A Special Team To Secure The Bengali Republic Day Parade From Nuclear And Chemical Threats
From Google translate
New Delhi, January 4: the impregnable fortress on the occasion of the Republic Day in New Delhi l President from becoming prime minister, foreign dignitaries, including the countries that are protected, to begin preparations for the Republic Day Parade l Army during the attack of any sort is not so, for final l warn army
Republic Day in Delhi Police has trained l Air Force aerial attacks of any kind, so that the police can handle initially, he has been training for l On the other hand, a special force for the first time can be seen in the Republic Day parade chemical hamalarodhaka l for any kind of chemical attack If the order is given up, it will be prepared for the disaster due to the force of the l mokabilakari force (NDRF) A team with more than 90 people CBRN- day stay at l
Sources, CBRN- the advanced technology of the members have more than one weapon, one of which l l hajamata weapon to prevent any kind of chemical attack is very active in the device l
Rehearsal is on the streets of Delhi ..
In addition, the venue will be in charge of the Delhi Police and the Central Security Force patrol at least 50 thousand people will be monitored by aerial drones l l l Alongside includes CCTV camera surveillance
On the occasion of the Republic Day, the Central Intelligence Agency has already issued a final warning l As a result, up to the attack of any sort can be made for the military and the police l
Source in Bengali only http://www.india.com/bengali/india/a-special-team-to-secure-the-republic-day-parade-from-nuclear-and-chemical-threats/
Published Date: January 24, 2017 8:49 AM IST
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As Trump takes control of nukes, Hiroshima’s ex-mayor urges him to meet atomic-bomb survivors
Another voice has joined the chorus of those pleading with newly inaugurated President Trump to exercise restraint when it comes to use of nuclear weapons by the United States — this time from a Japanese city that has seen firsthand the devastating effects of an atomic bomb.
Tadatoshi Akiba, the former mayor of Hiroshima, wrote a letter to Trump just before his inauguration, urging him to make “wise and peaceable” decisions regarding nuclear weapons.
If anything, some of Akiba’s former constituents would know.
On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. forces dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” on Hiroshima, a large city on the southwestern coast of Japan’s Honshu island. Three days later, the United States dropped another atomic bomb, “Fat Man,” on Nagasaki, about 260 miles away.
The combined blasts killed as many as 200,000 people and leveled both cities.
The “hibakusha,” or survivors of the atomic bombings, would later describe witnessing white-hot fire consuming those who were not killed instantly. The intensity of the bomb caused some survivors’ skin to peel off and almost all to arrive at makeshift emergency clinics with an agonizing thirst. One survivor recalled the smell of grilled dried squid permeating a treatment room — in reality that of burned human flesh.
Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945, and World War II would end less than a month later. It remains the only time in history a nuclear weapon has been unleashed in war.
“Since the nuclear issue is delicate and complicated, you may find the perspectives of those from one of the nuclear issue’s hot spots useful as you formulate the policy applicable to this area,” wrote Akiba, who was mayor of Hiroshima from 1999 to 2011 and has long been an advocate for eliminating nuclear weapons.
In his letter, dated Jan. 10, Akiba extended an invitation for Trump to visit Japan so he can speak to hibakusha in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Acknowledging Trump is “a busy person,” Akiba also suggested inviting survivors living in the United States to meet him, because “their struggles are worth listening to.”
“They can tell you in English their heart-wrenching experiences and a message that would produce hope in the future,” Akiba wrote. “I would recommend that you take the initiative to meet with them because I believe that the encounter would most likely change your view about war and the meaning of survival.”
The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016
Trump’s tweet — and comments he reportedly made the following day to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski — sparked fears of a renewed arms race between the two countries.
Though Trump later seemed to walk back his statements, suggesting “nuclear weapons should be way down” in an interview with two European publications, there are reasons to be concerned after he gained control of the United States’s nearly 1,400 active nuclear warheads on Friday, as reported by The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor.
Officials in Japan have been paying attention. Two days after Trump was elected, the current mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki extended invitations to the president-elect to visit, the Japan Times reported.
In a statement, Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue said he wanted Trump to “see with his own eyes, listen with his own ears and feel with his heart what happened under the mushroom cloud,” according to the newspaper.
