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

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 24, 2025

Russia’s former president and current deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev (L)

On My Mind Today:

Remember when Trump deceitfully said he could end the Russia/Ukraine war in 24 hours as a part of his latest election campaign? He not only couldn’t, he has now created a monolithic crevasse between the U.S./Russia/ and Ukraine that is possibly threatening a nuclear war — perhaps as soon as a year from now — or even sooner if Putin or Trump should break the START Treaty agreement —the useless pact that “sort of prevents” Russia or the United States from starting a nuclear war, although they both countries have access to their own inventory of 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers — as well as the possibility of nuclear power plants used as weapons—or way more than enough to begin and end human and other life on planet Earth.

I would not trust either so-called “president” to honor the pact, although it expires in a year anyway. Neither of them are “honorable”, not unlike most al the other “leaders” or “rulers” around the world who have nuclear weapons of mass destruction at their disposal.

Trump seems to have no idea what he is doing regarding either Russia or Ukraine nor even how the USA is involved, and he has severely weakened our country’s standing around the world by switching his loyalty back and forth between Putin and Zelenskyy.

And so it is that we all need to pay attention to our ultimate destiny until we are somehow someday assured that nuclear bombs and nuclear energy will not exterminate almost virtually all life on our dear Mother Earth. ~llaw

Today’s Featured Story:

Putin Ally Issues Warning to Trump Admin on ‘High’ Risk of Direct Conflict

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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned the Trump administration that “the risk of direct conflict remains high” between the United States and Russia.

“Russia’s ready to comply with the START Treaty, which I signed in 2010. Now the Trump admin must decide. But adhering to the letter of the treaty isn’t enough. The US must give up on weakening Russia with sanctions and tariffs. Otherwise, the risk of direct conflict remains high,” Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chairman of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Security Council.

Why It Matters

The Russia-Ukraine war, which has been ongoing since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion in February 2022, has fueled concerns about the potential of nuclear war. Russia has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, and Russian media personalities have frequently made threats about the potential use of nuclear weapons amid the conflict. The U.S. has been supportive of Ukraine and has issued sanctions against the Russian economy in an effort to apply pressure to end the conflict.

What To Know

The START treaty, an agreement between the U.S. and Russia establishing limits on nuclear weapons, dates back to 1991. The updated New START treaty went into effect in 2011 and has been extended through February 4, 2026, according to the U.S. State Department.

The treaty places verifiable limits on all Russian deployed intercontinental-range nuclear weapons. It limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers.

Putin said on Monday that Russia would adhere to the treaty for one more year.

Russia’s former president and current deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev (L), visits the Totsky military training fiel…Read More |

“To avoid provoking a further strategic arms race and to ensure an acceptable level of predictability and restraint, we believe it is justified to try to maintain the status quo established by the New START Treaty during the current, rather turbulent period,” Putin said.

He added that this would “only be viable if the United States acts in a similar manner and does not take steps that undermine or disrupt the existing balance of deterrence potentials,” NBC News reported.

The New START treaty was signed by former U.S. President Barack Obama and Medvedev. At the time, Obama said the agreement signaled the U.S. and Russia’s willingness to “pursue responsible global leadership.”

Russia suspended the New START Treaty in February 2023 after the U.S. accused Moscow of violating it due to its failure to uphold mutual monitoring elements related to inspections.

Tensions remained high between Russia and the U.S., as well as its European allies. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he believes NATO member states should shoot down Russian aircraft that violate their airspace after both Poland and Estonia reported Russian incursions earlier in September.

What People Are Saying

NATO, in a statement Tuesday: “Russia should be in no doubt: NATO and Allies will employ, in accordance with international law, all necessary military and non-military tools to defend ourselves and deter all threats from all directions. We will continue to respond in the manner, timing, and domain of our choosing. Our commitment to Article 5 is ironclad.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, per NBC News: “Based on our analysis of the situation, we will subsequently make a decision on maintaining these voluntary self-restraints.”

What Happens Next

Efforts to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war have stalled. Nuclear tensions remain heightened as the conflict continues.

Update 9/23/25, 5:40 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.

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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Wednesday, (09/24/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

The non-nuclear route to cheaper reactors | Latitude Media

Latitude Media

… is much bigger scale than all the other things that we’ve been setting up to build. So right now, one of the exciting things that is emerging is the.

TVA’s nuclear reactors shut down unexpectedly 12 times in a year – WKMS

WKMS

The plants collectively account for about a fifth of TVA’s total energy capacity. TVA generally keeps its nuclear plants running at all times, except …

Trump tells the United Nations that Iran must dismantle its nuclear program – YouTube

YouTube

bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations … all Sinclair Broadcast Group content archives of local news and sports …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

The United States wants to end a dependence in this strategic field: uranium enrichment for …

Evidence Network

… nuclear power plants. 23 September 2025. By Rosalia Neve. American industrial ambitions in nuclear technology have reached a pivotal moment as Global …

US senator says he is concerned energy secretary acting in nuclear firm’s interest | Reuters

Reuters

… Energy Secretary Chris Wright is working in the interest of nuclear power company Oklo , of which he used to be a board member.

Type One Energy, TVA ink LOI in development of fusion power in Tennessee

American Nuclear Society

Quotables: “TVA is a leader in pursuing advanced nuclear technologies we need to power America’s economic prosperity and fuel artificial intelligence, …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Zaporizhzhia Plant Suffers Fresh Blackout, Emergency Generators Activated – NucNet

NucNet

Image courtesy Fredrik Dahl/IAEA. Ukraine’s Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station lost all off-site power yesterday, the tenth such …

Zaporizhzhya NPP generators have 20-day fuel – The New Voice of Ukraine – NV

The New Voice of Ukraine – NV

Emergency diesel generators at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant have enough fuel for 20 days in case of a complete loss of external power …

Rescuers of Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan outline priority areas of cooperation for 2026

BELTA

Irkutsk, Russia hosted the 12th meeting of the Joint Board of the Emergencies … Belarusian nuclear power plant’s construction experience useful for …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Nuclear threats from North Korea loom quietly behind wars in Gaza and Ukraine at UNGA

Fox News

Nuclear threats from North Korea loom quietly behind wars in Gaza and Ukraine at UNGA · North Korean leader demands US drop denuclearization obsession …

Putin Ally Issues Warning to Trump Admin on ‘High’ Risk of Direct Conflict – Newsweek

Newsweek

… nuclear war. Russia has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, and … threats about the potential use of nuclear weapons amid the conflict.

Putin’s lackeys LOSE IT over Trump backing Ukraine & threat to nuke White House

The Sun

Screenshot of two men on a red set with subtitles describing Sergei Karaganov and a quote. 10. The threats follow Trump’s flip on Ukraine war. Sergei …

Nuclear War

NEWS

The world is teetering on the edge: Putin is preparing a tactical nuclear scenario

prm.ua

… nuclear war due to the excessive suspicion of the USSR. Against the backdrop of a full-scale war in Ukraine, growing distrust, and a lack of …

Putin Ally Issues Warning to Trump Admin on ‘High’ Risk of Direct Conflict – Newsweek

Newsweek

… nuclear war. Russia has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, and Russian media personalities have frequently made threats about the …

Rep. Garamendi Demands Answers On Firings of Nuclear Weapons Diplomats

Congressman John Garamendi – House.gov

It is vital that we take serious steps towards restoring nuclear diplomacy to ensure stability and prevent a nuclear arms race. … war cannot be won …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

One of the Oldest Organisms on Earth Thrives in Yellowstone’s Scalding Hydrothermal Features

Discover Magazine

Recent coverage from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory offers a look at these unique beings, known as thermophiles, and discusses how they may …

End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 23, 2025

The briefcase cheget, which controls Russian nuclear weapons

On My Mind Today:

The risk of a nuclear war created by mistake and begun accidentally by human and/or technical computerized erroneous nuclear related procedural alerts by defense systems and power plants has long been a potential reality — and in fact has been narrowly averted at least once — and as we proceed into AI technologies and their automated surveillance and operations systems chances are that nuclear accidents — of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power — become mathematically more of a progressive possibility.

