Tag Archives: Nuclear Weapons

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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Nuclear weapons development coming soon to Los Alamos National Laboratory amid safety concerns via Carlsbad Current Argus

Posted on 2022/01/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Adrian Hedden A main component of nuclear weapons was poised to be built in New Mexico after federal regulators granted approval for a plan to prepare Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the work. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), … Continue reading →

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UK Stops Nuclear Reprocessing, but Sellafield Plant to Remain Open for Decades via The Energy Mix

Posted on 2022/01/25 by nfield

Primary Author: Paul Brown @pbrown4348 Seventy years after the United Kingdom first began extracting plutonium from spent uranium fuel to make nuclear weapons, the industry is finally calling a halt to reprocessing, leaving the country with 120 tons of the metal, … Continue reading →

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Strange animal-nuclear tales via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2022/01/03 by nfield

By Susan D’Agostino, Thomas Gaulkin, December 16, 2021 Have you ever wondered what nuclear technologies look like from the perspective of animals? In these short, strange-but-true stories and photographs, you’ll encounter animals whose paths intersected with nuclear infrastructure, including crocodiles drawn to … Continue reading →

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Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races via White House

Posted on 2022/01/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks … Continue reading →

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Radioactive Fallout (1964) via Department of Defense Office of Civil Defense (A/V Geeks)

Posted on 2022/01/02 by nfield
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Hundreds of Scientists Ask Biden to Cut the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal via New York Times

Posted on 2021/12/20 by nfield

In a letter, the scientists also urged President Biden to declare that the United States would never be the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict. By David E. Sanger […] The letter to Mr. Biden also urged him to … Continue reading →

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Hidden agenda: The unspoken argument for more nuclear power via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2021/11/01 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter So here we are again at another COP (Conference of the Parties). Well, some of us are in Glasgow, Scotland at the COP itself, and some of us, this writer included, are sitting at a distance, … Continue reading →

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An unearthly spectacle: The untold story of the world’s biggest bomb via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/10/31 by nfield

By Alex Wellerstein […] The flash alone lasted more than a minute. The fireball expanded to nearly six miles in diameter—large enough to include the entire urban core of Washington or San Francisco, or all of midtown and downtown Manhattan. … Continue reading →

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Do France’s plans for small nuclear reactors have hidden agenda? via DW

Posted on 2021/10/25 by nfield

Although France plans to invest in small modular nuclear reactors, experts doubt that this is ecologically and economically sensible. Yet it may be more about geopolitical strategy than energy. In the wake of the disaster at nuclear power plant Fukushima … Continue reading →

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