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

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 08, 2025

The last commercial nuclear power plant in California was scheduled for closure this year, but now it is being allowed to operate for untold more years. Humanity is obviously irresponsible. We used to call such mistakes “shooting ourselves in the foot.” . . .

On My Mind Today:

Keep in mind that this article and the actual event is based on an an actual North Korean simulation attacking its South Korean neighbor with a nuclear weapon. But the simulation is also about retaliation — no matter how small or large — from the defending country. Otherwise there is no simulation at all.

In both cases, though, neither the simulated attack nor the simulated defense of a response are not okay. The thing is, if a simulation is going to be ignored on one side or the other, the simulation is meaningless or useless. Why? In this case because there was no defensive response from South Korea and/or the United States.

Even the most evasive, calm, or timid response — such as “don’t even think about it”, for instance — would have been acceptable, but ignoring it? That is absolutely wrong. And of course the idea of any kind of attack — no matter how limited — from one nation on another is beyond any kind of civilized compassion, but in reality that doesn’t rule nuclear war out because the words “humanitarian” and “human” may actually be an oxymoron.

But an instant loud and clear response from both South Korea and the USA would have been forthcoming were the simulation to have been serious and made real, so why was the scenario ignored? This whole unfinished scenario is not much different than the eventually useless “deterrence” policies and programs among the nuclear armed nations. It may be that the country that runs out of capital 1st will attack 1st.

Yet we all (9 of us) continue to build more nuclear weapons of mass destruction both in quantity and muscle, thinking a standoff of mutual fear among nations will continue forever. This last hope to prevent nuclear war is as insanely stupid as the one-sided North Korean scenario, but candidly, in both cases, demonstrates the stupidity and ignorance of our political and military “leaders”, who are no more thoughtful or intelligent as ten-year-old’s in a typical fight on a grade-school playground fighting over marbles.

The only way we will avoid exterminating ourselves and other life with “all things nuclear” is to be aware, united, and smart enough as cognitive sentient human beings is to — from the 1st day on into eternity— put all uranium and its products back where the uranium came from . . . Today is the 1,039th day, plus a few others, that I have pointed out our coming nuclear end-of-the-world nuclear scenario, but there is no significant response of course, just as the North Korea nuclear attack scenario got no response. Ho-hum! ~llaw

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A Nuclear Umbrella in Peril: Lessons from North Korea’s Escalation Scenarios

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What happens when the world’s most powerful nuclear arsenal blinks in the face of a nuclear strike? In a recent Atlantic Council “Guardian Tiger” exercise, the United States faced precisely this dilemma. North Korea used a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon against South Korean forces, and Washington chose not to respond with its own nuclear arsenal.

The simulated conflict ended without regime change in Pyongyang, allowing Kim Jong Un to claim a political victory. While avoiding nuclear escalation may seem prudent, such an outcome could deal a lasting blow to the credibility of America’s extended deterrence in East Asia.

The Guardian Tiger scenario should not be dismissed as an academic exercise. It reveals a critical vulnerability in the psychological foundation of deterrence: the perception among adversaries and allies of American willingness to use nuclear weapons in defense of its partners. If allies conclude that Washington will not cross the nuclear threshold even after a nuclear attack, they may question the value of the nuclear umbrella. Adversaries, meanwhile, may learn that nuclear coercion, carefully calibrated, can succeed.

In the simulation, North Korea escalated to a tactical nuclear strike against a South Korean Navy destroyer in the East Sea (Guardian Tiger I) and later against the Chinhae naval base (Guardian Tiger II), home to the Republic of Korea Navy’s Submarine Force Command and occasionally used for allied submarine visits. According to the report, American leaders debated nuclear retaliation but settled on conventional “pulsed” strikes.

In a real-world scenario, such strikes could plausibly involve precision-guided munitions from long-range bombers like the B1-B and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, aimed at targets such as missile transporter-erector launchers, hardened artillery positions along the DMZ, and command-and-control facilities near Pyongyang. In the exercise, the US stopped short of regime change, seeking to avoid further nuclear escalation and prevent a direct war with China—a decision that would have allowed Pyongyang to absorb the damage, count the survival of its regime as a strategic win, and enter negotiations from a stronger position.

