Palomares: Reflections of an American, sixty years later

[U.S. Navy photo] Dr. Michael E. Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, has authored “Palomares: Reflections of an American, sixty years later.” See his English language version here. An Andalusian Spanish version has been edited and published by elDiario.es in Spain. As Dr. Ketterer’s English language version…

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DOGE cuts starve US defense against ICBMs

As reported in an exclusive by USA Today. Fort Greely, Alaska’s role in U.S. defenses — or lack thereof — against adversarial attack by Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), including nuclear-tipped ones, plays a central role in the blockbuster film “House of Dynamite.” (See the movie poster, above.) The so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts…

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Britain’s “borrowed bombs” and bombers

A new report reveals that the UK government’s purchase of American nuclear-capable F-35A planes and the atomic bombs they would drop, are a colossal waste of money, unneeded and incapable of serving any useful or timely strategic purpose. “Smoke and Mirrors” from Nukewatch UK and Nuclear Information Service exposes the hollowness of this dangerous and…

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“It’s All About the Bomb”

NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION THE PEACEFUL ATOM GOES TO WAR ECO-LOGIC Weds., Dec. 10, 10 a.m. [ET], radio & internet [See the poster advertising this particular episode of the show! And see Alfred Meyer’s November 2022 The Progressive article, “It’s All About the Bomb: Why civilian nuclear power is merely a cover for producing more nuclear…

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IUFF 2025, Las Vegas, NV

[IUFF logo design by Klee Benally] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Laura Piffero, Shoshone/Paiute (602) 391-3656 Thalia “Star” Guerrero: (435) 879-9086 Norbert Suchanek, [email protected], uraniumfilmfestival.org Media Release from Native Community Action Council P.O. Box 46301, Las Vegas, Nevada 89114 www.nativecommunityactioncouncil.org INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL  NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2025  LAS VEGAS, NEVADA NOVEMBER 21,…

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Our ‘House of Dynamite’ will eventually blow

If you haven’t seen ‘A House of Dynamite’, this is a spoiler alert. But here’s another spoiler alert: nuclear deterrence does not and cannot work. Kathryn Bigelow’s thought-provoking film has been assailed by nuclear hawks as inaccurate but their critiques are nitpicks compared to the terrifying reality she portrays: that when it comes to how…

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Trump threatens to restart nuclear testing

US President Donald Trump says the US will start testing nuclear weapons again, a statement that has raised alarm in the peace movement and in nations across the world. According to news reports, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that “We’ve halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think it’s appropriate…

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Members of Congress object to plutonium giveaway

On December 31, the Trump White House will start revealing which lucky startup companies will receive free plutonium needed for their new reactor fuel. Trump will give away between 20-25 tons, according to reports, going against US energy policy that has long avoided the transfer of nuclear weapons-usable materials into the commercial sector. One likely…

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U.S. to gift Pu-239 to private nuclear industry

Trump Administration’s give away of 20 MT of US plutonium weapons stockpile to private companies threatens nuclear proliferation  According to previously unreleased government documents obtained and reviewed by Politico and addressed in a letter from three Democrat members of Congress to President Donald Trump, The White House is preparing to give away 20 metric tons…

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