Coming geological extreme events (not good for nuclear reactors)
Climate change may stir geological mayhem 
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/02/climate-change-may-stir-geological-mayhem.html New Scientist, 23 February 2012 Fred Pearce, consultant In Waking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, geologist Bill McGuire warns we may be waking primordial monsters
IN 2006, London geologist Bill McGuire argued in New Scientist that global warming would trigger epidemics of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. Now he’s written the book. The story is even scarier writ large….. There is now abundant evidence that catastrophic outbursts of geological activity accompanied past periods
of rapid climate change, for instance, when we shifted in and out of ice ages. The stresses and strains of rising and falling sea levels and the creation and loss of ice sheets triggered these outbursts. Climate change, he says, may already be shaking up the Earth anew. Continue reading
Book exposes the secret nuclear horror of Rocky Flats
her message is searing. She grew up in a small town near Rocky Flats, Colorado, where a secret nuclear weapons plant built over 70,000 plutonium “triggers” for nuclear bombs. Iversen spoke with me this week about her research … “They made Nagasaki bombs in my backyard,” she explains.
cancer rates are telling the tale: they remain elevated in neighborhoods around Rocky Flats 30 years on
profit motives are driving the push to develop lands that, according to scientists, can never be inhabited safely again. …”Rocky Flats happened in my backyard. [This will be] happening in everyone’s backyard.”
From Rocky Flats to Fukushima: this nuclear folly, Naomi Wolf, Guardian UK 21 Feb 12, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/21/rocky-flats-fukushima-nuclear-folly?newsfeed=true There’s no such thing as safe and accidents are always covered up. So why let Obama build a whole new generation of reactors?
In March 2011, novelist Kristen Iversen‘s memoir, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, was waiting sedately among piles of other manuscripts at various publishing houses. Then,Japan was hit by a tsunami, and the cooling systems of the Fukushimanuclear reactor were overwhelmed, giving the world apocalyptic images of toxic floods and floating cars, of whole provinces made uninhabitable. Continue reading
Nuclear weapons and the race between cooperation and catastrophe
Sam Nunn tackling ‘global problem’ of nuclear weapons Former senator also discusses military, current politics, midstate Macon.com By JIM GAINES, 22 Jan 12 Nunn, a Democratic senator for 24 years, is one subject of a new book by former New York Times reporter and editor Philip Taubman.
“The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and their Quest to Ban the Bomb” chronicles the effort to control nuclear materials worldwide. Nunn joined former secretaries of state Henry
Kissinger and George Shultz, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and Stanford University physicist Sidney Drell to write a 2007 Wall Street Journal article calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons,and they’ve traveled the world in quest of that goal ever since….
“He says if there’s a 10 percent chance of having a nuclear catastrophe — a city goes up — in a given year, and that persists for 50 years … there’s only one-half of a 1 percent chance of
avoidance,” Nunn said. “In other words, 99 and one-half percent chance it’s going to happen over 50 years, somewhere. If you can move that 10 percent to one percent … then over 50 years, you’ve got a 60 percent chance of avoidance. That’s what threat reduction’s all about. It’s a global problem, but as I say often — and it’s true — we’re in a race
between cooperation and catastrophe.”…..
“It’s not simply weapons. You’ve got to control nuclear material, and you’ve got to stop producing the stuff. You could get rid of every nuclear weapon in the world, and the world would still be a very dangerous place if a terrorist could make a weapon. Nobody’s saying
this is going to be easy. But the other way to go is to say ‘We’re going to have them forever.’….. http://www.macon.com/2012/01/22/1873859/former-senator-also-discusses.html
New book on nuclear security
New Book Chronicles Shultz-Perry-Kissinger-Nunn Initiative , NTI Global Security Newswire , 5 Jan 12, In a new book, award-winning journalist Philip Taubman tells the intimate story of five men—Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Sam Nunn, William Perry, and Stanford physicist Sidney Drell—and their campaign to reduce the threat of a nuclear attack and, ultimately, eliminate nuclear weapons altogether.
The Partnership explores this bipartisan partnership which forms NTI’s Nuclear Security Project (NSP). Offering a clear analysis of the danger of nuclear terrorism and how it can be prevented, The Partnership sheds light on one of the most divisive security issues facing Washington today. Taubman illuminates our vulnerability in the face of this pressing terrorist threat–and the unlikely efforts of five key Cold War players to eliminate the nuclear arsenal they helped create.
