Some of my readers have asked me why I occasionally relate the old cartoon Alley Oop and his female companion, Ooola, and dinosaurs to my “LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY” blog.
It’s because of the history of uranium — the fuel for nuclear reactors. The 5 -minute You Tube story below will tell you why, but it is exceptionally interesting in other ways as well — such as a bit of the history of Moab, Utah, once known as the uranium capitol of the world, as well as the sadly unrealized damage to the health of uranium explorers and workers in the early days of the relatively unregulated industry . . . ~llaw
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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Sunday, (08/17/2025)
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These ages span the age range that characterises eastern Snake River plain basalt eruptions and caldera-forming silicic volcanism, but do not have any …
There are lots of nuclear world issues that seriously need to be resolved by humanitarian constructs, but the present inhumane agenda against our own ability to survive is not likely to be resolved over the weekend, if ever, so I am inclined to take a couple of days off to simply enjoy a quiet weekend.
The weekend news will be here both today and tomorrow, so if you are so inclined, find something to satisfy your own stress, ignore the conflicts, and find something more comforting for your own weekend. ~llaw
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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Saturday, (08/16/2025)
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Trump Warns Russia of ‘Severe Consequences’ If Putin Doesn’t End War in Ukraine ~Newsweek (see the article attached . . .)
What the hell are warnings of “severe consequences” coming from Trump now that he has been totally and finally embarrassed by his years’ old lies about how he, and only he, could end the Russia/Ukraine war in “24 hours” if he was the president.
Well, Trump had his chance and six months later here he is threatening Russia to end that war — or else! I cannot help but wonder what he means by “or else” Forget the lies, which they probably will be because they are non-stop out of his mouth, and his mouth is causing unrest and fear around the globe.
I wouldn’t trust this man to “gauge” Putin or anyone or anything else — like even the direction of the wind in a howling windstorm — which he says the Alaska summit is all about . . . ~llaw
Russian State TV Issues Nuclear Weapon Threat Ahead of Trump Summit
Published Aug 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM EDT
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Trump Warns Russia of ‘Severe Consequences’ If Putin Doesn’t End War in Ukraine
Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov has said that Russia could destroy the United States with nuclear strikes ahead of President Donald Trump‘s meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Solovyov was responding Trump’s threat of consequences if Putin does not agree to end the war in Ukraine at their meeting in Alaska on Friday.
Why It Matters
Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet in Anchorage, Alaska. It will be the first face-to-face encounter between the two leaders since Trump’s return to the presidency and comes amid high tensions over Ukraine, NATO expansion and economic sanctions.
Trump has signaled a tough stance going into the talks, saying there will be “severe consequences” for Putin if there is no end to the fighting in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shake hands at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. AP
What To Know
Solovyov said on his show Full Contact on Thursday: “The only thing that the West understands is strength.”
“We can destroy all of them with nuclear weapons,” he said, according to a translation from Russian Media Monitor, a project monitoring Russian state television. “Let them think about it during our commercial break.”
Trump has described the upcoming Alaska meeting as “a feel-out” to gauge whether Putin is serious about ending a war now in its fourth year.
He did not outline what consequences Russia could face but Solovyov speculated they would be economic.
Solovyov said: “No one has the right to impose their will upon the president of the Russian Federation, who is elected by the Russian people. He represents the interests and aspirations of the Russian people.
“When Trump suddenly starts to act as though he can give us directives and is threatening us, we can actually destroy America…America can destroy us as well, but we can do it faster and more effectively.”
What People Are Saying
Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov said: “There will be consequences—sanctions? Tariffs?…Yes there will be severe consequences, we will destroy all of Ukraine.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram: “Putin is definitely not preparing for a ceasefire or an end to the war. He is determined only to present a meeting with America as his personal victory and then continue acting exactly as before, applying the same pressure on Ukraine.”
President Donald Trump said: “Well, you’re looking at territory that’s been fought over for 3 1/2 years…you know, a lot of Russians have died. A lot of Ukrainians have died.
“So we’re looking at that, but we’re actually looking to get some back. Some swapping. It’s complicated…but we’re going to get some back, we’re going to get some switched. There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both.”
