Nuclear Weapons
Gender 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…
Read MoreVisual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing
From Anton Wagner, Hiroshima Day Coalition, Canada: The Chugoku Shimbun Hiroshima Peace Media Center has just posted the website Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945 . The website consists of 1,532 photographs and two films recorded in Hiroshima between August 6 and the end of December 1945 by citizens directly affected…
Read MoreRemembering Hiroshima — video
On August 5, 2024, the Hiroshima / Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Region and the WILPF US DMV branch commemorated the 79th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing with Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura, and speakers John Steinbach, Melvin Hardy, Gwen DuBois, Linda Pentz Gunter, Fan Yang, Dennis Nelson, and James Wagner. You can watch…
Read MoreRemembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration events this week, Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida reiterated that despite the widening nuclear threats in the world, “we must continue moving forward” on the path to nuclear disarmament. The remarks come amidst on-going concerns that Japan could quickly develop nuclear weapons given its plutonium stockpile accumulated from its…
Read MoreConfronting rising nuclear tensions
If you missed the panel presentation and discussion hosted by Veterans for Peace — Nuclear Power and Weapons in a Time of Rising Tensions — you can watch it here. The speakers featured Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, William Hartung of the Quincy Institute, and Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group.
Read MoreThe voice for her community
This week is the 13th anniversary edition of Nuclear Hotseat. Host, Libbe HaLevy invited 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Award winner, Hinamoeura Cross (pictured by Adam Stoltman) to describe her efforts to seek justice for her people in French Polynesia who were subjected to 193 atomic tests inflicted on them by the colonialist French government. CLICK HERE…
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