Greenpeace hails German nuclear plant closures but calls for earlier phase out
Updated: 2011-05-30 13:50:00
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“…They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down [...]
: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable The manufacture , possession , deployment , storage , use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is totally illegal , as the nuclear weapon violates every known principle of humanitarian law , which is a body of law based upon the values cherished by the civilised nations over the centuries to minimise human suffering . It is the duty of all concerned citizens to indicate their opposition to nuclear weapons as they concern the health and safety of all citizens of the planet for generations to . come Judge C.G . Weeramantry , Former Vice President , International Court of Justice , The Hague Friday , May 27, 2011 A Test is a Test is a Test . ,
Reader Dan Joyner — a professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and author of the forthcoming Interpreting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – sends along a photograph of one of a batch of cupcakes made by his students. “They are, of course, made of yellow cake,” he explains “I told her that if [...]
Not John Boyd this time, but John Robb.
John recently gave me a preview of this idea in a much more specific context:
….Here are some of the economic reforms that turned the horde of Genghis Khan into a steamroller than flattened most of the world’s kingdoms/empires.* He:
Delayed gratification. He banned the sacking of the enemy’s camp/city until all of [...]
The Hebrew word for nuclear opacity or ambiguity is amimut, which Avner Cohen believes to be “Israel’s original contribution to the nuclear age.” Avner has written two books on Israel’s bomb. His latest, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb (2010) acknowledges the prior utility of amimut, while highlighting its corrosive effects for “democratic [...]
ISIS has published the IAEA Director-General’s reports on Iran and Syria. Paragraph 35 of the Iran report reveals that Iran conducted “experiments involving the explosive compression of uranium deuteride to produce a short burst of neutrons” — research that has no known application other than for nuclear weapons. Although this information was reported in December [...]
The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich and James Lacey (Ed.)
As readers of this blog know, grand strategy is an important and timely subject that speaks directly to the difficulty American leaders have had in navigating the ship of state in the waters of the international arena. The Shaping [...]