Nuclear Weapons
2025 Nuclear-Free Future Award laureates announced
The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe for their achievements in working for a nuclear-free world. The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury of their peers and are offered in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are:…
Read MoreJIMMY CARTER: Commemorations by nuke watchdogs
[White House Oval Office photograph, signed by President Carter (October 1, 1924 — December 29, 2024), showing him with S. David Freeman (January 14, 1926 – May 12, 2020). Thank you to Glenn Carroll, Nuclear Watch South coordinator, for sharing the photo.] Given his very extensive involvement in key nuclear issues, president Jimmy Carter’s death,…
Read MoreNuclear Weapons Are Not a Fact of Life
[Image compliments of ICAN.] An op-ed of this title was just published in the New York Times by Beatrice Fihn. Fihn is is the director of Lex International Fund and the former executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. (Beyond Nuclear is an ICAN member.) She reminds us of…
Read MoreNihon Hidankyo Receives Nobel Peace Prize
[Mr. Terumi Tanaka, Co-Chair of Nihon Hidankyo, presents the Nobel lecture, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2024. Photo credit: © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Jo Straube] NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Nihon Hidankyo Receives Award The very moving December 10 (UN Human Rights Day) ceremony, including several musical performances, was…
Read MoreANA Fall Meeting & SRS site tour
[Photo by Nikolas Peterson, executive director of Hanford Challenge. Pictured from left to right are: Joanne Sweeney/Nuclear Watch South; Andrea Jones/GA WAND; Alfred Meyer/PSR; Tanvi Kardile/OREPA; Kimmy Igla/PeaceWorks Kansas City; Ellen Barfield/Veterans for Peace; Scott Kovac/Nuclear Watch New Mexico; Lon Burnam/Peace Farm; Ann Suellentrop/PeaceWorks Kansas City; Kevin Kamps/Beyond Nuclear; Ellen Thomas/Proposition One Committee; Betsy Rivard/GA…
Read MoreGender and radiation: New report shows girls most at-risk group
A new United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) report by Amanda M. Nichols — Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara and Mary Olson — Founder, Gender and Radiation Impact Project entitled Gender and Ionizing Radiation: Towards a New Research Agenda Addressing Disproportionate Harm examines recent research correlating harm from exposure to ionizing radiation…
Read MoreKaren Silkwood’s death, 50 years on
[Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974)] November 13, 2024 marked 50 years since the tragic, suspicious death of Karen Silkwood, nuclear whistleblower and Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW) organizer at Kerr-McKee’s Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site, a nuclear weapons complex production facility in Crescent, Oklahoma. The Christic Institute Archives on…
Read MoreAtomic Bomb Survivors win Nobel Peace Prize
Quoted from the MSN article: “Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them. Witnesses to the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, members of…
Read MoreUA/RU RISKS: Threats to NPPs, of N Weapons Use
[Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon, created from fragments of Soviet and US nuclear missiles that were destroyed under a treaty. Photo:UN Photo/Milton Grant] Ukraine’s (UA) president, Zelensky, warned the annual United Nations (UN) General Assembly of world leaders yesterday Russia (RU) is threatening to attack UA’s nuclear power plants. This, while the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear…
Read MoreRadiation victims come to DC pushing for compensation
“Beginning September 22, more than 50 members of the Navajo Nation, Laguna Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo and Hopi tribe will drive roughly 30 hours by bus from New Mexico to Washington, D.C., to demand House Speaker Mike Johnson allow a vote on legislation reauthorizing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). The bill would aid victims of U.S. nuclear tests, uranium mining…
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