“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Mar 18, 2025

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Please note that I have changed the title of this daily blog post from “LLAW’s All Things Nuclear” to “LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest” to avoid Google search confusion and other complications when searching for this site. Also, the new title is a more precise and accurate representation of what this daily Post is all about.

Keep in mind that though my opinions are 100% Anti-Nuclear in every category, the daily LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS is entirely unbiased or opinionated in any way other than in the media article itself, depending upon the publication’s own values and views. Therefore my personal opinions may also be positive or negative depending upon the negative or positive nuclear news post that I select to comment on in any given category. ~llaw

LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW

In My Opinion:

Who the hell are these disruptive and obviously inexperienced people collectively called DOGE and how is it that Elon Musk, who is not even an official nor elected standing in the U.S. government, and his “Komputer Kiddies” have so much ridiculously unqualified power and are making a huge mess of everything they are doing? Every decision they have made has ultimately been wrong, and they have also illegally “broken” into secured governmental agencies and their offices in order to access confidential information that they are not qualified nor authorized to even see, much less control. This illegal process and the unlawful insubordination obviously allowed by Trump cannot continue to stand! If necessary, the U.S. military must step up and put a stop to this process even if it means the insubordination of themselves before the current “Commander in Chief” — who may well be a “traitor” to the United States of America — and who is not acting as the job requires, per se, “one of the most important roles for the President of the United States is that of Commander in Chief. Acting in this capacity, the President finds themselves ultimately responsible for the safety and security of the United States and its citizens.”

Weakening our nuclear security in this time of critical strain among major nuclear armed nations is just about the stupidest move imaginable given the erosion of the last bastion of nuclear war prevention called “deterrence” that Trump has already substantially weakened on an international basis, yet here we are, threatening our own and other free world nations by arbitrarily firing critically experienced and knowledgably endowed protectors of our own nuclear arsenal. This is pure and utter insanity . . . ~llaw

Today’s Story:

Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Hit Critical Nuclear Weapons Agency

Published Mar 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM EDT

By Jordan King

US News Reporter

Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member

More than 130 National Nuclear Security Administration employees have been reportedly paid off after their positions were targeted in cuts recommended by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

This is according to internal agency documents seen by The New York Times, which also said an additional 27 workers were mass-fired and not rehired.

Newsweek has contacted the Energy Department, which runs the National Nuclear Security Administration, via email, for comment.

Why It Matters

The National Nuclear Security Administration manages America’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, while also working to modernize them.

These cuts, part of Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk‘s efforts to do away with what they consider government waste and corruption, come at a time with mounting global tensions and multiple threats of nuclear war.

What To Know

At least 27 engineers, 13 analysts, 12 project managers, six budget analysts, five physicists or scientists, along with attorneys, compliance officers and technologists, have left the agency, according to the NYT.

These include four people involved in the secure transportation of nuclear materials, six who build reactors for nuclear submarines and one biochemist and engineer who enforced safety standards at a Texas-based nuclear warhead assembling plant.

The Energy Department reportedly said that most of the fired employees were administrative and clerical, not critical to the agency’s operation.

Some of the people who left had a top-secret security clearance, called Q, which provides access to how nuclear weapons are designed and used, according to NYT analysis.

Read more DOGE

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Those who left were reportedly offered administration leave with pay until September before resigning.

Speaking specifically about the loss of employees who used to transport nuclear materials, The agency’s former deputy administrator for nonproliferation under President Joe Biden, Corey Hinderstein, said: “We were already understaffed there. Because how do you get people with extremely advanced security skills to be able to defend a nuclear weapon on the road and are willing to be long-haul truckers?”

What People Are Saying

The Department of Energy’s chief spokesman Ben Dietderich said: “Contrary to news reports, the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons production plants and nuclear laboratories are operated by federal contractors and have been exempt” (from cuts)

Energy Department spokesperson Andrea Woods said: “N.N.S.A is committed to continuing its critical national security mission through the development, modernization and stewardship of America’s nuclear deterrent and nonproliferation and counterterrorism efforts.”

What Happens Next

It remains to be seen whether the National Nuclear Security Administration will be allowed to rehire for these positions and what impact this will have on how the agency is run.Subscribed

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There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

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TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS DIGEST, Tuesday, (03/18/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

How nuclear deterrence in Europe may change – WCMU Public Radio

WCMU Public Radio

If it’s nuclear arsenal that actually becomes a priority for European countries, that’s bad because nuclear winter, radioactivity, all of the adverse …

How nuclear deterrence in Europe may change – Utah Public Radio

Utah Public Radio

All Things Considered. Next Up: 4:00 PM The Music Never Stopped. 0:00. 0 … How nuclear deterrence in Europe may change. NPR. By A Martínez.

How nuclear deterrence in Europe may change | Maine Public

Maine Public

… Nuclear Planning Group that is inside of NATO. … CORMARIE: And France has made it very clear through all of its presidents that its nuclear weapons …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Zaporizhzhia: Trump suggests Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant is on the line in talks with … – CNN

CNN

The fate of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been a concern since Moscow’s forces stormed the facility in March 2022.

Energy Dept. approves money for restarting Palisades nuclear plant – Detroit Free Press

Detroit Free Press

The loan disbursement by President Trump’s Department of Energy signals continued support for the Biden-era initiative to restart the Palisades …

DOE Approves Loan Disbursement Tied to Restart of Michigan Nuclear Plant

American Public Power Association

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright on March 17 announced the release of the second loan disbursement to Holtec for the Palisades …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Public Communications Playbook for Energy Emergencies – National Governors Association

National Governors Association

… Emergency Response); Amy Thomas, Steven Medved, Tobias Sellier, and Giacomo Wray (American Public Power Association); Christine Csizmadia (Nuclear …

Operational event at Ling Ao Nuclear Power Station – Government Information Centre

Government Information Centre

The Nuclear Emergency Committee Office of the Guangdong Province notified the Security Bureau today (March 18) of an operational event at Ling Ao …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Trump warns Iran will be ‘held responsible’ for Houthi attacks from Yemen – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

But Parnell was quick to specify that Trump was not seeking war either, despite the US’s new threats. “This is also not an endless offensive. This …

Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Hit Critical Nuclear Weapons Agency – Newsweek

Newsweek

… threats of nuclear war. What To Know. At least 27 engineers, 13 analysts, 12 project managers, six budget analysts, five physicists or scientists …

US Think Tank Issues Update on China’s Nuclear Weapons Arsenal – Newsweek

Newsweek

… nuclear threats, to end nuclear monopoly, and to prevent a nuclear war. China Displays Nuclear Missiles. Military vehicles carry China’s DF-41 nuclear …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Zaporizhzhia: Trump suggests Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant is on the line in talks with … – CNN

CNN

Now, the Zaporizhzhia plant is expected to be part of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, Trump administration officials said this week. Ad …

Ukraine war latest: Trump pushing for ceasefire announcement after call with Putin

The Independent

Comes as Russian official says Moscow will seek ‘ironclad’ guarantees in any peace deal that Nato nations will exclude Kyiv from membership

NATO Nation Confirms India Stopped Nuclear War? Big Claim On PM Modi’s Role In … – YouTube

YouTube

persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to use tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war … NATO Nation Confirms India Stopped Nuclear War?

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

New hydrothermal feature popped up in Yellowstone last year – Buckrail

Buckrail

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — According to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory’s (YVO) latest Caldera Chronicles, a new hydrothermal feature popped …

Is it getting closer? America looks to Yellowstone after 700,000 years – Ecoportal

Ecoportal

This supervolcano is known to have had eruptions through the past years; however, it has been 700,000 since its major eruption and people are …

Volcanic Activity Worldwide 17 Mar 2025: Santiaguito Volcano, Fuego, Semeru, Ibu, Dukono …

Volcano Discovery

… caldera volcano. It followed the magnitude 4.4 earthquake … List and interactive map of current and past earthquakes near Yellowstone volcano.