What Happens Next
The one-on-one meeting between Trump and Putin is scheduled to be followed by delegation talks and a joint press conference, with U.S. and allied diplomats monitoring whether the Alaska summit produces a cease-fire framework or specific commitments on sanctions and territorial issues.
Analysts warned that any U.S.-Russia agreement that excludes Kyiv risked undermining Ukrainian sovereignty and splintering Western unity, and protesters in Anchorage have already shown their support for Ukraine in the run-up to the meeting.
Any agreements or confrontations that emerge from the Anchorage summit are likely to shape the course of U.S.-Russia relations as well as the outcome of the war in Ukraine.
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IAEA Weekly News
15 August 2025
Read the top news and updates published on IAEA.org this week.
Women working in the nuclear field visited Canada last week as part of an IAEA initiative to boost their career development. During the third and final visit of the 2025 IAEA Lise Meitner Programme, participants took part in a two-week training focused on research reactors. Read more →
Interested contributors have until 30 September 2025 to submit synopses for the IAEA’s International Conference on the Safe and Secure Transport of Nuclear and Radioactive Material. Read more →
The IAEA has launched an infographic design contest for young professionals aged 18 to 35 to raise awareness about emergency preparedness and response in nuclear and radiological contexts. Read more →
Radiation protection measures for patients will need rapid updating to keep pace with exciting new developments in nuclear medicine, according to experts at a recent IAEA meeting on the topic. Read more →
As part of the first ever IAEA International Conference on Stakeholder Engagement for Nuclear Power Programmes, artists were invited to participate in a NuclearPop! art contest. Read more →
Jamaica has established a new mutation breeding programme to counter the harmful effect of a coffee leaf rust, a fungal disease that has ravaged coffee plants across the Caribbean since an initial outbreak in 2012, hamstringing production. Read more →
The following article from the “Observer Research Foundation”, perhaps too politely, points out a tangled web of confusing sauces that our nuclear-armed international leaders have created with their constant contradictory lies and false threats.
The reality of it all seems to appear that these nuclear-armed meatball nations and their leaders are looking more like a global-sized bowl of questionable different flavored, colored, and tangled mess of spaghetti with no obvious or visibly seen separations of the beginning or the end to any of them that can be seen with a naked eye or even under a magnifying glass. Or a microscope . . .
But there is one strand that is a bit more white and fatter than the others and seems to tangle more obviously and aggressively among the others as if it may ultimately be dominating both the odd-looking concoction’s flavor and color as though it demands more influence in the ultimate consumption of whatever it is that we are going to attempt to choke down. ~llaw
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On 1 August, President Donald Trump ordered two nuclear submarines to move to “be positioned in the appropriate regions” in response to former Russian President Dimitri Medvedev’s remarks a day earlier about the risk of nuclear war between nuclear-armed adversaries.
The move came shortly after Trump’s 31 July remark, where he mentioned, “I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care.” In India, the remark drew disbelief and amusement, given its position as one of the most vibrant economies in the world.
However, in Russia, it took a different turn. Playing on the word “dead”, Medvedev invoked“the fabled ‘Dead Hand’”, a reference to the semi-automatic Russian command system that will launch Russian missiles even if its leadership has been wiped in a nuclear strike.
This exchange comes amid growing tensions between Russia and the US as Trump continues to mount pressure on Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine.
It was in response to this that Trump ordered the move of two US nuclear-propelled submarines, observing “ just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that,” Trump said in his Truth Social post on Friday. Aware of the escalatory potential of words with someone like Trump, Russia has since played down the move, saying that there had been no real escalation and that everyone needed to be “very cautious” with nuclear issues.
This exchange comes amid growing tensions between Russia and the US as Trump continues to mount pressure on Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. The Trump-Medvedev spat began when Trump reduced his deadline for Putin to agree to a peace settlement from 50 days to 12.
The relations between the two nuclear heavyweights remain fraught because of the collapse of the arms control regime created during the Cold War .Today, all major post-Cold War US-Russia arms control agreements are either dead or, as in the case of the New START, suspended.
Earlier this month, Russia announced that it would no longer be bound by the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, from which the US had formally withdrawn in February 2019. While the American action was aimed at countering Chinese missiles in the Indo-Pacific region, Russia’s belated exit was aimed at sending the message to Europe, which is the target of its short- and medium-range nuclear missile forces.
