Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

An interview with María Antonieta Jáquez Huacuja from the Secretariat for Foreign Affairs of Mexico and Martha Mariana Mendoza Basulto from the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL). The United States maintains a nuclear weapons arsenal under the assumption this upholds national security.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2023

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the biggest pop culture event about nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the team of scientists at Los Alamos that designed and tested the first nuclear weapon, became known as the ‘father of the atomic bomb.’ Physicist J.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 30, 2023

Cold War nuclear weapons tests scattered radioactive waste across the globe. That waste can still be found in trace amounts in the sea, the soil, and — according to a new study — the flesh of wild boars roaming the forests of southern Germany. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2022

Memorial Day began as a day to commemorate the Civil War dead, then became a day to commemorate the dead from many wars. But war’s toll goes beyond direct harm to humans. Even more worrisome are Ukraine’s fifteen nuclear reactors. As the war drags on, the environmental impacts will escalate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We are worried that military conflict may follow, and that such a conflict could result in a nuclear war. But they seem to have forgotten that this international order was built on the lesson its creators learned from World War II, which is that great power competition leads to war. And perceptions can be changed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We tend to perceive things as permanent and immutable only because their rate of change is imperceptible on the timescales of our own experience. When it comes to geologic time, the disconnect between our lived experience and the magnitude of Earth history is almost irreconcilable. How we mark time, therefore, depends a lot on perspective.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

On March 28th, North Korea unveiled a new type of nuclear warhead—a smaller, more compact tactical warhead with battlefield advantages. North Korea is expanding its nuclear arsenals in both quantity and quality—increasing the number while modernizing and diversifying the types of weapons and delivery vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2023

The third is also involved in an extra-marital affair with Oppenheimer and the fourth was a Manhattan Project scientist who is depicted as trying to shut down the use of the bomb for war purposes. (The In this opening stanza of one of my favorite poems, “La Jornada” by Antonia Quintana Pigno, the speaker laments the disastrous effects of J.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Russia’s saber-rattling against Ukraine lifted the possibility of a major nuclear conflict to levels not seen since the cold war. Ahead of a high-profile UN conference, political forecasters issue water warnings. The Nile, cutting here through Cairo, is the heart of Egypt. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Water still matters.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 11, 2021

It was titled; "Savings and the Fear of Nuclear War". economy has been influenced by the changes in the public perception of the threat of a catastrophic nuclear war. The hypothesis is tested by expanding a standard savings function estimation technique to include a measure of the perceived threat of nuclear war.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 6, 2023

The US military officials who occupied Japan at the end of the war did everything they could to bury those images forever. The US military officials who occupied Japan at the end of the war did everything they could to bury those images forever. Post-war American films about Hiroshima shied away from depicting the horrific aftermath.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Also, Suri says, “are those who see him as a war criminal, as a proponent and defender of the misuse of American power and, many would argue, a trend toward breaking down our democracy.” Nobody in all his long career ever called him progressive. We already know that idealists like Pope Francis support climate action. Download as PDF

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The organization is dedicated to reducing the danger of nuclear weapons and eventually eliminating them through advocating sensible national security policies and helping elect congressional candidates who support them. Author: Lucy Thompson. Photo credit: Monica Montgomery. What was your inspiration that led you to your current role? “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Past opinions from these international bodies have helped to shape debate and international law around key issues like the human right to the environment ( IACtHR Advisory Opinion 2018 ) and the use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict ( ICJ Advisory Opinion 1996 ). What is an advisory opinion?

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New Scientist

AUGUST 15, 2022

The after-effects of nuclear war would be catastrophic for agriculture. Simulations show billions of people could starve depending on the size of the conflict

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A survey of artificial intelligence researchers found that 36 per cent believe AIs could cause a catastrophe on the scale of nuclear war

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Physics World

MARCH 18, 2022

Stating that the MIPT could surely “not support this senseless and outrageous war”, the signatories hoped their letter would encourage other universities in Russia to condemn their country’s leaders too. The world has been shocked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – but no-one ought to have been surprised.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast the historian Alex Wellerstein explains how the US has kept its nuclear secrets since the Second World War. The post How the US keeps its nuclear secrets and what it reveals, double anonymous peer review boosts inclusion appeared first on Physics World.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2022

Many have argued that it is precisely the EU’s purchase of Russian fossil fuels which enables Russia to fund the war in Ukraine. Many have argued that it is precisely the EU’s purchase of Russian fossil fuels which enables Russia to fund the war in Ukraine. Implementing a war economy.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 8, 2022