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Mar 17, 2025

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Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv, Ukraine March 16, 2025. REUTERS/Maksym Kishka

LAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS of TODAY with the RISKS and CONSEQUENCES of TOMORROW

In My Opinion:

Let’s see how this telecon between Putin and Trump turns out on Tuesday, and is it not odd that Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy is not allowed to be a part of the conversation and decision-making? It’s as if Russia and the United States have no respect for Ukraine and will force the country’s future subject to the whims of the two international powers who will demand natural resources, land areas, and even whether or not Ukraine can join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Does all of this ultimately mean that Ukraine’s desire to become a democratic republic nation as a part of the “free world” will never happen, likely forcing their country to be dominated by Putin’s dream for a larger and more powerful USSR?

What Russia wants from Ukraine and other European ‘free world’ countries is not a whole lot different than Trump’s desire to annex Canada, Greenland, and Panama for the United States, a country that suddenly seems to be on its way to becoming a Russian twin companion both massive in territory and identical in politics — as well as military might. ~llaw

Trump and Putin to discuss power plants, land in talks to end Ukraine war

By Nathan Layne and Jeff Mason

March 17, 202511:21 AM PDTUpdated 2 hours ago

• Summary

• Trump sees ‘good chance’ to end war in Ukraine
• Trump will speak with Putin on Tuesday over ceasefire proposal
• Kremlin confirms Putin to speak with Trump by phone
• Ukraine supports 30-day ceasefire proposal
• Russia demands Ukraine’s neutrality, exclusion from NATO

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about ending the Ukraine war, with territorial concessions by Kyiv and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant likely to feature prominently in the talks.

“We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One during a flight to the Washington area from Florida. “Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance.

“I’ll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work’s been done over the weekend.”

Trump is trying to win Putin’s support for a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week, as both sides continued trading heavy aerial strikes early on Monday and Russia moved closer to ejecting Ukrainian forces from their months-old foothold in the western Russian region of Kursk.

Asked what concessions were being considered in ceasefire negotiations, Trump said: “We’ll be talking about land. We’ll be talking about power plants … We’re already talking about that, dividing up certain assets.”

Trump gave no details but he appeared to be referring to the Russian-occupied facility in Ukraine, Europe’s largest nuclear plant. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of risking an accident at the plant with their actions.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told a regular briefing on Monday that “there’s a power plant that is on the border of Russia and Ukraine that was up for discussion with the Ukrainians, and he (Trump) will address it in his call with Putin tomorrow.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Monday that Putin would speak with Trump by phone but declined to comment on Trump’s remarks about land and power plants.

The Kremlin said on Friday that Putin had sent Trump a message about his ceasefire plan via U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, who held talks in Moscow, expressing “cautious optimism” that a deal could be reached to end the three-year conflict.

In separate appearances on Sunday TV shows in the United States, Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Trump’s National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz, emphasized there were still challenges to be worked out before Russia agrees to a ceasefire, much less a final peaceful resolution to the war.

Asked on ABC whether the U.S. would accept a peace deal in which Russia was allowed to keep Ukrainian territory that it has seized, Waltz replied: “We have to ask ourselves, is it in our national interest? Is it realistic? … Are we going to drive every Russian off of every inch of Ukrainian soil?”

“We can talk about what is right or wrong but also have to talk about the reality of the situation on the ground,” he said, adding that the alternative to finding compromises on land and other issues was “endless warfare” and even World War Three.

‘IRONCLAD’ GUARANTEES

Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv, Ukraine March 16, 2025. REUTERS/Maksym Kishka

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said he sees a good chance to end the war after Kyiv accepted the U.S. proposal for a 30-day interim ceasefire.

However, Zelenskiy has consistently said the sovereignty of his country is not negotiable and that Russia must surrender the territory it has seized. Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and now controls most of four eastern Ukrainian regions since it invaded the country in 2022.

Zelenskiy has not responded publicly to Waltz’s remarks.

Russia will seek “ironclad” guarantees in any peace deal that NATO nations exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Russian media outlet Izvestia in remarks published on Monday that made no reference to the ceasefire proposal.

“We will demand that ironclad security guarantees become part of this agreement,” Izvestia cited Grushko as saying.

Putin says his actions in Ukraine are aimed at protecting Russia’s national security against what he casts as an aggressive and hostile West, in particular NATO’s eastward expansion. Ukraine and its Western partners say Russia is waging an unprovoked war of aggression and an imperial-style land grab.

Moscow has demanded that Ukraine drop its NATO ambitions, that Russia keep control of all Ukrainian territory seized, and that the size of the Ukrainian army be limited. It also wants Western sanctions eased and a presidential election in Ukraine, which Kyiv says is premature while martial law is in force.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said on Monday that the conditions demanded by Russia to agree to a ceasefire showed that Moscow does not really want peace.

Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said the onus should be on Russia as the invading country, not Ukraine, to make concessions “because otherwise you would be compromising international law.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that “a significant number” of nations – including Britain and France – were willing to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia. Defence chiefs will meet this week to firm up plans.

Russia has ruled out peacekeepers until the war has ended.

“If they appear there, it means that they are deployed in the conflict zone with all the consequences for these contingents as parties to the conflict,” Russia’s Grushko said.

“We can talk about unarmed observers, a civilian mission that would monitor the implementation of individual aspects of this agreement, or guarantee mechanisms. In the meantime, it’s just hot air.”

Reporting by Nathan Layne, Jeff Mason, David Ljunggren, Julia Harte, Lidia Kelly, Additional reporting by Bart Meijer in Brussels, Writing by Michael Perry, Gareth Jones and David Brunnstrom Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan, Angus MacSwan, Sharon Singleton and Rod Nickel

Jeff Mason

Thomson Reuters

Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters. He has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the presidential campaigns of Biden, Trump, Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. He served as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2016-2017, leading the press corps in advocating for press freedom in the early days of the Trump administration. His and the WHCA’s work was recognized with Deutsche Welle’s “Freedom of Speech Award.” Jeff has asked pointed questions of domestic and foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. He is a winner of the WHCA’s “Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure” award and co-winner of the Association for Business Journalists’ “Breaking News” award. Jeff began his career in Frankfurt, Germany as a business reporter before being posted to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. Jeff appears regularly on television and radio and teaches political journalism at Georgetown University. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a former Fulbright scholar.Subscribed

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There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War Threats
5. Nuclear War
6. Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Monday, (03/17/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

How China Could Beat The U.S. To Nuclear Fusion, As AI Power Needs Surge – YouTube

YouTube

… About CNBC: From ‘Wall Street’ to ‘Main Street’ to award winning original documentaries and Reality TV series, CNBC has you covered. Experience …

How nuclear deterrence in Europe may change – WXXI News

WXXI News

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM This American Life. 0:00. 0:00. All … How nuclear deterrence in Europe may change. NPR. By A Martínez.

How nuclear deterrence in Europe may change – KUNR

KUNR

All Things Considered · Arts on the Airwaves · BBC World Service · Fresh Air … How nuclear deterrence in Europe may change. NPR. By A Martínez.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Top US CEO to Europe: We can unite on nuclear power – Politico.eu

Politico.eu

PARIS — Donald Trump is temporary; nuclear energy is forever … or at least for 30 years. That’s why Patrick Fragman, CEO of Westinghouse, the major …

Top US CEO to Europe: We can unite on nuclear power, despite Trump – E&E News

E&E News

PARIS — Donald Trump is temporary; nuclear energy is forever … or at least for 30 years. That’s why Patrick Fragman, CEO of Westinghouse, …

North Korea vows to ‘strengthen’ nuclear capabilities, rejecting G7 call for denuclearization

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

North Korea is building a nuclear–power submarine, state media said earlier this month. Related Topics. North Korea. ABC News. Popular Reads. Trump …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

More than 70 agencies participating in training drill simulating nuclear power plant accident

MSN

Field teams in protective gear, low-flying aircraft and other signs of emergency agency activity might be noticed in various locations in Michigan …

Top US CEO to Europe: We can unite on nuclear power – Politico.eu

Politico.eu

Europe may see atomic power as a path to energy independence, but the Westinghouse chief tells POLITICO it can help the continent.

