Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: Nuclear News: US nuclear reactor shuts down after refueling
Updated: 2010-04-30 09:17:16
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Susquehanna 1 nuclear shuts after refueling âHOUSTON, April 22 (Reuters) PPL Corp's (PPL.N) 1,149-megawatt Unit 1 at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania automatically shut on Thursday morning as it attempted to...
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Updated: 2010-04-30 09:17:16Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: Atomkraft? Nein, Danke! say 150,000 in Germany
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Nobody does anti-nuclear campaigning quite like they do in Germany. Spectacular and inspiring are the words. (c) Bente Stachowske / Greenpeace Last year 50,000 people took to the streets of Berlin. Last weekend almost 150,000 people came out to show...Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: Chernobyl Day
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Twenty four years ago today, the Number 4 reactor exploded at Chernobyl. It was the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen. Two people were killed in the explosion. Thirty-seven died of acute radiation sickness soon afterwards. According to...Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: Greenpeace shut down Vattenfall’s main headquarters
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Itâs been an incredibly busy and successful week for clean energy activists this week. Weâve had spectacular scenes in Germany and thousands of people came out to remember the Chernobyl disaster on Monday. Yesterday, 30 Greenpeace activists from Germany, Poland,...World gathers for major conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Updated: 2010-04-30 01:08:09
Monday marks the official start of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, where representatives from around the world and concerned citizens will converge at the United Nations in New York. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a cornerstone nuclear weapons treaty that dates back to 1970. With more than 180 countries signed on to it, [...]Congress Can’t Hardly Wait For Iran Sanctions
Updated: 2010-04-30 01:08:07Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Iran Watch Congress Canâ t Hardly Wait For Iran Sanctions Laicie Apr 29, 2010 0 Don't lie It was your . favorite In an effort to avoid Republican delay tactics , the Democratic majority has tended to skip over the whole conference process in recent years in favor of less formal means of reconciling House and Senate bills . In fact , while the 103rd Congress went to conference a total of 62 times , the 110th went just 10. So yesterday was a special occasion â Nearly five months into the year , the first conference committee of 2010 came together for â what else â a discussion of sanctions on . Iran âItâ s been so long since IVan Creveld - Keynote Address at Strategy Conference
Updated: 2010-04-29 09:04:26Martin van Creveld opens the Strategy Conference…..Nagl - Radical Reform for Teaching Strategy?
Updated: 2010-04-29 09:04:25From the Strategy Conference…..Bacevich - How Do we Know When War is Over?
Updated: 2010-04-29 09:04:24From the Strategy Conference…..Hammes - Who Participates in War?
Updated: 2010-04-29 09:04:23From the Strategy Conference…..Echevarria - War in the Post-Clausewitz Era?
Updated: 2010-04-29 09:04:19From the Strategy Conference…….Abolition: Do it for the Children!
Updated: 2010-04-29 09:04:16: : skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Quotable I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons President Barak Obama , Prague , April 5, 2009 Wednesday , April 28, 2010 Abolition : Do it for the Children Dear , Friends This is an exciting and challenging time for abolitionists . The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference is nearing , and scores of abolitionists from all over the globe are converging on New York to engage in activities calling on the nations' representatives at the NPT RevCon to take serious steps towards abolition . Roughly 2000 of those converging on New York come from Japan , and nearly 100 of those are Hibakusha ,Gates: Kicking A$$ and Taking Names (Or At Least Talking About It)
Updated: 2010-04-29 01:03:36Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Security Matters Gates : Kicking A$$ and Taking Names Or At Least Talking About It Laicie Apr 28, 2010 0 In an essay for the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs Defense Secretary Robert Gates issues yet another welcome call for reform . While the QDR may not exactly have been âshaped by a bracing dose of realism,â Gates does seem to be setting his priorities , one by one very little by very little Yesterday in The Hill Gordon Adams and Matthew Leatherman point out that the 2010 QDR ⦠gives equal priority to every mission the Pentagon and the military want to undertake : current wars , future conventional deterrence and war-fighting ,Iran’s ‘S-300’ – More than just mock up?
Updated: 2010-04-28 20:40:52Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Iranâ s âS-300â â More than just mock up Chad Apr 28, 2010 0 Oil drums welded together or S-300 cannisters Iran last week paraded a range of new military equipment on Army Day , including a Surface-to-Air Missile SAM system that has been likened to the Russian S-300 PMU-1 If the system actually represented the PMU-1, it would imply that manufacturers Almaz had finally made good on their December 2005 contractual and controversial obligation to deliver . Upon closer look at the Army Day photos , however , some key differences suggest that this was unlikely the case . Interestingly though , these same differences may also signify theDoes Climate Change Affect the 2010 NPT RevCon?
