Tag Archives: Nuclear Weapons

Statement on the 39th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster/チェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故39周年に関する声明via Ecohome (Belarus) /エコホーム(ベラルーシ）

Posted on 2025/05/10 by nfield

Statement on the 39th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster On April 26, 2025, we mark 39 years since the largest man-made disaster of the 20th century — the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. This tragedy cast a … Continue reading →

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As Dutton champions nuclear power, Indigenous artists recall the profound loss of land and life that came from it via The Conversation

Posted on 2025/05/02 by nfield

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s promise to power Australia with nuclear energy has been described by experts as a costly “mirage” that risks postponing the clean energy transition. Beyond this, however, the Coalition’s nuclear policy has, for many First Nations peoples, raised the spectre of the … Continue reading →

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US Spent $98,000 Per Minute on Nuclear Weapons in 2023, New Report Says via Truthout

Posted on 2024/06/17 by nfield

By Jon Letman June 17, 2024 As raging wars in Gaza and Ukraine and sharpening geopolitical tensions fuel instability and uncertainty, global spending on nuclear weapons surged by more than 13 percent to $91.4 billion in 2023, according to a … Continue reading →

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We are all Hibakusha via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/09/05 by nfield

M.V. Ramana The front page of the Times of India of August 7, 1945, carried the headline World’s deadliest bomb hits Japan: Carries blast power of 20,000 tons of TNT. For millions around the world, headlines of that sort would have been their first … Continue reading →

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‘Exploring Tritium’s Danger’: a book review by Robert Alvarez via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2023/06/26 by nfield

Over the past 40 years, Arjun Makhijani has provided clear, concise, and important scientific insights that have enriched our understanding of the nuclear age. In doing so, Makhijani—now president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research—has built a solid … Continue reading →

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‘Truly shocking’: UK has enough plutonium to make almost 20,000 nukes via Nuclear Free Local Authorities

Posted on 2023/06/21 by nfield

[…] The 2023 Fissile Material Directory [1] is published in June each year by the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA) [2], based at Nagasaki University. RECNA has been established for over twenty years as an educational and research … Continue reading →

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A-bombed artist to distribute ‘war brooms’ in Hiroshima as he calls for nuclear abolition via The Mainichi

Posted on 2023/06/12 by nfield

SHIKAOI, Hokkaido — A Hiroshima A-bomb survivor ink artist seeking to amplify his nuclear abolition message will hand out miniature brooms signifying the renunciation of war in front of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, coinciding with his art show opening in … 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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Cold War Nuclear Weapons Put St. Louis　Community At Risk—in 2023　via The Equation (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Posted on 2023/05/04 by nfield

Chanese A Forté Current-day residents near St. Louis, Missouri, are living with chronic health conditions and an increased cancer burden due to contamination from uranium mining and processes used in the production of nuclear weapons at the start of the … Continue reading →

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The US Has No Plans to Give Up Nuclear Weapons. The Public Needs to Change That　via Truthout

Posted on 2023/04/25 by nfield

By Jon Letman , TRUTHOUTPublishedApril 24, 2023 A first step toward anti-nuclear advocacy is becoming aware of the current sprawling state of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his intention to deploy short-range nuclear missiles to Belarus in March, he pointed … Continue reading →

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