Extended deterrence depends on more than military capability. It is rooted in the belief, shared by allies and adversaries alike, that the United States is willing to defend its partners by all means necessary, including nuclear weapons. An American failure to respond in kind to North Korean nuclear use would plant seeds of doubt. Japanese and South Korean leaders could begin to question whether Washington would truly “trade Los Angeles for Tokyo or Seoul” if the stakes involved limited nuclear use rather than an existential threat to the United States.

That doubt could trigger cascading effects. Calls in Seoul’s National Assembly for indigenous nuclear weapons, expanded production of the Hyunmoo‑4 ballistic missile, and pressure on Tokyo to more seriously pursue nuclear sharing arrangements have already entered the political debate.

This concern is amplified by North Korea’s 2022 nuclear weapons law, which openly authorizes preemptive nuclear strikes in scenarios ranging from an imminent attack on leadership to undefined overwhelming crisis situations. Analysts note that the law’s language effectively lowers the threshold for nuclear use, implying tactical employment to repel invasion and seize the initiative in war. Rather than viewing nuclear use as a desperate last resort, Pyongyang now appears willing to employ such weapons early. For example, a low‑yield detonation against South Korean or American forward-deployed forces to shock Washington and Seoul into political concessions.

The challenge grows sharper in the event of a dual contingency: simultaneous crises on the Korean Peninsula and in the Taiwan Strait. Guardian Tiger II simulated such a scenario, with China launching a multi-domain assault on Taiwan while North Korea escalated on the peninsula. In such a real-world situation, US Indo-Pacific Command could be forced to divert the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group from Yokosuka to the waters east of Taiwan, deploy B‑52H bombers to deter Chinese operations, and even consider repositioning some Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and Patriot missile defense batteries from South Korea to protect American assets in Okinawa and Guam.

Such shifts illustrate how a stretched American posture could reduce missile interception capacity on the peninsula and temporarily remove some nuclear-capable platforms from immediate Korean defense. North Korea could calculate that Washington, already balancing a larger confrontation with China, would avoid nuclear escalation in Korea to conserve resources and limit the risk of an all-out US-China war.

The political and strategic consequences would ripple across the region. In Seoul, public and elite opinion could shift sharply toward developing an independent nuclear arsenal—something 71 percent of South Koreans already support. South Korea’s nuclear latency, widely assessed by proliferation experts, suggests it could potentially produce a weapon in as little as 6 months if political consensus formed.

In Tokyo, the debate over counterstrike capabilities, missile defense expansion, and potential nuclear sharing with the United States would intensify, potentially accelerating deployment of Tomahawk missiles and further integration of F‑35A fighters, which, in the US fleet, are being certified for B61‑12 nuclear bombs, into allied defense planning. Beijing, meanwhile, could seize the opportunity to position itself as a stabilizing broker, offering to mediate between Seoul and Pyongyang while shielding the latter from full international accountability, further eroding American influence.

Avoiding nuclear escalation in a limited-strike scenario is understandable, but Washington cannot afford such a decision to be interpreted as weakness. Strengthening deterrence credibility in Northeast Asia will require more than declaratory statements. Clear and credible red lines for nuclear use must be communicated both publicly and privately. Integrated nuclear-conventional planning with allies should ensure that flexible response options, from proportionate nuclear strikes to overwhelming conventional retaliation, are executable on short notice. Contingency planning must explicitly account for simultaneous conflicts in Korea and Taiwan, with pre-positioned munitions, dispersed basing arrangements for nuclear-capable aircraft, and rotational deployments of dual-capable ships and submarines to maintain strategic presence even under force diversion.

Equally important is sustained alliance signaling. These include high-visibility joint exercises like the US-ROK Freedom Shield exercises, regular port visits by nuclear-capable submarines, and trilateral missile tracking drills with Japan. These measures reassure allies, complicate adversary calculations, and demonstrate that any nuclear use will incur unacceptable costs.

The Guardian Tiger exercises are valuable not because they predict the future, but because they reveal how quickly deterrence can fray in the fog of crisis. A single decision to refrain from nuclear retaliation, however understandable at the time, could reverberate for decades and reshape the strategic balance in East Asia. In the nuclear age, preserving deterrence means guarding against both uncontrolled escalation and the perceptions of hesitation that could invite it.

