Radiation Illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation
“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...
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Why a National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders is Not Enough
“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 Most Dangerous Situation Humanity Has Ever Faced
“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...
Donald Trump fires defense secretary Mark Esper
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...
Nuclear weapons have always been inhumane and unacceptable, soon they will be illegal – Tilman Ruff
“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...
Nuclear Disarmament tops UN agenda
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,...
Arizona’s ‘downwinders,’ exposed to Cold War nuclear testing, fight for compensation
“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...
How New Tech Raises the Risk of Nuclear War
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...
Hiroshima after 75 years: Walking the path of the atomic bomb
74-year-old [Kosei Mito] 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...
“F-35s Don’t Help Families Pay Their Bills”: GOP Slips Pentagon Into COVID Bill
“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...
How to Vaccinate the Military-Industrial Complex
“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...
Trump Admin Sprints to Weaken Environmental Protections During Pandemic
‘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...
PENTAGON ASKS TO KEEP FUTURE SPENDING SECRET
“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...
US wants new nuclear weapons to counter Russia but says there is no arms race
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...
The New START Treaty Keeps Nuclear Arsenals In Check And President Trump Must Act To Preserve It
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...
DOE Secretary Rick Perry believes Trump is God’s Chosen One
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...
What Does Science Say About the Need for Nuclear? Not Necessary.
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...
A Cheaper Nuclear Sponge
“With today’s technology, land-based [ballistic] 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...
The US is rethinking the 50-plus nuclear weapons it keeps in Turkey
“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.”...
The Waste that Remains
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...
Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later
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...
Pakistan downgrades diplomatic ties, suspends trade with India over Kashmir
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...
Sheep Fire Burns on Idaho National Laboratory Land
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...
“These materials are ounce-for-ounce the most dangerous materials known to man,”
— 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...
Hundreds gather in Piketon for town hall on alleged radioactive contamination
“[I] 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...