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End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Aug 22, 2025

On My Mind Today:

This is a wait and see situation with the three European nations — France, Britain, and Germany — but the talks are important to see how Europe feels about Iran’s future nuclear programs, including uranium enrichment and one other important reason.

That reason is to see how the USA and Trump respond to any agreement that may or may not be agreed to. as well as Israel’s influence and dependence on Trump.

My concerns are, as usual, that Trump/Netanyahu will interfere with any agreements that may be forthcoming and inherent inference and objections from Trump, which means he would likely jump right into the middle of the talks, creating an end result of little or no progress over an issue that never should have been an issue in the first place. ~llaw

Iran rejects sanctions threats before renewed nuclear talks with Europe

Iran and European countries agree to resume nuclear talks next week despite threats of unilateral sanctions.

From left, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul in Switzerland on June 20, 2025 before meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi [File: Fabrice Coffrini/Reuters]

Published On 22 Aug 202522 Aug 2025

Iran and three major European powers have agreed to resume nuclear talks next week, even as the threat of revived sanctions looms.

Iranian state media reported on Friday that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a call with his French, British and German counterparts, during which they agreed deputy ministers would meet on Tuesday.

LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY, #1022, Friday, (08/22/2025)

End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Aug 22, 2025

On My Mind Today:

This is a wait and see situation with the three European nations — France, Britain, and Germany — but the talks are important to see how Europe feels about the Iran’s nuclear programs, including uranium enrichment and one other reason.

That reason is to see how how the USA and Trump respond to any agreement that may or may not be agreed to. as well as Israel’s influence on Trump.

My concerns are, as usual, that Trump/Netanyahu will interfered with any agreements that may be forthcoming and inherent inference and objections from the Trump, which would mean he would likely jump right into the middle of the talks, creating and end result of little or no progress over an issue that never should have been an issue in the first place. ~llaw

Iran rejects sanctions threats before renewed nuclear talks with Europe

Iran and European countries agree to resume nuclear talks next week despite threats of unilateral sanctions.

Published On 22 Aug 202522 Aug 2025

Iran and three major European powers have agreed to resume nuclear talks next week, even as the threat of revived sanctions looms.

TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Thursday, (08/21/2025)

On My Mind Today:

It appears that everything Trump does stirs up potential trouble and lowers international confidence and trust in the USA. This situation, partly because of Trump’s “nuclear” submarine move, and his so-called Alaska summit with Putin has added to the discomfort that other countries, including even Ukraine . . .

From the article: This warning comes less than a week after President Donald Trump met Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska for talks aimed at ending Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

~llaw

Russia has the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and has in recent years modernized it to include hypersonic missiles, which Moscow says can penetrate Western air defense systems. (See Newsweek article for description and image credits)

Rosatom Chief Issues Russia Nuclear Weapons Warning: ‘Colossal Threats’

Published Aug 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM EDT Updated Aug 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM EDT

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By Robert Birsel and Shane Croucher

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Russia is facing “colossal threats” that mean it must continuously improve its nuclear weapons “shield,” the chief of the state atomic energy agency warned.

Why It Matters

Nuclear rhetoric and threats have increased over the almost three-and-a-half years since Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces on high alert as Moscow’s forces poured into Ukraine in early 2022.

This warning comes less than a week after President Donald Trump met Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska for talks aimed at ending Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

What To Know

The director of Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, in comments published on Thursday, August 21, referred to Russia’s nuclear forces as both a shield and a sword.

“Now, in the current geopolitical moment, it is a time of colossal threats to the existence of our country,” said Likhachev, Russian state news agency RIA reported.

“Therefore, the nuclear shield—it is also the sword—is a guarantee of our sovereignty…Today we understand that the nuclear shield in the coming years must only be improved,” Likhachev said, originally in Russian.

He did not elaborate on the planned improvements.