U.S. declares energy emergency amid 200-fold AI power demand surge – CHOSUNBIZ

Chosunbiz

Typically, the capacity of one nuclear power plant is 1 GW, meaning that 100 new nuclear plants would be needed. For this reason, major U.S. IT …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Europe doesn’t know if it can rely on America’s nuclear weapons for protection. Some …

ABC News

… threat of a nuclear attack without America’s assistance. Countries are turning to France and the United Kingdom, the only two European nations …

Iran rejects Trump’s ‘bullying’ on nuclear talks, as threats ratchet up – The Washington Post

The Washington Post

Iran rejects Trump’s ‘bullying’ on nuclear talks, as threats ratchet up … war in Gaza. “Under the strong leadership of President Trump. … I …

Trump launches large-scale strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, at least 31 killed | Reuters

Reuters

He said if Iran threatened the United States, “America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!” The Reuters Daily Briefing …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Europe doesn’t know if it can rely on America’s nuclear weapons for protection. Some …

ABC News

No ally wants to confront the possibility of nuclear war, or the US turning its back on them. But as fears grow that Trump is increasingly …

North Korea vows to ‘strengthen’ nuclear capabilities, rejecting G7 call for denuclearization

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

North Korea’s nuclear development program “prevents a war in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia and guarantees a strategic stability of the …

Trump says he and Putin will discuss power plants, land in talks to end Ukraine war

Reuters

… war, with territorial concessions by Kyiv and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant likely to feature prominently in the talks.

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Mar 16, 2025

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In order to keep abreast of the weekend nuclear news, I will post Saturday and Sunday’s news, but without editorial comment. If a weekend story warrants a critical review, it will show up on Monday’s posts . . .

If you are not familiar with the weekday daily blog post, this is how the nuclear news post works . . . llaw

ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’S ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA”:

There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War
5. Nuclear War Threats
6. Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Sunday Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Sunday, (03/16/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Trump wants to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran. How likely is he to succeed? – WESA

WESA

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:30 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … Iranian officials immediately rebuffed the gesture and, on Friday, met …

Trump wants to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran. How likely is he to succeed?

WJCT News

What’s Health Got to Do with It? Morning Edition · All Things Considered … nuclear program. We’re joined now by Ali Vaez, director of the …

Trump wants to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran. How likely is he to succeed? – WKMS

WKMS

Trump wants to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran. How likely is he to succeed? · Learn All About WKMS Vehicle Donation! · Looking for Something to …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

How China Could Beat The U.S. To Nuclear Fusion, As AI Power Needs Surge – YouTube

YouTube

Despite decades of U.S. leadership in nuclear fusion, China is now spending twice as much and building projects faster to beat the U.S. to …

How the U.S. is losing ground to China in nuclear fusion, as AI power needs surge – CNBC

CNBC

For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as much and building …

Fusion energy: Unlocking the power of the stars – CBS News

CBS News

… energy than fission (which splits atoms apart). Fission is used by today’s nuclear power plants and creates hazardous nuclear waste; fusion does not.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

More than 70 agencies participating in training drill simulating nuclear power plant accident

CBS News

The activity began Friday and is an exercise called Cobalt Magnet 2025, according to the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Trump orders strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, issues fresh threats to backer Iran – CBC

CBC

Trump maintains end-the-Ukraine-war talk, but Putin doesn’t confirm the details · Confused by Trump’s many tariff threats? Here’s what’s going on ..

Unfazed by regional war, Trump challenges Iran as Houthis threaten Israel with retali

Ynetnews

… nuclear program. Iran has so far refused to negotiate with Trump under his policy of sanctions and military threats. The strikes also aim to …

IRGC chief: Iran will not start a war but will respond decisively to threats – Press TV

Press TV

IRGC chief: Iran will not start a war but will respond decisively to threats … nuclear deal or be handled militarily. On Wednesday, Araghchi …

Nuclear War

NEWS

To many in Europe, Trump has punched holes in NATO’s nuclear umbrella – CNN

CNN

But for decades during the Cold War, France also sought to bring European allies under its nuclear protection, Yannick Pincé a historian at France’s …

Ukraine war latest: Zelensky warns Putin is planning fresh ground invasion – The Independent

The Independent

“We are also observing directions along our eastern border of Ukraine, where the Russian army is building up forces,” Mr Zelensky wrote on X. “This …

Why a French nuclear attack submarine is in Halifax | CBC.ca

CBC

SSN Tourville arrived in Halifax harbour this week after its first sail across the Atlantic. Hannah Veinot has the story.

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Mar 15, 2025

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In order to keep abreast of the weekend nuclear news, I will post Saturday and Sunday’s news, but without editorial comment. If a weekend story warrants a critical review, it will show up on Monday’s posts . . .

If you are not familiar with the weekday daily blog post, this is how the nuclear news post works . . . llaw

ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’S ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA”:

There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War
5. Nuclear War Threats
6. Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There is one Yellowstone Caldera bonus story available on this weekend’s Saturday Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Saturday,(03/15/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Trump wants to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran. How likely is he to succeed?

WCMU Public Radio

He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled …

Trump wants to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran. How likely is he to succeed? – WLRN

WLRN

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … Trump wants to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran. How likely …

Trump wants to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran. How likely is he to succeed? | TPR

Texas Public Radio

All Things Considered · Book Public · Fronteras · Golden Pennies · The Lonely … Iranian officials immediately rebuffed the gesture and, on Friday, met …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

French nuclear–powered attack sub surfaces off Canada near US border – YouTube

YouTube

A French nuclear–powered attack submarine left locals bewildered after it surfaced in an eastern Canadian province, just 300 miles from the US …

US Electricity Demand to Surge — Nuclear Energy Key, but Supply Challenges Remain

Investing News Network

The US is facing an electricity demand surge driven by AI, manufacturing and electrification. Nuclear power is crucial, but uranium supply …

Why is it still so hard to make nuclear weapons? | Live Science

Live Science

Related: How many nuclear bombs have been used? The enormous release of energy is called a nuclear fission reaction. When this reaction occurs, a …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

China, Russia stand by Iran as Tehran rejects US call for nuclear talks – YouTube

YouTube

After China’s “Ready for War” Threat, US Says “Prepared For Worst … Threats‘ Against Nuclear Program. CRUX New 16K views · 14:55 · Go to channel …

China, Russia, Iran urge end to ‘illegal unilateral sanctions, threats of force’ over Tehran …

Anadolu Ajansı

‘It’s still a long way to go,’ says Trump on ending Russia-Ukraine war … threats of force’ over Tehran nuclear issue …

Iran, China and Russia: Sanctions, threats not a solution to Tehran nuclear issue

Tehran Times

Iran, China and Russia: Sanctions, threats not a solution to Tehran nuclear issue … ‘Portraying a war with Iran as low-cost is Israeli deception:’ …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Rearmament and the ‘nuclear umbrella’ – the words of Pope Francis – Vatican News

Vatican News

‘How can we propose peace if we constantly invoke the threat of nuclear war as a legitimate recourse for the resolution of conflicts?’

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Starmer warns Putin ‘not to play games’ – The Independent

The Independent

In a statement, DTEK said “damages are significant” and that some consumers in both regions were left without power. A worker repairs equipment at …

US designated South Korea a ‘sensitive’ country amid nuclear concerns | Reuters

Reuters

The U.S. Department of Energy has designated ally South Korea a “sensitive” country, a spokesperson said on Friday, after the South Korean …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Rumblings of Campi Flegrei: Europe on alert for supervolcano – MSN

MSN

On the night of March 12th to 13th, a strong 4.4-magnitude tremor occurred in the Campi Flegrei supervolcano caldera. … Yellowstone supervolcano: …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Mar 14, 2025

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS of TODAY with the RISKS and CONSEQUENCES of TOMORROW

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And the huge mistake(s) Trump has made in his frivolous thoughtless call for nuclear weapons policy and control are destroying the world’s trust in not only Trump, which was predictable, but the United States as a free world nation. He is also the laughing stock of Russia.

The following paragraph is the opening paragraph from the “Foreign Policy” article just below. It is pointedly accurate in my estimation and, just one more reason among many that Trump is incapable and perhaps unwilling to believe in or follow the doctrine(s) and policies, including foreign policies, of the United States of America’s democratic republic . . . ~llaw

U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent foreign-policy moves have alienated the country’s traditional allies in Europe while stirring glee in Moscow. While it’s a catastrophic development for Ukrainian security and democracy, this paradigmatic shift portends much larger risks for global security. The most pressing is the threat of rampant nuclear proliferation that the Trump administration’s actions will elicit. ~ Debak Das and Rachel A. Epstein

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An expert’s point of view on a current event.