So it is that our own and other life’s apocalyptic demise on planet Earth could begin and end by nothing more than a huge fatal mistake. “The Telegraph” article below — sans images which were automatically removed by their posting system — deals with a serious possibility of a nation’s “leader” pulling a trigger or pushing a nuclear button by mistake . . . ~llaw

Today’s Featured Story:

Note: All images have been removed from this article, which is posted here for LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY for research and the public record. ~llaw

The briefcase cheget, which controls Russian nuclear weapons

Rebekah Koffler

Putin has his finger on the nuclear trigger. The risk of an accident is enormous

Neither Russia nor the West wants atomic war. But history shows how easily a misunderstanding could lead to disaster

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On Friday, three Russian MiG-31 Foxhounds, the Kremlin’s primary combat platform for hypersonic Kinzhal missiles (capable of carrying nuclear warheads), violated Estonia’s airspace. It was Russia’s latest incursion into a Nato member, following a series of breaches by drones over Poland and Romania earlier in the month.

This is obviously a dangerous escalation by the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin is likely seeking to build up a clearer picture of how Nato responds to provocations as well as to desensitise Europeans to breaches of their sovereignty. But there is another important element to the story, too. On Tuesday last week, to mark the culmination of a strategic command staff wargame codenamed “Zapad 2025”, Russia simulated the launch of a tactical nuclear strike. It was overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing a military uniform.

Neither Russia nor Nato wants a direct “kinetic” conflict. But as the war in Ukraine, a proxy confrontation between Moscow and Washington, rages on, the risk of unintentional escalation due to a misunderstanding is rising rapidly.

For five days, Russian forces conducted Zapad jointly with their Belarussian counterparts across 41 training bases in Western Russia and Belarus. The aim was to learn lessons from the current conflict in Ukraine, focused on hybrid strikes, mobile artillery tactics, and counter-drone warfare. Russia held previous Zapad drills in the autumn of 2021, using them as cover to amass approximately 190,000 troops along its Western border prior to the invasion of Ukraine, with the goal of achieving tactical surprise against Kyiv and Nato. Zapad-2021 also involved forces from Belarus, which is now in possession of Russian tactical nuclear weapons.

The Russians regularly practice the authorisation of nuclear weapon strikes as part of military drills, with Putin “pressing the button”, because they believe their leader must be psychologically prepared for this action. This is the result of an important lesson learned during the Soviet era. In 1972, then general secretary Leonid Brezhnev is said to have “trembled” when he was asked to push a button during a command post exercise simulating a war with the US. He kept asking his Defence Minister Andrei Grechko whether it was “definitely an exercise”.

While Western analysts dismissed Putin’s action as an exaggeration, claiming that there has been no real change to Russia’s baseline nuclear posture, US intelligence assessments based on so-called I&Ws (indications and warnings) may only be partially useful in understanding the current threat. The US threat detection framework is structured to detect an imminent threat, rather than provide strategic warning of a pacing threat that develops over time.

Crucially, there is now zero trust between Nato and Russia. Moscow’s long-standing fear that the US is seeking regime change in Russia has been exacerbated by frequent commentary from Western officials stating openly or implying their intention to defeat the Russian military, tank its economy, and remove Putin from power. Ukrainian strikes on the Russian nuclear triad, specifically the strategic bombers that form the centre-piece of Russia’s deterrence and defence strategy, are likely to have further exacerbated those fears.

In November, 1983, Nato was getting ready to practice a nuclear launch in a military exercise, Able Archer 83. Tensions were already high after the Soviets had shot down a South Korean passenger airliner that had strayed off course en route from Anchorage to Seoul. But the Kremlin went into convulsions over Able Archer, assuming that it was the real thing rather than a practice drill.

Russia’s intelligence agencies had been on high alert for two years, having been tasked in 1981 by KGB chairman Yuri Andropov and Brezhnev to look for indications of US intentions to launch a nuclear strike on the USSR. The KGB had issued a computer-generated intelligence estimate, indicating that the “correlation of world forces” dramatically favoured the United States. The result was a massive clandestine intelligence collection programme, codenamed RYAN (Raketno-Yadernoe Napadeniye; “nuclear missile attack” in Russian) to find signposts of US preparations for war with the USSR. It encouraged Soviet leaders to see in the US posture exactly what they had been looking for. A full-scale simulated release of nuclear weapons by Nato forces could only mean one thing to the paranoid Soviets: the beginning of nuclear war.

A mass Soviet nuclear attack awaited only an order from Andropov. There was no communication between Moscow and Washington throughout the crisis to clear up the situation. Fortunately, no order was given, and at the conclusion of the Nato exercise on November 11, 1983, the tension dissipated.

But it could have ended very differently. And the world faces a similar situation today, given the collapse of trust between Russia and the West, as well as the breakdown of key lines of communications.

Neither Nato nor Russia wants to end up in a kinetic dog-fight, let alone a nuclear war. But neither wants to allow the other side to be perceived as winning in Ukraine. Both, expecting an attack from the other, are using their massive intelligence collection systems to look for any signposts of an impending attack to enable quick decision-making.

Interpreting leadership intentions is inherently hard. Not every order can be intercepted and not every intelligence indicator is observable. Confusion and errors, as a result of the proverbial “fog of war”, are standard attributes of armed conflict. The likelihood that, in this pressure cooker environment, a miscalculation will be made with tragic results is very real.

As social media is exploding with President Trump’s ultimatums and the threats issued by Putin’s proxies, if cooler heads do not prevail in Moscow, Washington, and Europe, nuclear war could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Rebekah Koffler is a strategic military intelligence analyst, formerly with the US Defense Intelligence Agency. She is the author of ‘Putin’s Playbook’, Regnery 2021. Her next book ‘Trump’s Playbook’ will be published later this year. Rebekah’s podcast Trump’s Playbook is running on her channel Censored But Not Silenced and is available on most social media platforms @Rebekah0132

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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Tuesday, (09/23/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

‘We cannot afford another crisis,’ IAEA head says as Iran suspends cooperation | PBS News

PBS

… all of that nuclear material that we have been talking about. Rafael Mariano Grossi: To a certain extent, all of that is happening. Nick Schifrin …

Energy groups praise Trump moves on nuclear as New York climate event convenes

The Hill

See all Hill.TV See all Video. Top Stories. See All · Senate · Trump’s … Trump set to take combative stance at United Nations: 5 things to know …

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un ready to talk if U.S. drops denuclearization demand – KCCU

KCCU

All Things Considered · Classical Music · KCCU JAZZ FM · Morning Edition … nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. See …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

“We’re Drilling Nuclear Reactors Underground”: This $30 Million Project That Could Power …

Sustainability Times

In a groundbreaking move, Deep Fission Nuclear is poised to revolutionize the nuclear energy sector with its innovative underground reactor …

Groundbreaking for first commercial-scale advanced nuclear reactor in decades begins in Idaho

Fox Business

Aurora powerhouse, the Aurora-INL, is Oklo Inc.’s flagship advanced nuclear reactor, which is designed to deliver clean, reliable power on a much …

The ultimate American nightmare: China is winning the fusion energy race – The Telegraph

The Telegraph

China is moving at lightning speed to secure a stranglehold over the industrial supply chain of nuclear fusion, aiming to leapfrog the US as the …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant loses external power 10th time since war began

Türkiye Today

Ukraine’s largest nuclear facility relies on emergency backup generators after suffering its 10th complete power blackout since the war started.