Updated: 2010-04-28 20:40:51Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog Does Climate Change Affect the 2010 NPT RevCon Mary Apr 28, 2010 0 In the arms control community , the third pillar of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons NPT the right to peacefully use nuclear energy is like the ugly duckling , marginalized while the other two pillars non-proliferation and disarmament are more loudly . championed Nonetheless , the right to peaceful use of nuclear energy technology is an equal pillar of the treaty , and an increasingly important one as the international community struggles to grapple with climate . change The United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Group on Energy andA US View on Future UK Defence Plans
Updated: 2010-04-28 20:40:47Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog A US View on Future UK Defence Plans Travis Apr 28, 2010 0 Iâ ve got a new article up over at the Royal United Services Institute website examining what UK defense priorities should be from an American perspective . Hereâ s my : setup Looking ahead , the new US Quadrennial Defense Review released in February placed new emphasis on the non-traditional threats posed by irregular warfare , potential WMD proliferation and terrorist attacks , hybrid warfare combining high- and low-tech tactics , climate change , and the loss of shared access to the global commons' in air , sea , space , and cyberspace . Dependable access to theseFlexibility, Thy Name is New START
Updated: 2010-04-28 08:30:18Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog Flexibility , Thy Name is New START Kingston Apr 28, 2010 0 NoH has been arguing for some time that given the delivery vehicle range outlined in the Joint Understanding last July , together with the slow trickle of news that the new treaty would likely contain simpler conversion and elimination rules , the U.S . wouldnâ t have to make any significant changes to its current nuclear force structure long live the triad or chop up systems that have been converted to conventional-only roles . Now that the treaty text and protocol have been released , the amount of flexibility and by extension the hedge against uncertainty that theInformation Driven Safeguards [5]
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: ArmsControlWonk.com Home About Book Archive Contact Information Driven Safeguards posted Tuesday April 27, 2010 under iaea safeguards by andreas_persbo Trevor Findlay’s Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance has just released a report on Nuclear Futures which makes for excellent reading . In the report , there is a brief paragraph on information driven . safeguards The Agency claims it is pursuing what it describes as information driven” IAEA 2007b : 16 safeguards , supported by a modern knowledge management system” including a database that records the experiences of all safeguards inspectors However , there remain concerns that the IAEA inspectorate’s culture” has still not entirely changed from one of examining a narrow range of information to one that considers each individual state’sEpistemology is More Important than Politics
Updated: 2010-04-27 08:10:27I found this interesting. It is science and technology journalist Micheal Specter at TED where he is blasting “science denial”: I may be wrong, but I suspect that Specter’s political and perhaps, economic, views, are to the left of my own. That’s ok - he has a scientific-empirical-rational epistemology, which means there’s an intellectual common ground where debates can [...]New START Treaty Crucial for U.S. Security
Updated: 2010-04-27 00:09:39Reducing the numbers and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons will require a global effort, and both New START and the test ban treaty are critical measures that will do both, greatly enhancing our national security. The fate of New START in the Senate will decide the outcome of our nuclear spring and our hopes for a more secure future, writes Richard Klass in the Sun Journal.Documentary “Paths to Zero” Premiering at the NPT RevCon
Updated: 2010-04-27 00:09:38by: Alicia Godsberg On Tuesday May 11 FAS will be premiering our documentary, “Paths to Zero,” at the United Nations during the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT RevCon). The screening will be part of FAS’s official UN Office of Disarmament Affairs side event for the [...]Response to Hendrik Hertzberg
Updated: 2010-04-27 00:09:38Given the documented interest in nuclear materials of terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda, and given the questionable assumptions that nuclear-energy economics is fraught with, it makes little sense to push nuclear power at a time when protections against proliferation are still so problematic, writes Leonard Weiss in the New Yorker.Stephen Hawking, Aliens, and Sole Purpose
Updated: 2010-04-26 20:00:14, , Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog Stephen Hawking , Aliens , and Sole Purpose Kingston Apr 26, 2010 0 Perhaps this is what the authors of the NPR had in mind when they said that âthe United States is therefore not prepared at the present time to adopt a universal policy that deterring nuclear attack is the sole purpose of nuclear weapons.â Or as a colleague put it : Is anyone else really hopeful about living to see the day that sic a Nuclear Posture Review makes an argument about needing reserve nuclear weapons to hedge against extrageopolitical surprise . Stay home ET . UK scientist : Aliens may pose risks The Associated Press Monday , April 26, 2010Recommended Reading
Updated: 2010-04-26 07:50:52Overdue. No “top billing” this week. Thomas P.M. Barnett -The fastest and most likely route to breaking the magic 50 boundary and Feudalism replaced by “Democratic centralism” replaced by feudalism replaced by …? Medvedev talks of needed modernization, but it is a still-born notion so long as Putin remains co-ruler. Thus the muddle-through option that defines much of Russian [...]