An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb

Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia.

By Debak Das, an assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and Rachel A. Epstein, a professor of international relations at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

An undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 16, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launch of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location. KCNA VIA KNS / AFP

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent foreign-policy moves have alienated the country’s traditional allies in Europe while stirring glee in Moscow. While it’s a catastrophic development for Ukrainian security and democracy, this paradigmatic shift portends much larger risks for global security. The most pressing is the threat of rampant nuclear proliferation that the Trump administration’s actions will elicit.

While on the surface it might seem as though a warmer relationship between two of the world’s largest nuclear powers could reduce the risk of nuclear war, the opposite is true. We are on the precipice of a global turn toward nuclear instability, in which many countries will be newly incentivized to build their own arsenals, increasing the risk of nuclear use, terrorist subversion, and accidental launch. Countries like South Korea, Japan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are all so-called nuclear latent states that could potentially build nuclear weapons quickly—as are Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands.

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For the last eight decades, the United States has served as a security guarantor to many countries in both Europe and Asia. Trump insists that Washington has received the short end of the stick from these arrangements, since it was the U.S. nuclear arsenal that served as the ultimate deterrent in defense of the United States’ allies. The massive upside of U.S. security guarantees, however, including for Americans, has been the astonishing containment of nuclear proliferation elsewhere.

Only nine countries around the world have nuclear weapons today: the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. (South Africa gave up its nuclear weapons and then signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1991.) Today, 190 countries are parties to the treaty, which went into effect in 1970. The only non-signatory states are India, Israel, Pakistan, and South Sudan. (North Korea withdrew from the treaty in 2003 to pursue its nuclear weapons program.)

Many countries signed the NPT because of U.S. assurances about their security—what is commonly known as the nuclear umbrella. These countries include NATO members in Europe (such as Germany, Italy, and Belgium), along with other U.S. allies like Japan and South Korea. When Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus inherited a large number of nuclear weapons and delivery systems in the early 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed, U.S. security assurances helped convince them to give up their nuclear weapons.

The confinement of this deadly technology to relatively few countries has been a massive boon to global security and allowed for much greater prosperity. Without U.S. security assurances, the world might have been far more insecure, with several additional nuclear weapons states across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Nuclear safety and inadvertent escalation concerns about the possession of nuclear weapons mean that we might even have seen potential nuclear use—deliberate or accidental—which would have had catastrophic consequences.

U.S. security guarantees, long perceived as highly credible, have been a pillar of the global nonproliferation regime that has reduced the likelihood of nuclear war and nuclear accidents, and allowed countries to devote resources to other purposes—including economic prosperity.

The credibility of the U.S. nuclear umbrella has now been shattered by Trump. Why would NATO allies in Europe—recent targets of intense criticism by the Trump administration—believe that the United States would stand by them in the case of a nuclear threat from Russia?

Among U.S. allies threatened by China or North Korea’s nuclear weapons, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are undoubtedly asking themselves this same question. The broader concern here is that even if just one of these European or East Asian allies decides to secure themselves by building their own nuclear weapons, there might be a domino effect leading to several more nuclear states. This would sound the death knell of the nuclear nonproliferation regime.

There may be higher risks of nuclear proliferation in Asia than in Europe because both France and the U.K. have nuclear arsenals that could provide extended deterrence to NATO. Even in Europe, however, political conditions are concerning. The parties garnering the second-most popular support today in France, Germany, and Poland are all right-wing nationalists. Marine Le Pen, who could potentially become the next French president, recently said that France should not share the country’s nuclear weapons, “let alone delegate” their use to other European countries.

There have also been calls for Germany to recommit to civilian nuclear research, with the aim of developing its ability to build nuclear weapons. Poland is also considering its nuclear options. The stability of the erstwhile European security architecture that used to be upheld by the promise of U.S. nuclear assurances is now rapidly fraying and giving way to a path of nuclear proliferation on the continent.Subscribed

TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Thursday, (03/13/2025)

ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO LLAW’s ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA

There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War Threats
5. Nuclear War
6. Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Friday, (03/14/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Iranian officials talk nuclear program with Chinese and Russian counterparts – KLCC

KLCC

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM The World. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster.

Iranian officials talk nuclear program with Chinese and Russian counterparts – NPR

NPR

All Things Considered · Fresh Air · Up First. Featured. Embedded · The NPR … nuclear energy,” and promote “the nuclear non-proliferation regi

Iranian officals meet Chinese and Russian counterparts in Beijing – WSIU

WSIU

All Things Considered · Morning Edition · Law Enforcement · Politics … nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. See …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

The U.S. Is Running Out of Uranium. This Potent New Fuel Is the ‘Only Way’ to … – Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics

… nuclear energy at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy. Small modular reactors are an attractive replacement, as they have lower …

CERAWeek Event: Tripling Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050

World Nuclear Association

From tech to petrochemicals, aviation and beyond, there is an opportunity to expand nuclear’s clean, reliable and economical energy to power these …

China, Russia and Iran hold talks in Beijing as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal with Tehran | CNN

CNN

China is hosting diplomats from Iran and Russia for talks on Tehran’s nuclear program Friday as Beijing aims to position itself as a power broker …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

U.S. Nuclear Agency Runs Disaster Drills Across Multiple States

Gizmodo

If you live in the Midwest and and see a bunch of emergency personnel who look like they’re responding to a nuclear power plant explosion over the …

State Police Emergency Management to Help Coordinate International Nuclear Reactor Simulation

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Michigan is home to two active nuclear power plants, with a third slated to return online within the next year. The exercise will enable response …

MSP holding major radiological incident exercise | | iosconews.com

Iosco County News Herald

“Michigan is home to two active nuclear power plants, with a third … emergency management and homeland security. “Given our location near …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

China hits out at ‘threats of force’ on Iran as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal | CNN

CNN

China hits out at ‘threats of force’ on Iran as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal … war in Ukraine. China remains a key economic and diplomatic …

China Backs Iran in Nuclear Talks, Slams ‘Threat of Force’ From the West

The New York Times

The United States is now pursuing maximum political pressure with a threat of military action. But China and Russia are pursuing a more cooperative …

Russia, China call on US to drop Iran sanctions, restart nuclear talks – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful. While Iran has maintained it would not negotiate under threat, its economy has been savaged by the US …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Andrzej Duda: US nuclear weapons in Poland would be ‘deterrent’ for Russia – BBC

BBC

War in Ukraine · US & Canada · UK · UK Politics · England · N. Ireland · N. Ireland … Duda: US nuclear weapons in Poland would be ‘deterrent’ for …

An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb – Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy

… nuclear powers could reduce the risk of nuclear war, the opposite is true. We are on the precipice of a global turn toward nuclear instability, in …

Iranian officials talk nuclear program with Chinese and Russian counterparts – NPR

NPR

… nuclear programs that the JCPOA promises. Wu says no parties want a war over the Iran nuclear issue, so “supporting negotiations and the spirit …

IAEA Weekly News

14 March 2025

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

13 March 2025

IAEA Director General Visits Niger to Strengthen Cooperation in Mining, Water Management and Cancer Care

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has been to Niger this week for high-level meetings with Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine and other senior officials to enhance support for the country through the peaceful uses of nuclear technology for mining, water management and cancer care. Read more →

13 March 2025

IAEA Director General Visits Niger Uranium Mines

Uranium is the primary fuel for nuclear reactors and its production cycle must be managed carefully, in a safe and secure manner. Read more →

12 March 2025

Tritium Level Far Below Japan’s Operational Limit in 11th Batch of ALPS Treated Water, IAEA Confirms

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have confirmed that the tritium concentration in the 11th batch of diluted ALPS treated water, which the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began discharging on 12 March, is far below Japan’s operational limit. Read more →

11 March 2025

What are Molten Salt Reactors?