Russian RS-24 Yars nuclear missile complex (NATO reporting name: SS-29) arrives during the main rehearsals of the military parade, in the Red Square on May 5, 2024. **Contributor/Getty Images**

Russia has the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and has in recent years modernized it to include hypersonic missiles, which Moscow says can penetrate Western air defense systems.

The U.S. is developing a new space-based missile defense shield that Trump has called the “Golden Dome.”

The British defense think tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), said in a report this month that Russia has a “strong incentive” to use more destructive nuclear weapons as Western militaries build up their missile arsenals and improve their air defenses.

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Aug 21, 2025

On My Mind Today:

From the article: This warning comes less than a week after President Donald Trump met Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska for talks aimed at ending Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

~llaw

Rosatom Chief Issues Russia Nuclear Weapons Warning: ‘Colossal Threats’

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Aug 20, 2025

On My Mind Today:

Today seems like a good day — as nuclear news goes — for a rare “human interest” story from Canadian author Michael Erskine about one man’s — even older than I am — opposition to “all things nuclear”.

The article makes me wish for more detail, but it is a heart-warming down-to-earth story about his reaction as a young Canadian farmer to the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6th and 9th, 1945.

~llaw

The Atomic Bomb Dome of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (photo by Shutterstock

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Ed Burt’s opposition to all things nuclear began 80 years ago

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Author:Michael Erskine

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shutterstock-2 — *The Atomic Bomb Dome, also known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan. Shutterstock*

96-year-old reflects on Hiroshima anniversary

KAGAWONG—It has been quite the journey for anti-nuclear activist Ed Burt whose lifelong passion has been to sound the alarm on our complacency about nuclear power. On the advent of the 80th anniversary of the only time a nuclear bomb has been used in combat, The Expositor caught up with Mr. Burt to chat about his memory of that day, and how that event has coloured his experience ever since.

Mr. Burt was a 15-year-old when the news of dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came across on the radio in 1945—and this was to have a lasting, in fact lifelong, impact on the young Haweater.

“It did, it really had an impact on me, and it still does,” said Mr. Burt. “I was going on 16 and we lived on a farm on Poplar Road, just three miles outside Gore Bay.”

Mr. Burt was sitting, ears glued to the family radio, eager to learn of news from the front. These were the days without the internet or even television. News travelled slowly in those days and the first reports of the bombings were actually reported in newspapers. Radio broadcasts soon followed.

The bombing occurred at 8:15 am, on August 6, 1945. Specially modified B-29 bombers of the US Army Air Force dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, levelling it for all intents and purposes and by the end of 1945, between 90,000 and 166,000 human beings had died as a result of the blast and its after affects. On August 9, 1945 a second bomb, “Fat Man,” was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, bringing the butcher’s bill to approximately 210,000.

The reason for the uncertainty about the casualty numbers is illustrated by a conversation Mr. Burt had many years later with a Japanese educator.

“He was a little Japanese guy after the war,” recalled Mr. Burt. “He was the principal of a girls’ school in Hiroshima when the bomb dropped that morning.” The students were in the midst of their morning prayers when the bomb blast hit.

“When he regained consciousness, the principal was buried in rubble and had to claw his way to the surface,” said Mr. Burt. “He looked out across the landscape that had been Hiroshima and it was just a wasteland.”

“I don’t know how many days he spent searching for his girls in the school,” said Mr. Burt. “He didn’t find any of them alive. He did find enough of six to identify them.”

The principal himself had burns marks all over his body. “Somehow, he survived it,” said Mr. Burt. “It is a good example of what happened. Here were all these girls in grade school all praying when they got hit. It wasn’t about killing the officials who started the war and continued it. It was little girls in school.”

Mr. Burt contends that the bombing of Hiroshima was more about testing the bomb than in ending the war. “There is evidence the war was just about over,” he said. “It would have been over fairly soon.” The contention at the time, and for many years after, was that the bombings saved thousands of Allied soldiers’ lives.

