Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of children downwind from Fukushima.  They are the first clear sign of an unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry be buried forever.

In the wake of this fall’s election, the disintegration of America’s rust bucket reactor fleet is fast approaching critical mass. Unless our No Nukes movement can get the worst of them shut soon, Barack Obama may be very lucky to get through his second term without a serious plunge over the nuclear cliff. 

Making the world a more dangerous place The Australian parliament building reeks of floor polish. The wooden floors shine so virtuously they reflect the cartoon-like portraits of prime ministers, bewigged judges and viceroys. Along the gleaming white, hushed corridors, the walls are hung with Aboriginal art: one painting after another as in a monolithic gallery, divorced [...]

La crisis de los misiles en Cuba Hace 50 años, el mundo estuvo en vilo durante la última semana de octubre, desde el momento en que se supo que la Unión Soviética había colocado misiles con ojivas nucleares en Cuba, hasta el fin oficial de la crisis -que aunque el público lo ignorara, fue solamente “oficial”.

The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended — though unknown to the public, only officially. The image of the [...]

1. Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program is alleged by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be a stealth nuclear weapons program. But there is no evidence at all for this allegation, and it was contradicted by Netanyahu’s own Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, who admitted that Iran has not decided to initiate a nuclear weapons [...]

Lo que la historia debería enseñarnos sobre un bloqueo de Irán Es una política lo bastante feroz como para causar gran sufrimiento a los iraníes, y posiblemente también a los estadounidenses, a largo plazo. Finalmente, incluso podría dañar profundamente la economía y sin embargo, nos dice la historia, fallará por sí sola. La guerra económica conducida [...]

 What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians — and possibly in the long run among Americans, too.  It might, in the end, even deeply harm the global economy and yet, history tells us, it will fail on its own.  Economic war led by Washington [...]

Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, say, from an outdoor clock.  There would always be people all around him, but far too engrossed in the daily paper to notice.  [...]

En el aniversario del desastre nuclear, las protestas no paran en Japón. En abril, las pocas centrales abiertas deben parar para su revisión, sólo quedarán dos reactores activos. El legado de Fukushima, a un año de la catástrofe Contaminación del mar tras Fukushima El 11 de marzo se cumple un año desde que el maremoto ocurrido [...]