Obama’s Bush Adminstration Holdover: The 9/14/01 Use of Force Doctrine
Updated: 2010-04-24 23:29:35Reason. com points out that the Obama administration keeps one important—and perhaps troubling—holdover from the Bush administration: the same, expansive legal framework to combat terrorism. uses the same legal framework. Read the 9/14/2001 resolution here. From Reason.com: But these differences in style mask a sameness in substance that should worry civil libertarians. When it comes [...]Nuclear Weapons and International Law: ICRC Comes Out Against Nukes, Dutch PM Wants International Tribunal for Illegal Nuclear Suppliers and Nuclear Treaty Violators
Updated: 2010-04-24 23:29:34The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) considers nuclear weapons a violation of humanitarian law. Watch ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger’s streaming video statement here. And Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende proposes an international tribunal specifically to investigate cases of nuclear treaty violations. But University of Groningen Professor Marcel Brus calls [...]Seoul Purpose [12]
Updated: 2010-04-22 18:39:45: ArmsControlWonk.com Home About Book Archive Contact Seoul Purpose posted Thursday April 22, 2010 under north-korea by jeffrey The DPRK has issued its own nuclear posture review” actually a memorandum” titled something like The Korean Peninsula and the Nuclear Issue” English Korean The Korean version is substantially longer and more detailed . It needs a decent translation , including the . title I can’t decide whether I am pleasantly surprised or sort of disappointed , but the DPRK nuclear memo lacks much of the bluster that typically livens up any effort at reading North Korean propaganda . Indeed , the declaratory language is pretty modest : stuff The mission of the nuclear armed forces of the DPRK is to deter and repulse aggression and attack on the country and the nation till theIranian ICBM by 2015? [26]
Updated: 2010-04-21 18:19:33: ArmsControlWonk.com Home About Book Archive Contact Iranian ICBM by 2015 posted Wednesday April 21, 2010 under missile-defense by jeffrey The Pentagon submitted a report to Congress containing the claim that Iran could develop an intercontinental ballistic missile by 2015. Ah , the dreaded could Section 1245 of the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act required the Department of Defense to submit a report to Congress on Iran’s military power , similar to the annual Report on the Military Power of the People’s Republic of . China The report is rather plain here is the full text The report looks rather more like the initial editions of Chinese Military Power in 1998 and 1999, before CMP evolved into the giant full-color extravaganza that evokes the old Soviet Military Power in its .Thinking With a Fresh Mind
Updated: 2010-04-21 06:09:45
A brief anecdote.
Today, a student came to me with a question that their science instructor could not answer (the curriculum is mostly intro to chem with some classical physics). I am in no way, shape or form, a scientist or even a teacher of science, but the students know I’m interested in many odd things [...]Exceptional India [14]
Updated: 2010-04-20 18:05:10: ArmsControlWonk.com Home About Book Archive Contact Exceptional India posted Tuesday April 20, 2010 under krepons-shoebox india by michael_krepon K . Subrahmanyam may be the most exceptional strategic thinker that Western Wonks have never read . During the 1990s , we disagreed intensely about so many things that a mutual friend arranged for a cooling off session over lunch at the India International Centre in Delhi . After an awkward silence , my dining companion asked , So what shall we talk about , the weather Our conversations then became far easier . For those unfamiliar with the Subrahmanyam oeuvre , I would recommend starting with India and the Nuclear Challenge an edited volume published in 1986. Back then , Indian strategic analysts spoke with feeling about the immorality of theYoung voices critical to advancing nuclear security
Updated: 2010-04-19 21:48:48Indeed, the greatest national security threat for my generation is no longer determined by which countries possess nuclear weapons — it is the very existence of the weapons themselves, writes Katie Mounts in the Times Record.Nuclear weapons are relics
Updated: 2010-04-19 21:48:47Once approved by each county’s legislative bodies, New START will make important advances in reducing the unnecessarily large nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia. It’s high time for nuclear weapons--vestiges of a bygone era--to be drastically and decisively reduced in number, writes Mary Slosson in the Register Citizen.Summer Study on Arms Control 1960 [1]
Updated: 2010-04-17 04:33:21: ArmsControlWonk.com Home About Book Archive Contact Summer Study on Arms Control 1960 posted Friday April 16, 2010 under administrivia by jeffrey Well , you were going to get a post on the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review and the clean” Negative Security Assurance until I checked my . mailbox This bad boy . arrived This is the collected papers and meeting notes of the American Academy’s 1960 summer study on Arms Control . A couple of guys named Schelling and Halperin used the meeting as the basis of a subsequent book , Strategy and Arms Control . . Yeah Strategy and Conflict got a marvelous review in the Harvard Crimson titled , Two New Studies on Arms Control : Only Schelling’s Worth Reading The review contains some basic details about the Summer . Study It is not easy to get a copy theAlan Khazei Speaks to Council and Center Supporters