For his part, at the young age of 15 (going on 16), Mr. Burt found himself horrified at the carnage.

Out of the horror, death and maiming an accelerated growth of plants followed the blast and devastation. Oleander (Nerium) is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb.

But although the Allied populations knew about the bombings, it was not until the end of the occupation that the Japanese public learned the truth of what happened as the occupation forces kept a strong lid on the press in Japan.

Response to the civilian tragedy was severely lacking. The first simple emergency dwellings were not provided until 1946.

Much has been made of the American Manhattan Project and the immense investment made by the US in the development of the bomb, but much less is known of the British and Canadian contributions to that story. The British scientific community played a key role in the race to build a nuclear bomb, but it could not have been possible without the uranium resources hauled through countless rivers by Metis and other Indigenous porters in 200-pound sacks from the far north.

The uranium was then processed at the Eldorado refinery at Port Hope. Without Canadian resources and effort, the production of those lethal weapons would have been delayed, probably for years.

Mr. Burt’s antipathy to all things nuclear does not stop at the creation of bombs, however. He points to the impact of cancers caused by radiation treatments and the incredible length of time that spent nuclear fuel remains deadly to human life as examples of why humanity should step back from those doomsday materials and the potential leakage into our freshwater resources that takes place at locations such as the uranium refining facility on the North Channel, Cameco near Blind River.

He points to the numbers of cancer cases that have surfaced since the 1950s and suggests that there is no coincidence. “It is a silent killer,” he said. He himself has been battling cancer.

The issue is only getting worse with time, he notes.

“I read in the papers the other day that China has 66 new nuclear power plants planned for the future,” he said.

Mr. Burt has put his money where his mouth is over the years fighting against nuclear power. “I darn near lost my farm over it,” he said. He notes that he largely funded his battle through his own resources. “Spent so much money and time over it.”

Along with a group of “regular people,” Mr. Burt has had some successes and he said that he wouldn’t take any of it back. But he notes that their success was somebody else’s loss. “We might keep it out of our back yards,” he said, “but it ends up in somebody else’s yard. The situation hasn’t changed, it just keeps getting worse.”

Mr. Burt will be turning 96 in a couple of weeks, but he remains adamant. “I haven’t changed my mind one bit,” he said.

Article written by

Michael Erskine

Michael Erskine BA (Hons) is Associate Editor at The Manitoulin Expositor. He received his honours BA from Laurentian University in 1987. His former lives include underground miner, oil rig roughneck, early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, college professor and community legal worker. Michael has written several college course manuals and has won numerous Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in the rural, business and finance and editorial categories.

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Aug 19, 2025

On My Mind Today:

Trump’s ego and lack of judgement constantly gets in the way of everything he says, does, or wants to do wherever the word “nuclear” or “war” is involved, causing his credibility with other world leaders and their nations to mistrust him and question his credibility over every nuclear or war issue — plus even his global and the USA’s own political credibility — especially when he says things like the one mentioned in the following “Newsweek” article with Macron blaming our (USA) country because Trump represents us all . . . but uses the word “ME” as if the whole world is about him and not US — as in you and me — or even NATO! ~llaw

Trump On Hot Mic: “I Think Putin Wants To Make A Deal For Me”

Nuclear Power’: NATO Ally Issues Trump Credibility Warning Over Russia

Published Aug 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM EDTUpdated Aug 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM EDT

00:24

Trump On Hot Mic: ‘I Think Putin Wants To Make A Deal For Me’

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French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the global credibility of the United States and its NATO allies is on the line in Ukraine, as U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to end the Russian invasion once and for all.

Why It Matters

Macron made the comment after talks in Washington on Monday between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the European Union and NATO, following up on Trump’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

While no agreement has been reached to end the more than three-year war, Monday’s gathering laid the groundwork for a long-anticipated trilateral meeting between Trump, Zelensky and Putin.