In recent decades, the Japanese government has recorded stories of the hibakusha and placed many of them online, translated into different languages, to educate those around the world about the consequences of nuclear weapons use.
On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings, The Post published some of those survivors’ accounts:
“I felt the city of Hiroshima had disappeared all of a sudden,” said Akihiro Takahashi, a 14-year-old at the time in line for school, whose testimony was recorded by researchers in the late 1980s. “Then I looked at myself and found my clothes had turned into rags due to the heat. I was probably burned at the back of the head, on my back, on both arms and both legs. My skin was peeling and hanging like this.”
. . . So many had, in an instant, lost those dearest to them. Eiko Taoka, then 21 years old, was carrying her 1-year-old infant son in her arms aboard a streetcar. He didn’t survive the day. “I think fragments of glass had pierced his head,” she recounts. “His face was a mess because of the blood flowing from his head. But he looked at my face and smiled. His smile has remained glued in my memory.”
In May, President Barack Obama became the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima and acknowledge the suffering of those who were bombed. There, he greeted and hugged survivors of the blast and called for the pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons.
“The world was forever changed here,” Obama said as the Genbaku Dome, or A-Bomb Dome, loomed in the distance. “But today, the children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a precious thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then extending to every child. That is the future we can choose, a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not for the dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral awakening.”
A full copy of the letter from Akiba to Trump is available here, courtesy of the Mainichi Shimbun.
Desperate uranium miners switch to survival mode despite nuclear rebound
LONDON (Reuters) – The nuclear industry is “gradually” recovering from its post-Fukushima slump, but excess capacity keeps uranium prices at record lows, forcing mining companies to mothball mines, slice costs and cut debt as they struggle to survive.
http://swop.news/desperate-uranium-miners-switch-to-survival-mode-despite-nuclear-rebound/
India was ready with H-Bomb to counter Pakistan’s nukes
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House OKs Federal Energy, Nuclear Power Rule Changes
Law360, New York (January 23, 2017, 6:13 PM EST) — The House of Representatives on Monday pushed through a series of changes to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in bills meant to change how courts treat FERC decisions and give more flexibility to new nuclear plants.
The two bills, passed by a voice vote, are meant to help consumers in the existing power industry and to help the development of new nuclear reactor technologies. The Fair Rates Act would expand the reviewability of FERC rate change decisions and the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2017 would direct the U.S. Department and of Energy and the NRC to come up with a plan to allow for regulatory approvals of more advanced technology in nuclear reactors.
Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., the prime sponsor of the Fair Rates Act, said that the legislation would avoid the situation that power consumers in the Northeast faced. Following a rate auction, FERC deadlocked on approving the results, and they went into place automatically but consumers could not challenge them without a final FERC decision.
“With no official decision from the agency, there was no decision to appeal, leaving my constituents completely voiceless,” Kennedy said.
The bill would prevent situations in which consumers are forced to pay higher rates without the opportunity to appeal the decision either through the agency or through the courts, Kennedy said.
“Although this situation may sound completely isolated to New England, there’s not a corner of this country that’s immune from the unpredictability of the American energy market and the resulting burden they are forced to bear as a result,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy’s bill alters Section 205 of the Federal Power Act, designating that if a rate approval becomes final through action of law, it should be treated as a final agency action for purposes of agency and court appeals.
The court case that spurred the passage of the law came from Public Citizen and the state of Connecticut, which argued to overturn the approval of regional grid operator ISO New England Inc.’s 2014 auction — through which power generators offered their resource capacity for future power needs — by default.
However, in October, the D.C. Circuit ruled that it cannot review the approval of the auction without a final decision by the agency; the 2-2 deadlock kept the state and public consumers out of the courtroom.
Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., said that one of the other bills the House passed on Monday, the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2017, would help bring more advanced nuclear reactor designs to market more quickly. The language mandates that the Energy Department and the NRC enter into a memorandum of agreement to “knock down those walls to innovation and provide an opportunity to develop advanced nuclear reactor designs.”
The bill specifically includes advances on existing light-water reactor technologies that are intended to be more efficient and generate less waste as well as nuclear fusion reactors — which have not yet been built on an economically feasible scale. According to press reports, research institutions in both the United States and abroad have continued work on scaling up the power and sustainability of such reactors.