Despite its importance, the nuclear issue seems to have slipped from the forefront of global concern.. Yet, as recent crises remind us, this threat is ever-present, and the continuing global turbulence and disorder can act as a catalyst in triggering nuclear use.
From the onset of his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any interference by outside powers would lead to consequences “such as you have never seen before in your entire history.” This was interpreted as a nuclear threat.
In the ensuing years, according to a CSIS study, there have been over 200 instances of Russian leaders speaking of nuclear weapons in the context of the Ukraine war. From the Western side, there have been no direct threats, but several messages asserting the importance of deterrence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any interference by outside powers would lead to consequences “such as you have never seen before in your entire history.” This was interpreted as a nuclear threat.
The nuclear issue formed a key element in the recent Iran-Israel war, though neither side issued explicit threats. But Israel said its actions were aimed at eliminating Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile threat. So, their strikes were claimed to be preemptive even though there was no evidence that Iran had or was making nuclear weapons.
Then there was the India-Pakistan four-day war. Since both countries possess nuclear weapons, it has generated concern across the world. Adding to the problem was the fact that this was a war featuring missiles and aircraft, both of which are also used for nuclear delivery.
Even before the crisis escalated, Pakistan had hinted at a nuclear response. Following the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) by India, a statement from the Pakistan Prime Minister’s office said that any attempt to stop or divert the waters would be considered as an act of war, and responded to with full force across the complete spectrum of national power.” This reference to “complete spectrum” clearly relates to nuclear weapons.
Speaking to the Pakistani TV channel Geo News on the 7th, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khwaja Asif said, “If they impose all-out war on the region and if such dangers arise in which there is a stand-off, then at any time a nuclear war can break out.”
The US, which initially called for de-escalation, got more actively involved when concerns over the nuclear issue surfaced. Sometime on 9-10 May,an Indian strike hit Kirana Hills, a reported Pakistani nuclear weapons storage site near the Sarghoda air force base. According to the imagery analyst, the strike was a shallow one “with nothing of value in its immediate vicinity.” An Indian spokesman, too, denied any strike in their briefing on 11 May. But though the hit could have been accidental, it could also be seen as messaging. On May 10, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for a meeting of the National Command Authority, which oversees the use of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. Though the meeting was denied, the original announcement was seen by the US as an act of signalling.
The US concern is legitimate. Both India and Pakistan have nuclear arsenals of about 200 warheads each, and India’s Operation Sindoor and Pakistan’s Operation Bunyan al-Marsus involved missile and drone attacks. India used the conventionally armed Brahmos and Scalp EG missiles, and there are some grounds to believe that the Brahmos can also carry a nuclear warhead. In 2022, there was an incident when India accidentally fired a Brahmos missile without a warhead that had landed 124 km deep inside Pakistan. It had taken India 48 hours to admit the misfire.
Both in 2019 and 2025, India and Pakistan have taken measures to control escalation. However, in a warlike situation, this may not always be possible.
Operation Sindoor markedly altered the Indian counter-terror doctrine in two ways. First, rather than shallow commando raids that were conducted after the Uri attack of 2016, India has, since 2019, used primarily air power to deliver retribution. Second, his was laid out by no less than the Prime Minister himself who said , in his May 12 address to the nation that “India will not tolerate nuclear blackmail. India will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail.” In other words, the nuclear factor will not restrain India from counter-terror actions using air power.
Both in 2019 and 2025, India and Pakistan have taken measures to control escalation. However, in a warlike situation, this may not always be possible. An inadvertent strike at a sensitive target, be it a nuclear storage site or a civilian facility, could lead to an escalatory cycle.
In recent remarks in a lecture series published by the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), the Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Anil Chauhan hailed the “psychological impact” of India’s long-range precision strikes in Operation Sindoor. What we need to look out for are the consequences of this impact, such as strikes that could inadvertently hit nuclear weapons storage sites, triggering a Pakistani reaction. India needs to work out ways to ensure that this does not encourage Pakistan to use nuclear weapons. India and Pakistan have an agreement from 2005 that requires the two countries to give advance notification of three days of flight tests of land or sea-launched missiles. By and large, the two sides observe this by issuing NOTAMs of tests, but this does not cover warlike situations.
Manoj Joshi is a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation.