Macron’s warning about the credibility of the U.S. and its allies is a reminder of the far-reaching implications of the peace effort that Trump is promoting.

What To Know

Macron, in an interview with NBC News, said that how the United States and its allies handled the war in Ukraine would have global consequences for their credibility.

“What’s happening in Ukraine is extremely important for Ukrainian people, obviously, but for the whole security of Europe, because we speak about containing a nuclear power, which decided just not to respect international borders anymore,” he said.

“And I think it’s very important for your country because it’s a matter of credibility,” he said. “The way we will behave in Ukraine will be a test for our collective credibility in the rest of the world.”

Macron said Trump was confident he could reach a deal to end the war in Ukraine, which he welcomed while stressing that any agreement must not have negative consequences for Ukraine and its European allies.

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“My point … is to be sure that this deal is not detrimental to Ukraine and Europe,” Macron said.

“All of us, we want a deal, and we want a peace deal. But we want to make sure that this peace, and so this deal, will be something which will allow the Ukrainians to recover their country and live in peace, to be sure the day after this peace deal that they will have sufficient deterrence power not to be attacked again, and to be sure—for the Europeans—that they will live in peace and security,” he said.

But the French president appeared less upbeat about Putin’s attitude to ending the full-scale invasion Russia launched in 2022.

“When I look at the situation and the facts, I don’t see President Putin very willing to get peace now,” he said, adding, “But perhaps I’m too pessimistic.”

Macron said he still hoped for a ceasefire even though Trump said after meeting Putin on Friday that a ceasefire was not an essential step toward a deal.

“It’s impossible for a Ukrainian president and Ukrainian officials to have talks about peace as their country is being destroyed and as their civilians are being killed,” Macron said, adding that security guarantees for Ukraine were vital.

“If you make any peace deal without security guarantees, Russia will never respect its words, will never comply with its own commitments,” Macron said.

Macron also said that in the absence of progress, Russia should be hit with more sanctions.

“I’m very much in favor of the fact that if, at the end of the day, there is no serious progress during the bilateral, or if there is a refusal of the trilateral meeting and, or if the Russians don’t comply with this approach, yes, we have to increase the sanctions, secondary and primary sanctions, in order to increase the pressure on the Russians to do so,” he said, according to a transcript of the interview provided by NBC.

What People Are Saying

French President Emmanuel Macron told NBC: “Your president, indeed, is very confident about the capacity he has to get this deal done, which is good news for all of us and can break this—I would say this daily killings, which are the responsibility of the Russian aggressor. So I think it’s great news. My point—and this is why we’ve worked so hard during the past few months and we need this convergence—is to be sure that this deal is not detrimental to Ukraine and Europe.”

What Happens Next

Trump has established a two-week timeline for determining diplomatic progress, saying both sides would soon know “whether or not we’re going to solve this or is this horrible fighting going to continue.”

The proposed Putin-Zelensky meeting is expected to precede trilateral discussions that include Trump, though specific timing and location remain undetermined. Russian officials have indicated a willingness to continue direct negotiations, but full agreement on meeting parameters has not been confirmed.

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Aug 18, 2025

On My Mind Today:

As if reading from this Post below . . . and despite the kinds of tolls on human and other life already taken — including open air atomic bomb testing from the Marshall Islands, to the same at Nevada’s Area51, to the reality of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing more than a hundred thousand innocent civilians to end WWII, we continue to build our world-wide nuclear arsenals in case nuclear WWIII is necessary for reasons beyond our human ken.

Even with these catastrophes and more, we still want to build more nuclear power plants to make ourselves more millionaires and billionaires and seek more “comfort” for our commercial and private selves with more and more electricity, not to mention out-of-control nuclear waste, and, perhaps worst of all, continue to add to the already over-gorged world(s) of nuclear weapons of mass destruction that are capable of destroying life on planet Earth many times over simply because we don’t trust our neighbors.

