74-year-old turns to a page in one of his binders with a large quote Pope John Paul II made during a visit to Hiroshima in 1981, one that’s inscribed on a memorial inside the Hiroshima Peace Museum....
HIROSHIMA OBSERVANCE Thursday, August 6, 2020 10AM-1PM LEST WE FORGET Vigil at the Gates of Kings Bay Trident Nuclear Submarine Base St. Marys, GA Thursday, August 6, 2020 7-8:40PM #BLACKLIVESMATTER AND THE BOMB Special ZOOM event with...
“People are dying, or worried about keeping a roof over their families’ heads, or cutting hours because their kids’ schools are closed,” said Anthony Weir, a lobbyist on nuclear disarmament and Pentagon spending at the Friends Committee on National...
“As the first wave of the pandemic continues and case numbers spike in a range of states, oversight structures designed to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse when it comes to defense spending are quite literally crumbling before...
‘There’s a lot they want to get done before the election, just in case.’ BY: EMILY HOLDEN | hcn.com This piece was published by the Guardian The Trump administration is diligently weakening U.S. environment protections even amid a global pandemic, continuing...
“At a time when it is clear to everyone that US national security spending is poorly aligned with actual threats to the nation, the DoD proposal would make it even harder for Congress and the public to...
Defense Department has pushed back on the notion that the US is engaging in an arms race or growing its nuclear arsenal, saying its latest moves are merely a response to Russian efforts BY: RYAN BROWNE |...
Are the stars finally aligning for Washington and Moscow to extend the New START treaty? ARTICLE & ANALYSIS BY: HANS KRISTENSEN & MATT KORDA | forbes.com Nuclear arms control is reportedly on the agenda for a rush-meeting between Russian...
Rick Perry says Trump (and Obama) were ‘ordained by God’ to be president ARTICLE BY: DANIEL BURKE | cnn.com (CNN) Like a lot of evangelical Christians, Energy Secretary Rick Perry believes in a God who gets involved...
ARTICLE BY JESSICA MCDONALD | factcheck.org Ryan Jones, an expert in electricity systems and a co-founder of Evolved Energy Research, a consulting company that models low-carbon transitions, agreed. “Anyone who says that nuclear is 100% necessary on...
“With today’s technology, land-based missiles are an embarrassment,” the late, great strategist Thomas Schelling wrote in 1987. The weapons, he added, “seem to give the entire deterrent a bad name.” ARTICLE BY STEVE FETTER & KINGSTON REIF | warontherocks.com...
“The US is storing perhaps 50 air-dropped thermonuclear bombs at its Incirlik Airbase in southern Turkey, less than 100 miles from the Syrian border where this conflict is taking place.” BY: TIM FERNHOLZ | qz.com Turkish forces are pushing...
“The US is storing perhaps 50 air-dropped thermonuclear bombs at its Incirlik Airbase in southern Turkey, less than 100 miles from the Syrian border where this conflict is taking place.” BY: TIM FERNHOLZ | qz.com Turkish forces are pushing...
Los Alamos Labs hit with $222,313 fine for safety violations. Meanwhile, clean-up of legacy sites may permanently seal waste in the ground. BY LEAH CANTOR | sfreporter.com Even as Los Alamos National Labs takes on contracts for...
Residents say they’ve been ignored even as they struggle with contaminated water and worry about having children. BY SAMUEL GILBERT & RAMSAY DE GIVE | cnn.com A BARBED-WIRE FENCE IN CHURCH ROCK, NEW MEXICO. Early in the...
Kashmir in lockdown as India plans to change state’s status BY JESSIE YEUNG & SOPHIA SAIFI | cnn.com Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) Pakistan has announced it will downgrade diplomatic relations and suspend bilateral trade with India after New Delhi stripped...
The Sheep Fire burns on Idaho National Laboratory land. (CNN) An Idaho wildfire that burned 113,000 acres and forced the evacuation of the nation’s leading nuclear energy research lab has been partially contained, officials said Wednesday. The...
— Stuart Smith Smith is with Cooper Law Firm out of New Orleans. His firm filed a lawsuit in May alleging Ohio residents near a former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon were exposed to radioactive contaminants that...
“ wanted to see what information is available,” Brandon Moore said. “What are we doing to help all these folks that are impacted or that may be impacted in the future?” BY BRYANT SOMERVILLE. | 10tv.com PIKETON,...
“Falling short of the bare minimum in the eyes of the DOE is a far cry from where the public expects or needs LANL to be.” BY ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD | cnn.com A new lab manager,...
On Monday, Zahn’s Corner Middle School in Piketon was closed because enriched uranium had been detected inside the building and neptunium-237 had been detected by an air monitor next to it. BY CHUCK JOHNSON & SUSAN SCUTTI...
http://www.beyondnuclear.org Eight years after the Fukushima nuclear reactors exploded on Japan’s Northern coast, spewing radioactive particles into the air, across the land, and into the Pacific Ocean, the country continues to struggle with decontamination and relocation efforts....
BY GLORIA STEINEM & CHRISTINE AHN | washingtonpost.com February 25, 2019 Gloria Steinem and Christine Ahn are founders of Women Cross DMZ , a global movement mobilizing for peace on the Korean Peninsula. In 2015, we were among 30 women from around...
BY GLORIA STEINEM & CHRISTINE AHN | washingtonpost.com February 25, 2019 Gloria Steinem and Christine Ahn are founders of Women Cross DMZ , a global movement mobilizing for peace on the Korean Peninsula. In 2015, we were among 30 women from around...
Koreas agree to work toward peace and 'complete denuclearization' Trump's strike on Syria is exactly why North Korea wants nuclear weapons The Trump-Kim Summit and North Korean Denuclearization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Pence's Anti-North...