Nuclear Weapons
Nuke Watch NM virtual workshop re: nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores
JOIN US TOMORROW! Virtual Workshop On the nationwide programmatic Environmental impact statement on the expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores Learn How to Make Effective Comments at the Upcoming Public Hearings… Why: Speak your mind at an upcoming hearing on the government’s plan to produce up to 120 new plutonium pits per year for…
Read MoreTAKE ACTION Sign petition on tritium
Sign the petition to stop The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from large releases of radioactive tritium gas. LANL plans to release the tritium gas any time after June 2, 2025. The only roadblock to the Lab’s plans is that it needs a “Temporary Authorization” from the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to do so.…
Read MoreANA DC DAYS: June 8-11, then Spring Meeting
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability has held DC Days annually for nearly four decades. All-day training will be Sunday, June 8. Meetings with congressional and executive branch offices will be from Monday to Wednesday, June 9 to 11. Monday evening will feature a screening of the film “To Use a Mountain,” about sites targeted in the…
Read MoreThe India-Pakistan conflict and nuclear risks
What follows is a statement on the situation from ICAN, of which Beyond Nuclear in a member: “ICAN is gravely concerned at the escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan, particularly since last night’s missile strikes by India on Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Pakistan, and Pakistan’s previous threats to use nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are not a…
Read MoreTHE IRAN DEAL: Smash it then claim it
There is deep irony in the Trump administration working to secure credit for a nuclear deal with Iran, given it was the previous Trump administration that destroyed a perfectly adequate one — the JCPOA — that had ensured Iran’s uranium enrichment stayed within commercial grade while lifting sanctions. Now, as Iran appears to be enriching…
Read More“To Use A Mountain” (Yucca/NTS doc film)
[Yucca Mountain and the Nevada (Nuclear Weapons) Test Site, renamed the Nevada National Security Site, are located on Western Shoshone land, as acknowledged by the 1863 “peace and friendship” Treaty of Ruby Valley, aigned by the Western Shoshone Nation and U.S. government.] News Media Contact: Media Release Brian Terrell April 10, 2025 773-853-1886…
Read MoreTRUMP LOVES NUKES: In Words & Deeds, Industry Promoted
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill-fated George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power renaissance (relapse) attempt underway at that time.] TRUMP LOVES NUKES In Words & Deeds, Industry Promoted President Trump said he’d…
Read MoreNuclear-Free Future Award laureates honored
S.P. Udayakumar of India, Márcia Gomes and Norbert Suchanek of Brazil and Germany respectively, and Edwick Madzimure of Zimbabwe, received their Nuclear-Free Future Awards at a moving ceremony in New York on March 4. The event was founded by Claus Biegert (pictured) in 1998. Udayakumar was unable to travel and has incurred great risks to…
Read MoreJOIN US: REPORT BACK on Nuclear weapons UN meeting
You are invited to an informal zoom REPORT BACK to the community, April 16, 4:30 PM ET on the third Meeting of States Parties (MSP3) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) that took place in NYC at United Nations Headquarters, March 2-7. Mary Olson (Founder of Gender and Radiation Impact Project)…
Read More‘Nuked’ documentary now on Vimeo
Indigenous perspectives take the spotlight as the award-winning feature documentary from filmmaker and eco advocate Andrew Nisker is available On Demand for the first time to US audiences. As the Marshall Islands Nuclear Remembrance Day approaches and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moves the doomsday clock to 89 seconds to midnight, ‘Nuked’ examines the legacy…
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