Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for November 27th to November 29th, 2012
Updated: 2012-11-30 09:38:00
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From time to time we talk here about “the pile” of books waiting to be read, or the larger “Antilibrary” which briefly also became a blog, now defunct: ….The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. he is the owner of a large personal library ( [...]
A group presenting itself as Iranian — the call themselves Parastoo, which is apparently Farsi for “swallow” — somehow acquired an old IAEA server. The machine was not wiped clean of data. Parastoo has now posted some of the data online, vaguely threatening a number of persons with compromised emails, unless they sign a petition demanding [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- for your general amusement ] . Is OMG something to write after your name on your official correspondence — one of the orders of British knighthood, perhaps? ** ** Hat-tip: Smithsonian, via Jeff Gates.
[ by Charles Cameron -- just another angle on personal identity and ID, nudged on by two news pieces I saw today, and written to set the thought juices flowing ] . Life’s four deep questions are often listed thus: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? and Where will [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable Every day , more and more people are viewing both nuclear tests and nuclear weapons as dangerous relics of the Cold War , long overdue for permanent . retirement United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , Message on the International Day against Nuclear Tests , 29 August 2011 Tuesday , November 27, 2012 Time to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Friends , Every now and then I go back and watch this video see below to remind myself just how much additional ionizing radiation the world's nuclear powers have added to our small planet since 1945. That there are clear reasons , including the additional radiation burden , to ensure that no nation
[ by Charles Cameron -- the Pope and power, from his new book ] . . A few days ago I posted a piece on the Church of England, with a bit of a squib in its tail. I quoted an MP asking the Church Commissioners‘ MP representative in parliament — Does he agree that [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- a poor, low-res copy of the greatest photo, a poem of mine, and a recent report of a scenario involving nuking the moon, apparently considered and, I am happy to say, rejected by the military ] . First, the greatest photo: . ** Next, the poem: Don’t you mess with [...]
Just saw the Steven Spielberg epic Lincoln. The performance of Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln was titanic; all the anger and villainous darkness he channeled into his earlier memorable characters Bill “the Butcher” and Daniel Plainview are eclipsed in his Lincoln by wisdom and a transcendent, melancholic grace. The supporting cast was equally strong, with [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- Xi Jinping quotes an unnamed "ancient Chinese military strategist" and I respond with Laozi -- this one's for Raff Pantucci ] . . According to Reuters today, Xi used his quote (above, top) in a speech in 2000, while governor of Fujian province. If anyone can identify the “ancient Chinese [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- of integrity and flexibility in that most curious chameleon of a religious institution, the Church of England, of which I am still fond at a distance ] . . The Church of England is run, if that’s the word, by the three houses of its General Synod, and just this [...]
The theory and practice of deterrence between the United States and the Soviet Union were predicated on the unitary, rational-actor model. Life-or-death decisions in deep crises would be made by leaders driven by rational calculations of national interest and executed by coherent chains of command. The unitary, rational-actor model, from which the constructs of escalation [...]
I would post one of my own pictures of the view from our office in Vienna, the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation – but its very cloudy. Here is a picture of the building, the Torre Andromeda, that someone took in the winter. (It’s not that cold right now.) We have a pretty interesting POSSE meeting, [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable Every day , more and more people are viewing both nuclear tests and nuclear weapons as dangerous relics of the Cold War , long overdue for permanent . retirement United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , Message on the International Day against Nuclear Tests , 29 August 2011 Sunday , November 11, 2012 Bibi's Gone Bomby Israel continues to ratchet up nuclear tensions in the Middle . East Yesterday the Associated Press announced that attempts to find Arab-Israeli common ground on banning weapons of mass destruction from the Mideast have failed , and high-profile talks on the issue have been called off Today we learned that because much of Iran’s