International interest is increasing in molten salt reactors, because they have the potential to provide large amounts of efficient and cost-effective electricity and produce high-temperature process heat usable for various industrial applications. Read more →

10 March 2025

Rwanda Advances Cancer Control with Focus on Cervical Cancer and Health Workforce Development

Rwanda has taken important steps to tackle preventable cancers nation-wide, a recent international assessment has found. Read more →

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Mar 13, 2025

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS of TODAY with the RISKS and CONSEQUENCES of TOMORROW

In My Opinion:

We often hear the phrase, “Accidents happen”, and this one — South Korea military accidentally bombing its own village a few miles south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between South and North Korea is proof that accidents could start a war. Perhaps even a nuclear one considering the friction between the two countries, one of them allied with the USA, the other one with Russia.

In the Korean case the small mistake might be brushed off with little potential hard feelings since no one was killed, but the incident reminds me of an old poem back in Benjamin Franklin’s day that should be seriously considered when there is so much animosity between world nations around the globe right along with unreasonable corporate commercial money-crazed nuclear power proliferation, both of which have the potential to, in just a few hours, eliminate all human and most animal life on the planet.

The old poetic proverb goes like this:

“For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.

For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.

For want of a horse, the rider was lost.

For want of a rider, the battle was lost.

For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,

And all for the want of a nail.”

The need for a replacement horseshoe nail, perhaps misplaced or lost by a blacksmith or his helper illustrates how important a small insignificant mistake or accident can be in the more grand scheme of things.

We all know we have had many extremely serious accidents with nuclear energy power plants, and also not-so-well-known, but telling, nuclear military accidents over the years, and anyone who believes that nuclear accidents will not continue, and more often, now that we have become an “all things nuclear world” that has been insanely endorsed and is rapidly growing, along with nuclear weapons of mass destruction, prolifically in several directions, both commercially and militarily, like a spider’s web that we will not or cannot escape from.

I say “insanely” because we are sentient humans with human intelligence, yet as a species we seem to have no common sense, but rather a thoughtlessly blind desire to destroy ourselves. ~llaw

North Korea Puts Out ‘First Nuclear War’ Warning

Published Mar 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM EDT Updated Mar 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM EDT

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North Korea Launches Several Ballistic Missiles after US Drills

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North Korea has issued a warning against sparking “the world’s first nuclear war” in the wake of last week’s accidental bombing of a South Korean border village.

Newsweek reached out to the Pentagon and the South Korean Embassy in the U.S. by email for comment.

Why It Matters

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at their highest in decades following North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his regime’s continued ballistic missile tests, the collapse of a 2018 North-South military pact last year, and North Korea’s deployment of troops to support Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Pyongyang has frequently cited U.S. joint military activities with its South Korean ally, including a major ongoing annual exercise, as justification for expanding its United Nations-sanctioned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

What To Know

On Thursday, a pair of South Korean KF-16 fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs about 5 miles before reaching their target—onto a South Korean village, injuring 31 people and damaging more than 150 houses.

Officials blamed human error, saying one pilot had input the wrong strike coordinates before taking off. The second pilot’s reason for dropping his payload too early is under investigation.

The incident occurred only about 15 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a North Korean state media outlet, on Wednesday hit out over the incident, noting how close it had come to sparking an even more dangerous situation.

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“There is no need to explain how the situation would have developed if a bomb had been dropped toward the north a little further to cross the border of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” the statement read, using North Korea’s official name.

“It is not unreasonable to imagine that an accidental spark might plunge the Korean peninsula and the region and the rest of the world into a new armed conflict.”

The outlet linked the explosions to the U.S.-South Korean Freedom Edge military exercise, which American and South Korean military forces are carrying out with an eye toward the North Korean threat.

Such drills are “dangerous” and threaten to plunge the region into “the world’s first nuclear war,” KCNA said.

What People Are Saying

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a March 6 statement: “The Republic of Korea [South Korea] and the United States have identified realistic threats such as the North Korean military’s strategy, tactics, and changes in power derived from Russia-North Korean military cooperation and analysis of various armed conflicts. This will be reflected in the [Freedom Shield] scenario to enhance the combined defense posture and response capability of the ROK-U.S. alliance.

What Happens Next

South Korean authorities have apologized for the shelling and pledged to compensate those affected.

Freedom Edge 25 will continue to run until March 20 as scheduled. However, live-fire drills have been suspended in light of the accident.Subscribed

TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Thursday, (03/13/2025)

ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO LLAW’s ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA

There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War Threats
5. Nuclear War
6. Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are three Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Thursday, (03/13/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Iran’s leader rebuffs U.S. over starting nuclear program talks | Delaware First Media

Delaware Public Media

Michel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered, where she draws on her deep reporting and interviewing experience to dig in to the week’s …

Google, Meta, and Amazon join forces to boost nuclear energy by 2050 – YouTube

YouTube

… nuclear output by 2050 to meet energy needs … Peter Doocy: Things are changing very quickly. Fox News New 531K views.

Iran’s leader rebuffs U.S. over starting nuclear program talks – NPR

NPR

MARTIN: That is NPR’s Aya Batrawy in Dubai. Aya, thank you. BATRAWY: Thanks,

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Idaho National Laboratory testing salt-fueled nuclear reactor – YouTube

YouTube

INL scientists have formulated a recipe to fuel a first-of-its-kind critical fast-spectrum molten salt reactor following five years of testing …

Amazon, Google, Meta join pledge to help triple global nuclear capacity | ESG Dive

ESG Dive

Nuclear power plant structures stand along a shoreline. The Salem and Hope Creek nuclear power plants in Southern New Jersey. The image by Peretz …

Poland’s President Duda calls for U.S. to deploy nuclear weapons in his nation – CBS News

CBS News

France is the only nuclear power in the European Union. Macron met with President Trump in the White House late last month, a session Mr. Trump …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Potassium Iodide pills available for pick up, nuclear simulation training to take place

CTV News

… Nuclear Power Plant. This comes as Windsor and Amherstburg prepares to hold a week-long emergency preparedness training drill.

Dumfries and Galloway town’s resilience put to the test with mock emergency car crash

Daily Record

Find more about Plans revealed for green hydrogen project near former Scots nuclear power plant … The exercise ended with the fire brigade …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

North Korea Puts Out ‘First Nuclear War‘ Warning – Newsweek

Newsweek

… threat. Such drills are “dangerous” and threaten to plunge the region into “the world’s first nuclear war,” KCNA said. What People Are Saying. The …

Poland’s President Duda calls for U.S. to deploy nuclear weapons in his nation – CBS News

CBS News

… nuclear weapons to his nation as a deterrent to any possible attack by Russia … nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats.

‘This threat is unwise’: Iran’s Khamenei cautions Trump against potential military action

France 24

Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called US threats “unwise” after President Donald Trump sent him a letter urging talks …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Poland’s president urges U.S. to move nuclear warheads to Polish territory, FT reports | Reuters

Reuters

President Andrzej Duda also told the newspaper he had discussed the proposal recently with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and …

Trump’s WW3 Warning As Russia-Ukraine Peace Nears | ‘Hate To Mention NUCLEAR Weapons’

YouTube

U.S. president Donald Trump expressed hope that his Russian counterpart will sign the peace deal that his team is taking with it to Moscow.

Iran’s Khamenei says nuclear talks with US won’t lift sanctions – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Supreme leader criticises the US for abandoning the nuclear deal and imposing sanctions, questions the value of talks … Russia-Ukraine War · Donald …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Slow As A Sloth Or Swift As A Sprinter? Clocking The Speed Of Yellowstone’s Magma

National Parks Traveler

Editor’s note: Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

Top 10 Most Dangerous Volcanoes That Could Erupt Anytime – MSN

MSN

… Erupt Anytime. Story by Jacqeline Nomora, M.Sc. Biology. • 4m. 1 / 11. Mount Vesuvius (Italy). Yellowstone Caldera (USA). Mount Merapi (Indonesia).

Why Idaho Won’t Participate in a New Civil War

News Radio 1310 KLIX

The Yellowstone Caldera blows, or an electromagnetic pulse weapon detonates in the atmosphere, or a new ice age begins. But the movie and many …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Mar 12, 2025

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS of TODAY with the RISKS and CONSEQUENCES of TOMORROW

In My Opinion:

Saving face?