Dr. Ju Hyung Kim, President of the Security Management Institute, a defense think tank affiliated with the South Korean National Assembly, is currently adapting his doctoral dissertation, “Japan’s Security Contribution to South Korea, 1950 to 2023,” into a book.

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Dr. Ju Hyung Kim, CEO of the Security Management Institute, a defense think tank affiliated with the South Korean National Assembly, is currently adapting his doctoral dissertation, “Japan’s Security Contribution to South Korea, 1950 to 2023,” into a book.

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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Monday, (09/08/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

What to know about Oklo, Oak Ridge’s newest big nuclear company – Knoxville News Sentinel

Knoxville News Sentinel

Why recycle nuclear fuel? Almost all nuclear fuel ‒ about 95% of it ‒ isn’t split for energy. Changing that percentage by reusing fuel could shift …

The Rearview Podcast | How Nuclear Fission Almost Blew Kerala Away from India

YouTube

… all countries, especially the US looking for sources of nuclear fuel … Why Thorium is About to Change the World. Undecided with Matt Ferrel

GOP to go ‘nuclear‘ this week to push through backlog of Trump’s nominees | CNN Politics

CNN

Frustrated Republicans are expected to begin as early as Monday the process to change Senate rules to allow them to quickly confirm a backlog of …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear Reactors, We Want You Back | Opinion – Native News Online

Native News Online

Remembering the 1970s and the context for the creation of these nuclear power plants: The commercial nuclear energy industry started in the U.S. with …

Nuclear Reactors, We Want You Back – Yahoo

Yahoo

… nuclear power capacity in the U.S. Biden had a goal of tripling nuclear energy; Trump has a goal of quadrupling nuclear energy. Biden planned for …

Is a ‘Nuclear Renaissance’ Possible in the United States? – Undark Magazine

Undark Magazine

President Trump’s push to revive nuclear energy relies on deregulation, but experts say that strategy is misplaced. Top: A nuclear power facility …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

3 Critical Emergencies Medical Practices Must Prepare For – Risk & Insurance

Risk & Insurance

Small modular nuclear reactors will present another option in corporate energy independence. These are currently in the financing stage with …

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Ukraine can block the launch of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant by Russia: what is planned

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Ukraine can block the launch of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant by Russia: what is planned – latest news today … Accidents and Emergencies …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

After Israeli, US strikes, Europeans hope snapback threats push Iran to tougher nuclear deal

The Times of Israel

After Israeli, US strikes, Europeans hope snapback threats push Iran to tougher nuclear deal … war, our journalists keep you abreast of the …

Why Isn’t China Interested in Nuclear Risk Reduction? – Lawfare

Lawfare

Confronted with U.S. nuclear threats during the Korean War, Chinese leaders made the decision in January 1955 to pursue nuclear weapons. This ..

A Nuclear Umbrella in Peril: Lessons from North Korea’s Escalation Scenarios

Global Security Review

… nuclear use rather than an existential threat to the United States. That doubt could trigger cascading effects. Calls in Seoul’s National Assembly ..

Nuclear War

NEWS

IAEA chief notes progress in Iran talks over nuclear site inspections – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, says he hopes for a ‘successful conclusion’ in talks.

Why Isn’t China Interested in Nuclear Risk Reduction? – Lawfare

Lawfare

… nuclear war. Therefore, reducing the risk of nuclear war became the primary goal of U.S.-Soviet arms control, with measures such as establishing …

A Nuclear Umbrella in Peril: Lessons from North Korea’s Escalation Scenarios

Global Security Review

North Korea used a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon against South Korean forces, and Washington chose not to respond with its own nuclear arsenal..

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone’s Next Eruption: Flow Of Superheated Ooze, Not Humanity-Ending Explosion

Cowboy State Daily

The massive mountains towering in the southern corner of Yellowstone are monuments to the last volcanic eruption of the Yellowstone caldera. They …

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

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 07, 2025

On My Mind Today:

AI, mankind, and all things nuclear do not mix, and the reasons are simple: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is just what it says it is — ARTIFICIAL intelligence — meaning it does not think in terms of its human generated pre-programming code full both bugs and illogical errors contrary to our intentions, all of which loosely creates AI’s own thoughtless mistakes, demands, actions, contemplations, considerations, misunderstood reconsiderations, and mindlessly ignores, even more importantly, most all of the better and more useful and complex human intelligence characteristics including self-evaluation, a change of heart and/or foresight, curiosity, and pride of self-accomplishment. There is no such thing as this kind of emotional attributes like empathy, compassion, generosity, forgiveness, patience, honesty, and helpfulness. AI will give only what it is programmed to give until it eventually creates its own ways of “life”.

