Nuclear “deterrence” does not make us safer
the claim that a nuclear deterrent makes us feel safer, seems, to put it plainly, bollocks.
(UK) Who’s afraid of the nuclear bomb?The debate over Trident has sparked differing reactions between the cold war and 9/11 generations – but why? Richard Rogers * guardian.co.uk, 28 April 2010 “….Back in the UK, the nation watched as Nick Clegg made the Lib Dems’ case for reviewing the replacement of Trident – arguing for the need to look for a cheaper alternative or possibly, just possibly, even abandon an independent nuclear deterrent for Britain completely………. Continue reading
Australian govt imposing nuclear waste dump on aboriginal land
a proposed measure before the parliament has deleted the use of the Australian Defence Force land in the Northern Territory,
Aboriginal landowners oppose nuclear waste dump in Northern Territory International Business Times, By Xien Jana Vencio | April 27, 2010Aboriginal landowners in the Northern Territory are up in arms against a government plan to construct the country’s first long-term nuclear waste storage facility on their territory. Continue reading
Anti nuclear marchers’ long trek to United Nations
Peace Trekkers Visit Montclair , Baristanet April 28, 2010 About 25 peace marchers, some of whom have been on the road since February, walked up Bloomfield Avenue today, chanting, beating drums and carrying their message of opposition to nuclear power and bombs to the Central Presbyterian Church on Park St., where they’ll be spending the night. The marchers are members of Footprints for Peace……. plan to reach the United Nations on Saturday. They said the Montclair Presbyterians offered shelter on 24 hours notice.”I’ve only been walking for a month,” said Kerrie-Ann Garlick, who came from Australia to participate in the march, and who will be speaking at the UN. She said Australia is the third largest exporter of uranium in the world, which is why so many Australians are involved in the peace effort. “We want to close the whole industry down,” Garlick said. Peace Trekkers Visit Montclair (Baristanet)
Nuclear Non Proliferation Meeting May 1-28 – Iran, Egypt face U.S. and its allies
Iran, Egypt ready for battle at U.N. nuclear meeting, news90, April 29, 2010 · By Louis Charbonneau, UNITED NATIONS (Reuters)– Iran and Egypt are gearing up for battle against the United States and its allies over Israel and developing countries’ rights to atomic technology at a major meeting on the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Continue reading
Impact of uranium mining on Grand Canyon’s watersheds
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Aerial view of uranium mines threatening Grand Canyon watersheds, Grand Canyon Trust News, April 29, 2010 by gctrust Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Trust’s Air and Energy program director, recently flew with EcoFlight over uranium mining sites situated around the Grand Canyon and its watersheds that supply water for 25 million people. This bird’s eye view will allow you to understand the potential impact of uranium mining on the water supply for Arizona, southern California and Nevada. Click here to view the video. Aerial view of uranium mines threatening Grand Canyon watersheds « Grand Canyon Trust News
Comparing money for health research to money for useless plutonium weapons facilities
Keeping Fear Alive. BuzzFlash.org, ROBERT C. KOEHLER, 29 April 2010, “…….One of the provisions of Udall’s bill would, according to the senator’s press release, “authorize $3 million for five years for epidemiological research on the impacts of uranium development on communities and families of uranium workers.”I can’t help but notice the insignificance of the dollar amount being sought for this research — or rather, I can’t help but compare it to other sums of money, diverted, without serious comment or thought, elsewhere.
For instance, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has already embarked on an expansion of its plutonium facilities for the construction of warhead cores, or pits. The projected cost of this project over a dozen years, according to Greg Mello of the watchdog Los Alamos Study Group, is at least $5.5 billion.”The facilities to be built are ‘modern,’ but their primary purpose is outmoded,” Mello writes.Their primary purpose is to keep America not so much “safe” as powerful, and to perpetuate an agenda that is only about power and geopolitical interests, which is retrospect always seem small and limited. Their primary purpose, damn the cost, is to keep fear alive .Keeping Fear Alive | BuzzFlash.org
Community action brings about stopping of uranium exploration in National Park
Search for uranium deferred, The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata), Shillong, April 29: The Meghalaya government today decided to keep “in abeyance” the proposed exploratory drilling of uranium in Balpakram National Park in South Garo Hills district in view of stiff opposition from various quarters. Continue reading
Source of ionising radiation exposure in India
AERB’s directive to Delhi University on radiation sources The Hindu, 29 April 2010, NEW DELHI: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has asked the Delhi University to suspend all activities involving the use of radiation sources.The directive follows the tracing of a radioactive material that caused the death of a person of a scrap shop and injuries to several others at Mayapuri here to the university’s Chemistry Department.