Trump has been backing down daily on his ridiculous “”tariffs” demands, especially from Canada, and now he may actually be serious about “hoping” Putin and his Kremlin agree to a one-month Russia/Ukraine ceasefire and then an end to the war. (Russia has already broken the cease fire agreement, by the way, according to Zelenskyy).

But, for the sake of the Ukraine people and their future, I sincerely hope that this war will end promptly, not only for Ukraine’s sake, but also to provide some relaxation by all nations directly or indirectly involved in the recent Trump-caused nuclear proliferation discussions. The flurry of non-nuclear nations considering building their own nuclear weapons arsenal began because they don’t trust Trump to continue honoring America’s free-world ability and obligation to help defend NATO and other non-nuclear armed countries with nuclear deterrence, which is presently the only way to avoid the possibility of global nuclear war.

My fingers are crossed, and I hope yours are too. ~llaw

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says US officials going to Russia ‘right now’ and he hopes Putin agrees ceasefire

The US President said a peace deal was now ‘up to Russia’, but Moscow sources said the agreement was ‘difficult to accept’

Sam Kiley

in Ukraine

,Alex Croft,Rachel Clun,Barney Davis

Wednesday 12 March 2025 20:30 GMT

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (2nd L) and US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz (L) after meeting a Ukrainian delegation in Jeddah on March 11, 2025 (POOL/AFP/Getty)

US President Donald Trump said a peace deal is “up to Russia now”, but Moscow sources say Russian president Vladimir Putin finds the 30-day ceasefire agreement between Washington and Kyiv and “difficult to accept”.

Officials from Ukraine and the US yesterday agreed on the ceasefire, alongside a restoration of US military aid and intelligence sharing to Ukraine, during talks in Saudi Arabia.

Moscow would need to hash out the terms of the ceasefire and obtain some form of security guarantees, a senior source told Reuters. “It is difficult for Putin to agree to this in its current form,” the source said, adding that “Putin has a strong position because Russia is advancing.”

Speaking in a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday, Mr Zelensky said he has “no trust” in Russia. “I have emphasised this many times, none of us trust the Russians,” he said.

Kyiv supports the Trump administration’s push for peace as soon as possible, Mr Zelensky added, and sees the resumption of US military aid and intelligence sharing as very positive.

It comes after US secretary of state Marco Rubio – who was part of the delegation in Saudi Arabia – told reporters in Ireland that US and Russia will discuss the agreement today.

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30 minutes ago

‘It’s a strong check’ Zelensky’s camp upbeat on ceasefire deal

A source close to the Ukrainian government said the mood in the Zelensky camp after the talks was upbeat and that there was a feeling Russia had been caught off guard by the ceasefire proposal.

“It’s a strong check on the chess board,” the source said.

A former senior Ukrainian security official who requested anonymity said things had so far developed predictably in terms of a phased peace process.

“However, it is likely that Russia will derail the agreement, and we will have to watch the American reaction. The Russians may offend Trump with their outbursts. And then we will have a chance for strong arms assistance.”

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In My Opinion:

This is my 3rd consecutive daily post regarding Trump’s huge mistake of frightening other free world NATO and other countries. Until Trump arrived for the second time around, these countries relied on the United States to help keep them safe from nuclear war, but his proposed nuclear arms policies have boomeranged into a typical Trump miscalculation that could spread never before considered proliferation of nuclear weapons of mass destruction. These proliferation, and nuclear arms along potential nuclear war articles, including potential conflicts with Iran, North Korea, and other countries are creating an international mistrust of Trump — and therefore, by association, the United States of America, also meaning you and me.

There are other stories that I have skipped over due to time and space on this and earlier blog posts, and there is one in particular from “Forbes” in TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS listings below that is in a video format that I chose not to use, but because it is from Steve Forbes himself, expressing his own major concern about Trump’s actions causing unwanted nuclear proliferation I am posting the link just below to make it easy for you to watch and listen to what Forbes has to say:

The World Is Unraveling—Can The U.S. Stop Possible Nuclear Warfare? – Forbes

Trump is also out of control on all domestic fronts, as we are all quickly learning, evidently in the process into turning the United States of America into what amounts to a 3rd-world country occupied by the new USSR. ~llaw

A 2017 ballistic missile test by the South Korean military. South Korea may be the non-nuclear U.S. ally that is closest to building its own nuclear weapons. South Korea Defense Ministry via NUR

Threats

Experts fear cascade of nuclear proliferation as Trump shakes alliances

U.S. allies contemplate the once-unthinkable: building their own nuclear arsenals.

Patrick Tucker

March 10, 2025 07:44 PM ET

U.S. allies around the world are warming to the idea of developing their own nuclear weapons, the result of a growing sense that U.S. President Donald Trump may abandon key international security commitments and alliances, former senior defense and White House officials told Defense One.

Decades of nonproliferation efforts to persuade countries to forgo nuclear weapons, work led by the United States through security guarantees, are on the verge of collapse, the officials said. Should one or two nations launch nuclear projects, others will quickly follow. That could provoke a military response from Russia or China, which might touch off yet more nuclear development in a self-reinforcing, destabilizing cycle.

What’s changed in the last two weeks?

“The Trump administration’s approach to Ukraine and Russia has significantly undercut allied confidence in the United States, including on extended [nuclear] deterrence,” Eric Brewer, a former director for counterproliferation at the National Security Council. “Not only is [Trump] pivoting away from allies but he’s seemingly pivoting toward Russia.”

The shift has shaken U.S. allies. France—the only NATO member with a nuclear arsenal that doesn’t depend on U.S. technology—hastened to shore up European deterrence by proposing to extend its nuclear “umbrella” to other countries.

“I have decided to open the strategic debate on the protection of our European continental allies through our deterrence,” French President Emmanuel Macron said last week.

Leaders from Berlin to the Baltics quickly praised the idea.

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Sunday said, “We should talk with both countries [France and Britain], always also from the perspective of supplementing the American nuclear shield, which we of course want to see maintained.”

But the French proposal leaves many questions unanswered. If France is to convince other nations to huddle under its nuclear umbrella, said one former senior White House senior official who worked on nuclear issues, Paris will need to launch a diplomatic campaign and be willing to share a great deal more information, including classified information, about nuclear decision-making and capabilities—much as the United States did in the 1960s.

In the past, similar proposals have led NATO allies to begin talks, but they collapsed over issues such as who would control the weapons, a former senior defense official said.

“There’s just a lot of questions here about what the French are offering, whether they may really be willing to provide a dual key with Germany for weapons if they put them on German territory for instance. I suspect not,” they said.

Indeed, soon after his initial announcement, Macron clarified that France would not share its warheads with other countries.

Uncertainty

France’s nuclear arsenal of about 290 warheads is larger than Britain’s (under 225) but far smaller than Russia’s (nearly 6,000). Neither has Russia’s diversity of warhead sizes and delivery systems. The U.K.’s small and expensive nuclear submarine fleet is undergoing modernization. France has air-launched cruise missiles. Russia has land-based mobile launchers, siloed ICBMs, bombers, and submarines.

There’s a reason Europe made no attempt to keep up with Russia’s weapons development. Western Europe has always relied on the vast U.S. arsenal to deter Russia.

But, the former senior defense official explained, France had a different deterrence strategy: hold just one or two major targets, like Moscow or St. Petersburg, in jeopardy.

The U.S. idea “was that we were going to develop counter-force capability”—that is, weapons to disable or destroy an enemy’s nuclear capability—“try and take out Soviet weapon systems, command and control, leadership; and try and not go after cities if we could avoid it. The French have never had that kind of compunction. The basis of their strategy was ‘tear an arm off the bear.’ They never thought they could really take on the entire Soviet nuclear force.”

In other words, Paris and London can’t destroy Russia’s ability to wage nuclear war—even enough of it to prevent the obliteration of both countries and more of Europe as well. That isn’t particularly reassuring to European leaders who believe that their countries would be a secondary priority for France should Russia attack.

That may be why Poland’s Prime Minister ​​Donald Tusk said Friday that his country must “reach for opportunities related to nuclear weapons”—perhaps hinting at launching its own development effort.

Proliferation triggers

But the real trigger for a new arms race may sit outside of Europe, the officials warned.

