From: "Rick Wayman, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation" <rwayman@napf.org> Day One at the ICJ: Marshall Islands Shines Against India It was an historic day at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as oral arguments in the first-ever contentious cases on nuclear disarmament began at the ICJ. The Republic...
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Paul Gunter,301.523.0201 Cindy Folkers,240.354.4314 Kevin Kamps,240.462.3216 American Public Still at Risk from U.S. Fukushima-style Nuclear Disaster Five Years after Japan’s Triple Meltdowns TAKOMA PARK, MD, March 10, 2016 — Beyond Nuclear, a leading U.S. anti-nuclear watchdog group on reactor oversight, health impacts and...
A special schedule has been set aside for the Golden Rule Peace Boat with limited seats available: Saturday & Sunday March 12, 13, 19, 20 Leaving the Madaket dock at the end of C street in Eureka at 12 pm, 2 pm and 4 pm Each sailing is...
https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.html 92284 Signatures Target: The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Region: Canada Web site: www.stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.com Petition Background (Preamble): Ontario Power Generation (OPG), a multi-billion dollar power generation company, is seeking approval to build a nuclear waste dump (a Deep Geological Repository or DGR) 1 km from the shores of...
Tepco Turns to 'Toy Story' Claw to Inspire Fukushima Cleanup Stephen Stapczynski sstapczynski Emi Urabe Tokyo Electric Power Co. and partner Toshiba Corp. have a new twist in mind to pluck out the debris and spent fuel in one of the buildings...
January 17, 2016 Corbyn wants Brit subs to continue patrolling but without nukes By Rick Moran http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/corbyn_wants_brit_subs_to_continue_patrolling_but_without_nukes.html#ixzz3xcFNi3ff British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has a dilemma. His party is split on the issue of nuclear modernization of their Trident submarine fleet with several Labor MP's threatening to resign if...
January 18, 2016 “Modernizing” the Opportunities for Nuclear War by Lawrence Wittner http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/18/modernizing-the-opportunities-for-nuclear-war/ A fight now underway over newly-designed U.S. nuclear weapons highlights how far the Obama administration has strayed from its commitment to build a nuclear-free world. The fight, as a recent New York Times article indicates, concerns a...
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/7/the_unending_war_could_north_korean North Korea is facing international condemnation after conducting a nuclear test on Wednesday. North Korea claims it successfully tested a hydrogen nuclear device for the first time, but U.S. and international experts have voiced doubts over the claim. North Korean state media described the action...
The B61-12 "life extension program" is nothing of the sort. The B61-12 is a completely new nuclear weapon. It has a lower, variable yield (50,000 tons of TNT equivalent down to 300 tons), adjustable electronically through a new "dial-a-yield" system. For comparison, the bomb dropped on...
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-defense-ministry-confirms-rail-mobile-icbm-test/ BY: Bill Gertz December 31, 2015 3:40 pm China’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Thursday that its military recently conducted a test of a new rail-mobile ICBM capable of hitting any part of the United States with nuclear warheads. Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Yang Yujun also did not...