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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Thursday, (08/14/2025)
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A nuclear conflict in this day and age could be the deadliest of all in the history of mankind. Picture: Getty
On My Mind Today:
How on Earth does the world prepare for a nuclear war? It seems most all of know and understand this and nuclear war must never be allowed to happen if life on planet Earth is to survive.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has said that the US is “totally prepared” for a nuclear war following a slew of threats against America from the Kremlin,
at a time when this Penn State simulation — and many others — of a nuclear war event estimates that nearly 99 per cent of the world population would be destroyed in the event of a nuclear war between two nations. ~llaw
‘Catastrophic’ reality exposed by terrifying nuclear simulation
Nearly 99 per cent of the world population would be destroyed in the event of a nuclear war between two nations.
|This article was originally posted in “The Sun” . . .
Why Russia is Building a $25B Nuclear Power Plant in a NATO Country
Russia is building and operating Turkey’s first nuclear power plant—a $25 billion project. WSJ explains what it… more (not included in this Post, but available elsewhere on LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest ~llaw
A nuclear conflict in this day and age could be the deadliest of all in the history of mankind. Picture: Getty
A terrifying simulation has revealed the extent of devastation the world would suffer in the event of a nuclear war between two nations.
The simulation comes as a warning at a time when the world stands closer to a nuclear war than ever before since the Cold War – and it could destroy the atmosphere and cause widespread famine, The Sun reported.
With the advancement of technology and modern weaponry, a nuclear conflict in this day and age could be the deadliest of all in the history of mankind.
We could see unparalleled levels of suffering, the displacement of millions, severe food insecurity, and disruption to essential services.
It is predicted that in the event of a nuclear war between the US and Russia, an estimated 99 per cent of the population in both countries, as well as Europe and China, would die.
Other attacks across the globe could result in catastrophic events – upending the structure of society completely.
A new study by Pennsylvania State University simulated the effects a nuclear winter would have, and found a large-scale global nuclear war could inject 150 million tonnes of ash into the atmosphere.
This could act as a catalyst to damage the protective layer of the atmosphere – the Ozone – as well as block sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface.
And this could in turn affect global food production and push millions of people into starvation.
The simulation found that a nuclear war in such an event would last for almost a decade – causing widespread famine for those who survive the devastating bombings.
The UV-B would peak between six and eight years after a nuclear war, and the global temperatures would sharply drop, stopping almost all agricultural activities.
The simulation found that a nuclear war would last for almost a decade causing widespread famine. Picture: Getty
Scientists used corn – one of the most widely grown grains in the world – as their test subject and found that a wider nuclear war could lead to an 80 per cent drop in annual corn yields.
“We simulated corn production in 38,572 locations under the six nuclear war scenarios of increasing severity – with soot injections ranging from 4.5 million to 150 million tonnes,” plant scientist and meteorologist at Penn State, Yuning Shi, said.
“The blast and fireball of atomic explosions produce nitrogen oxides in the stratosphere.
“The presence of both nitrogen oxides and heating from absorptive soot could rapidly destroy ozone, increasing UV-B radiation levels at the Earth’s surface.
“This would damage plant tissue and further limit global food production.”
This comparison global map illustration shows one potential scenario outcome and how corn crops would be negatively affected. Picture: Penn State
The simulations suggest that it could take between 7 and 12 years for global corn production to recover from nuclear winter.
It is understood that most countries have contingency plans to prepare for the worst.
Robust food circulation and modern logistics systems are at the top of the list to ensure essential items can reach people whenever there is a need.
It all comes at a time when the world is increasingly witnessing more conflicts.
Just a few months ago, India launched military strikes targeting what it claimed was terror infrastructure in Pakistan.
Islamabad retaliated by launching its own wave of strikes against its arch-enemy New Delhi.
While a ceasefire was soon agreed upon between both countries, an all-out conflict could have resulted in a nuclear war, experts feared.
India as well as Pakistan are equipped with enough nuclear warheads to cause utter devastation in the region.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also pushed the world into a dangerous place.
The research found that a large-scale global nuclear war could inject 165 million tons of ash into the atmosphere. Picture: Getty
Moscow has been preparing its citizens for a nuclear war with the West in the near future.