All of the former officials we spoke to said that South Korea is the U.S. ally that is furthest along in pursuing a new nuclear weapons program. The country feels “the most pressure right now,” said the former senior White House official. That’s true across South Korea’s political elites, including “the opposition party that may win the next election.”

Should Seoul start hunting for the fuel to build such a device, Tokyo would likely launch a program of its own, they said, since Japan and South Korea are not treaty allies but do have hundreds of years of conflict history.

“I find it hard to believe you’d see a Japan-and-South Korea joint nuclear weapons development project,” said the former senior defense official.

All the officials we spoke to agreed that if one nation starts a nuclear-weapon program, others will likely do so as well.

“Proliferation will beget more proliferation,” said the former senior White House official.

Trump’s recent talk of abandoning treaty allies is not the only change that may push other nations toward nuclearization. He has also hinted that he might withdraw U.S. troops from certain countries, such as Japan or European nations. This would remove a “tripwire” that helps deter foreign attack, the former senior defense official said, and would cause a host government to consider new ways to deter attack on its own.

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Nuclear Power Emergencies

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Nuclear War Threats

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Nuclear War

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The World Is Unraveling—Can The U.S. Stop Possible Nuclear Warfare? – Forbes

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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

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Mar 10, 2025

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In My Opinion:

This brand new global nuclear weapons problem, created by Donald J. Trump, is exactly what we discussed on Friday’s “LLAW’s All Things Nuclear” Post: That Trump’s far-right-wing politics (article below), cuddling up with Russia’s Putin, and leaving Ukraine the rest of the free world blowing in the wind, as well as his call to “denuclearize” nuclear weapons —and who knows how that can ever be accomplished? — could, in a world of reality, increase the proliferation of nuclear weapons rather than “denuclearize” anything at all for any reason anywhere.

So, it is easy to see why the free world nations that once relied on the USA to protect them, such as Poland and South Korea and others, perhaps including Ukraine which gave up its large arsenal of nuclear weapons in exchange for peace, now believe they have to build their own inventory of nuclear weapons of mass destruction in order to protect themselves, when they once believed that the US would help protect them . . . ~llaw

Nuclear Proliferation Will Haunt ‘America First’

Ankit Panda, Vipin Narang, and Pranay Vaddi

March 10, 2025

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It is no coincidence that Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland openly raised the possibility that his country may need to arm itself with nuclear weapons. Both major parties in South Korea are doing the same. This is a response to what is happening in Washington, where the Trump administration is renovating America’s post-World War II grand strategy, tossing aside hard-built alliances, norms on global trade, and much else. Coercive tariff threats, territorial expansionist rhetoric, and expressions of trans-national far-right political solidarity are in. Liberal values and support for what American presidents once described as a “rules-based order” are out. Trump has openly said that allies can no longer reliably count on America, or its nuclear forces, as their ultimate security guarantor. Tusk’s willingness to consider a nuclear arsenal should therefore not be surprising. Indeed, other American allies around the world are considering the same, as well as alternative nuclear-sharing agreements that once seemed fanciful. This will be the potential price of gutting American extended deterrence commitments, the most successful nonproliferation tool the United States has had for three-quarters of a century.

Preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, to friend and foe alike, has been a core bipartisan pillar of American foreign policy for decades. Perhaps some Trump administration officials greeted Tusk’s announcement warmly. Indeed, it is no secret that President Donald Trump himself and some of his prominent advisors have shrugged at the prospect of nuclear proliferation, despite the president’s open discomfort with nuclear weapons and his musings about nuclear disarmament as a part of a deal with Russia and China. To be sure, proliferation to American allies might mean big savings on the peacetime costs of forward deployed troops and avoiding entanglement in crises in far-flung theaters.

However, welcoming more nuclear-armed countries, even if they are friends of the United States, threatens core American interests. Trump’s “America First” instincts rely on and relish unrestrained American power and primacy. As such, Trump may find that the longstanding American interest in nonproliferation actually serves his worldview rather than compromises it. Allies with nuclear weapons will complicate America’s ability to exercise its power. They’re more likely to chart independent, possibly oppositional political and economic policies. And perhaps counter-intuitively, they might make it more likely that the United States gets dragged into a nuclear crisis or war.

The Real Costs of Nonproliferation to American Power

While U.S. policy makers in the post-Cold War decades focused global nonproliferation attention on countries other than allies — notably India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran — the looming shifts in a U.S. grand strategy that may bring America home have, in recent years, put the focus on allies. Until now these allies, including South Korea, Japan, Germany, and Poland, have been able to forswear nuclear weapons because they were ultimately shielded by the American nuclear umbrella.

Early in the Cold War, following the advent of nuclear weapons, the United States did not intuitively grasp the reasons why nuclear proliferation to its friends would harm its interests. It was only in the early 1960s, after France sought a nuclear weapons capability to assert its independence from the United States and NATO’s nuclear deterrent mission, that Washington began to really introspect on the value of nonproliferation for its own interests.

The United States worked hard during the Cold War to prevent proliferation — not just by its adversaries but also its allies. A combination of security commitments, forward-positioning of U.S. conventional and nuclear weapons, and a lattice-work of dialogues, exercises, and information sharing agreements formed the heart of a U.S. strategy that “extended” deterrence to what is now more than 30 allies. Rendering this credible was a constant effort for the United States. This was especially true at the height of the Cold War and has become more pertinent recently amid growing threat perceptions in Europe and Northeast Asia alike.

This strategy, backed by a large U.S. nuclear arsenal, a flexible nuclear posture, and an explicit political commitment to extend these tools to the defense of Europe, let the allies safely focus on other ventures. European democracies focused on economic growth and trade and the well-being of their citizens, enabled by U.S. aid. In turn, these actions stimulated the U.S. economy, creating a massive long-term marketplace for U.S. producers. The commitments Washington undertook made nuclear weapons acquisition by allies and partners unnecessary, and rather than pursuing expensive, dangerous nuclear weapons programs, allies agreed to maintain a non-nuclear status and built wealth instead.

The origins of what became an enduring strategic preference for nonproliferation at the time had little to do with high-minded ideas about liberal internationalism, political solidarity with democracies, or values. It was good for American security interests. The spread of nuclear weapons, U.S. policymakers observed, would only serve to limit America’s freedom of action in the international system and endanger U.S. interests. Simply put: Nuclear proliferation to both allies and adversaries dilutes the privileges of power the United States enjoys.

‘America First’ Needs Nonproliferation

In the contemporary context, this quite literally means that pursuing a grand strategy that seeks to place ‘America First’ at the heart of U.S. statecraft should prize nonproliferation. Most importantly, allied proliferation complicates America’s ability to exercise its hard power, limiting the privileges of primacy that Trump so relishes.

First, in practical terms, allies today that consider building their own nuclear arsenals need to contend with the strategic and technical barriers to actually doing so. Ukraine, Poland, South Korea, and even Taiwan all would face the potential of an explicit renunciation of U.S. protection or assurances if they chose to pursue nuclear weapons. While some in these states may argue this is today’s status quo with the Trump administration’s approach to alliances, they would face the problem of vulnerability to attack as they sought to build the bomb. Reprocessing and enrichment facilities will be hardly invulnerable to attack, and their adversaries — Russia, China, and North Korea — will have ample incentive to consider sabotage, conventional air strikes, or worse. Russian, Chinese, or North Korean attempts to kill our proliferation-curious allies to stop them from getting there could drag us into a major conflict, as they would certainly threaten the stability of the global economy and thus American interests.

Second, even with friendly countries that might successfully proliferate, the actions they take after acquiring nuclear weapons may force Washington to intervene in crises or wars against its own interests. For instance, an ally may force a U.S. president to step in and prevent dangerous nuclear signaling or use, as has been the case in the past with the United Kingdom, France, and Israel in 1956; Israel in 1973; and India and Pakistan after 1998.

A newly emboldened but still weaker nuclear-armed ally or partner may try to provoke a major U.S. adversary, pulling the United States into a crisis as a mediator, or worse. With more nuclear-armed states, the intersection of crises that may implicate U.S. interests with nuclear weapons uncontrolled by Washington becomes far more likely. In a world of reduced U.S. influence on multiple, skittish new nuclear decision-making centers in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, or elsewhere, states are less likely to consider Washington’s opinion before engaging in nuclear threat-making — or use — to address local grievances or right historical wrongs.