The bill would require a uniform, predictable plan for approval of more advanced reactors, which is meant to be based on mathematical models of their behavior.
Rep. Diane Degette, D-Colo., said that the changes to the NRC would be “a commonsense way for the federal government to safely advance the goals of the advanced nuclear power industry” and pave the way for lowering America’s overall carbon emissions.
https://www.law360.com/articles/883931?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=articles_search
Empire Files: Post-Soviet Russia, Made in the U.S.A.
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Does America’s Most Deadly Nuclear Missile Have a Big Problem? Trident disaster spreads!
What caused a British-operated Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) to go off course?
British media reports that a Trident II SLBM launched from HMS Vengeance—a Vanguard-class boomer—went drastically off target this past June. According to those reports, the submarine launched the test missile against a target on the west coast of Africa, however the missile veered toward the continental United States. If the failure is the result of a technical problem with the missile—there could be serious implications for the United States’ own strategic nuclear deterrence, which relies on the Trident II D5 as a key part of its nuclear triad. But that assumes that there is a systemic problem with the weapons.
The United States Navy has not suffered a Trident II failure in recent memory, but there is a small possibility that this British failure could be indicative of defect in the missile. “One failure isn’t enough to conclude we are in the tail end, statistically speaking,” Jeffrey Lewis, Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey told me. “Now, you do need to figure out what went wrong. It is possible that it was an age-related defect, or a modification to the missile—which we make all the time—something with the test payload (it was unarmed) or something with the submarine. Maybe the failure reveals a show-stopper of a problem, although the excellent record of the D5 suggests it will be something small.”
However, overall, the Trident II has a remarkable reliability record. “There have been only a few failures—the Royal Navy one in June and perhaps one more a few years ago,” Lewis said. “Even at two out of 163, the D5 is remarkably reliable. There were some additional failures early in the program, but that’s a typical bathtub effect where you get failures at the beginning while you develop the missiles, then failures at the end when it ages out.”
But if there is a systematic problem with the missiles, the U.S. Navy is also impacted.
“The UK leases its D5 missiles out of a common pool shared with the U.S.,” Lewis told me. “They are the same missiles as the U.S. uses. While the U.K. has conducted relatively few firings—this was the first since 2012—the U.S. has conducted 161 successful firings since 1989.”
For the British government, covering up the test failure was likely a stupid public relations move. “Obviously, the Tories, mindful of the vote on Dreadnaught [replacement for the Vanguard-class], covered it up to the avoid the embarrassment. This is a serious mistake in my view. One former Admiral called it ‘bizarre and stupid.’ I think he’s altogether too kind,” Lewis said. “The cover-up gives the impression that the system has major flaws that are being hidden. I doubt it, but how can [British Prime Minister Theresa] May offer her word as bond on that point?”
The entire fiasco is has a negative impact on nuclear deterrence and on the political support for the British Trident program. “That’s bad for deterrence, as well as the political support for the massive investment that Dreadnaught will require,” Lewis said. “It is also unethical, I am old-fashioned that way.”
Meanwhile, the United States Navy—the by far the largest Trident operator and steward of the bulk of America’s nuclear forces—did not comment by press time.
Dave Majumdar is the defense editor for The National Interest.
US official confirms Trident missile failure
Washington (CNN)A missile test involving Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent system ended in failure off the coast of Florida last year, a US defense official with direct knowledge of the incident told CNN on Monday.
Government challenged on CNN report
May under fire
Israeli whistle-blower convicted over release terms
OCCUPIED AL-QUDS: Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu has been convicted of violating the terms of his release, more than a decade after completing an 18-year jail term, a court announced on Monday.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/181356-Israeli-whistle-blower-convicted-over-release-terms
Upon his release in 2004, Vanunu was slapped with a series of restraining orders, which he was charged with violating on three counts.
Vanunu was convicted of meeting with two US nationals in Occupied al-Quds in 2013 without having permission to do so, and will be sentenced in two months, a court statement said.
He was cleared of two other charges, one of which related to an interview he gave to Israel’s Channel 2 television in 2015.