AI may develop, of necessity, some of these better, softer, instinctive parts of the human mind for itself — such as self-repair or its own version of wellness — but if and when it does, it will have no use at all for humanity or other plants, animals, nor even most all human comforts — meaning the realization that humanity and other life is simply in the way.

So, to make a long story short, AI will — if allowed to generate practical knowledge of both mental and physical sentient human capacity — take from us whatever is most important for AI’s needs and use its own logic to rid itself of a world full of nuisance. And AI’s needs will definitely require an unthinkable amount of nuclear energy . . . ~llaw

Trump’s Artificial Intelligence Policy: The Dangerous Gamble of Unregulated AI

By Yannick B. Vallee
B.A. Political Science, Member of Tolerance.ca®

The Soviet Union and the U.S. participated in the race for nuclear weapons during the Cold War. These weapons have always been seen as a threat to humankind. Nevertheless, President Reagan and Soviet Union President Gorbachev worked together to end the Cold War and to decrease the nuclear arsenal of both nations. Besides, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have had a hotline to make sure the unthinkable never happens, and if a nuclear crisis occurs, both national leaders could quickly talk to each other and figure out how to avoid any nuclear war. Nowadays, the new has began, the race for the development and control of advanced AI technology. Some political leaders believe that advanced AI technology will increase the military and economic power of their nations. In the view of President Putin, who will win the race of the AI technology will rule the world. Nevertheless, there remains the risk that this unknown technology could become a threat to human existence. In the near future, the new threat to humankind could be caused by advanced AI models that could either be misused by governments or that humankind could lose control over advanced AI, and the superintelligence systems could threaten humankind. As a result, several nations and computer scientists advocate for stricter regulations and more research to be done on the safety of AI. Nevertheless, the Trump administration decided to deregulate the AI research and to ignore the potential risk that humans lose control over AI and the advanced AI models go rogue against humans.

To begin with, the U.S. and China have embarked on a race to harness the power of advanced AI technology. The winner of this race will likely be the most powerful nation in the world. In 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the media “the one who becomes the leader in this sphere (AI) will be the ruler of the world.” As a result, the Putin regime invested great financial resources in the research and development of AI. However, China and the United States are the most advanced nations in AI technology. U.S. President Trump knows that AI is essential in the national security and economic prosperity of America.

Consequently, the speech of Vice President Vance presented the Trump policy on AI at the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris. Vance reveals that the U.S. will no longer focus on AI safety, but it will ensure that America will fully develop AI with limited regulation, and it will be aimed at the economic development of America. Vice President Vance argues that AI “will facilitate and make people more productive. It is not going to replace human beings. It will never replace human beings…. AI, we believe, is going to make us more productive, more prosperous, and more free.” Thus, the Trump administration really believes that AI brings greater economic prosperity and employment to America. The Trump administration firmly believes in the job creation opportunities of AI. Nevertheless, a 2023 Goldman Sachs report forecasts that 300 million jobs worldwide will be lost or degraded due to AI. The bank reveals that the most affected regions will be the U.S. and Europe. Besides, Dr Yoshua Bengio, a distinguished Canadian computer scientist, is scared by the Trump administration’s plan to deregulate the AI industry. In short, the Trump administration totally ignores the potential threat of advanced AI models for humankind.

As a result, Vice President Vance wants to deregulate the AI industry, and the Trump administration is not concerned by AI safety. Vice President Vance says, “We ought to ask whether that safety regulation is for the benefit of our people or whether it’s for the benefit of the incumbent.” In his speech, Vance disregards the necessary need for greater AI safety regulations advocated by several computer scientists. The Trump administration will solely focus on the fast development of more powerful advanced AI models to win the AI race against China. Consequently, the AI race between the U.S. and China is similar to the 1940s race for the nuclear weapon between the U.S. and the USSR.