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Hits Tenth Blackout Amid Occupation, Raising Safety Alarms

mezha.net

Such data are published by the official Telegram channel of NAEK Energoatom. In connection with the full blackout, ZNPP switched to emergency power …

Power Crisis at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant: A Looming Threat – Devdiscourse

Devdiscourse

… emergency power to prevent reactor meltdown. This ongoing situation poses significant risks to nuclear safety in the region. Science & Environment.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Putin has his finger on the nuclear trigger. The risk of an accident is enormous – Yahoo

Yahoo

… war games simulating a Russia-Nato conflict, I’m here to tell you why that’s wrong. The threat of nuclear war is at an all time high. The …

Putin has his finger on the nuclear trigger. The risk of an accident is enormous

The Telegraph

Neither Russia nor the West wants atomic war. But the threat of nuclear war is at l time high

US fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile as Trump threatens Venezuela with “incalculable …

WSWS

His administration’s threats to deploy troops to American cities like Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis, and New Orleans were framed as part of a “war …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Putin says Russia is willing to abide by nuclear arms deal with the U.S. for 1 year after it expires

PBS

… nuclear arms race and increased risk of a nuclear conflict. … Russia escalating repression to silence opposition to war in Ukraine, UN human rights …

Russia says it would be risky to allow nuclear treaty with US to lapse | Reuters

Reuters

MOSCOW, Sept 23 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that allowing the New START nuclear … war in Ukraine. Advertisement · Scroll to continue.

Why is Putin talking about a new nuclear weapons treaty with the US? – Reuters

Reuters

… war, and Kyiv and its European allies are saying he is not serious about wanting peace. Reporting by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne.

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone supervolcano mapping reveals scale of future eruptions: ‘Things can change within…’

WION

A supervolcano at the Yellowstone National Park has reshaped the landscape of the area in the past. A future event would be a devastating one and …

New Study Reveals Surprising Magma Reservoirs Beneath Yellowstone Supervolcano

SSBCrack News

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have unveiled the most detailed underground map of Yellowstone National Park’s supervolcano, …

A Colossal, Devastating Volcanic Eruption Threatens to Engulf the World in the Coming …

Indian Defence Review

… Yellowstone’s subsurface like never before. The technique, called magnetotellurics, captures shifts in the Earth’s natural electromagnetic field …

End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 22, 2025

The flowering of a spreading evil comes from the roots of a poisonous seed . . . ~llaw

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On My Mind Today:

I have long wondered if any of us would exist today had we been armed the way we are these days in a war against the kind of future Hitler had in mind for humanity back in the 1940’s WWII.

I also wonder if we are fast-tracking today on the verge of repeating that history and if the final result will be a victory for the desired existential human cause. I do hope I am dead wrong, but I suspect this time around that the goals of power-crazed so-called “leaders” will be successful — not only because of the two original nuclear bombs that played a cruel but purposeful and final role then — but also the fact that there are nine power-crazed international or “leaders” or “rulers” whose nations have more than enough nuclear weapons of mass destruction to destroy all life on Mother Earth thousands of times over.

So it is that I — and millions of others who are alive, aware, alert, and awake — worry about the impending possibility of destroying ourselves along with the rest of life on planet Earth.

As food-for-thought I have borrowed a very important Facebook Post, rather than a current nuclear news story, from my dear Canadian friend and co-author of an 1880’s Old West Wyoming cowboy tale based on the insane reality of what overzealous self-important and self-aggrandized men can do without even a life-ending flinch to anyone who may feel — in their own wrong-headed, overzealous, demented minds — that their personal belongings, territory and its boundaries have been violated.

Hitler apparently felt that way, too, and so do some, if not all, of the “leaders” and their sycophants of today’s nine nations who can easily end life on planet Earth with little more than pressing a single button . . . ~llaw

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Today’s Featured Story:

So here, for what it’s worth now and on into the future, with my deeply sincere thanks to my dear friend and previous co-author is her thoughtful food-for-thought recent Facebook Post that we should carefully consider:

“Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) is on my mind.

He is remembered for “First They Came,” a poem… to show us how heavy (his remorse) weighed on his conscience…or to awaken humanity’s empathy.

Legend says that at first, he supported the Nazis, probably he also was antisemitic…until those muthafuckas came and took control of the churches ….and only then he dared to speak out but it was far too late.…”

The rest we know in his poem…

Would speaking earlier have spared him and countless others? Perhaps. A powerful voice with a congregation could have joined many smaller voices to oppose tyranny before it grew too strong.

Let this inspire me to not make any such similar mistakes…and this post is a start …. (for me to go boldly, bravely, badass-ly ever after)….of me adding my voice to the mix. And hoping against hope that we let go of our hate for each other NOW for civil war weakens our own system, distract us…..and there is definitely a lot of hate in my fb stream, enough to keep us all in Fear: fight, flight and freeze instincts…

Yikes. ~ Amy Indira Dio Ramdass

or with Amy’s edits recognizing today’s nihilistic world . . .

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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Monday, (09/22/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un ready to talk if U.S. drops denuclearization demand | Aspen Public Radio

Aspen Public Radio

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:30 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster.

Putin says Russia will stick to nuclear arms limits for 1 more year | The Hill

The Hill

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Moscow will adhere to nuclear … How concerned are you, if at all, about a potential …

2 No-Brainer Energy Nuclear Stocks to Buy With $100 Right Now

AOL.com

Until it gets past all the regulatory hurdles, its designs will be … That is an immense opportunity for nuclear energy companies like Oklo.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear projects seen slowing after record 2024 output, report says – Reuters

Reuters

A record level of global nuclear power production seen in 2024 will be hard to maintain in the coming years due to a lack of required investment, …

Nuclear Power Stock Oklo Surged 64% Last Week—Here Are The Key Price Levels to Watch

Investopedia

Shares in Oklo remain in focus after soaring last week as the Trump administration made nuclear energy a focal point in recent trade talks.

The Race to Reinvent U.S. Nuclear Power – Yahoo

Yahoo

In the past few decades, the United States has only built one new nuclear power plant, Waynesboro, Georgia’s Plant Vogtle. Vogtle has the …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

South Korea would accept a Trump-Kim deal to freeze nuclear programme, president tells BBC

BBC

… emergency measure” – would be “a feasible … North Korea declared itself a nuclear power in 2022 and vowed to never relinquish its weapons.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Putin Proposes One More Year of Nuclear Caps With U.S. – The New York Times

The New York Times

… War to regulate nuclear weapons and other threats has almost entirely eroded. … threat to its nuclear deterrent. “We will proceed from the …

Putin proposes temporary US-Russia nuclear arms control deal but vows response to ‘any threats‘

The Kyiv Independent

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sept. 22 that Russia is ready to respond to any threats as he accused the West of seeking superiority in …

Two-peer nuclear challenge for NATO and European security

The Loop: ECPR’s political science blog

Moscow allows nuclear strikes even in response to non-nuclear threats … nuclear and conventional warfare. This further compromises second …

Nuclear War

NEWS

North Korea can talk to US if it stops insisting on denuclearisation, Kim says | CNN

CNN

… nuclear weapons but he will never trade away the nuclear arsenal … nuclear war. Recent overtures from Washington and Seoul for dialog are …

Putin Gives Major Nuclear Weapons Update – Newsweek

Newsweek

… nuclear potential.” The erosion of arms control agreements raises the risk of a nuclear war at a time when tensions between NATO and Russia …

Hardline lawmakers demand nuclear bomb as Iran braces for UN sanctions – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

… war and also saw Washington intervene on Israel’s behalf and bomb Iran’s main nuclear facilities. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council …

End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 21, 2025

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On My Mind Today:

Trump says US wants Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base back from Taliban . . .

It’s not so much what Trump says but more the selfishly demanding way he says it . . . He seems to be inviting conflict everywhere he touches base around the world. This nuclear world is a world that must globally, collectively, cooperate in unity instead of threatening other nations or belittling them as inferior.

It is well known, perhaps because he may suffer from a form of memory loss, that Trump ridicules others (e.g. Joe Biden and Barack Obama)) for things he has done himself, as in this case.

According to the “Al Jazeera” article below, Trump, who has frequently harshly criticized his predecessor, blames former President Biden for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan — which Trump himself had initiated during his first term — said the US gave the Taliban “Bagram for nothing”.

