Tag Archives: Nuclear Weapons

Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear via The Guardian

Posted on 2022/05/14 by nfield

By Serhii Plokhy […] In the meantime, we obviously have an existing nuclear industry, and the solution is not to run away in panic, but to take good care of the facilities that already dot our countryside. We must not … Continue reading →

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Statement of Protest via Steering Committee, Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H

Posted on 2022/04/28 by nfield

April 28, 2022 We strongly protest against the repeated statements by President Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and other Russian leaders threatening to use nuclear weapons.  The nuclear weapons are the “weapons of absolute evil” which, if used, would cause catastrophic … Continue reading →

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Nuclear empire building: New bill would fund dangerous nuclear extravaganza via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/04/25 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter […] Manchin and Republican co-sponsor, Senator James Risch of Idaho, describe their aspirational Act as “a bill to facilitate the development of a whole-of-government strategy for nuclear cooperation and nuclear exports.” It is, in effect, a … Continue reading →

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Nuclear weapons monitors demand environmental review of new bomb production plans via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/04/18 by nfield

By Marilyn Bechtel Four public interest groups monitoring the nation’s nuclear weapons development sites are demanding the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency conduct a thorough environmental review of their plans to produce large quantities of a … Continue reading →

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This Is What It’s Like to Witness a Nuclear Explosion via New York Times

Posted on 2022/04/02 by nfield

By Rod Buntzen In the early days of his war against Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin told the world that he had ordered his nation’s nuclear forces to a higher state of readiness. Ever since, pundits, generals and politicians have speculated about what … Continue reading →

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A Message from Ms. Setsuko Shimomoto下本節子さん証言via Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World

Posted on 2022/03/26 by nfield

A Message from Ms. Setsuko Shimomoto Ms. Setsuko Shimomoto is originally from Muroto, a fishing village in Kochi, Japan. In the 1950s, Setsuko’s father was a fisherman who was exposed to the radioactive fallout from the nuclear testing near the … Continue reading →

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What nuclear energy has to do with nuclear war via Newsroom

Posted on 2022/03/14 by nfield

DR KARLY BURCH Dr Karly Burch is a Research Fellow from the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. Branding initiatives have successfully separated nuclear weapons as ‘bad’ and nuclear energy as ‘good’, and it is impacting our abilities to … Continue reading →

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I Was a Nuclear Missile Operator. There Have Been More Near-Misses Than the World Knows via The Guardian UK (Reader Supported News)

Posted on 2022/03/13 by nfield

As a 22-year-old I controlled a warhead that could vaporize a metropolis. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the public is waking up again to the existential dangers of nuclear weapons From 2012 to 2017, I worked as a US air force … Continue reading →

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Nuclear baloney via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/02/07 by nfield

AP story on states’ nuclear choice fails to point out key realities by Linda Pentz Gunter […] The mantra about solving the nuclear waste problem has been repeated since the dawn of the Nuclear Age, coming up on 80 years … Continue reading →

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In the Line of Eternal Fire: Ukraine’s Nuclear Reactors via Counterpunch

Posted on 2022/02/06 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter As Craig Hooper so chillingly warned us in his December 28, 2021 article for Forbes, a Russian invasion of Ukraine, “could put nuclear reactors on the front line of military conflict.” The result, he said, depending on the tactics … Continue reading →

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