nuclear-news

20 June WEBINAR: Nuclear Power and Weapons in a Time of Rising Tensions.

Nuclear Power and Weapons in a Time of Rising Tensions – William D. Hartung, Linda Pentz Gunter and Greg Mello speak out in the VFP No Nukes Webinar, Thursday, June 20, 7 pm Eastern, 5 pm Central, 3 pm Pacific

Three outstanding experts – William D. Hartung, Linda Pentz Gunter and Greg Mello – will share critically important insights at the VFP No Nukes Webinar, this Thursday, June 20, at 7 pm Eastern, 6 pm Central, 5 pm Mountain, 4 pm Pacific. 

It is not too late to Register Here.

WILLIAM D. HARTUNGis a Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.  He focuses on the arms industry and US military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the Center’s Sustainable Defense Task Force. He is the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, 2011) and the co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm Press, 2008).  And Weapons for All (HarperCollins, 1995) is a critique of US arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations.

Time to Rethink the US Nuclear ArsenalWilliam Hartung’s latest articlewarns about the particularly dangerous risks presented by the US basing of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), which he says only serve the interests of those who profit off them.

LINDA PENTZ GUNTERfounded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as editor/curator of Beyond Nuclear International. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets. Beyond Nuclear works to support grassroots, national and international efforts to phase out nuclear power in favor of safer energy choices with which to address the climate crisis. The organization also draws attention to the perpetual pathway between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and advocates for a global nuclear weapons ban. In creating Beyond Nuclear, Linda’s goal was to reach beyond the immediate circle of committed anti-nuclear activists and engage those environmentalists concerned with the climate crisis and peace and the necessity to move away from fossil and fissile energy use.

Nuclear Power Is Too Risky, Even in Peacetime.Ukraine is the Tip of the Iceberg.Linda Pentz Gunter writes: “Fears about fires at Ukraine’s power plant in war-torn Zaporishzhia underscore the broader dangers of nuclear energy.”

Greg Mello

GREG MELLOis a co-founder of the Los Alamos Study Group and has led its varied activities since 1989, which have included policy research, environmental analysis, congressional education and lobbying, community organizing, litigation, advertising, and the nuts and bolts of running a small nonprofit. From time to time Greg has served as a consulting analyst and writer for other nuclear policy organizations. Greg was originally educated as an engineer (Harvey Mudd College, 1971) and regional planner (Harvard, 1975). Greg led the first environmental enforcement at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a hydrogeologist for the New Mexico Environment Department and later a consultant to industry. In 2002 Greg was a Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security. Greg’s research, analysis, and opinions have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Issues in Science and Technology, in the New Mexico press, and elsewhere.

Neocon Humiliation – or Nuclear Exchange?
The Centrality of War Resistance in Moral Politics

A recently updated blogon the Los Alamos Study Group website warns the Neocon obsession with defeating Russia in Ukraine is recklessly tempting nuclear war.

June 18, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized