“Both US and Russian officials have said the torpedoes could deliver warheads of multiple megatons, causing radioactive waves that would render swathes of the target coastline uninhabitable for decades.” By...
“What we see [in Chernobyl] is a vivid example of outrage at a nuclear facility. It is the responsibility not only of Ukraine, but of the whole world, to keep...
The national security establishment and its corporate allies dominate Congress’s new nuclear weapons commission. “While the world draws closer to nuclear war than it has in decades, perhaps ever, Russia’s...
It seems like my generation has never before experienced this much nuclear fear. And what do we do with it? Laugh any way we can, for one. Putin has threatened...
Photo: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) “Nuclear weapons keep all of us imperiled, even when we aren’t technically at war.” BY: Opinion by Jill Filipovic © CNN |...
“Currently no options have been able to demonstrate that waste will remain isolated from the environment over the tens to hundreds of thousands of years.” – Nuclear waste expert Andrew...
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration claims that a little more than half of WIPP’s future capacity will be reserved for future plutonium pit bomb core production. Further, those new...
Some senators say Biden’s social and climate bill costs too much, but comparing it to the military spending plan they just passed suggests otherwise. POLITICO Opinion by REV. DR. WILLIAM...
FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act: The Bad News. As Politico put it: PROGRESSIVES’ PENTAGON POUNDING: … progressives barely put their stamp on Pentagon policy this go-round. Bipartisan provisions requiring...
Russia’s envoy to the talks, Mikhail Ulyanov, said on Twitter they “started quite successfully.” Asked he if was optimistic, Iran’s top negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, told reporters: “Yes, I am.”...
The current Continuing Resolution keeping the government running expires 12/3. Another Continuing Resolution is likely. The Pentagon has released a major threat assessment of China at https://media.defense.gov/2021/Nov/03/2002885874/-1/-1/0/2021-CMPR-FINAL.PDF. Under “Nuclear Capabilities”...
Nuclear power is so slow and expensive that it doesn’t even matter whether or not it is ‘low-carbon’ (let alone ‘zero-carbon’). As the scientist, Amory Lovins, says, “Being carbon-free does...
Boost for advocates’ group is step further in decades-long fight against mining pollution By: Cody Nelson THE GUARDIAN • October 29, 2021 theguardian.com Rita Capitan has been worrying about her...
Congress passed a continuing resolution that keeps the government running until December 3. It freezes funding at 2021 levels which at least prevents short-term budget increases for nuclear weapons modernization...
“The Biden administration’s decision to declassify updated information on the number of nuclear warheads in the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal is a welcome step that reverses an unwise decision by...
“Woodward and Costa write that after January 6, Milley ‘felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump and believed it was his job as the senior...
The Department of Energy controls many ‘black projects’ that live outside of the limelight that is intrinsic to the DoD and the intel community. BY BRETT TINGLEY | thedrive.com May...
“In Indigenous lands where nuclear weapons testing took place during the Cold War and the legacy of uranium mining persists, Indigenous people are suffering from a double whammy of long-term...
“A day of recognition is important – these communities deserve to be recognized for the unimaginable sacrifice they unknowingly made to their country. But it is not enough. The best...
“The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Wednesday that the hands of the iconic Doomsday Clock remain at 100 seconds to midnight – as close to the end of humanity...
In a pair of tweets Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump said he terminated his Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Esper’s tenure as top Pentagon official followed the resignations of Trump’s...
“The radioactive incineration unleashed by nuclear war involving even less than 1% of the global nuclear arsenal targeted on cities in one part of the world would be followed by...
3 Oct 2020 – The United Nations General Assembly holds a high-level meeting to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
“It’s a travesty, and the government should not be allowed to get away with it,” one Mohave County, Arizona, resident said. BY: ANITA HASSAN | nbcnews.com KINGMAN, Ariz. — Danielle Stephens...
75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some experts believe the risk of the use of a nuclear weapon is as high now as it has been since the Cuban missile...