America cannot become a country of greedy isolationism nor can it rule over a nuclear armed world. I fear that Trump’s harsh actions are provoking — rather than stemming — such a thing as nuclear war, which would no doubt initiate WWIII and end the problem of racial, ethnic, political, philosophical, and other man-made divisions forever . . . llaw

Today’s Featured Article:

Afghan Taliban rejects Trump threats over taking back Bagram airbase

Donald Trump has pushed to regain Bagram, citing proximity to China’s nuclear facilities.

By Faisal Ali

Published On 21 Sep 202521 Sep 2025

The Taliban has rejected United States President Donald Trump’s demand that it hand over the Bagram airbase that Washington ran during its 20-year war in Afghanistan, dismissing Trump’s threat that “bad things” will happen if this does not come to pass.

The Taliban said on Sunday that “Afghanistan’s independence and territorial integrity are of the utmost importance” and called on the US to uphold prior agreements that it would not resort to force.

“Accordingly, it is once again underscored that, rather than repeating past failed approaches, a policy of realism and rationality should be adopted,” Afghanistan’s rulers said.

Bagram, which was the US’s largest military site in Afghanistan, is a large airbase located 50km (31 miles) north of Kabul that served as one of the US’s key military hubs during its two-decade war against the Taliban. The war, which followed the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington by al-Qaeda, ended in 2021 with Washington’s abrupt and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Thousands of people were imprisoned at the site for years without charge or trial by US forces during its so-called “war on terror”, and many of them were abused or tortured.

The Taliban retook the facility in 2021 following the US withdrawal and the collapse of the Afghan government.

Over the last week, Trump has expressed a keen interest in reacquiring the airbase.

“We’re talking now to Afghanistan and we want it back and we want it back soon, right away. And if they don’t do it, if they don’t do it, you’re going to find out what I’m gonna do,” Trump said to reporters at the White House on Saturday.

Trump first announced that he was working to take the base back during a state visit to the United Kingdom in a press conference alongside the UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Trump delivered a message that caught the attention of policymakers in Beijing, saying, “We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back. But one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”

Trump says US wants Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base back from the Taliban

The nuclear weapons Trump referred to are likely at China’s testing range at Lop Nur in the western Xinjiang province.

“The airfield has an 11,800-foot [3,597m] runway capable of serving bomber and large cargo aircraft,” the US Air Force says of Bagram on its website.

Trump, who has harshly criticised his predecessor, former US President Joe Biden, for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan — which Trump himself had initiated during his first term — said the US gave the Taliban “Bagram for nothing”.

Afghan officials have expressed staunch opposition to a renewed US presence in the country. Zakir Jalaly, a Foreign Ministry official, said “Afghans have never accepted foreign military presence in their land throughout history”, but added that the two countries need to engage in “economic and political relations based on bilateral respect and common interests”.

Fasihuddin Fitrat, a senior Ministry of Defence official, said a “deal over even an inch of Afghanistan’s soil is not possible. We don’t need it.”

Bagram was built during the Cold War by the Soviet Union, which initially started construction when the Afghan government at the time turned to Moscow for support in the early 1950s. The airbase served Soviet operations in the country for decades until they withdrew in the late 1980s.

The US revamped the facility following its own occupation of Afghanistan decades later, turning the base into a sprawling mini village with retail facilities that served US soldiers there.

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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Sunday, (09/21/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

This Startup Could Soon Receive “Trillions of Dollars” of AI Spending

AOL.com

… all things nuclear — Oklo has … Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) is a nuclear start-up that’s widely seen as a pioneer in advanced nuclear technology.

‘Bad things are going to…’: Trump issues ultimatum to Afghanistan over Bagram Air Base

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… THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN,” Trump said in a Truth Social … Trump Wants Afghan Bagram Base Back Against Chinese Nuclear Missiles | GRAVITAS.

Nuclear Fever: Oklo and NuScale Soar — Is the SMR Rally Just Heating Up? – AOL.com

AOL.com

This game-changing deal aligns the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission with the U.K.’s regulator, reducing SMR licensing timelines from about three to …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

“This Will Kill Nuclear’s Future”: Trump Cuts Energy Department Budget While Demanding …

Energy Reporters

The revival of nuclear energy has become a focal point in the United States’ strategy to achieve energy independence and combat climate change.

Researchers make breakthrough with new type of nuclear fuel rods – Yahoo

Yahoo

The Nuclear Energy Institute estimates that nuclear power generates 43% of the carbon-free electricity in the U.S. With one uranium fuel pellet …

Building Nuclear Power in the U.S. Is Tough. NASA Wants to Do It on the Moon.

Hindustan Times

Here’s what you need to know about America’s new lunar-energy race. Call it a nuclear moonshot: The U.S. aims to deliver a reactor to the lunar …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Cops forcibly take govt doc on emergency duty to SSP’s residence to treat mother; 2 suspended

Udayavani

CM Naidu announces Rs 50,000 per hectare relief for onion farmers hit by rains · PM Modi to lay foundation stone of nuclear power project at Banswara.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

The World is Quietly Passing into One of the Worst Phases of Its History | Countercurrents

Countercurrents

Even higher risks of a bigger war exist in the case of the Ukraine-Russia war which has brought the world close to a nuclear war and the third world …

Could Chinese AI threaten Western submarines? – Yahoo News UK

Yahoo News UK

Russia follows with around 16 strategic submarines and numerous other nuclear attack and cruise missile submarines. … threats after around 20 Russian …

Afghan Taliban rejects Trump threats over taking back Bagram airbase – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Afghan Taliban rejects Trump threats over taking back Bagram airbase. Donald Trump has pushed to regain Bagram, citing proximity to China’s nuclear …

President Lee’s Defense Remarks Spark Ruling-Opposition Alliance Clash

chosun.com

Democratic Party insists self-reliant defense strengthens alliance; People Power Party warns of nuclear risks without U.S. support.

MI6 Chief Labels Iran, Russia, and China as Main Threats – WANA News

WANA News

… threats facing MI6, while stressing the need to confront Iran’s nuclear … war in Ukraine. Speaking at the British Consulate in Istanbul, Moore …

Nuclear War

NEWS

The window for US-China nuclear weapons negotiations is shrinking – The Hill

The Hill

Second, the advent of a third nuclear superpower poses new permutational complexity and synergies. The risk of accidentally triggered war only …

Mossad deployed over 100 foreign agents in Iran war, its largest ever mission – report

The Times of Israel

Netanyahu added that he told Israel’s defense establishment: “We are going to destroy the Iranian nuclear project as best we can. We aren’t waiting …

Iran says it will suspend cooperation with UN’s nuclear watchdog – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Referring to the US-backed Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, including at Natanz and Fordow, the president also said that while Iran’s …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

7 Best Natural Wonders To Visit In Wyoming This Year – WorldAtlas

World Atlas

Geysers vault steam into the sky, but the paramount attraction lies in the Yellowstone Caldera, the belly of an ancient supervolcano still simmering …

End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 20, 2025

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On My Mind Today:

Trump, the United States, and Israel have put themselves in dire International Law trouble! I am wondering if Trump will be forced out of office because he has been accused by Iran, apparently correctly, that the USA and Israel of the “criminal act” of the United States and Israel in the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, creating a warning that indifference toward such violations would have serious consequences for international peace and security.

Obviously, this puts NATO’s “International Atomic Energy Agency”, a United Nations (UN) agency and such obvious violations of International Law cannot be taken lightly.

I have previously followed this entire questionable chain of Donald Trump’s actions since he invited Iran to renegotiate a new nuclear facilities agreement that had been in force under the Obama administration until Trump cancelled the pact during his 1st term and eventually proposed to negotiate a new pact in his 2nd term in March of 2025 which fell apart because of entirely unnegotiated “impossible” demands on Iran’s ability to continue to operate their current facilities.

Select random dated events are followed by LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY posts from March until today have documented Trump’s entire erratic and contradictory demands, delays, an eventual complete breakdown in talks, followed in the end by the apparent “secret” US/Israel weekend attacks on June 21–22, 2025, known as “Midnight Hammer”. ~llaw

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Today’s Featured Article:

Iran defers UN draft resolution on nuclear sites attacks after US pressure

1. Politics

September 19, 2025 – 21:24

TEHRAN – Iran announced on Friday that it has decided to defer consideration of a draft resolution aimed at prohibiting attacks and threats of attack against nuclear facilities, noting that the move was taken to counter the unlawful pressure and intimidation exerted by the United States on the IAEA General Conference.