The New York Times called it “fascinating and haunting.” “The Partnership is a richly detailed account one of the most important issues of our time – the management and future of the world’s nuclear arsenal. Taubman brings this compelling subject to life with original reporting and vivid descriptions of the major players. It’s a book that should be on the bedside of every presidential candidate, national affairs journalist and engaged citizen.” – Tom Brokaw
Bob Woodward calls it a “brilliant, penetrating study… Readers will tremble at the dangers the world has faced and still faces today.” http://www.nti.org/newsroom/news/new-book-chronicles-shultz-perry-kissinger-nunn-initiative/
Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima immoral and unnecessary
the Americans and British had long crossed the moral frontier about terror-bombing civilians…
The Americans didn’t want the Japanese to surrender before they had a chance to drop the bomb.
Weapon of choice, Review By Hamish Mcdonald,December 17, 2011 “……. Now Paul Ham, already established as the best of Australia’s popular war historians, has painted more detail on a wider canvas. Through individual stories, he doesn’t spare us the horrifying reality on the
ground. Almost as excruciatingly, he takes us through the practical and moral decisions about using the bomb……..
Many of the scientists who had urged the development of the atomic bomb to pre-empt Hitler became opposed to its use against Japan. Some petitioned for a demonstration explosion instead. ….. Continue reading
Nuclear weapons proliferator Pakistan wants Australian uranium
Why Australia must not sell uranium to Pakistan, The Conversation, Peter Meyer 7 December 2011 Predictably, Pakistan is seeking equal treatment with India on uranium sales from Australia……The activities of the AQ Khan network in selling equipment and technology to other states show Pakistan to have been an active proliferator (as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark point out in their book, Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy). And the military establishment under whose wings Khan – the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme – operated still dominates public affairs in Pakistan, even under an elected government…..
Japan, and USA, have practical and profitable alternatives to nuclear power
Lovins and colleagues, in a new book, extend the argument to the U.S. as well:
For the United States, Rocky Mountain Institute’s new synthesis “Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era” shows how to run a 2.6-fold bigger 2050 economy with no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third less natural gas, and $5-trillion lower cost than business-as-usual.
DOES JAPAN REALLY NEED NUCLEAR?, New Yorker, by Evan Osnos, November 4, 2011 “……….As I described in the magazine last month, polls show mounting opposition to nuclear power, but many of Japan’s most influential thinkers and politicians have concluded that the country simply cannot afford to give it up. Continue reading
Mohamed ElBaradei offers a way towards nuclear disarmament
In this new book, ElBaradei reports on a deeply disturbing development — a scramble by
numerous nations, driven by fear and insecurity, to obtain nuclear weapons or to maintain their own privileged nuclear status….
ElBaradei has some harsh words for what he calls the “double standard” of nuclear-armed nations. The United States, Britain, France, China, and Russia not only dealt ineffectively and inconsistently with other nations suspected of developing nuclear weapons, but, through “their own failure to disarm contributed directly to proliferation itself.”
Mohamed ElBaradei’s The Age of Deception, HUFFINGTON
POST, Lawrence Wittner, 29 Sept 11, Can international diplomacy cope with the nuclear dangers that now threaten global survival? In The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times (Metropolitan Books, 2011), Mohamed ElBaradei makes the case that it can — if national governments would make a good faith effort to support it. Continue reading
New book exposes USA’s atomic bomb cover-up
New Book: “Atomic Cover-Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki”
VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYvodtZDTc&feature=youtu.be
New Book exposes USA ‘s atomic bomb cover up Greg Mitchell 17 August 11, Just out this month, my 12th book: Atomic Cover-Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and The Greatest Movie Never Made (Sinclair Books). This is a haunting account of how the U.S. suppressed the only film footage shot in the atomic cities, by an American military crew, for decades. The shocking cover-up even extended to MGM and Hollywood — and to President Truman. And there was no WikiLeaks to get the film aired.