Vanunu conviction’s dates back to January 18 but it was not made public until Monday. A sentencing hearing has been set for March 14.
The former nuclear technician was jailed in 1986 for disclosing the inner workings of Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant to Britain’s The Sunday Times newspaper. He spent more than 10 years of his sentence in solitary confinement.
In the Channel 2 interview, Vanunu said he longer has any secrets to spill and just wanted to join his new bride in Norway, theology professor Kristin Joachimsen whom he married at a Lutheran church in Occupied al-Quds in May that year.
He has been barred from emigrating on the grounds that he still poses a threat to national security.
Vanunu, 62, converted from Judaism to Christianity shortly before being snatched by Mossad agents in Rome and smuggled to Israel.
He has twice before been jailed for breaking the terms of his parole. Israel is the Middle East’s sole if undeclared nuclear power, refusing to confirm or deny that it has such weapons.
It has refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or to allow international surveillance of its Dimona plant in the Negev desert of southern Israel.
Theresa Mays WMD willy waving droop spectacular
THE office of Prime Minister Theresa May has admitted finally that she was informed about the Trident missile test at the centre of cover-up allegations prior to addressing MPs on the matter.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ce51-Mays-WMD-willy-waving#.WIamgGebxz0
It’s hard to see how she thought she could brazen it out after refusing four times in quick succession to answer a direct question from Andrew Marr on Sunday.
Her stubborn stonewalling served only to confirm in everyone’s mind that she had definitely been told and that failure to admit this was evidence of a cover-up.
Even now, the official line is that no-one is allowed to know whether a Trident-launched D5 missile veered off course after being launched off the coast of Florida last June.
Logic dictates that this did indeed happen, otherwise the Ministry of Defence would have denied any suggestion of a malfunction.
Defence industry insiders and politicians have lined up since then to declare that tests are held to seek out faults and correct them, which seems quite reasonable.
The major problem with it, however, is that, if the missile had been armed and international relations deteriorated to the extent that the PM was prepared to order Trident missile launches, at least one device would have obliterated Florida rather than delivering its payload wherever she had intended.
Apologetic phone calls to Trump Tower in the wake of a cock-up of that enormity would be unlikely to smooth ruffled feathers or bring back millions of dead US citizens.
Some pro-Trident commentators suggest that demanding information on a weapons system that we all pay for is out of order.
They claim silence is necessary to keep our “enemies” in the dark about how effective Trident is.
But our government has already had to inform other states — not least the US — over what was taking place in the region.
The idea that other nuclear-armed powers designated as our enemies would have been unaware of what happened is beyond risible.
The only people kept in the dark are taxpayers in Britain who fund this grotesquely expensive white elephant.
While the NHS, social care, council housing, infrastructure projects and industrial modernisation cry out for serious investment, our politicians across Parliament prefer to throw good money after bad to maintain an outdated pretence that possessing weapons of mass destruction is essential to be seen as a genuine leading world power.
Tell that to Germany, Japan or any other advanced country mature enough to have moved beyond WMD willy-waving.
Justifying the commitment of tens of billions of pounds — adding up to £205bn — to maintain the pretence of an independent nuclear deterrent depends on two basic falsehoods.
One is that Trident keeps Britain safe from invasion or nuclear blackmail and the other is that it provides employment.
Aside from the reality that there is no power seeking to invade or destroy our country, even were that the case, no British government could launch its nuclear missiles without a White House OK.
And if there was someone deranged enough as US president to authorise a global nuclear exchange, we could all kiss our backsides goodbye in such a scenario.
The myth of Trident guaranteeing defence employment was exposed recently by the Jimmy Reid Foundation, which revealed that just 600 civilian jobs are directly linked.
Its successor programme will safeguard 11,520 jobs, which works out at nearly £18 million a job.
Far better to devote that wasted investment in supporting jobs sacrificed on the austerity altar and to drop the obsession with global posturing.
Pakistan’s Fourth Nuclear Reactor at Khushab Now Appears Operational
Pakistan’s fourth heavy water reactor at Khushab nuclear site which allows it to build a larger number of miniaturised plutonium-based nuclear weapons now appears to be operational, a US think-tank has said. The reactor is part of Pakistan’s program to increase the production of weapons-grade plutonium
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