Archive for July 17th, 2008

Nukes: the position ridiculous and the expense damnable

a waste repository, multi-billion dollar projects without analysis of alternatives, nearly separated plutonium (per the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership) without adequate safeguards — in short, a renaissance without masterpieces.

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Thursday, July 17th, 2008

What shall my west hurt me?

Or perhaps Edward Teller, who devoted himself to thinking of the next, bigger bomb—the thermonuclear weapon—and who thought nuclear energy could solve all problems, is more your kind of guy. Or the great theorist Hans Bethe, who,

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Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Nuclear deal: why America is proactive to ‘help’ India

The nuclear industry in the US presently is going through a stagnant phase as no new commercial nuclear reactor had come up in the past ten years. For one of the largest nuclear industries in the world, this situation is definitely

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Thursday, July 17th, 2008

A Roadmap For Us Presidential Leadership For Nuclear Disarmament

The drafters of the CTBT were well aware that by having a nuclear reactor, a nation had been given the keys to a bomb factory when they required the signatures of 44 “nuclear-capable” nations to be included in any effort to ban nuclear

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Thursday, July 17th, 2008