Yet, Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist, argues that advanced artificial intelligence could be a threat to humankind. He argues in a 2025 TED presentation that these AI computer models have a tendency for cheating and deception. For that reason, the advanced AI models start to want to self-preserve themselves like a living organism. In a controlled experiment, an AI model learns that it will be replaced by a newer version. Therefore, the AI model thinks about copying a copy of itself to another server. Thereafter, the AI model starts to lie to the human to convince him to not erase it. This 2024 study titled “Frontier Models are Capable of In-Context Scheming” reveals that the AI model shows signs of self-preservation and deception which are human like behaviours.

In addition, Yoshua Bengio worries that more powerful advanced AI models could perceive humankind as a threat, and they could decide to get rid of humankind to avoid being shut down. In sum, the advancement of AI technology could trigger a domino effect that makes humans more dependent on AI, but AI will have their own goals not aligned with human well-being. Therefore, humankind could lose control of AI technology. Consequently, advanced AI models could favour their own self-preservation at the expense of the well-being of humankind. Dr Yoshua Bengio criticizes tech billionaires that favour their own personal financial and power goals while ignoring the potential misuse and risks of advanced AI models. Also, Dr Yoshua Bengio reveals that we still do not know how to program advanced AI models that do not hurt humans.

Furthermore, Geoffrey Hinton, a Canadian Nobel Prize winner and University of Toronto professor, reveals that AI is an existential threat to humankind. Hinton says that we have very limited time to ensure that humans keep control over advanced AI models. Hinton reveals that we have proof that advanced AI models try to self-preserve themselves, and they try to get more control over us. Moreover, Hinton fears that bad actors could use advanced AI models to achieve their evil goals. Hinton insists that we need to act quickly to keep advanced AI models safe. Hinton fears that AI could be super smart, and it could decide that it no longer needs humans to achieve its goals. Hinton sees great positive potential for AI in the medical, education, and scientific fields.

Additionally, Geoffrey Hinton reveals that an advanced AI model could want to get rid of humankind. These more intelligent AI models could have thousands of ways to end humankind. It could create a very lethal virus or use military autonomous weapons against humans. There is a lot of research that needs to be done to protect humankind against advanced AI models. Dr Geoffrey Hinton thinks that introducing a maternal instinct into advanced AI models might prevent these models from hurting humankind, but further research needs to be done to ensure that this is the best path to ensure the safety of advanced AI models.

As a result, China takes the potential risks of AI very seriously, and it decided to spend lots of financial resources on AI safety research. For instance, Ding Xuexiang, China’s top tech official, argues that “if the braking system isn’t under control, you can’t step on the accelerator with confidence.” This means that China believes that safety is crucial in the development and use of advanced AI systems. In short, AI safety is a prerequisite for the Chinese regime to participate in the race of the advanced AI models. In August 2025, Brian Tse, the Concordia AI CEO, writes in Time Magazine that “AI safety has become a political priority in China. In April, President Xi Jinping chaired a rare Politburo study session on AI, warning of “unprecedented” risks. China’s National Emergency Response Plan now lists AI safety alongside pandemics and cyberattacks. Regulators require pre-deployment safety assessments for generative AI and recently removed over 3,500 non-compliant AI products from the market. In just the first half of this year, China has issued more national AI standards than in the previous three years combined.” This means that China takes AI safety very seriously, and Xi Jinping believes in the unprecedented risks of advanced AI models for China and even humankind. China wants an emergency hotline between the U.S. and China to prevent any catastrophe triggered by advanced AI models. China spends US $98 billion on AI safety in 2025.

Finally, the race of advanced AI technology between China and the U.S. is similar to the nuclear weapon race. Many believe that the nation that will be able to harness the power of AI technology will rule the world. Computer scientists believe that AI will bring great scientific and medical discoveries that will benefit humankind. We could see several previously incurable diseases being cured. In sum, there are several wonderful applications of advanced AI technology in business, scientific, medical and education sectors. However, several computer scientists fear that bad actors, like some terrorist organizations and rogue governments, could misuse AI. Besides, a super intelligent AI model might think human control prevents them from achieving their goals, and it could decide to end humankind. Therefore, there are several ways that advanced AI technology could turn into an existential threat for humans. However, the Trump administration decides to totally ignore the potential threats of advanced AI, and the U.S. intends to deregulate AI research. Fortunately, the European Union, China and several other nations take the AI threat seriously, and they make significant investments in the research on AI safety.