This would hardly serve an ‘America First’ world. The potential for metastasizing nuclear crises assuredly contradict the goal of the “strategic prioritization” that former and incoming officials support.

In addition to diminishing American power, further proliferation anywhere — especially by prosperous, democratic allies of the United States, like South Korea — is likely to beget further proliferation everywhere. While some U.S. officials may be comfortable with a nuclear South Korea, they should ask whether they are comfortable with all that may follow in total — such as Japan, Taiwan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, all supporters of today’s nonproliferation regime. Should this dam break, the United States’ relative power and influence stands to decline. And Trump’s dreams of a denuclearization pact with Russia and China will be completely out of reach in a world where multiple new nuclear aspirants emerge. Keeping ‘America First’ in that world becomes a lot more challenging. Keeping nuclear use from occurring, and potentially embroiling the United States, an ally, or other economic partner in a conflict, becomes much more unpredictable.

The history of nuclear proliferation suggests that any decisions to shelter or encourage allied proliferation are likely to be permanent. With the exception of South Africa, no other state — not even Ukraine, which never had control over the weapons on its territory — has ever relinquished its nuclear weapons. Despite the remarkable success of the United States in leading nonproliferation efforts worldwide, the proliferation genie does not easily reenter its bottle. The acquisition of nuclear weapons is a lasting mark on international politics, and America’s freedom to maneuver, even if by “friendly states.”

Compared to these potential costs, the administration should tread carefully as it seeks to revise longstanding compacts with its treaty allies around the world. While Trump reels at the peacetime costs of sustaining forward-deployed conventional forces in Europe and Asia, seeing them as evidence of the United States being taken for a ride, the alternatives could be far more costly to the United States. Unleashing a cascade of nuclear proliferation, or rebuilding American economic strength in the aftermath of nuclear conflicts, would be far more expensive than sustaining the U.S. extended deterrence approach.

The surest way for the “crazy” power of nuclear weapons to boomerang back at the United States — constraining our freedom of action and potentially chain-ganging us into conflicts we seek to avoid — is for Washington to actively dismantle the extended nuclear deterrence architecture it so carefully crafted over three-quarters of a century, which managed to keep new allies from getting the bomb. In addition to reinstalling the software of extended deterrence, in order to prevent allied proliferation, the United States may have to make adjustments to the size or composition of its own deployed nuclear force posture. This will ensure that its hardware remains credible for deterrence, as well as assurance — some degree of vertical proliferation may be necessary to stanch the threat of horizontal proliferation, an oft lost point.

The post-Cold War conflation of nuclear nonproliferation with the so-called liberal order was understandable given the geopolitical context of the 1990s, but for the United States, is largely ahistorical. If Trump wants to pursue a grand strategic project with the goal of keeping ‘America First’, nuclear nonproliferation — not just by adversaries but also by allies — is an essential pillar.

Ankit Panda is the Stanton senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the host of Thinking the Unthinkable for War on the Rocks.

Vipin Narang is the Frank Stanton professor of nuclear security and political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as acting assistant secretary of defense responsible for nuclear deterrence policy during the Biden administration.

Pranay Vaddi is the senior nuclear fellow at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He recently served as President Joe Biden’s senior director for arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation on the National Security Council.

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TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Monday, (03/10/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Trump rebuffed by Iran’s leader after sending letter calling for nuclear negotiation – WMRA

WMRA

Iran’s UN mission says its open to limited talks over “militarization” of its nuclear program. … All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Friends of …

Trump rebuffed by Iran’s leader after sending letter calling for nuclear negotiation – NEPM

NEPM

Iran’s UN mission says its open to limited talks over “militarization” of its nuclear program. … Weekend All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Snap …

Trump rebuffed by Iran’s leader after sending letter calling for nuclear negotiation – KCCU

KCCU

Iran’s UN mission says its open to limited talks over “militarization” of its nuclear program. … All Things Considered · Big Picture Science …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Scientists Reveal Battery That Can Be Powered by Nuclear Waste : ScienceAlert

Science Alert

Nuclear power comes with almost zero greenhouse gas emissions, but has its own issues in the form of radioactive waste.

Duke Energy to build nuclear power plant in Stokes County – WXII

WXII

County leaders say it’s a win-win because nuclear power produces nearly no greenhouse gas emissions.

Evers budget makes nuclear energy push as guv looks for clean options – WisBusiness

WisBusiness

That includes calling for $1 million to study siting a new plant and expanding an existing research credit to cover nuclear power. Evers told …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Nuclear Proliferation Will Haunt ‘America First’ – War on the Rocks

War on the Rocks

It is no coincidence that Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland openly raised the possibility that his country may need to arm itself with nuclear …

Iran Signals Openness to Limited Nuclear Talks With U.S. – The New York Times

The New York Times

… nuclear program or risk losing it in a military attack. Experts say Iran is at the threshold of being able to enrich enough uranium to produce a …

Trump rebuffed by Iran’s leader after sending letter calling for nuclear negotiation – NPR

NPR

While Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes, its officials have recently threatened to create a bomb in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, …

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1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War
5. Nuclear War Threats
6. Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Sunday, (03/09/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

North Korea unveils what it says is a nuclear-powered submarine | CNN

CNN

… About Subscribe Newsletters Transcripts Help Center. © 2025 Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All Rights Reserved. CNN Sans …

Iran’s top leader rejects talks with US after Trump makes overture – VOA

VOA

… nuclear program and replace the nuclear deal he withdrew America … All About America. World. Africa · The Americas · East Asia Pacific · Europe …

What I saw at UN nuclear weapons summit – and what it means for us all | The National

The National

A THIRD nuclear age. A new world of multipolarity. The end of the era of nuclear reductions. However you want to phrase it, one message was clear …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Big Tech’s big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence – CBS News

CBS News

Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are …

Big Tech’s big bet on nuclear power – YouTube

YouTube

… nuclear power. Correspondent David Pogue visits Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, where a reactor is expected to be restarted; and Oak Ridge ..

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Is Mass. nuclear waste storage the reason behind your sky-high electric bill? – masslive.com

MassLive

Eversource says costs at the plants do not affect its current electric rates, and ratepayers haven’t been paying for expenses for the local ..

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Trump’s ‘energy emergency‘ is just a giveaway to Big Oil – Fast Company

Fast Company

Other production includes coal, renewables (wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal and biomass), natural gas plant liquids and nuclear electric.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Iran’s supreme leader rails against Trump’s ‘bullying’ military threat – The Guardian

The Guardian

… threatened military action if Iran refused to engage in talks over its nuclear programme. … war live. Zelenskyy ‘fully committed’ to …

U.S President Trump’s BIGGEST Warning To Iran Amid World War 3 Tensions – YouTube

YouTube

… threats, insisting that Iran will not be bullied into negotiations. The situation raises fears of a potential military confrontation, as Trump …

Attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities a recipe for ‘regional catastrophe’, warns Qatari PM

Tehran Times

… nuclear facilities, describing such escalation as a direct threat to regional survival … war. In response to these threats, Iranian officials …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Iran Vs U.S Nuclear War Threats Near Reality As Khamenei Blasts At Donald Trump

YouTube

Iran’s Khamenei dismissed Donald Trump’s military threats and rejected U.S. calls for renewed nuclear negotiations, declaring that “Iran cannot be …

Iran criticises ‘bullying countries’ after Trump letter demanding talks – BBC

BBC

War in Ukraine · US & Canada · UK · UK Politics · England · N … Iran had previously agreed to limits on its nuclear programme under the 2015 Iran …

Iran’s supreme leader rails against Trump’s ‘bullying’ military threat – The Guardian

The Guardian

Tehran has consistently denied pursuing nuclear weapons, emphasising the peaceful nature of its nuclear programme. … war live. Zelenskyy ‘fully …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Pacific Ocean plate sunk to raise Wyoming’s Wind River Range – Billings Gazette

Billings Gazette

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s …

What Would Happen If Yellowstone’s Supervolcano Erupted? – video Dailymotion

Dailymotion

Are we ready for a mega-blast from the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park?