Nuclear Weapons
Remembering the horror of Castle Bravo
Filmmaker Andrew Nisker Remembers the Nuclear Victims and Survivors of Bikini Atoll on this Marshall Islands Remembrance Day Seventy years ago, on March 1, the U.S government exploded the first of a series of thermonuclear weapons over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The hydrogen bomb, codenamed Bravo, had an explosive yield that was a…
Read MoreUPDATE: RECA expansion on Senate floor next week
From the Congressional Record Daily Digest of February 29: “Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act (RECA)–Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, but no later than Friday, March 8, 2024, Senate begin consideration of S. 3853, to extend…
Read MoreSenator promises to attach RECA extension to all bills
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) vows to attach the extension of RECA exposure compensation to all bills moving in the Senate until it passes. RECA reauthorization passed the Senate with strong bi-partisan support. Now Hawley is pushing to pass an amendment reauthorizing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) and expanding its coverage to more states, including…
Read MoreImpacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation, Feb. 28, 11am ET
Announcement from Susan Schuurman, Communications Manager, New Mexico Environmental Law Center: IACHR to Host Hearing on Impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation–Feb. 28th at 11am EST/9am MST IACHR GRANTS THEMATIC HEARING ON IMPACTS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HUMAN RIGHTS FROM URANIUM EXPLOITATION Historic Hearing to be Held in Washington, D.C. Weds, Feb. 28th…
Read MoreNew “Don’t Bank on the Bomb” published
Untentable Investments, the newest edition of the essential divestment guide, Don’t Bank on the Bomb, is out today. The report, whose full title is “Untenable Investments: Nuclear weapon producer and their financiers”, is a joint publication of PAX and ICAN. As shown in the report, between January 2021 and August 2023, 287 financial institutions had…
Read MoreThe fallout never ended
In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Bob Alvarez has published a special report: “Decades of nuclear weapons tests and other radioactive experiments injured or killed scientists, soldiers, and innocent bystanders. Many of them, and their relatives, have never been compensated, but new efforts may change that. A former Senate staffer and expert on the…
Read MoreRemembering the first French atomic test
In a statement fully endorsed by Beyond Nuclear, which is a member of ICAN, 15 non-governmental organizations issued a statement on February 13, 2024 marking 64 years since France detonated its first atomic “test” in Algeria, leaving a legacy of transgenerational damage and a radiologically contaminated environment. The statement reads: “On the occasion of the…
Read More10 years since “impossible” WIPP leak
[Image of smoke billowing from the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a repository for nuclear weapons complex transuranic waste) underground in February 2014. This industrial fire — caused by an unmaintained vehicle in the underground — led to a mass evacuation of underground WIPP workers. Around two-dozen were hospitalized due to smoke inhalation, including one…
Read MoreUS nuclear weapons returning to Britain
From Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND): Recently reported documents add further evidence that the US is planning to deploy nuclear weapons to Britain, with CND forwarding its concerns to Suffolk Council. The files describes “Stationary and Mobile Guard Shacks” which will be constructed at RAF Lakenheath for ballistic protection for the 48th Security Forces Squadron…
Read More“Unspeakable horror”
Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, writing this week on Counterpunch, gives a thorough run-down of the nuclear threats we face, which in part contributed to the decision by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to keep the hands of the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest they have ever been. You…
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