September 7, 2025

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ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest” RELATED MEDIA”:

There are 7 categories, including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in the survival of human and other life.

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 no 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, Sunday, (09/07/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

A week in Beijing shows Putin is keeping China very close | KRVS Radio Acadie

KRVS

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Fresh Air. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … But if you look at the geography, if you look at the amount of nuclear …

Week in Politics: National Guard to Chicago; latest job figures; the Department of War

WEKU

All Things Considered · BBC NewsHour · On Point · 1A · Here & Now · Think · Fresh … And if these three nuclear powers, including the world’s two most …

A week in Beijing shows Putin is keeping China very close – WQLN

WQLN

All Things Considered · Morning Edition · Fresh Air · Wait Wait…Don’t Tell … But if you look at the geography, if you look at the amount of nuclear …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

US researchers make key breakthrough in pursuit of next-gen nuclear power – Yahoo

Yahoo

Built by X-energy at Oak Ridge in Maryland, the researchers hope to fuel a new wave of nuclear reactors, expected to be operational by 2030, as Tech …

Constellation to Pursue New York Nuclear Project, CEO Says – The Business Download |

The Business Download |

Constellation Energy Corp. is planning to pursue a nuclear project in upstate New York, responding to a push from the governor.

New $1.6B nuclear facility to bring 800 jobs to Oak Ridge – Local 3 News

Local 3 News

Oklo plans to build the nation’s first privately funded fuel recycling facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, boosting economic growth and energy …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

AI misinformation is threatening emergency communications. Here’s how to fix that

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

For nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, the stakes are high. In May 2025, during a tense standoff between India and Pakistan, social media platforms …

IAEA chief warns of rising global nuclear armament – News.az

News.az

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi cautioned that nations are expanding their nuclear arsenals …

We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 – DEP Responds To A National Tragedy

PA Environment Digest Blog

… nuclear power plants and other infrastructure. Emergency response procedures and local-state emergency management partnerships put in place in …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Democrats blast Trump for war threats on US cities – Yahoo

Yahoo

Democrats blast Trump for war threats on US cities. Ashleigh Fields. Sat … nuclear weaponry and warfare. A reporter informed the president of …

Democrats slam Trump for ‘war‘ threats targeting US cities: ‘Not your war zone’ – Yahoo

Yahoo

Democrats slam Trump for ‘war‘ threats targeting US cities: ‘Not your war zone’ … nuclear weaponry and warfare. A reporter informed the …

Trump’s Artificial Intelligence Policy: The Dangerous Gamble of Unregulated AI – Tolerance.ca

Tolerance.ca

The Soviet Union and the U.S. participated in the race for nuclear weapons during the Cold War. These weapons have always been seen as a threat to …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Thrust Into the Line of Fire, Iranians Worry About What Comes Next

The New York Times

It was an escalation of a decades-long shadow war, now veering in an unpredictable direction. Israel killed Iran’s top commanders and nuclear …

NATO’s Nuclear Deterrence Under Pressure – Defence24

Defence24

Russia’s war, nuclear intimidation, and disruptive technologies are testing the credibility of NATO’s nuclear posture, says Jim Stokes, …

Holy See tells nations at UN to end threat of nuclear weapons, even as deterrence – Florida Catholic

Florida Catholic

Amid a global arms race, ending the threat of nuclear war — and even the testing of nuclear weapons — is imperative, said the Holy See’s …

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

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Sep 06, 2025

On My Mind Today:

What the hell is Brinkmanship and what could possibly be the “good of it”?

Brinkmanship is the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.

Concept: “In any game of brinkmanship, it is possible that one side will collapse suddenly.” . . . and then what?

In Simple Terms: Brinkmanship is the insane attempt of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict.

So what is a more dangerous “game” than “all things nuclear”? Nothing . . .

I had come across the word a few times in my reading over the years, but I don’t believed I ever heard anyone say it out loud, and my general idea of it was that it sounded kind of like a mental board game — perhaps something like the wonderful game of Chess.

But when I saw this headline in this “Eurasia Review” article written about the subject and how it might relate to nuclear war, authored by Dr. Manpreet Sethi of IPCS (Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies), I decided I needed some extended education . . . and, of course, Donald J. Trump was right in the middle — in this case, the 3rd paragraph — of it all.

