Indonesia Ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Author - Daryl G. Kimball The Indonesian House of Representatives approved the ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) on Dec. 6, decreasing the number of states that…
Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects, too
by Susan O’Donnell and M.V. Ramana - November 23, 2023 NB Power wants to develop two small nuclear reactors on the Bay of Fundy at the Point Lepreau nuclear site. Photo:…
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Oppenheimer
It wasn't the atom bomb's designer who chose to drop it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But questioning the moral and legal basis for that decision remains taboo in America. And…
Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions – even with fewer weapons
Author Mark Maslin https://theconversation.com/profiles/mark-maslin-108286 Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer has revived morbid curiosity in the destructive power of nuclear weapons. There are now an estimated 12,512 nuclear warheads. A war in…
ON CALLS FOR NUCLEAR WAR [Statement from members of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy denouncing Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine]
Statement of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (SWAP) https://svop.ru/main/48156/ Recently, there have been statements (some of them made by members of the SWAP) which promote, albeit with many…