Iran’s Permanent Mission to the UN noted that while the majority of member states had expressed readiness to support Iran’s draft resolution, many faced threats of retribution, prompting the deferment to safeguard the integrity of the decision-making process.

On Thursday, Iran’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Reza Najafi, addressed Iran’s proposed resolution calling for a ban on attacks against peaceful nuclear facilities. He revealed that while many IAEA member states condemned Israel’s recent military actions, several—despite close relations with Iran and other co-sponsors—reported being subjected to “intense pressure and threats” from the United States to withhold support.

According to Najafi, these states clarified that their abstentions did not reflect their true positions. Instead, they appealed to Iran and its partners to postpone advancing the resolution until next year’s General Conference.

Speaking at the IAEA General Conference under an agenda item proposed by Iran titled “Prohibition of All Forms of Attack and Threat of Attack Against Nuclear Facilities under Agency Safeguards,”, Najafi condemned the “criminal act” of the United States and Israel in attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, warning that indifference toward such violations would have serious consequences for international peace and security.

He stressed that unlawful military strikes on safeguarded nuclear sites not only undermine states’ legitimate rights to the peaceful use of nuclear energy but also directly damage the credibility of the Agency’s safeguards system. “This is a matter of utmost seriousness. The world must send a clear message that such illegal attacks cannot and will not be tolerated,” Najafi said.

Najafi welcomed countries, particularly members of the Non-Aligned Movement, that condemned the aggression, praising their responsible stance. He demanded that both the U.S. and Israel be held accountable for their “gross violations” of international law and the non-proliferation regime.

He reminded the conference that the UN Charter explicitly prohibits the threat or use of force, stressing that no interpretation could justify premeditated military strikes on nuclear sites under IAEA safeguards. He added that such actions contradict both IAEA General Conference resolutions and the 2010 NPT Review Conference, which emphasized the prohibition of attacks on safeguarded facilities.

“Inaction in the face of such aggression cannot be equated with neutrality,” he warned. “It only normalizes unlawful behavior and encourages its repetition. Peaceful nuclear facilities—meant to symbolize transparency and trust—would instead become military targets, putting the entire non-proliferation regime at grave risk.”

Iran has repeatedly raised alarm at international forums over U.S. and Israeli violations of international law through military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Tehran insists its nuclear program remains exclusively peaceful and argues that failure to hold Washington and Tel Aviv accountable risks creating a dangerous precedent for other conflicts.

The debate over Iran’s resolution comes amid heightened tensions following Israel’s large-scale military assault on Iran in June, which included strikes on nuclear sites and was backed by the United States.

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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Saturday, (09/20/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

This Startup Could Soon Receive “Trillions of Dollars” of AI Spending – The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

Nuclear startup Oklo has existing ties to OpenAI and is likely to be a … all things nuclear — Oklo has existing ties to OpenAI that would …

AI Is Reviving the Prospects for Nuclear Power – YouTube

YouTube

… about the cost reductions necessary for the industry to scale. The US … How Small Nuclear Reactors Are Transforming Power Grids In China & Finland | …

This Startup Could Soon Receive “Trillions of Dollars” of AI Spending – Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance

Nuclear startup Oklo has existing ties to OpenAI and is likely to be a … Select “All” to see top events in other countries or view all events.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

ETFs to Play the Potential $10 Trillion Nuclear Surge – Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance

Nuclear power is surging as AI-driven data centers fuel demand, with ETFs riding momentum and SMRs reshaping the sector’s future.

Nuclear in your backyard? Tiny reactors could one day power towns and campuses

Valley Courier

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land …

Nuclear Energy Now – The US and UK Sign Nuclear Energy Deals – The National Interest

The National Interest

The United States and United Kingdom sign nuclear energy deals, the IAEA raises its nuclear power projections, and Canada fast-tracks SMRs.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

“We Can Strike Anywhere Now”: China’s DF-5C Nuclear Missile Breakthrough Sends …

Sustainability Times

… Nuclear Missile Breakthrough Sends Pentagon Into Emergency Sessions And Global Panic … It comes at a time when the balance of power among nuclear …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Iran defers UN draft resolution on nuclear sites attacks after US pressure – Tehran Times

Tehran Times

… threats of attack against nuclear facilities, noting that the move was taken to counter the unlawful pressure and intimidation exerted by the …

Predator at risk: Why is the Apache helicopter slated for retirement? – Ynetnews

Ynetnews

… threat of nuclear war. To survive, helicopters borrowed attributes from tanks: mobility and flexibility across terrain, armor and shielding to …

Snapback sanctions; Real threat or just psychological warfare :: nournews

nournews.ir

Snapback sanctions; Real threat or just psychological warfare“This … Threats from enemies persist: Iran nuclear chief · Top Iranian general …

Nuclear War

NEWS

‘Best preserved’ Cold War bunker near Holbeach opens for tours – BBC News

BBC

A former nuclear monitoring station in Lincolnshire is to open to visitors this weekend. Built in 1964, the bunker, near Holbeach, was staffed by …

“They’re Building Nuclear War Bunkers”: China’s Secret Underground Command Center …

Sustainability Times

As per reports, the new facility is designed to enhance China’s nuclear warfare capabilities, aligning with its broader military modernization efforts …

“We Can Strike Anywhere Now”: China’s DF-5C Nuclear Missile Breakthrough Sends …

Sustainability Times

Illustration of China’s massive military command center under construction southwest of Beijing. “They’re Building Nuclear War Bunkers”: China’s …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Taking the temperature of the Yellowstone volcano – Montana Standard

Montana Standard

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

12 Best Idaho Towns For Retirees – WorldAtlas

World Atlas

It is located in Fremont County at the southern end of the Yellowstone Caldera and is within easy distance of Yellowstone National Park and Grand …

Surprising Facts About the Solar System – Go2Tutors

Go2Tutors

Researchers discovered that Pluto has a massive cryovolcano that is comparable in size to Yellowstone’s supervolcano. These ice volcanoes don’t …

End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 19, 2025

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On My Mind Today:

As I’ve suspected and warned, Trump’s short-sighted and childish power play on an overnight weekend “old west quick-draw” non-nuclear attack on Iran could be the most critically dangerous in nuclear history since the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, and far worse because the entire world is essentially capable of starting and fighting a nuclear war that could last only a few hours to successfully create armageddon. There are 9 countries that possess nuclear weapons of mass destruction and others who are allies of those without — including those such as Iran.

Iran has decided that, because of Trump’s bombing of their own nuclear power facilities they can do the same thing — and it does not necessarily require the use of nuclear weapons, but no doubt such a conventional bombing would be quickly followed up by nuclear war.

Also, for anyone who has doubted that nuclear power plants are not nuclear weapons of mass destruction and nuclear war, as I have long logically pointed out, are now likely doubly involved in nuclear war, not to mention international terrorism as well.

Trump was the one who suggested that the USA negotiate a new nuclear facility agreement with Iran, which they agreed to, but then Trump sabotaged his own offer of negotiation. In other words he is now singularly responsible for an additional and very sensitive world-wide nuclear problem that, in my opinion, cannot help but create a nuclear war that may well begin and end the last war on planet Earth because there will be no-one left alive to fight one . . . ~llaw

Today’s Featured Article: (From The South China Morning Post by the Associated Press if you are using a dark screen.)

United States

WorldMiddle East

Iran withdraws resolution banning attacks on nuclear sites amid US threat

Washington raised the possibility of reducing funding to the UN nuclear watchdog if the proposal was adopted

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Associated Press

Published: 10:00am, 19 Sep 2025Updated: 10:23am, 19 Sep 2025

Iran decided at the last minute on Thursday to withdraw a resolution prohibiting attacks on nuclear facilities that it had put forward along with China, Russia and other countries for a vote before an annual gathering of the UN nuclear watchdog’s member nations.