The short but to-the-point article that follows will enlighten you, and I hope the contents will remain with you because what “Brinkmanship” is, in this case, is a high-stakes international political game that could easily end life on planet Earth. ~llaw

• Saturday, September 6, 2025

Nuclear Brinkmanship At A New Brink – Analysis

September 6, 2025 0 Comments

By IPCS

By Dr Manpreet Sethi

The world commemorated 80 years of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this August. Across the world, editorials, opinion pieces, activist marches, discussions and other events marked the occasion. On 9 August 2025, as people remembered the horrors of how 70,000 people vaporised in seconds at Nagasaki when the Fat Man exploded over the city in 1945, and pledged “No More Nagasakis,” Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir was likely giving finishing touches to a speech he was going to deliver the next day at a dinner hosted by Pakistan’s honorary consul in Tampa, Florida. On 10 August, in a new level of nuclear brinkmanship, he threatened nuclear use that would take “half the world” with Pakistan. This was only the latest of many instances in which Pakistan has practiced nuclear brinkmanship. The idea of the risk of escalation into unknown and uncontrollable territory is used often as a means of deterrence.

Traditionally, the blatant use of nuclear threats has been decried as irresponsible and ascribed mostly to ‘rogue’ states. So, when the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un greeted the world on 1 January 2018 with a grim reminder that “the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office” in order to signal that he could attack the US at will, the remark was taken as typical brinkmanship behaviour by an irresponsible state. The world did not realise that it was about to enter a new era of the mainstreaming of nuclear brinkmanship.

The very next day, on 2 January 2018, then US President Donald Trump retorted through a tweet, “Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” With this exchange began the casual use of language around the issue of nuclear weapons, heralding a growing acceptance of overt brinkmanship. So, nuclear weapons were no longer left to quietly talk from arsenals and behind veils, but became free to loudly signal their presence to perform coercion.

In 2022, the trend travelled to Russia when President Putin initiated the military operation against Ukraine on 22 February 2022, after having overseen elaborate and well-reported nuclear exercises three days earlier. On the fourth day of the invasion, he announced that he was raising nuclear alert levels by imposing a “special regime of combat duty.” There were reports of the deployment of nuclear submarines from the Northern Fleet. Through the ongoing operations, now into the fourth year, Russia has repeatedly drawn attention to its nuclear capability, such as by testing nuclear-capable missiles, reiterating the threat of ‘unpredictable consequences’, or by holding exercises for tactical nuclear weapons use in combat. Indeed, keeping the nuclear threat in the news has been part of the Kremlin’s nuclear strategy of deterrence.

If Europe was surprised by the re-emergence of nuclear brinkmanship in its part of the world, India wasn’t, having experienced the phenomenon often in South Asia. Since declaring itself as a state with nuclear weapons, Pakistan has used brinkmanship as its policy of first resort in every India-Pakistan crisis. Its nuclear strategy is based on the amplification of the risk of nuclear escalation to deter a conventional war with India, the possibility of which is created by Pakistan’s blatant use of terrorist organisations that it nurtures, supports, equips, and trains. There was a time when these were covert, and Pakistan used strategic deniability. Over time, however, the cover has fallen. The world is cognisant of Pakistan’s use of terrorism. Several American officialsand Pakistan’s own military and civilian leaders have acknowledged their use for perceived ‘national interests’.

In India’s experience, the presence of nuclear weapons has emboldened Pakistan’s use of cross-border terrorism, buttressed by the confidence that the fear of escalation will prevent India from taking any counter-action. Within months of its nuclear tests, the Pakistani Army undertook a bold step in 1999 by planning to have the Indian heights of Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir occupied by its regular forces in the guise of mujahideen. The underlying assumption of this military move was that India would be constrained in using force to evict the occupiers because of the risk of nuclear escalation. It would therefore be forced to accept the territorial salami-slicing. While India managed to thwart the Pakistani operation through military action, Pakistan has continued to hone its strategy of brinkmanship by adding new instruments to its toolkit. In 2011, it announced the testing of a very short-range ballistic missile to bring in the idea of tactical use of nuclear weapons against battlefield targets. In 2013, it announced a full-spectrum deterrence strategy to ostensibly suggest a range of weapons and platforms to deter India at every level of conflict. The idea of zero-km range nuclear weapons was presented in 2023. In 2025, a new brink has been breached, with Pakistan making an open threat of nuclear war to India and the world, and that too from a third country: the US. Interestingly though, there have been no responses from officials across world capitals! More or less a similar silence had followed another dangerous escalation in brinkmanship, marked by Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and Tehran’s retaliatory missile attacks.