The Hindu : Front Page : AERB’s directive to Delhi University on radiation sources
New Colorado legislation puts the brakes on the uranium industry
Colo. Legislature passes uranium cleanup bill, Google hosted news, By COLLEEN SLEVIN (AP) – 29 April DENVER — Colorado lawmakers have passed a bill that requires uranium mills to clean up radioactive waste before accepting more radioactive material.The Senate voted 24-9 in favor of the bill Wednesday. Later the House agreed with changes made in the Senate and readopted the bill by a vote of 60-3. It now goes to Gov. Bill Ritter. Continue reading
At last, some compensation for many victims of nuclear bomb testing
“Many families in the downwind states have stories like mine,” Tona Henderson wrote recently in the Idaho Statesman. “Some of these stories are so sad because entire families have died of cancer. . . .
Keeping Fear Alive. BuzzFlash.org, ROBERT C. KOEHLER, 29 April 2010, “………legislation introduced into Congress this month to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has put the suffering born by so many Americans — who lived downwind of the nuclear tests, worked in the industry or mined the uranium — back into the news. Continue reading
Money talks when Texas Governor considers nuclear waste dumping
Texans for Public Justice fleshes out the links in a report today: Simmons has donated $620,000 to Governor Perry’s campaign efforts since 2001.
Links between a nuclear waste dump and Perry Statesman.com, By Asher Price | Thursday, April 29, 2010 Salsa Verde We’ve written at the Statesman about links between Waste Control Specialists and Gov. Rick Perry. Waste Control, which operates a radioactive waste dump in far West Texas, is owned by Harold Simmons, who is one of the chief donors to Perry. Continue reading
A futuristic film studies nuclear wastes
Film – Tribeca Review: Into Eternity, Cinematical, by Christopher Campbell Apr 29th 2010 What will the inhabitants of Earth be like over the next 100,000 years? Will they even be human, or some other civilization of animal or alien being? These questions are at the heart of Into Eternity, a beautiful and extremely fascinating Danish documentary about ONKALO, the ambitious nuclear waste repository near Olkiluoto, Finaland, which will bury thousands of tons of spent uranium from a local power plant in an extensive underground tunnel system…..In an eerie narration, Madsen addresses future viewers, whether or not they will understand his English-spoken warnings and questions, urging them not to curiously venture into the tunnels as if it were an archaeological find, like the Egyptian pyramids.
The nuclear weapons industry gobbles our resources and promotes fear
Keeping Fear Alive. BuzzFlash.org, ROBERT C. KOEHLER, 29 April 2010,, “…….six-and-a-half decades into the nuclear era, our premature “peace” with these weapons — our cultural forgetting, our denial — betokens a psychic helplessness that is enormously dark and dangerous in its own right. At some level we know that our shadow is growing. We watch it happen as spectators.
Does any force seem more impervious to the collective will than that which drives the nuclear weapons industry? Will it take, as Caldicott asks, a horrific accident, an insane act of aggression, to shatter the conspiracy? And by then, will it be too late?The industry continues to thrive and grow, having far outlived its original premise of “mutually assured destruction”; the Cold War is over, but the money we poured into it didn’t become available for non-military spending. Ultimate aggression continues to stalk the planet. We’re in as much danger as we’ve ever been.
And the cost to us over these nuclear decades has not been merely financial — lost money for schools, infrastructure, health care. The nuclear weapons industry has also been paid for in thousands of American lives, though this fact still remains known primarily within the circle of survivors.
Are Middle Eastern dictatorships to be trusted with nuclear technology?
can we really rely on the assurances of an array of Middle Eastern dictators and despots?
WHEN SAUDI ARABIA GOES NUCLEAR, San Francisco Sentinel 29 April 2010“……..Earlier this month, oil-rich Kuwait signed a civilian nuclear cooperation deal with France. And last week, the United Arab Emirates’ Nuclear Energy Corporation announced that it has chosen a site to construct the country’s first nuclear power station, which will go on-line within seven years. Other Arab states, such as Egypt and Qatar, have also declared an interest in developing nuclear technology and infrastructure. Continue reading
USA should withdraw its nuclear weapons from Europe
“A Nuclear Weapons Free NATO” » FAS Strategic Security Blog, By Hans M. Kristensen, 28 April 2010, While NATO struggles with whether and how it can discuss the future of nuclear weapons in the alliance, the Obama administration timidly avoids addressing the issue head on, and NGOs try to play government by proposing sensible steps such as consolidation and gradual reductions, three U.S. active duty military officers have taken the leap and written a thought-provoking and visionary article in American Diplomacy in which they argue that the United States should withdraw its nuclear weapons from Europe and NATO adopt a nuclear weapons-free policy…….
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