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2025 in nuclear-related news

To be honest, the really big news for the planet, is the super-fast melting ice in the Arctic and Antarctica,  but politicians and media don’t seem interested.

On the nuclear-related news, it’s not all gloomy.   The heroism of Ahmed al Ahmed was widely recognised. There are tens of millions of people, especially in the USA, who are getting together to oppose nuclear weapons and nuclear war.

So much news is nuclear-related. The year began and ended with Israeli anger. Here in Australia, in December, that was justified, with the horror of the Bondi massacre of Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah. But it’s  gone beyond anger, and has become uncannily like the 2023 referendum  on the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament – with relentless, illogical,  coverage on the theme of blaming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.(The 2023 referendum was won by the negative, by blanketing the airwaves with one illogical cry “If you don’t know, vote No”.) 

15 murders – a terrible thing, – also terrible -over 70,000 killed in Gaza

And why is it nuclear-related? Because Israel’s ruthless Zionist government has nuclear weapons, and Netanyahu would be prepared to use them, (if he can’t get America to do it for him).

Also nuclear-related, the endless dilemma of Ukraine, the pretense that Ukraine is winning, the carnage mounting, as Ursula von der Leyen and co. flail around, trying to get all of Western Europe to come up with billions of Euros to buy American weaponry  for Ukraine (- Raytheon etc laughing all the way to the bank). War-mongering Europeans seem prepared to send drone/missile attacks deep inside Russia, despite the very real risk of nuclear retaliation from Russia.

Then there’s the chance of  the “President of Peace” starting a war with Venezuela, or Iran, or Greenland, or anywhere else where he could commandeer oil, or other resources. Things could so easily go nuclear.

The  arms race continues apace, even on the moon.

The propaganda for nuclear power roars on in the media, though just about everybody knows that it’s unaffordable, and small nuclear reactors exist pretty much only as optimistic designs.  It’s tacitly recognised that the only genuine purpose for new nuclear power is to sustain the nuclear weapons industry.  Renewable energy is known to be the cheapest  energy form.

And of course – looming over it all, has been the promise and the threat of AI.

Those were the general themes for 2025.  For the details on the past week – go to https://nuclear-news.net/2025/12/23/the-past-week-in-nuclear-related-news/

May you have happy holidays!

December 24, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes