10/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The last of America’s most powerful Cold War-era nuclear bombs – the B53 – has been dismantled in Texas. Experts have separated around 300lb (136kg) of high explosives from the bomb’s uranium “pit”. Weighing 10,000lb, the B53 was the size … Continue reading →

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“The Man Who Continues to Speak about Experiencing the H-Bomb — Exposed Clearly: the Deception that is Deterrence” on JapanFocus

Posted on 2011/04/09 by Masaki C.

Introduction: The current disaster in Japan, the worst since World War II, may bring major change in Japanese thinking about nuclear weapons and nuclear power. But the preconditions for that re-thinking existed long before the disaster. In the March 28 … Continue reading →

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