Several media outlets in Moscow – part of President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine – have been actively publishing articles discussing a nuclear armageddon between Russia and the West.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has said that the US is “totally prepared” for a nuclear war following a slew of threats against America from the Kremlin.
In an extraordinary escalation, the US President ordered that two nuclear submarines be positioned near Russia.
The nuclear sabre-rattling comes after Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, made an ominous threat and warned that the US is taking drastic steps towards war with Moscow.
This story first appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission.
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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Wednesday, (08/13/2025)
The Pakistani Field Marshal, during his second US visit in two months, threatened to launch a nuclear war against India and take down “half the world” …
Wondering why the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” Doomsday Clock has been changed from black and white to red and white? Although I do have a pretty good idea, I thought I”d just point that out.
The heat has forced me to install a new cooling system in my Den, Office, and Kitchen area, so this is the extent of “What’s On My Mind Today.
Should be back at full strength tomorrow if all goes well today . . . ~llaw
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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Tuesday, (08/12/2025)
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PG&E’s commercial nuclear power plant — the last one still operating in California.
On My Mind Today:
The following article from “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” concerning the desperate need for what is being referred to as “Defensive AI” — in order to protect humanity and all that humanity does was not in today’s roundup of “LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest” today, but the implications of “why” and “what” it is an the reasoning behind the “need” for it, is very closely related to the workings of the “nuclear power” industry and the realistic proposal that AI as a tool to operate and control the functions of nuclear power reactors and other nuclear facilities and operations and the myriad details of nuclear safety are a definite part of the entire nuclear industry.
Just one mistake by a human mind and hand can create a nuclear atrocity, so power companies — including PG&E’s “Diablo Canyon” power plant near San Luis Obispo at Avila Beach just minutes away — places the entire idea of AI as a “safe and sound” aide to the functional administration and supervision of an error-free nuclear powered electrical energy producer. But, so too, and possibly far more seriously dangerous, any unintentional AI programming error could fail to be noticed by a human operator who might consciously recognize, adjust, and avoid a nuclear meltdown or worse that an AI operating program would not recognize at all and allow the same operations error to continue on beyond any chance of correction.
I have written briefly about this possibility before, but now that we have professionally realized that AI is not fool-proof by any stretch and requires an opposing AI system to oversee the potential errant one puts all nuclear power facilities everywhere at risk and in jeopardy of a nuclear catastrophe . . . ~llaw
“The race between attackers and defenders will never end; it will evolve like pathogens that evade vaccines made to fight them. But the United States can still shape the playing field.” Read more.
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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, Monday, (08/11/2025)
Yet for all its successes, the attack wasn’t needed, he asserts. He is convinced that Iran’s nuclear program was really all about deterrence: That is …
EDF — France’s main electricity generation and distribution company, via nuclear, hydropower, renewables and thermal power plants — said the incident …
… nuclear sites is planned, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday … Since Israel launched its first military strikes on Iran’s nuclear …
Not all rhyolitic eruptions in Yellowstone were explosive, though; Yellowstone caldera is mostly filled by very thick (up to about 350 meters or 1150 …
Here are a couple of articles on a slow ‘nuclear Sunday’ that demonstrate that I am not the only one on planet Earth who is concerned about the whole global concept of nuclear war, nuclear energy, nuclear politics, and all other things nuclear . . . ~llaw
There are others as well, including one military mad-man threat from Pakistan. The links to stories like this are listed daily in LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY . . . Perhaps the public should begin in earnest to pay attention to the nuclear threats to our very survival . . . ~llaw
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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:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA News (Friday’s only) (NOTE: It’s back!)
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, (08/10/2025)
A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. If deployed responsibly, it could allow countries to peacefully …
Why is it that we, as a species of reasonably intelligent humans, don’t want to — for whatever reasons — unite against those among us who would oppress us and control our very lives not for our personal benefit, but for the benefit of those who look down on the non-elite classes of human defined separation.
I believe the answer is simple, and it has to do with a selfish disposition representing all kinds of controlling greed including mind and physical control, race or ethnicity and made-up classes of human worth or value. I touched on this yesterday, and response was practically nil — as if I had spoken or written something demeaning, wrong, or out of place, which I am sure every upper class self-appointed self-centered egoist, dignitary, and leader who read yesterday’s post was very much appreciatiative and comforted to see . . .