So it is that Robert Oppenheimer and those others of the Manhattan Project along with the high-placed others who made the critical decisions were then — but are not now — the only ones who are guilty, or soon could be, of the dark guilt of Oppenheimer’s remorseful self-revelation, “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” ~llaw

My sincere thanks to Michelle UluOla for relating the following major example of what nuclear radiation can do and does, by neglectful, accidental, or intentional occurrences even without the devastation of nuclear war:

Reports like this never made it into our history books, and this is just the tip of the proverbial ice berg.

And as always, those who created the terror and destruction, shrug later and say “Oops,” and never do anything to clean up or prevent more of it.

In 1965, the “father of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, recalled the moment this way: ‘We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.’

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Truly heartbreaking. In July 1945, a group of thirteen-year-old girls went camping in America, swimming in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico. The girl pictured at the front is Barbara Kent. Unbeknownst to them, nearby the Manhattan Project had just detonated a nuclear bomb as a test…

Kent later described that day:

“We were all just shocked… then suddenly, a huge cloud appeared overhead, along with strange lights in the sky,” Kent recalled. “It even hurt our eyes to look up. The whole sky turned strange, as if an intense sun had come out.” A few hours later, white flakes began falling from the sky. Excited, the girls put on their swimsuits and played in the river amid the flakes. “We grabbed the white flakes, thinking it was snow, and smeared it on our faces,” Kent said. “But unlike snow, it was hot. We just thought, ‘Well, it’s summer.’ We were only 13.”

Those flakes were radioactive fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test—the first atomic bomb detonation in history—conducted at 5:29 a.m. atop a 100-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in Jornada del Muerto valley. Though the site was chosen for its supposed isolation, thousands lived within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles, and none were warned or evacuated before or after the test, even as fallout continued to fall for days.

Barbara Kent and all her friends eventually developed cancer. Every girl in that photo died before turning thirty. Kent was the only one to live longer, surviving several bouts of cancer herself. Often forgotten is the heavy toll paid not only by those targeted in the bombings in Japan but also by those living near where the bombs were first tested.

Dapo Michaels, a scientist fascinated by the project, was unaware of the long-term effects. When he realized the consequences, guilt overwhelmed him, leading to a mental breakdown. He was eventually institutionalized and passed away.

Similar tragedies unfolded at Maralinga in Australia, where many Aboriginal people died of cancer—losses that remain largely unknown

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Aug 17, 2025

On My Mind Today:

Some of my readers have asked me why I occasionally relate the old cartoon Alley Oop and his female companion, Ooola, and dinosaurs to my “LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY” blog.

It’s because of the history of uranium — the fuel for nuclear reactors. The 5 -minute You Tube story below will tell you why, but it is exceptionally interesting in other ways as well — such as a bit of the history of Moab, Utah, once known as the uranium capitol of the world, as well as the sadly unrealized damage to the health of uranium explorers and workers in the early days of the relatively unregulated industry . . . ~llaw

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On My Mind Today:

There are lots of nuclear world issues that seriously need to be resolved by humanitarian constructs, but the present inhumane agenda against our own ability to survive is not likely to be resolved over the weekend, if ever, so I am inclined to take a couple of days off to simply enjoy a quiet weekend.

The weekend news will be here both today and tomorrow, so if you are so inclined, find something to satisfy your own stress, ignore the conflicts, and find something more comforting for your own weekend. ~llaw

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Trump Warns Russia of ‘Severe Consequences’ If Putin Doesn’t End War in Ukraine ~Newsweek (see the article attached . . .)

What the hell are warnings of “severe consequences” coming from Trump now that he has been totally and finally embarrassed by his years’ old lies about how he, and only he, could end the Russia/Ukraine war in “24 hours” if he was the president.

Well, Trump had his chance and six months later here he is threatening Russia to end that war — or else! I cannot help but wonder what he means by “or else” Forget the lies, which they probably will be because they are non-stop out of his mouth, and his mouth is causing unrest and fear around the globe.

