Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons into Pakistan by Franklin D. Shaffer "One of the reasons that I’m posting this information is that the proliferation into Pakistan was illegal under the Glenn Amendment. Another reason is that NNSA EEO Counselor Orlando Sepulveda grossly violated my federal right to a fair EEO process. He conspired to permanently silence me by letting the attackers (led by NETL Director Grace Bochenek, former Director of the US Army Chemical and Biological Combat Development Command) try to put me six feet underground."
September 8, 2024
China Opts Out Of Blueprint For AI Regulation In Nuclear Weapon Management via Times Now Digital "The agreement was adopted during the Responsible AI in the Military Domain (REAIM) summit held in Seoul on Tuesday, with the presence of over 100 nations, including the United States."
September 11, 2024
NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby Remarks at 2nd Nuclear Power Industry Congress via US Dept. of Energy "We cannot afford to turn our back on realistic and necessary options to meet national and global climate goals, and nuclear power can serve as a robust and reliable source of baseload zero-carbon electricity."
September 12, 2024
UN Expert Warns Israel on Track to Exterminate Nearly Entire Gaza Population by Sharon Zhang “Once the dust settles, I can’t imagine how the world will go on after having allowed that. Again,” Albanese said.
September 6, 2024
Israeli officials express doubts over new cease-fire proposal in Gaza war by Abdelraouf Arnaout "Government sources say mediation offer unlikely to satisfy either Israel or Hamas" September 6, 2024
Harris running mate Tim Walz: 'We can't allow what's happened in Gaza to happen' by Jerusalem Post staff "Walz said that October 7 was a "horrific act of violence against the people of Israel" and reiterated statements by Harris that Israel has the right to defend itself."
September 6, 2024
GAZA LIVE BLOG: Massacre in Al-Sabra | US: Gallant Must Stay | Israel Withdraws from Jenin – Day 336 by Palestine Chronicle staff "Israel’s Channel 13 reported that the United States sent a message to Israel that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant should not be fired." Friday, September 6, 08:00 am (GMT+2) VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: "The Palestinian people have every right to life and freedom and we cannot allow what is happening in Gaza to continue."
September 6, 2024
Netanyahu gives a starkly different take on Biden administration’s hopes for a Gaza deal by Ellen Knickmeyer and Aamer Madhani "The Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were sharply at odds Thursday over prospects of reaching a deal for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release, with Netanyahu saying it was “exactly inaccurate” that a breakthrough was close."
September 5, 2024
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-biden-talks-f10fe52d2e0bf31bf9f9578ca0a6374a
Amnesty urges war crimes probe over Israel levelling east Gaza via AFP / France 24 "Amnesty International Thursday urged a war crimes probe into Israel razing homes and farms in eastern Gaza to expand a so-called buffer zone between it and the Palestinian territory."
September 5, 2024
Human rights against war? by Ntina Tzouvala "Critical international lawyers have been, at best, ambivalent and, at worst, suspicious of human rights. There are many reasons for this tense relationship, including human rights’ presumed affinity with neoliberalism and Western cultural chauvinism. From the 1990s onwards, another reason was added to this litany of biases: the convergence between human rights and imperialist war. "
August 23, 2024
Breaking the Consensus of Wrongdoing Among States At War: The Judicialization of the Ukraine and Gaza Wars by Eric Alter "The present period is one of extraordinary disruption in international affairs, turmoil in domestic politics, especially in the Western world, and disorientation in United States foreign policy. While the United States no longer insists that international relations be subject to a regime based on public international law, other States are preparing for increased strategic flexibility according to their national interests to the extent that over the last two decades, the use of force in Iraq, Ukraine, and Palestine has shown contempt for the international legal framework."
