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Paying for the Climate Change Pivot

By Emily Schwartz Greco and John Feffer We only have a few decades to deal with climate change. If humanity fails to cut back dramatically on carbon emissions by 2050, according to an alarming new UN report, our planet may warm past the point of our ability to fix the problem. Given global dependence on oil, gas, and coal, weaning every economy from fossil fuels to save Mother Earth won’t come easy or cheap. Fortunately,…

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Nuclear missile convoys ‘put lives at risk’

Nuclear missile convoys ‘put lives at risk’

Councillor warns of warhead route dangers Former Renfrewshire Council leader Brian Lawson has warned of catastrophic consequences if a nuclear missile convoy is allowed to keep travelling on the M8. The SNP man is concerned about the convoys travelling over the Erskine Bridge and through Renfrewshire on their way to naval bases. The 19-vehicle convoys each carry up to six nuclear warheads, which are individually seven times as destructive as the A bomb that destroyed…

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1st March: The 60th Anniversary of America’s biggest nuclear explosion in the Marshall Islands

1st March: The 60th Anniversary of America’s biggest nuclear explosion in the Marshall Islands

Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel, hydrogen bomb, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States (and just under one-third the energy of the most powerful ever detonated), with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 8 megatons (6 Mt predicted), combined with other factors,…

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Nukes over wind turbines? UK R&D policies are warped

Nukes over wind turbines? UK R&D policies are warped

10:50 10 February 2014 by Stuart Parkinson Weapons of mass destruction get five times as much public research cash in the UK as renewable energy. Time for a rethink, says Stuart Parkinson The scale of a nation’s public spending on different areas of research and development can be very revealing. For example, what sort of a nation would spend five times as much on developing weapons of mass destruction – including delivery systems – than on…

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50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima

50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima

Harvey Wasserman | February 2, 2014 [This is the first in a two part series] Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies. Speculation on the ultimate impact ranges from the utterly harmless to the intensely apocalyptic .…

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Obsessed with Trident Replacement? You bet!

Obsessed with Trident Replacement? You bet!

Take your pick of the reasons. The eye-watering cost? Risk of nuclear accidents? Breeches of International Laws? Radioactive pollution from the production sites? The sheer immorality? The list goes on…… Currently there is a rare window-of-opportunity on this issue. As CND Vice-President, Rebecca Johnson, currently touring the UK with her “New Ban the Bomb” show says: “We’ve campaigned for many decades and are now at a tipping point when we could ban and abolish nuclear…

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Investigation by safety watchdog concluded that AWE fire could have resulted “in many fatalities”

Investigation by safety watchdog concluded that AWE fire could have resulted “in many fatalities”

By Nuclear Information Service Date: 1 December 2013 A scathing report by the government’s health and safety watchdog into a fire which broke out at Britain’s nuclear weapons factory has concluded that it was fortunate that the incident did not lead to “numerous fatalities.” The report prepared by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following an investigation into the fire, which broke out at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston in August 2010, exposes a wide range…

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Nuclear weapons factories placed under ‘special measures’ by government nuclear safety watchdog

By Nuclear Information Service Date: 6 November 2013 The factories which build and maintain the UK’s nuclear weapons are among five nuclear sites which require an “enhanced level of regulatory attention” because of the risks they pose, according to the government’s nuclear safety regulator. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield are listed as safety priorities in an assessment published by the Office for Nuclear Regulator (ONR) as part of its annual report for 2013. …

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Ministry of Defence publishes list of submarine base nuclear safety incidents

By Nuclear Information Service Date: 26 October 2013 A power supply failure to submarine berths, leakage from a tap left on in a radioactive waste tank, melting of an ice plug, and a loss of electricity caused when steam valves were mistakenly closed are among a series of unexpected events which have resulted in a string of nuclear incidents and near misses involving Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet over the last five years. The catalogue of errors was…

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Command & Control, by Eric Schlosser

Command & Control, by Eric Schlosser

From famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, comes Command and Control a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons A groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? Schlosser reveals that this question has never been resolved, and while…

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Ken Loach

“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”

– Ken Loach

John Hurt

".....the government has pledged to rebuild a new generation of British nuclear weapons at enormous cost and at a time when social services budgets including those for health and education are being drastically cut. Having nuclear weapons doesn't make us safer, it just brings the possibility of nuclear conflict ever closer. We need to protect this planet not put it at even more risk of destruction. We all have a voice so please use yours and join me in supporting ACTION AWE." John Hurt
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