Western diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the US has been heavily lobbying behind the scenes to prevent the resolution from being adopted. The US has raised the possibility of reducing funding to the International Atomic Energy Agency if the resolution was adopted and if the body moved to curtail Israel’s rights within the agency, the diplomats said.

In 1981, the provision of assistance to Israel under the IAEA’s technical assistance programme was suspended as a result of an Israeli strike on a nuclear reactor in Iraq. At the time, the attack was strongly condemned in resolutions by the United Nations Security Council, the IAEA General Conference and the IAEA Board of Governors.

The resolution withdrawal comes as US allies have started the clock on reimposing UN sanctions on Iran over it’s nuclear programme.

Addressing the IAEA’s General Conference late on Thursday, Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Reza Najafi announced that “guided by the spirit of goodwill and constructive engagement, and at the request of several member states”, it deferred action on the draft until next year’s conference.

Israel targeted Iranian nuclear and military sites in June, saying it could not allow Tehran to develop atomic weapons and that it feared the Islamic republic was close. The US inserted itself into the war on June 22, striking three Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran has long maintained that its nuclear programme is peaceful.

03:07

What’s known about the 3 Iranian nuclear sites hit by US bunker-buster bombs

What’s known about the 3 Iranian nuclear sites hit by US bunker-buster bombs

The text of Iran’s draft resolution contained a paragraph that “strongly condemned” the “deliberate and unlawful attacks carried out in June 2025 against nuclear sites and facilities of the Islamic republic of Iran”, adding that it constituted a “clear violation of international law”.

It also “reaffirmed” that “all states must refrain from attacking or threatening to attack peaceful nuclear facilities in other countries”.

Najafi said the objective by Iran and the other cosponsors of the resolution, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Belarus and Zimbabwe, “has never been to create division among member states”, adding that “on matters of such importance and sensitivity, it is imperative that the general conference conveys a unified and unambiguous message”.

He added, “We firmly believe that the voice of this body should not be distorted under the weight of the intimidation and political pressure exerted by one of the aggressors.”

Speaking at the IAEA General Conference earlier this week, the head of Iran’s civilian atomic energy organisation, Mohammad Eslami, said he expected IAEA member states to “take appropriate measures in response to these unlawful attacks on nuclear facilities”.

He said the “recent threats made by the United States in this regard, as well as the exertion of political pressure on countries and the instrumental use of the agency in various forms, including through influence on its budget, are matters of serious concern”.

Howard Solomon, the US charge d’affaires and acting permanent representative at the US Mission to International Organisations in Vienna, said the draft resolution “painted a deeply inaccurate picture of recent events, distorted international law and selectively quoted from the IAEA statute and other documents adopted by the IAEA General Conference and UN, taking them out of context and drawing inaccurate conclusions”.

Had the resolution been put to a vote, “it would have been overwhelmingly defeated”, he said.

04:09

Israel launches strikes on Iran, targeting nuclear facilities in Tehran

Israel launches strikes on Iran, targeting nuclear facilities in Tehran

Solomon said that “the grave and growing threat to Israel and the region created by Iran’s enrichment programme necessitated strong and decisive action directed by President Trump”, adding that the US did not “take this action lightly”.

A request for comment has been sent to the US State Department and the US Mission to the International Organisations in Vienna.

The IAEA General Conference consists of high-ranking representatives of the 180 member states of the UN nuclear watchdog who debate issues of international nuclear policy. It meets annually in Vienna, approves the budget and considers resolutions on nuclear safety and security issues.

The meeting came at a sensitive time, with France, Germany and the United Kingdom launching the process to reimpose sanctions on Iran over what they deemed non-compliance with a 2015 agreement aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

The process, termed a “snapback” by the diplomats who negotiated it into Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, was designed to be veto-proof at the UN and could take effect in a month.

The move set a 30-day clock for the resumption of sanctions unless the West and Iran reach a diplomatic agreement.

European nations have said they would be willing to extend the deadline if Iran resumes direct negotiations with the US over its nuclear programme, allows UN nuclear inspectors access to its nuclear sites, and accounts for the more than 400kg of highly enriched uranium the UN watchdog says it has.

When asked in an interview on Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday whether the snapback was a done deal, French President Emmanuel Macron said: “Yes. I think so because the latest news we had from the Iranians is not serious.”

Further Reading

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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Friday, (09/18/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Under MOU, London and D.C. seek to shed dependence on Russian nuclear fuel

ExchangeMonitor

… nuclear energy to artificial intelligence. While the deal between the Trans-Atlantic allies seeks to deepen collaboration on all–things–nuclear …

Senate GOP confirms 48 Trump nominees under ‘nuclear‘ move – Live Updates – POLITICO

Politico

The officials emphasized that violent crime was down in the District and that there were things … all of the horrible policies that they’re cooking up …

Snapback sanctions threaten to further derail Iran nuclear deal hopes – Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council

That is because allowing the provision to expire would remove Iran’s nuclear … All rights reserved. Privacy Policy · Cookie Policy · Terms ..

Nuclear Power

NEWS

5 Reasons Why Expanding Nuclear is a Terrible Idea – Food & Water Watch

Food & Water Watch

Nuclear energy comes from the toxic, radioactive element uranium, which must be mined from the ground. As you can imagine, mining, enriching, …

Trump, Starmer sign $350B tech deal to spur AI, nuclear energy and quantum computing

New York Post

The deal would also provide power for up to 1.5 million homes — with both nations optimistic the civil nuclear project will serve energy needs on both …

US Department of Energy to co-host 2026 edition of Roadmaps to New Nuclear conference

Nuclear Energy Agency

… nuclear energy in pursuit of global energy security and economic development. Demand for nuclear energy is on the rise globally, with a growing …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Live near Hope Creek nuclear plant? DEMA to offer potassium iodide pills – Delaware Online

Delaware Online

And it’s all about 2 miles away from Delaware, across the Delaware River. Looking to such neighbors, the Delaware Emergency Management Agency and the …

Power line failure paralyzes reactor block in Beznau 1 | blue News – Bluewin

Bluewin

A defective extra-high voltage line led to an unplanned emergency shutdown of Block 1 of the Beznau nuclear power plant on Thursday.

Gangeung set for drought relief with Doam Dam water release – Korea JoongAng Daily

Korea JoongAng Daily

… emergency water released from the Doam Dam on Saturday. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) will carry out the emergency release from a diversion …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Snapback sanctions threaten to further derail Iran nuclear deal hopes – Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council

Iran is severely weakened by the decimation of its air defenses as well as its nuclear sites as part of the Twelve-Day War this summer. … threat of a …

Britain’s outgoing spy chief highlights Russia, China and Iran as threats – WTOP News

WTOP

… threats facing the West as he prepares to … The war also derailed Tehran’s nuclear negotiations with the United States and prompted Iran to …

Iran withdraws resolution banning attacks on nuclear sites amid US threat

South China Morning Post

The US inserted itself into the war on June 22, striking three Iranian nuclear facilities. … He said the “recent threats made by the United States in …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Trump’s ‘Let Me Down’ Jab At Putin Backfires? Russia Unleashes Nuclear Submarines | Ukraine War

YouTube

Russia’s Krasnoyarsk and Omsk nuclear submarines launched cruise missiles in the Sea of Okhotsk amid Trump’s frustrated remarks on Ukraine peace …

Top US utility bets big on new nuclear technology as AI demand grows – Financial Times

Financial Times

War in Ukraine · Americas · Middle East & North Africa. Most Read. PwC cuts … Compared with nuclear power derived from fission, which all current …

Russian Nuclear Subs Launch Cruise Missiles in Sea of Okhotsk | Massive Pacific Fleet Drills | APT

YouTube

Russian nuclear submarines Krasnoyarsk and Omsk successfully … Russia ENTERS US-Venezuela War? ‘DEAL DONE’: Putin’s Big Assurance To …

Iran withdraws resolution to ban attacks on nuclear sites following U.S. pressure

NBC News

At the time, the attack was strongly condemned in resolutions by the U.N. Security Council, the IAEA General Conference and the IAEA Board of …

Iran Reacts to Rubio’s Nuclear Missiles Comments – Newsweek

Newsweek

… nuclear Iran” posed a serious security risk. Esmaeil Baqaei, Iran’s Foreign … Israel at War Vladimir Putin Russia-Ukraine War Donald Trump.