September 4, 2024
2024 Defense of Japan Report by US Naval Institute "Japan is going to acquire various types of stand-off missiles earlier than originally planned, including Tomahawk missiles and the ground-launched version of upgraded Type-12 surface-to-ship missiles. Japan will expedite the start of the construction of Aegis System Equipped Vessels to defend herself from increasingly sophisticated ballistic missiles and other threats."
September 4, 2024
US envoy to Taiwan declares ties ‘rock solid’ amid military threats from China via WTOP "Raymond F. Greene’s remarks Wednesday come at a time of uncertainty over China’s intentions toward the island it claims as its own territory — to be taken by force if necessary — and amid conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East that threaten to draw the U.S. in further."
September 4, 2024
US and UK plan indefinite extension of nuclear weapons co-operation pact by John Paul Rathbone and Lucy Fisher "The change — formally recommended by the UK and US governments but subject to legislative ratification by both sides — scraps the Mutual Defence Agreement’s previous 10-year limit and follows UN warnings that Russia’s war in Ukraine has sparked a global race for nuclear weapons."
September 3, 2024
Australia’s missing nuclear debate – it’s not about subs by Lesley Seebeck "As a starting point, Australian readers would do well to read the 1 August 2024 speech by Dr Vipin Narang, the-then US Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, at the Centre for Strategic and International Security."
September 4, 2024
Satellite Images Uncover Putin’s Secret Nuclear Launch Site by Damian Davis "Recent satellite imagery has reportedly revealed the location of a clandestine nuclear launch site linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin, possibly constructed for the notorious “Skyfall” nuclear missile."
September 4, 2024
Nuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it? by Maya Goodfellow "Technically speaking, having a nuclear reactor means you’re going to have more capacity to make nuclear weapons,” he says, including through interchangeable personnel."
September 4, 2024
How to Spend $1 Trillion for the Military? by Jessica Sleight, Arms Control Association "The next U.S. president will inherit a program to modernize each leg of the U.S. nuclear triad (intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarines, and bombers) to the tune of $1.7 trillion. The program is already marred by delays and overruns, including an 81 percent increase in the cost of the Sentinel ICBM and doubts over the ability of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to meet plutonium pit production goals."
September 3, 2024
IAEA Warns of Risks at Russian Nuclear Plant by Garrett Welch, Arms Control Association "The nuclear facility contains six reactors, of which two are fully operational, two are shut down, and two are under construction. According to photos obtained by the BBC, Russian forces appear to be constructing defenses and digging trenches near the facility. Russia has since accused Ukraine of planning to attack the facility and blame it on Russia, which Ukraine denied as “insane” propaganda."
September 3, 2024
Biden’s ‘new’ nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off by Theodore Postol, Responsible Statecraft "Biden’s approval of this strategy is no more than a tacit acknowledgment of a two-decade-long U.S. technical program that has been more than just a “slight modernization” of weapons components, but a dramatic step towards the capability to fight and win nuclear wars with both China and Russia. In other words, there is nothing really “new” here at all, save the very public nature of the strategy’s acknowledgement."
August 29, 2024
Is Iran’s anti-Israel and American rhetoric all bark and no bite? by Abedin Taherkenareh "Iranian leadership faces a dilemma. It cannot walk back from its anti-Israel and anti-US rhetoric. Tehran has built its foreign policy and formed an extensive network, the so-called Axis of Resistance, based on it. It cannot betray this pillar of its identity."
August 31, 2024
Read more: https://theconversation.com/is-irans-anti-israel-and-american-rhetoric-all-bark-and-no-bite-237662
IAEA Reports Iran Increased Stockpiles of Near Weapons-Grade Uranium via IAEA “Iran’s failure to comply with the board’s demands should mean the United States and its European allies immediately refer Tehran’s case to the UN Security Council for reinstatement of UN Iran sanctions. However, the regime has successfully locked Washington into a cycle of attempting to prevent new nuclear escalation or an Iranian attack on Israel."
