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Why abolition of nuclear weapons should be the top global priority

transforming the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) into a nuclear abolition agreement….Daley suggests that civil society and non-nuclear nations join together to insist that nuclear nations “move the issue to the top of their agendas.”

Building a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, HUFFINGTON POST, Lawrence Wittner, 18 Jan 2011, Apocalypse Never (Rutgers University Press, 2010), by Tad Daley, is a new book that deserves wide circulation, for it is a spirited, ringing call for nuclear weapons abolition — including why it is imperative and how it can be achieved. Continue reading →

January 18, 2011 Posted by Christina Macpherson | resources - print, safety | Leave a comment

Radiation poisoning of Navajo due to uranium mining

The Church Rock flood is only one incident among many in the “slow-motion disaster” investigative journalist Judy Pasternak comprehensively recounts in her chilling new book, “Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed.”

“Yellow Dirt”: Radioactive reservation, The shocking story of how industry and government poisoned and then abandoned the Navajo Nation, Salon.com, Laura Miller, 19 Sept 10,

In the summer of 1979, an earthen dam over the town of Church Rock, Utah, broke, flooding the arroyo below and then the bed of the Rio Puerco (an intermittent stream) on the southern border of the Navajo Nation. It was a small flood, but a dangerous one. It burned the feet of a boy who stepped into it, and caused sheep and crops along the banks to drop dead. That’s because the pond it came from had been used by a nearby uranium mine to store the tailings (residue) of its excavations — the water kept the radioactive dust from blowing away. The 93 million gallons of contaminated water that poured into the Rio Puerco remains the largest accidental release of radioactive material in U.S. history, bigger than the notorious Three Mile Island reactor meltdown that occurred 14 weeks later. Continue reading →

September 20, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | indigenous issues, resources - print, Uranium, USA | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear weapons are no deterrent to war

A new study, The Changing Political Utility of Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Threats from 1970 to 2010, by Samuel Black at the Washington-based Stimson Center, challenges this myth head-on

The myth that has gone nuclear, livemint.com, 5 Sept 10, Nuclear weapons have increased the potential of both conventional war and asymmetrical attacksW Pal SidhuAmong modern myths, perhaps none is more fantastic than the notion that nuclear weapons are solely responsible for the absence of war between nuclear-armed antagonists…… Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | resources - print | antinuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Ionising radiation – areas in Iraq contaminated by depleted uranium

Some of these areas are so irradiated that they will be uninhabitable for millions of years. And this is one of the main issues of the Iraq war, but no one wants to talk about it.

A war on the past, present, and future
tehran times : By Hamid Golpira, 31 Aug 2010, “……..the Iraq war is also a war on the future since the U.S. military has used the mutagenic weapon depleted uranium, which is definitely a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide. Continue reading →

August 31, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | resources - print, Uranium | antinuclear, cancer, depleted, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Doctors debunk myths about medical radiation

Nuclear medicine fact sheet.pdf

Fact sheet: Nuclear medicine Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) July 2010.This MAPW fact sheet describes how nuclear medicine is used for diagnosis and radiotherapy treatment. It explains what is NOT nuclear medicine (eg x-rays and CT scans). It summarises the dangers of ionising radiation…..

July 30, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | resources - print | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Europe’s Renewable Energy policies in detail

The report also includes information on the renewable energy initiatives and legislative frameworks which are driving the renewable energy equipment market in Europe.

Europe Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2010, GlobalData Report Store Jul-2010

GlobalData’s new report “Europe Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2010” provides an in-depth analysis of the renewable policy initiatives in the European Union (EU) and the key countries in terms of strength of policy implementation. Continue reading →

July 21, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | resources - print | climate change, energy efficiency, global warming, renewable energy, renewables, solar, wind | Leave a comment

New book on Canada’s complicity in nuclear arms race

Paul McKay is an award-winning journalist, and the author of Atomic Accomplice: How Canada Deals in Deadly Deceit” Copies of his latest book, Atomic Accomplice, can be purchased online at:Website: http://www.paulmckay.comPaul Continue reading →

July 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | resources - print | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

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