Events
Reactors at risk: Nuclear Hotseat
Dr. Edwin Lyman of Union of Concerned Scientists is this week’s interview on Nuclear Hotseat How many reactors are there in war-torn Ukraine and how great are the risks they now face in these extreme conditions? This week on Nuclear Hotseat, host Libbe HaLevy asks Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union…
Read MoreIs “duck and cover” really back?
You would think all you need to do in the event of a nuclear attack was to revive the nonsense of “duck and cover”, watching the recent New York City Office of Emergency Management PSA suggesting a nuclear attack could be survivable. Now, non-proliferation, peace and disarmament groups have pushed back. This week on Nuclear…
Read More“Strike first”. Daniel Ellsberg recalls
Defuse Nuclear War has released two short video podcasts with Daniel Ellsberg, directed by Oscar-nominee Judith Ehrlich. Ellsberg is well-known for leaking the Pentagon Papers. But before that, he was a high-level nuclear war planner. Ellsberg has spent the last 50 years truth-telling about the threat of nuclear conflict. Watch below.
Read MoreJuly 16 New Mexico frontline community events (1979 Church Rock uranium tailings spill; 1945 “Trinity” atomic bomb “test” blast)
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please see the email from Lilly Adams at Union of Concerned Scientists, below. Here are links to the documents that Lilly attached to her original email: 1. Red Water Pond Road Community Association/MASE flier; 2. TBDC press release. Please spread the word about these important events. Thank you. —Kevin Kamps, Beyond…
Read MorePress Release: Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to Hold 13th Annual Candlelight Vigil
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Read MoreMajia Nadesan talks “Radiophobia” on Nuclear Hotseat
“Radiophobia”: Prof. Majia Nadesan (pictured) rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima. She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics including governmentality, biopolitics, and risk…
Read MoreCommemorating the Trinity Test on July 16
July 5, 2022 email from Sofia Rose Wolman: Greetings, We’re writing to encourage your ongoing action, through marking Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Trinity Day this summer. This particular email is about July 16: the date of the Trinity Test in 1945, when the first nuclear weapon was exploded in the USA state of New Mexico. Wherever…
Read MoreJuly 16 – 43rd Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration, Churchrock, New Mexico
Speak Up July 7 Concerning Plans for WIPP To Remain Open Essentially Forever
Action Alert: Speak Up July 7 Concerning Plans for WIPP To Remain Open Essentially Forever Thursday, July 7th, at 5:30 pm [Mountain Time, which is 7:30 pm Eastern/6:30 pm Central/4:30 pm Pacific], DOE will host a virtual and in-person WIPP Community Forum and Open House in Santa Fe. It will take place at the Santa Fe…
Read MoreOhio’s Nukes: Resisting Weapons and Power Excesses
On June 22nd, Beyond Nuclear joined with allies from Ohio to deliver a letter to the office of U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur in Toledo. The rally coincided with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons First Meeting of States Parties in Austria. Kaptur chairs the powerful U.S. House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee,…
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