In the last few weeks, the war in Ukraine has stolen most of the world’s media attention. So much so that climate advocates complain that news of the war now overshadows the much more important UN climate report , released on Monday the 28th of February which got very little media attention. . Photo credit: Reuters. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

He is an expert in science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, US, and his book Restricted Data explores a much less examined (and thus far more interesting) counterfactual: What if the secrecy surrounding nuclear weapons had ended with those first atomic bombings? Not so in 1945.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This contamination derives from the production of nuclear weapons decades ago. This contamination derives from the production of nuclear weapons decades ago. This version contains content updates and includes new information from Coldwater Creek area community members. The suburban school north of St.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 25, 2023

A pro-nuclear demonstration in Berlin, Germany. By Anders Lorenzen It has been on the cards for a long time and earlier this month it became official – Germany ’s nuclear phase-out is complete. Photo credit: Reuters / Nadja Wohlleben.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 24, 2022

Residents and officials emerged frustrated and concerned Wednesday after hearing details about newly discovered areas of contamination in West Lake Landfill and further delays to clean up the Superfund site that contains World War II-era nuclear waste. Read the full story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.

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A Greener Life

JULY 11, 2022

The outcome of the tragic and devastating war in Ukraine could have serious impacts on how the world moves away from hydrocarbons to sources of clean energy. Depending on who you listen to, the war should either make us speed up the transition to clean energy or could slow it down and increase fossil fuel production.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2022

And the problem of rising energy costs has only become worse as a result of the war, especially in light of the increased pressure for countries to ease their reliance on Russian fossil fuels. A revolution in the building of zero-carbon homes would drastically reduce our reliance on gas. By Anders Lorenzen. The promise of energy efficiency.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

She also managed the NGA’s Federal Facilities Task Force, working with the US Department of Energy and states on cleanup of nuclear waste created by cold war weapons production. DEP Secretary Richard Negrin introduced Bevin Ann Buchheister, Esq.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Since the start of the war in Ukraine on 24 th February this year, the EU has avoided buying €99 billion of gas imports compared to the same period last year. It also found that the war in Ukraine as well as the increase in the price of fossil fuels had actually accelerated the EU’s energy transition.

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Physics World

JUNE 23, 2022

What did Marie Curie attempt to do with her gold Nobel prize medals during the outbreak of the First World War? Donate them to the war effort C. AI in Medical Physics Week is supported by Sun Nuclear , a manufacturer of patient safety solutions for radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging centres. What did the program do?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Department of Energy wants to relax testing for toxic chemicals in waterways around the nation’s most leading nuclear weapons laboratory. Water Wars, Drug Cartels, Gangs To Blame for Increased Violence in Northern Mexico. Tropical Storm Dianmu is wreaking havoc in parts of Thailand. Is the state prepared for more? 3-YEAR REVIEW.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One was to observe nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll as one of the two representatives from the Chinese Nationalist government. During his time in the US, the Nationalists lost the civil war to Mao’s Communists. The China he was returning to was now an adversary in the Cold War. The China that Zhao left had been a major US ally.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In its recent 2023 Energy Outlook, the company predicts that the war in Ukraine is accelerating the shift to renewables and low-carbon power. In its recent 2023 Energy Outlook, the company predicts that the war in Ukraine is accelerating the shift to renewables and low-carbon power. Graph credit: BP 2023 Energy Outlook.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the country switched off most of its nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. In Europe, Germany is facing similar challenges, as it decommissioned its nuclear fleet after Fukushima and as a result, has increased coal burning and so also its emissions. Photo credit: Reuters / Toru Hanai. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

In 1978, during a phase of the Cold War when relationships between East and West began to relax, the United States and 4 other nuclear powers (China, France, the Soviet Union and the UK) made unilateral declarations granting security assurances to non-nuclear- weapon states. In the Nuclear Test case (Australia v.

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Physics World

MAY 21, 2021

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has been around for over a century and in 1918 the metrology institute first started to photograph its employees for security concerns related to the First World War. After raising a family she served her country again in the Second World War as a member of the Women’s Army Corps.

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Physics World

JUNE 23, 2022

When Chernobyl’s reactor building was destroyed by the nuclear inferno, this glass art survived; what is not yet clear is whether it has also survived Russia’s recent attack on the facility. Back in Ukraine, with the war still active, it is difficult to establish the scale of damage to the country.

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