I wouldn’t trust this man to “gauge” Putin or anyone or anything else — like even the direction of the wind in a howling windstorm — which he says the Alaska summit is all about . . . ~llaw

Russian State TV Issues Nuclear Weapon Threat Ahead of Trump Summit

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Trump Warns Russia of ‘Severe Consequences’ If Putin Doesn’t End War in Ukraine

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Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov has said that Russia could destroy the United States with nuclear strikes ahead of President Donald Trump‘s meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Solovyov was responding Trump’s threat of consequences if Putin does not agree to end the war in Ukraine at their meeting in Alaska on Friday.

Why It Matters

Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet in Anchorage, Alaska. It will be the first face-to-face encounter between the two leaders since Trump’s return to the presidency and comes amid high tensions over Ukraine, NATO expansion and economic sanctions.

Trump has signaled a tough stance going into the talks, saying there will be “severe consequences” for Putin if there is no end to the fighting in Ukraine.

What To Know

Solovyov said on his show Full Contact on Thursday: “The only thing that the West understands is strength.”

“We can destroy all of them with nuclear weapons,” he said, according to a translation from Russian Media Monitor, a project monitoring Russian state television. “Let them think about it during our commercial break.”

Trump has described the upcoming Alaska meeting as “a feel-out” to gauge whether Putin is serious about ending a war now in its fourth year.

He did not outline what consequences Russia could face but Solovyov speculated they would be economic.

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Solovyov said: “No one has the right to impose their will upon the president of the Russian Federation, who is elected by the Russian people. He represents the interests and aspirations of the Russian people.

“When Trump suddenly starts to act as though he can give us directives and is threatening us, we can actually destroy America…America can destroy us as well, but we can do it faster and more effectively.”

What People Are Saying

Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov said: “There will be consequences—sanctions? Tariffs?…Yes there will be severe consequences, we will destroy all of Ukraine.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram: “Putin is definitely not preparing for a ceasefire or an end to the war. He is determined only to present a meeting with America as his personal victory and then continue acting exactly as before, applying the same pressure on Ukraine.”

President Donald Trump said: “Well, you’re looking at territory that’s been fought over for 3 1/2 years…you know, a lot of Russians have died. A lot of Ukrainians have died.

“So we’re looking at that, but we’re actually looking to get some back. Some swapping. It’s complicated…but we’re going to get some back, we’re going to get some switched. There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both.”

What Happens Next

The one-on-one meeting between Trump and Putin is scheduled to be followed by delegation talks and a joint press conference, with U.S. and allied diplomats monitoring whether the Alaska summit produces a cease-fire framework or specific commitments on sanctions and territorial issues.

Analysts warned that any U.S.-Russia agreement that excludes Kyiv risked undermining Ukrainian sovereignty and splintering Western unity, and protesters in Anchorage have already shown their support for Ukraine in the run-up to the meeting.

Any agreements or confrontations that emerge from the Anchorage summit are likely to shape the course of U.S.-Russia relations as well as the outcome of the war in Ukraine.

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America’s Department of Energy (DoE) has named ten companies it will work with to test advanced atomic reactor projects outside of the agency’s …

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These projects aim to streamline reactor testing and fast-track commercial licensing, enhancing the U.S.’s global position in nuclear energy. Key …

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Davis-Besse plant shut down since Tuesday due to non-emergency leak – WTOL 11

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The Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ottawa County has been shut down since Tuesday afternoon due to issues with steam generator instruments.

ISU Students Travel to Japan to Study Nuclear Disaster Response on the Ground

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In the nuclear energy and emergency response industry, studying past lessons is essential, as the field places exceptional emphasis on safety …

Energy Department Extends Emergency Order to Strengthen Grid Security in Puerto Rico

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The Department of Energy today announced the extension of the emergency orders that are strengthening Puerto Rico’s electric grid.

