Nuclear Weapons
The dark side of reactors on the moon
As Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter warns in her new book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War — there are lunatic plans afoot to send nuclear-powered rockets to Mars, using the moon as a launching pad. On March 24, NASA announced plans “to launch robotic landers…
Read MoreNo to Nuclear. Get your copy!
New book looks at the human stories along the uranium chain and the true impacts of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and the links between them No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War by Beyond Nuclear’s founder Linda Pentz Gunter (pictured), is now available to order from Pluto Press.…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear condemns attack on Iran
Beyond Nuclear strongly condemns the attacks against Iran by two nuclear-armed countries, the United States and Israel, when a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear program was already within reach. “These renewed attacks on Iran come at a time when negotiations were already underway to secure a new nuclear verification agreement with Iran,” said Linda Pentz…
Read MoreMind-boggling $1.5 trillion military budget request
From: Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action: Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” It is clear that the United States is rapidly approaching that end, and worse – humanity’s demise by…
Read MoreIran’s right to the bomb?
Which countries are allowed to have nuclear weapons? The nuclear-armed nations say only they are. This includes Israel, which is officially an “undeclared” atomic state, even though the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution every year asking Israel to disarm. Iran says it is abiding by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but the US and Israel…
Read MoreOn the road to nuclear war
It’s 85 seconds to midnight. The collapse of the New START Treaty hasn’t helped but there is still time to turn things around, writes Lawrence S.Wittner On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since…
Read MorePalomares: 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…
Read MoreDOGE 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…
Read MoreBritain’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…
Read More“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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