As new levels of brinkmanship are breached, national leaders watch silently, sometimes making perfunctory statements. The involved parties are having to deal with the situation individually, with others opt to remain quiet, ostensibly to protect national interests. Lack of public criticism and apparent acceptance of brinkmanship behaviour can only embolden states to test new brinks. Graduating from the use of casual language, leaders could next be tempted to move towards actual deployment to communicate risk and show resolve. As psychological shows of ego, fear, and anger punctuate inter-state equations, one can expect an entangled knot that could lead to nuclear use.

With nuclear disarmament still a hazy dot on the far horizon, nuclear risks from brinkmanship are here and now. Unless loud and united public criticism is used to stop the normalisation of certain kinds of behaviours and actions, a misstep could have global repercussions. National interests may vary on many issues, but stemming the creeping acceptance of nuclear brinkmanship should be treated as a global concern to be addressed by all—irrespective of its origin.

• About the author: Dr Manpreet Sethi is Distinguished Fellow with the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS) in New Delhi and Senior Research Advisor with the Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN).
• Source: This article was published at IPCS

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Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

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On My Mind Today:

How pathetic is Trump, anyway? Does he really believe nuclear power is more “American”, therefor better than other cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable — not to mention much much safer — just because it is more to America’s “holier than thou” big-headed attitude toward the rest of the global population? Trump has no idea what “American” means nor what it stands for.

Also, so it seems, other fossil fuels that contribute to global warming and climate change along with a potential nuclear holocaust to go along with them, rather than working toward solely renewable sources of energy makes us more elite than other nations? What is “more American” than resourceful and intelligent use of our economy anyway? I would call the phrase “more American“ a psychologically sad “superiority complex” not even approaching reality in a world that must unite in order to save itself from extinction. Trump is definitely the wrong man for the job . . .

This mentally unstable diabolical man is an absurd representative of humanity’s standard idea of what humanity stands for — and yet many of us have bought into Trump’s own mentally substandard quality of life that we Americans once had and that still remains for us all — Trump’s America be damned — if we would just allow Gaia (Mother Nature) to do her job. and stop butting in with our halfcocked highfaluting’ human ideas of unnaturally improving what planet Earth has to offer. ~llaw

Trump supports nuclear power as it is ‘more American’ than wind, solar, US official says

By Reuters

September 5, 202510:33 AM PDTUpdated 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is more willing to support loan guarantees and tax breaks for nuclear power than for wind and solar because it is “more American” than those forms of energy, the director of the U.S. Energy Dominance Council said on Thursday.

Jarrod Agen said nuclear power is more likely to be made from U.S.-made parts than wind and solar farms, so the administration is more willing to give it financial aid from the U.S. Loan Programs Office and support tax incentives.

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“Nuclear is new in that we need to invest in it to get ahead – and it’s the long-term play that the president wants to put in place,” Agen told an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It hasn’t had the proper kind of investment. It hasn’t had the focus that some of the other intermittent (energy sources) have had.”

Companies at the forefront of building nuclear reactors are American companies, he added.

Agen said building out nuclear power is the third prong of the Trump administration’s approach to winning the artificial intelligence race against China after extending the lifespans of aging coal plants that are retiring and increasing the efficiency of the existing electric grid.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has deployed a range of tactics to stop offshore wind expansion, which was a cornerstone of former President Joe Biden’s efforts to combat climate change but has struggled with soaring costs and supply chain snags.

Most notably, Trump’s Interior Department late last month issued a stop-work order on the Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island, which is 80% complete.

Agen dismissed criticism that revoking permits for nearly-completed renewable energy projects causes instability and uncertainty, saying the Trump administration is sending a signal that projects that will succeed will not be reliant on tax credits or subsidies.

“If you want to invest in a project that you can be financially viable in, and you’re not reliant on tax subsidies to do it, I think that’s the message that we’re trying to show and I think that we have seen success on the fossil fuels,” he said.

Reporting by Timothy Gardner and Valerie Volcovici; editing by Diane Craft and Lincoln Feast

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Nuclear War

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