Nuclear Weapons
Trinity fallout hit 46 states, Mexico, Canada
New research, conducted by Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, finds that Trinity atomic fallout reached 46 states, Mexico and Canada within 10 days of detonation in 1945. The hourly reconstruction of blast fallout shows that it was much larger than anticipated and the radioactive mushroom cloud traveled higher in the atmosphere than…
Read More“Zero trust”: St. Louis nuclear coverups
A Freedom of Information Act Request regarding Manhattan Project and Cold War radioactive contamination at numerous sites across the St. Louis region garnered some 15,000 pages of documents. A collaboration between AP, MuckRock, and Missouri Independent analyzed them, resulting in major coverage. Disregard for worker and public health by officials at the Atomic Energy Commission,…
Read MoreNew Mexico: Radioactive catastrophe commemorations
Beyond Nuclear was honored to participate in both the Church Rock uranium spill (July 16, 1979) and Trinity atomic bomb blast (July 16, 1945) commemorations last weekend in New Mexico. At the Red Water Pond Road Community on the Church Rock Chapter of the Navajo/Diné Nation, Beyond Nuclear joined many other groups in co-sponsoring, and…
Read MoreDestroyer of worlds: Avoiding Oppenheimer’s prediction
With the film, Oppenheimer, being widely heralded by the media, and as we remember the first explosion of a nuclear device, the July 16, 1945 Trinity test in New Mexico, can the nuclear genie first unleashed by the Manhattan Project be put back in the bottle? Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, argues that it…
Read MoreOppenheimer’s bomb: Health impacts continue
At some New Mexico Oppenheimer screenings, a 15-second advertisement will precede the movie. “Oppenheimer’s bomb led to decades of nuclear testing across the Southwest,” it says. “Communities still suffer health impacts related to the tests, many without government recognition or justice.” The ad is intended to point out that, for those who actually live in…
Read MoreWatch Tritium Truths: Facts vs. Deceptions
Given the plans to dump tritium into Cape Cod Bay from Pilgrim, the dumping of tritium from Indian Point into the Hudson, the history of batch releases and leaks from Braidwood, the proposed release from Los Alamos, and the plan to dump the Fukushima tritiated water into the Pacific, we have put together a short…
Read MoreExploring Tritium Dangers
Exploring Tritium Dangers: Health and Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides, by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., uses the tritium pollutant, which forms radioactive water, to illustrate the risks of taking any radioisotope into the human body. Tritium easily crosses the placenta (the book makes clear it is not the only radioisotope that does so) and can…
Read MoreUS nuclear facilities hacked
A contractor for the department’s Office of Science and national laboratories, including Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (pictured) that produces uranium for nuclear bombs and conducts nuclear energy research, was among the victims of a wide-ranging cyberattack that saw several federal agencies hacked, according to Bloomberg. “The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education is…
Read MoreBelarus says it has Russian nuclear weapons
Belarus has started taking delivery of Russian nuclear weapons, according to its despotic leader, President Alexander Lukashenko (pictured), and worse, he has said he would use them “to repel aggression.” The transfer of weapons now contradicts what Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had indicated earlier, that no nuclear weapons would move to Belarus until some time…
Read MoreObscene spending on nuclear weapons
The United States spent $43.7 billion on its nuclear weapons program in 2022, according to the new ICAN Report — Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending. That’s $83,143 a minute and more than all of the other nuclear armed states combined. The next highest spender was China at $11.7 billion followed by Russia at $9.6…
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