Updated: 2010-04-17 04:33:19On April 1, 2010 Alan Khazei spoke to a gathering of Council for a Livable World and Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation supporters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.New START treaty signed
Updated: 2010-04-16 04:13:47
President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) on April 8 to reduce both countries’ large nuclear arsenals. New START also provides for verification measures such as on-site inspections and data exchanges. The treaty includes the following reductions:
* 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads
* 800 total deployed and non-deployed [...]Nuclear Security Summit
Updated: 2010-04-16 04:13:46The Nuclear Security Summit gathered 47 world leaders in DC to commit to achieving the goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear material, such as plutonium or highly enriched uranium, and securing loose nuclear weapons within four years. President Obama linked the summit to the vision of achieving a nuclear weapons free world, which he outlined [...]Those Were the Weeks That Were: Nuclear Spring
Updated: 2010-04-15 03:50:05Stepping back from the past few frantic days on nuclear weapons issues, it is useful to realize how much has been accomplished. The last two weeks have arguably been the two most eventful weeks on reducing the dangers posed by nuclear weapons since the advent of the nuclear age, writes John Isaacs in this new analysis.START follow-on: The Senate calculus
Updated: 2010-04-14 19:49:02On April 8, after nearly a year of tough negotiations, the U.S. and Russia signed the "New START" treaty in Prague, Czech Republic. As John Isaacs explains in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the result of these difficult negotiations will now face what could be equally tortuous consideration by the U.S. Senate.Invitation: Nuclear Weapons Policy Conference Call for Youth/Student Leaders, 4/20/10
Updated: 2010-04-13 02:58:25You are cordially invited to participate in a national conference call, The Next Generation Speaks – A Briefing and Discussion on Critical U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy Initiatives, on Tuesday, April 20, 7- 8:15pm EDT.Administration Statements and Speeches
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:06:24Administration Statements and Speeches on New STARTFrom the Other Side: Senate Republican Letters to President Obama and Senior Administration Officials on New START
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:06:23Senate Republican Letters to President Obama and Senior Administration Officials on New START.Twenty Percent Solution: Breaking the Iranian Stalemate
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:06:15
by Ivanka Barzashka and Ivan Oelrich
Iran and the rest of the world are stalemated. Obama’s deadline for Tehran to address concerns about its nuclear program passed at the end of 2009, so the White House is moving to harsher sanctions. But the US is having trouble rallying the needed international support because Iranian intentions remain [...]Pakistan and the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:05:49Two pieces in today’s Dawn reveal the Pakistani viewpoint on Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and their own ambiguous nuclear status—a nation possessing nuclear weapons, but still unrecognized as such by the international community. While most US coverage has focused on the impact of the NPR on America’s nuclear arsenal and security, these two articles [...]Blog-on-Blog: Will Obama’s START Treaty Pass the Senate?
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:05:48Nukes of Hazard offers some good commentary on whether the U.S.-Russia Prague Treaty (Obama’s ‘New START’) can get the 67 votes necessary for Senate ratification. Travis Sharp suggests partisan considerations may ultimately decide the treaty’s fate: But, if they don’t vote solely on their constituents’ interests, what will drive senators’ calculations? Information, ideology, and partisanship [...]Proliferation News Round Up: Sizing Up Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:05:47What does President Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review change? The New York Times squarely answers this question—claiming that Obama has prudently constrained when the United States will deploy nuclear weapons: The document substantially narrows the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons. The last review — done in 2002 by the George W. [...]Will A New Round of Iran Sanctions Have Any Bite?
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:05:44At Contentions Jennifer Rubin reviews a WSJ article that points out the weakness of current sanctions on Iran. Specifically the article notes that assets totaling only $43 million have been blocked to the Iranian regime. But U.S. enforcement is not the problem with the Iranian sanctions. Instead the problem remains that other countries, significantly Russia [...]START’s Tactical Short-Coming: New START’s Silence on Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Updated: 2010-04-11 16:05:43David E. Hoffman highlights one short-coming of the new START treaty: its silence on tactical nuclear weapons. Hoffman’s Foreign Policy article quickly reviews the history of tactical nuclear weapons (surprise: nuclear watermelons were around in the 1950s). He then outlines the scale of this nuclear omission, before highlighting a way forward on this troublesome nuclear [...]