Nuclear War Threats

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Responding to a Limited Theater Nuclear Attack: The Arms Reduction Path vs. the Nuclear …

The Heritage Foundation

… modernizing its strategic arsenal and engaging in nuclear coercive threats and China is expanding its nuclear forces.

Russian State TV Issues Nuclear Weapon Threat Ahead of Trump Summit – Newsweek

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Solovyov was responding Trump’s threat of consequences if Putin does not agree to end the war in Ukraine at their meeting in Alaska on Friday. Why It …

Putin prepares nuclear missile tests in veiled threat to West – The Telegraph

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Mr Trump announced earlier this month that he had ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines towards Russia in response to threats from the …

Nuclear War

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Responding to a Limited Theater Nuclear Attack: The Arms Reduction Path vs. the Nuclear …

The Heritage Foundation

Those who want to avoid not only nuclear war but also confrontation, in general, must return remember a military lesson as old as antiquity: Weakness …

Russian State TV Issues Nuclear Weapon Threat Ahead of Trump Summit – Newsweek

Newsweek

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram: “Putin is definitely not preparing for a ceasefire or an end to the war. He is determined …

Is Nuclear Weapons Law Stopping the Nukes? – Lieber Institute – West Point

Lieber Institute – West Point

Conventional warfare has not been prevented and nuclear-armed States are among those that have breached those customary provisions fashioned in the …

Yellowstone Caldera

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Hunting for ‘Sasquatch’ (events) at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park – Yahoo

Yahoo

Since May 14, 2025, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory scientists have remotely monitored activity in Biscuit Basin using a webcam installed next to …

New Insights on Yellowstone Supervolcano Reveal Eruption Risks and Global Impacts

SSBCrack News

… Yellowstone caldera. This approach allows researchers to visualize the three-dimensional distribution of partially molten zones, as molten rock …

A Giant, Destructive Volcanic Eruption Is Set to Shake the World in the Coming Months … – MSN

MSN

… Yellowstone supervolcano, uncovering new insights into its subsurface magma dynamics … Yellowstone caldera. Because molten rock is significantly more …

IAEA Weekly News

15 August 2025

Read the top news and updates published on IAEA.org this week.

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15 August 2025

Career Development Initiative for Women in Nuclear Concludes for 2025

Women working in the nuclear field visited Canada last week as part of an IAEA initiative to boost their career development. During the third and final visit of the 2025 IAEA Lise Meitner Programme, participants took part in a two-week training focused on research reactors. Read more →

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15 August 2025

Deadline Extended Call for Papers: Conference on Transport of Nuclear and Radioactive Material

Interested contributors have until 30 September 2025 to submit synopses for the IAEA’s International Conference on the Safe and Secure Transport of Nuclear and Radioactive Material. Read more →

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13 August 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED: IAEA Youth Infographic Contest on Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response

The IAEA has launched an infographic design contest for young professionals aged 18 to 35 to raise awareness about emergency preparedness and response in nuclear and radiological contexts. Read more →

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13 August 2025

Advances in Nuclear Medicine Mean Patient Protection Needs Strengthening

Radiation protection measures for patients will need rapid updating to keep pace with exciting new developments in nuclear medicine, according to experts at a recent IAEA meeting on the topic. Read more →

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12 August 2025

Winners, Finalists and Honourable Mentions of the 2025 NuclearPop! Art Contest

As part of the first ever IAEA International Conference on Stakeholder Engagement for Nuclear Power Programmes, artists were invited to participate in a NuclearPop! art contest. Read more →

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11 August 2025

New Gamma Irradiator Helps Protect Blue Mountain Coffee and Address Threats to Crop Yields and Public Health in Jamaica

Jamaica has established a new mutation breeding programme to counter the harmful effect of a coffee leaf rust, a fungal disease that has ravaged coffee plants across the Caribbean since an initial outbreak in 2012, hamstringing production. Read more →

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