America’s “nuclear entrapment” continues to this day. Atomic Cover-up takes a wide angle look at the use of the bomb in 1945–and its impact right up to 2011. It might be sub-titled “From Hiroshima to Fukushima…..”http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/
The Lie of Nuclear Power – best selling Japanese book
His new book, “Genpatsu no uso (The Lie of Nuclear Power),” is a bestseller.1 The “Unofficial Koide Hiroaki Matome,” a blog that collects daily links and video footage of Koide’s talks and appearances, is one of the most important—and popular— Fukushima-related websites.
The Truth About Nuclear Power: Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition Koide Hiroaki Introduction and translation by Sakai Yasuyuki and Norimatsu Satoko,1 August 11, IntroductionKoide Hiroaki began his career as a nuclear engineer forty years ago drawn to the promise of nuclear power. Quickly, however, he recognized the flaws in Japan’s nuclear power program and emerged as among the best informed of Japan’s nuclear power critic. Continue reading
Mohamed ElBaradei writes on nuclear weapons proliferation
.So long as nuclear weapons remain a security strategy for a few possessor countries, with umbrella arrangements that extend that security to a secondary circle of “allied” countries; so long as others are left out in the cold, the proliferation risk continues.
The uranium cocktail circuit Tehelka – Arundhati Ghosh, 27 may 11 FOR MOST of the last century, nuclear weapons were held to be the ‘currency of power’; unfortunately, even today, this belief refuses to die. In The Age of Deception, Mohamed ElBaradei, perhaps one of the most outspoken and therefore controversial directors-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has focused on the major nuclear crises during his tenure, the second Gulf War, the challenge to the Non-Proliferation Treaty NPT from North Korea, the Iran question and the discovery of Pakistan’s AQ Khan network.
He has illustrated candidly and in detail how countries with nuclear weapons and power sought to use that power to constrain the ambitions of other countries to acquire those weapons and in this tension, deception has played a role on both sides.
As ElBaradei says with some acerbity, “The (nuclear) threat will persist as long as the international community continues to address only the symptoms of each new nuclear proliferation challenge: waging war against one country, making a deal with a second, issuing sanctions in a third and seeking regime change in still another. So long as nuclear weapons remain a security strategy for a few possessor countries, with umbrella arrangements that extend that security to a secondary circle of “allied” countries; so long as others are left out in the cold, the proliferation risk continues. With the emergence of sophisticated extremist groups, for whom the threat of retaliation is irrelevant, the nuclear deterrent has become no more than a temporary if not delusional security strategy.”
ElBaradei was clearly referring to Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Iran and the contortions in negotiations that took place to achieve political agendas… Tehelka – India’s Independent Weekly News Magazine
Ethical, but very real, dilemma about nuclear power
in a nuclear context, total destruction of the target is assured and so, if one’s own annihilation is certain, is retaliation for its own sake a valid course of action?….is a reaction that wipes out the rest of humanity morally justifiable? Further, if one decides it is, what would the post-holocaust world look like and would it be worth living in for those who were not part of the original conflict?
This is just one of the dilemmas we face when considering the application of nuclear power,…..
Review: How the End Begins by Ron Rosenbaum | CultureMob, 24 Feb 2011, “………………. argues Ron Rosenbaum, author of the highly-acclaimed Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare Wars, in his sensational new book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III . We are, and always have been, perilously close to nuclear war at any given time, and the threats are not just external. Glaring, to the point of grimly comical, flaws exist in our own nuclear response processes that make very real the possibility of a global inferno started by mistake. Continue reading
Job available after the nuclear holocaust
one “perk” of this job was that they would be expected to survive a nuclear attack, which means that the added benefits to this employment would be a special trip to a safe place to wait out the destruction of the world….. You can read these morbid documents in full at Ptak Science Books.
A job application for restarting the human race after the nuclear apocalypse, 109, 21 Feb 2011, In 1956, the US government issued this totally turgid employment application and list of job requirements for the federal position of Chief, Damage Assessment Division. Continue reading
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ElBaradei’s book reveals manipulations of governments in Nuclear diplomacy
Mohamed ElBaradei Book Rushed to Print – WSJ.com, By JEFFREY A TRACHTENBERG, 2 Feb 2011, As demonstrations in Egypt continue to dominate headlines, a New York publisher is rushing to print the publication of Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei’s book “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times” Continue reading
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