Pakistan Opens Nuclear Weapons Program to Saudi Arabia – Newsweek

Newsweek

… attack on one nation would be an attack on both. Its nuclear dimension raises the risk of a nuclear war in the Middle East at a time when the …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Scientists find ‘breathing’ magma cap inside Yellowstone supervolcano – MSN

MSN

Yellowstone’s supervolcano appears to have a magma cap that vents pressure and reduces the chances of a massive eruption happening anytime soon.

IAEA Weekly News

19 September 2025

Read the top news from this week’s 69th IAEA General Conference. Discover more stories and highlights on our blog and IAEA.org.

19 September 2025

Week in Review: 69th General Conference

The 69th annual IAEA General Conference is coming to a close, with final discussions around possible resolutions likely to last into the evening. Read more →

18 September 2025

Five Reasons to Visit the New IAEA Visitor Centre

Step into the new IAEA Visitor Centre in Seibersdorf, Austria, and discover how nuclear science delivers solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges — from food security and clean energy to climate action and global health. Read more →

18 September 2025

New IAEA Visitor Centre Inaugurated in Lower Austria

Located just outside Vienna, the new visitor centre provides a deeper understanding of nuclear science, its peaceful uses, and the IAEA’s global mission. Read more →

18 September 2025

Scientific Forum Highlights Nuclear Solutions for Water Sustainability

This year’s IAEA Scientific Forum has highlighted how nuclear sciences and isotope hydrology are advancing solutions to global water challenges. Read more →

16 September 2025

Update 314 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

The IAEA team based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) reported hearing shelling close to the site today and saw black smoke rising from three locations nearby, in the latest incident highlighting continuous nuclear safety risks during the military conflict, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. Read more →

16 September 2025

IAEA Unveils Transportable E-beam System to Boost Global Access to the Innovative Technology

A new transportable electron beam system was launched at the IAEA today, housed in shipping containers that can be loaned out for training or experiments. Read more →

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

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 18, 2025

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(See story for photo credit ~llaw)

On My Mind Today:

For the life of me, I cannot understand that the majority of humanity cannot understand or maybe doesn’t care, or is perhaps too put-on-busy or sloth-like lazy to care, about what we are on the verge of doing to ourselves. It should be a simple axiom of life– like a natural urge to survive in a cooperative gentle and peaceful way.

Most animals adhere to survival in their own way, but for humanity, at least, the obvious choice, but seldom followed, is to come together in a common cause that offers us love and freedom of life rather than hatred and selfish acts of war and threats of war. We should have realized that basic axiom — equals added to equals are equal — long, long, ago. Why we haven’t come together in natural unison is incredibly puzzling . . .

Just remember one nuclear bomb from one agitated overzealous country with short-sighted leadership is the ultimate in-vogue method to destroy most all life on our dear misused planet Earth. It is called self-extinction. ~llaw

Today’s Featured Article:

WXXI News

Where have all the nuclear protesters gone?

WXXI News | By Evan Dawson,

Elissa Orlando, Julie Williams

Published September 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM EDT

WXXI News

Students at the University of Rochester set up tents early Tuesday morning on the Wilson Quad in front of the Student Union. The students plan to remain in the encampment to protesting the war in Gaza.

12:00 Where have all the nuclear protesters gone?

1:00 Latin film series

In the 1980s, students practiced getting underneath their desks in the case of a nuclear attack. Protests routinely focused on the threat of nuclear war and the need for non-proliferation. Today, the concern about nuclear war is barely mentioned — even though a growing list of countries wants to join the nuclear club. Why is that? Our guests will discuss the change in public concern, and how they view the nuclear threat today.

Our guests:

• Holly Adams, member of Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace and steering committee member of Peace Action New York State
• Rev. James L Swarts, president of Veterans For Peace, Chapter 23, Rochester
• Timmon Wallis, executive director of Nuclear Ban US, national coordinator of the Warheads to Windmills Coalition and author of “Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario”

Then in our second hour, we go to the movies with a discussion about the Presente Latin Film Series. The Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum will host the series for the next month. It’s meant to be a celebration of Latin culture, history, and contributions to film. We’ll talk about what films will be featured in the series; concerns about whitewashing Latinas in American film; allegations of whitewashing Latin horror films; and more.

In studio:

• Jason Barber, Presente Latin Film Series
• Jared Case, curator of film exhibitions at the Dryden Theatre
• Cielo Ornelas MacFarlane, visual artist
• Annette Ramos, executive director of the Rochester Latino Theatre Company

“Connections with Evan Dawson” is livestreamed each day on the WXXI News YouTube channel. Watch here.

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Elissa Orlando

Elissa Orlando is a producer for “Connections with Evan Dawson.” She returns part-time to WXXI News after stepping back from a long career in public media and in translational science.

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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Thursday, (09/17/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Where have all the nuclear protesters gone? – WXXI News

WXXI News

Protests routinely focused on the threat of nuclear war and the need for non-proliferation. Today, the concern about nuclear war is barely mentioned — …

US and UK sign major nuclear power deal: What does it include? – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

The UK currently has eight nuclear power stations, all managed by EDF Energy. … The global average for building a nuclear reactor is about seven years …

Updating the ‘Atoms for Peace’ bargain for the new nuclear age

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Revelations about the Iraqi and North Korean nuclear programs in the … [4] Most, but not all, non-nuclear weapon states have agreed to the …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Are the stars finally aligning for the ‘new golden age’ of nuclear? | Nils Pratley

The Guardian

Let’s not be too cynical about the US-UK agreement to build new power plants – but costs must fall if nuclear is to make headway.

US and UK sign major nuclear power deal: What does it include? – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

The multibillion-pound deal will build up to 12 modern nuclear reactors in northeast England and power data centres.

The US wants to ‘triple or quadruple’ nuclear energy by 2050, expert says – Fox Business

Fox Business

Nano Nuclear Energy founder Jay Yu joins ‘Mornings with Maria’ to discuss his company’s mission to mass-produce nuclear energy and how he plans to …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

New technology to enhance safety near Xcel Energy’s nuclear plants – Patriot News MN

Patriot News MN

Xcel Energy has partnered with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Homeland Security Emergency Management (HSEM) division to use mobile …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Don’t Make a Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile a Priority – War on the Rocks

War on the Rocks

… nuclear threats. While American … This is because the main purpose of theater nuclear weapons is to threaten escalation to all-out nuclear war.

The Fallacy of Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons: A South Asian Spotlight

orfonline.org

Low-yield nuclear weapons risk lowering the nuclear threshold in South Asia. Explore their dangers, doctrines, and global implications for …

Threats from enemies persist: Iran nuclear chief – Mehr News Agency

Mehr News Agency

TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) – The head of Iran’s nuclear agency says threats … nuclear facilities have come under military attack.” He reiterated …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Saudi Arabia Signs a Mutual Defense Pact with Nuclear-Armed Pakistan After Israel’s Attack on Qatar

Military.com

Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both — a key …

As US reliability falters, Saudi Arabia turns to a nuclear-armed ally | CNN

CNN

While the senior Saudi official said the deal was “years” in the making, its timing – just a week after an unprecedented Israeli attack on neighboring …

Saudi Arabia signs mutual defense pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan | The Times of Israel

The Times of Israel

… nuclear-armed state and has been fighting a multifront war in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen that began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Park geology team retrieves 13000 pieces of trash | Local News – Cody Enterprise

Cody Enterprise

By Margery Price. The Caldera Chronicles. So far in 2025, the Yellowstone Geology team has collected more than 13,000 pieces of trash, …

America’s Heartland rocked by earthquake felt in several US states – MSN

MSN

The Yellowstone Caldera is the 1,350-square-mile crater in the western-central portion of the park that formed when this volcano cataclysmically …

Dukono Volcano (Indonesia) – Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 10 …

Volcano Discovery

List and interactive map of current and past earthquakes near Yellowstone volcano. … Did you know that there are at least 15 active volcanoes in China …

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

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 17, 2025

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On My Mind Today:

The ever-increasing squeeze of onus that the big 3 — the USA, Russia, and China plus U.S. protected Israel — that are agitating friction and fear in the lesser-armed nuclear weapons of mass destruction countries like Iran, North Korea, and to some degree to the others, is creating what I view as an unnecessary and extremely dangerous nuclear war situation.

