Day Four at the ICJ: Aspirational Rhetoric vs. Real Actions By Rick Wayman and Jackie Cabasso India presented oral arguments today at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the nuclear disarmament case brought by the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). India has challenged the jurisdiction...
Day Three at the ICJ: What Is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? The United Kingdom presented oral arguments at the opening session of the Marshall Islands vs. United Kingdom case today at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Marshall Islands filed an application against...
From: "Rick Wayman, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation" <rwayman@napf.org> Day Two at the ICJ: Where Is Pakistan? Observers arived at the Interntioal Court of Justice this morning expecting to hear the first in a series of four days of oral arguments in the Marshall Islands vs. Pakistan nuclear...
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...