August 30, 2024
Fissile Materials Basics by UCSUSA "A Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty has been proposed that would ban the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons purposes. Even though the treaty has been on the agenda of the UN Conference on Disarmament for many years, little progress has been made towards its negotiation and ratification."
Updated August 28, 2024
Podcast: NH # 687: Radioactive Ohio School Auctioned Off to Christian Group + Canada Pushing for Nuclear Waste Repository on Indigenous Lands Host Libbe Halevy with Gordon Edwards and Elysia Petrone
August 20, 2024
New testing reveals radioactive elements in plants near Cold War facility in SW Ohio by Duane Pohlman WKRC "“Fallout," a continuing Local 12 investigation, has proven radioactive contamination is in the air, water, dirt and dust in communities that surround the closed Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, or PORTS, near Piketon."
July 15, 2024
Israel’s NewMed and partners submit $4b plan for Aphrodite gas field off Cyprus by Sharon Wrobel "Partners in the field seek to supply natural gas from the Aphrodite field to the domestic market in Cyprus, and to export natural gas by pipeline to other markets, including Egypt"
September 1, 2024
One week after Hezbollah's retaliation, head of Unit 8200 to resign via Israeli Media "The chief of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) Unit 8200 and architect of their military's Artificial Intelligence (AI), Brigadier General Yossi Sariel, is expected to resign in the upcoming weeks, according to a report by the Israeli news website Walla."
September 1, 2024
Video: 'Inch-Perfect Hits': Hezbollah Attacks Israel's Glilot Base; Celebrates Operation Arbaeen 'Success' via Times of India "At least six resistance drones reportedly penetrated Israeli air defenses and hit their intended targets. This attack led Israel to impose a strict security cordon around the base."
August 30, 2024
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oak25naA5jA
'The Bloody Document': How Netanyahu's tactics killed Israeli captives via Israeli Media "The Israeli Prime Minister's negotiating tactics cost "Israel" the lives of at least three captives who could have been released in a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian Resistance in May this year, Israeli media reported on Monday."
September 2, 2024
Video: Netanyahu Under Fire as Captives’ Families Say His Speech “Full of Lies” via Yemeni Military Media Department "The video indicated that the drone carries a highly explosive head and manages to evade the radars."
September 2, 2024
Read more: https://english.almanar.com.lb/2189409
Biden says Netanyahu not doing enough to secure hostage deal by Euractiv with Reuters "President Joe Biden said on Monday (2 September) that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and the US was close to presenting a final proposal to negotiators working on a hostage and ceasefire agreement."
September 2, 2024
Salvage operation for burning oil tanker in Red Sea to commence by Darryl Coote "A salvage operation for an immobilized and burning oil tanker in the Red Sea where Houthi rebels have been attacking commercial and military vessels is about to commence, Europe's military mission in the region said Monday."
September 2, 2024
US military says Yemen's Houthis attacked two crude oil tankers in Red Sea by Jonathan Saul and Kanishka Singh "Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked two crude oil tankers - the Saudi-flagged Amjad and the Panama-flagged Blue Lagoon I - in the Red Sea on Monday, the U.S. military said, calling the assaults "reckless acts of terrorism"."
September 2, 2024
The economic beneficiaries of the Israel-Hamas war by Ramisa Rob "The blood of innocent Palestinian civilians—the children, the infants—is in the hands of a global capitalist system that systematically profits from genocide."
November 7, 2023
Resource Wars: How Climate Change is Fueling Militarization of the Arctic Author: Dr. Joanna Rozpedowski.
"New outbreaks of mass violence in the Middle East and Africa, struggles over drinking water from Afghanistan to Niger, ethnic cleansings, simmering conflicts, unrests, insurgencies, and civil wars in the earth’s poorest countries, and endless flows of migrants and refugees into Europe and the United States are only a few yet concerted and unabating forces reorganizing the geo-economic, geopolitical, and social landscape which deepen social cleavages and increase prospects for conflict."
August 7, 2024
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