Instead of looking down on these countries, we urgently need to take them under our wings and support them rather than continue to belittle them, constantly treating them as inferior — no better than the juvenile bullies on the grade-school playground might harass a lower standard of popularity that is considered inferior for all kinds of reasons including social status.

We fail to acknowledge that their own nuclear weapons — although maybe fewer and smaller — are just as likely to begin WWIII as those of the USA, Russia, and China, and in some cases even more likely to create a nuclear war. Any attack on any country, no matter how small would automatically attract a larger, more fully armed, supportive adversary that would also attract another supportive adversary, and international nuclear war would be on, unstoppable, and in little more than hours fatal to most global life, human or otherwise. The rest would suffer for a short while before they, too, would find the comfort of death.

To save human-kind and other life we must reverse our global attitude toward our enemies and immediately, together as one, dedicate our cooperative entire existence to removing forever “all things nuclear” from our lives and make every bit of it all inaccessible for eternity. ~llaw

Today’s Featured Article:

Iran Threatens US With ‘Crushing’ Response

Published Sep 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT

01:00

Iran Test Fires Missiles

By Amir Daftari

News Reporter

Iran has issued a stark warning of potential broader military action following a new wave of U.S. sanctions targeting individuals and companies linked to Tehran’s military programs.

“I can assure you that if the enemy tries to make a move, it will face a crushing and regrettable response,” said senior Iranian army official General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, emphasizing that while Iran has relied primarily on missile strikes, future engagements could extend to other spheres.

Newsweek has reached out to the State Department and Iran’s Foreign Ministry for comment.

Why It Matters

Iran’s warning comes amid escalating tensions in the Middle East following June’s war with Israel and U.S. strikes on its nuclear sites. Stalled nuclear talks and new American sanctions targeting military funding have tightened the squeeze on Tehran’s economy.

The standoff also threatens regional stability and global energy markets, with rising oil prices and potential supply disruptions raising the stakes worldwide.

What To Know

“We mainly confronted the enemy with missiles, but in a future conflict, if necessary, we will strike across other battlefields,” Pourdastan told local Iranian media.

He stressed that while recent missile attacks targeted Israel and the U.S.-operated Al Udeid air base in Qatar, Iran is ready to broaden its military reach beyond conventional strikes, showcasing both tactical versatility and a firm resolve to counter any perceived threats.

New U.S. Sanctions

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Pourdastan’s statement comes as the U.S. imposed a new wave of sanctions targeting Iranian individuals and companies accused of facilitating funding for the country’s military programs. The Treasury Department said the measures focused on networks supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Defense, including transactions derived from Iranian oil sales.

Crypto Network

Sanctioned individuals include Iranian nationals Alireza Derakhshan and Arash Estaki Alivand, who allegedly helped the Iranian government purchase $100 million in cryptocurrency. The penalties freeze any of their U.S.-held assets and bar American citizens and companies from conducting business with them. Officials said the move is part of a broader effort to disrupt Iran’s weapons programs, limit military funding, and curb its influence across the region.

Oil ‘To Zero’

U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley emphasized that the administration will continue targeting networks that support Iran’s weapons programs and “malign activities in the Middle East and beyond.” President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated his goal of driving Iran’s oil exports “to zero,” including actions against international networks.

What People Are Saying

Senior Iranian Army Official General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan: “I can assure you that if the enemy tries to make a move, it will face a crushing and regrettable response.”

Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley: “Under President Trump’s leadership, we will continue to disrupt these key financial streams that fund Iran’s weapons programs and malign activities in the Middle East and beyond.”

What Happens Next

Iran’s warnings and U.S. sanctions point to a tense, ongoing standoff. Continued economic pressure is aimed at curbing Iran’s oil exports, while Tehran maintains full military readiness, creating a volatile situation that could escalate if either side miscalculates.

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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 (Note: There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
7. IAEA News (Friday’s only)

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 ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Wednesday, (09/17/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Key officials oppose Indian Point revival pitch – POLITICO Pro

POLITICO Pro

Why it matters: Under the terms of the legal agreement governing Holtec’s takeover of the closed nuclear plant, all the governmental parties — state, …

Gov. Spencer Cox touts nuclear energy plans for Utah at conference – The Salt Lake Tribune

The Salt Lake Tribune

… nuclear-generated electricity in 1955. “So when people are talking about advanced nuclear systems, pretty much all of those technologies were …

Poland Demands Foreign Nuclear Weapons Amid Rising Russia-NATO Tensions | International

Times of India

… nuclear weapons under NATO’s nuclear sharing programme and develop its own nuclear energy technologies … All About the Football IconBest Business …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Tech companies turn to nuclear power for demanding AI needs as Meta … – Milwaukee Independent

Milwaukee Independent

The investment with Meta will also expand the output of a Constellation Energy Illinois nuclear plant. The agreement announced in June is just the …

IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections

American Nuclear Society

Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear …

AI’s Energy Crisis: Why Nuclear Power Could Be The Missing Link – Forbes

Forbes

AI’s soaring power needs could overwhelm the grid. Nuclear energy—via small modular reactors and advanced fuel tech—may be the key to sustaining …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Inside the Incident and Emergency Centre | IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

… nuclear or radiological emergencies. On the tour, visitors meet members … Nuclear Energy Series · Human Health Series · Conference Proceedings …

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins Opposes the Reopening of the Indian Point …

Westchester County Government

211 For Non-Emergencies · Indian Point Safety · LEPC · Contacts · E-Mail the … Nuclear Power Plant in Buchanan. Jenkins said: “Opening this plant …

IAEA recorded shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. What is known – Бабель

Бабель

… power supply to the station and will start emergency diesel generators. But their resources are limited both in terms of operating time and the …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Returning to an Era of Competition and Nuclear Risk – CSIS

CSIS

… nuclear risks that have emerged from the wars in … nuclear threats and signals in apparent attempts to deter Western intervention in the war.

Iran Threatens US With ‘Crushing’ Response – Newsweek

Newsweek

✓ Link copied to clipboard! News · Iran · United States · Tehran · Washington · Sanctions · Threat · War · Donald Trump · State department · Missiles …

Russia shows off conventional and nuclear military might in drills – and raises tensions with NATO

Yahoo News Canada

… nuclear attack. Russian … Frontier risks refer to AI systems that pose potentially significant threats to public safety and social stability.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Russia shows off conventional and nuclear military might in drills — and raises tensions with NATO

WTOP

The Zapad 2025 exercise comes as Russia’s 3½-year-old war in Ukraine has dragged on despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for a peace deal and …

Returning to an Era of Competition and Nuclear Risk – CSIS

CSIS

The future of modern warfare will feature increased reliance on nuclear weapons by adversaries and allies. Modern war strategists must develop a …

It’s Time to Rethink US Nuclear Weapons Manufacturing – Union of Concerned Scientists

The Equation – Union of Concerned Scientists

This marks a transition and potential departure from the very successful post-Cold War program of “stockpile stewardship” that has been used to ensure …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone volcanic activity is on the move, experts say — but will it erupt anytime soon?

MSN

so-called supervolcano are on the move, experts say. A new study published in Nature suggested that Yellowstone’s magma and other superheated …

What a Yellowstone Eruption Would Look Like – MSN

MSN

Despite widespread fears of a catastrophic “supervolcano” eruption, scientists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) have suggested that any …