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July 27, 2022
Nuclear threats
Threatening to make attacks with nuclear weapons is known as ‘deterrence’ when the United States does it, but it’s called madness, blackmail,...
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June 28, 2022
Weapons ban
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has been ratified by 65 governments, known in diplomatic circles as States Parties. The treaty’s...
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March 13, 2021
Fukushima at ten
It’s now 10 years since the catastrophic triple meltdowns of reactors at Fukushima in Japan. As Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health...
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June 27, 2019
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The Trump administration has halted, without explanation, the routine practice of reporting the current number of nuclear weapons in the US arsenal,...
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April 23, 2019
Chernobyl’s effects
April 26 marks the 33rd anniversary of the 1986 radiation disaster at Chernobyl reactor Number 4 in Ukraine, just north of Kiev the capital. It is...
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August 09, 2018
Fiction and facts
About the US atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, popular accounts still stick to the false but “greatest generation” story...
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April 30, 2018
Nuclear disaster
The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of the April 26, 1986...
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April 17, 2018
Nuclear waste
Last month, the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor, on the banks of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, was found to be leaking radioactive tritium ...
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March 13, 2018
A human-made disaster
“Nearly seven years after the triple reactor meltdowns, this unique nuclear crisis is still underway,” Greenpeace International’s Shaun Burnie...
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March 09, 2018
False alarms
Three days after the January 13 false alarm of a North Korean nuclear attack on Hawaii, Japan’s public TV broadcaster NHK issued its own false...
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June 23, 2017
Poison in the air
Three of the six reactors at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi complex were wrecked in March 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami. The destruction of...
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May 20, 2017
Nuclear waste
After millions of citizens pushed Canada’s Environment Minister to delay plans for an underground radiation dump right next to Lake Huron ,...
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May 10, 2017
Nuclear weapons
Twice in seven days the United States shot nuclear-capable long-range missiles toward the Marshall Islands, but the same government refused in March...
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April 23, 2016
Chernobyl at 30
April 26 is the 30th anniversary of the reactor meltdown and radiation disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which brings to mind cesium. Thirty years...
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April 02, 2016
April fools
April Fools believe suicide bombers can be stopped with more body scanners and police surveillance. Fifteen years of bigger, better blast walls,...
