Tag Archives: Nuclear Weapons

REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL LEADS DEMOCRATS IN URGING BIDEN TO LIMIT NUCLEAR WEAPONS via The Intercept

Posted on 2021/09/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

wenty-nine Democrats call out the president’s embrace of Trump-initiated nuclear weapon programs as the White House creates sweeping new policy. Sara Sirota CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS Chair Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., is leading a group of Democrats in pushing back on President Joe … Continue reading →

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Why Are We Still Building Nuclear Weapons? Follow the Money via Forbes

Posted on 2021/08/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

William Hartung […] The United States maintains an active nuclear stockpile of roughly 4,000 nuclear weapons, including over 1,500 deployed warheads. Russia’s stockpile is comparable, at roughly 4,400, while China follows with roughly 300 strategic nuclear warheads. Despite its considerably smaller arsenal, recent revelations … Continue reading →

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Complicit: The countries, companies and think tanks that support the deadly nuclear arms trade via Beyond Nuclear International (ICAN)

Posted on 2021/08/10 by nfield

A new report from ICAN — Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons spending — names names and produces some horrifying spending numbers, made all the more immoral by the desperate needs around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the ever … Continue reading →

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A Hiroshima Grandmother’s Plea to Americans via Waging Nonviolence

Posted on 2021/08/09 by nfield

Rev. John Dear […] Several times, over the next few days, the American visitor spent the evening drinking tea listening to Grandmother tell stories of her life. Turns out, she had been a young mother in her early 20s living … Continue reading →

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Ex-U.S. officials ask Japan leaders to accept no-first-use nuke plan via Kyodo News

Posted on 2021/08/09 by nfield

Tokyo–A group of former U.S. officials, including former Defense Secretary William Perry, and experts on nuclear disarmament sent an open letter Monday asking Japanese political parties not to oppose a “no-first-use” nuclear stance that may be announced by the United … Continue reading →

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My Turn: ‘Renounce the use and further development of nuclear weapons’ via Daily Hampshire Gazette

Posted on 2021/08/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By ANDREW LARKIN I am a child of the nuclear age. My father was a radiologist. He    witnessed the aftermath of the bombing of Nagasaki. He wrote the first paper that appeared in the American literature about the effects of … Continue reading →

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EXCLUSIVE: Former military aide who carried ‘nuclear football’ for George HW Bush reveals a gaping hole in the security chain that could enable a ‘marauder to obtain the access card and pose as the president’ via Daily Mail

Posted on 2021/07/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Pentagon last week announced there would be a review of procedures for the nuclear football after Capitol rioters got within 100ft of Mike Pence on January 6  Retired military officer John Stufflebeem says the president’s ‘nuclear football’ is far more … Continue reading →

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America’s Nuclear Waste Has Nowhere to Go and More Is Coming via Vice

Posted on 2021/07/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Pentagon recently announced plans to up the production of plutonium pits, a core component of nuclear weapons. By Matthew Gault Outside the sleepy Maine town of Wiscasset (population 3,700), armed guards patrol a slab of concrete surrounded by a chain … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates’ Fast Nuclear Reactor: Will It Bomb? via The National Interest

Posted on 2021/07/22 by nfield

The principal reason for preferring fast reactors, historically the only reason, is to gain the ability to breed plutonium. Thus, the reactor would make and reuse massive quantities of material that could also be used as nuclear explosives in warheads. by Victor Gilinsky Henry Sokolski … Continue reading →

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Six Decades of US-Japanese Government Collusion in Bringing Nuclear Weapons to Japan via The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Posted on 2021/07/20 by nfield

By Steve Rabson Abstract: The Navy ship containing nuclear bombs that a junior officer saw anchored off Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station in 1959 was only the most notorious of many U.S. violations of Japan’s official policy banning nuclear weapons. The … Continue reading →

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