And if my personal thoughts to “expand” on the definition and meaning of the word “nuclear” seemed out of place, unimportant, or vague, I was trying to make the point that “nuclear” — the very word, definition(s), and connotations of it — is without doubt the most important word there is in this world today with its prospect of instant extinction hanging over our collective heads like a heavy thunder cloud, not knowing when the lightning will strike us all all at once, and that will be the end of virtually all of us including, unfortunately, most other innocent life on planet Earth.
There is presently nothing else on or near planet Earth, other than the unlikely arrival of an unknown asteroid, that compares to the threat of a nuclear caused “armageddon” — not pandemics such as diseases like cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza or Covid — but far more likely the culprit would be a very human-caused nuclear war because there is no cure for it and it is controlled absolutely by those few leaders who control, not only us, but nuclear weapons of mass destruction, which also means they also indirectly control every nuclear power p[ant on Earth as well, and any nuclear bomb dropped on any nuclear power plant amounts to another that I often call a “two-fer”, but simply an in-situ stationary nuclear bomb, essentially doubling the fallout of radiation, fire and deathly instant steel-melting heat, as well as the powerful impact of nuclear force.
In today’s world a single 1-megaton thermonuclear bomb arriving by missile from half way around the world could, for instance, destroy the entire city of Washington D.C. and surrounds in a matter of minutes. And the delivery of that bomb could have been ordered up by just the authority of one individual human being who leads one of the nine nuclear armed countries.
When we consider all this, I believe we have to take stock of how our present world of humanity operates and make some drastic and immediate changes. That is why this anti-nuclear daily blog that I have quietly titled LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY, needs to make some changes also . . . ~llaw
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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:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA News (Friday’s only) (NOTE: It’s back!)
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, Saturday, (08/09/2025)
Donate. KGOU. All Things Considered. KGOU. All Things Considered. Next Up: 7:00 PM National Native News. 0:00. 0:00. All Things Considered. KGOU. 0:00 …
HUFF: Earth science, climate observation, space-based weather forecasting – all the kinds of things that NASA does in a public-serving way for our day …
The Trump administration is accelerating plans to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a base for humans. The reactor would launch to the moon …
An Open Pit Uranium Mine – Put it all back where it came from including today’s buildings, facilities, bombs and nuclear power plants — all things nuclear . . . If it has been reclaimed, reclaim it again. ~llaw
On My Mind Today:
This daily blog post is going to make a few additional but gradual changes over the next few weeks and months — and perhaps years — in order to move on beyond the cold-hearted definition of the word “nuclear” and what the word actually means in todays’ apathetic world(s). For example, we will take a serious look into the near future about how human and other life extinction could easily, and soon, become a reality.
The word “nuclear” and related words have gradually gone beyond their original definitions — Webster once defined uranium, which is now known as nuclear fuel, as “A worthless mineral found in the ground.” But the word and its derivatives today, of course, go far beyond that having gradually become a negative connotation or synonym for other words, such as “nuclear” that can serve to specify the connection to the core of atoms, the processes of energy release associated with them, the applications of that energy, and, in a broader sense, the central or essential elements of various things like a kind of family, or even as an individual part of something central, or as a figurative word like “gone nuclear”, which has two primary figurative meanings when applied to humans or situations:
(Definitions Courtesy of Google)
To become extremely angry, lose control, or behave in a furious and unrestrained manner:According to Merriam-Webster, this meaning is becoming more common.
Example: “My boss went nuclear when he found out about the missed deadline.”
To take drastic or extreme measures against an opponent or in a situation: This implies an escalation to a severe or over-the-top approach.
Example: “The company decided to go nuclear with their marketing strategy to dominate the market.”
What all of this demonstrates is that, though we use the definition of what “nuclear” is, but fail to learn, consider, understand, and take seriously the “realistic” nature and definition of the critical nature of the word — as in “nuclear warfare”, “nuclear bombs”, “nuclear energy”, “nuclear reactors” — and, as mentioned above, use it as perhaps a negative connotation of psychological anger or derangement to get a serious point across.
Since we know that much about the word, “nuclear”, and yet steer clear of facing its core definition, we ignore the fact that it has the power to control the very destiny of human and other life on Earth and instead rationally demand or force the world through the use of common sense insist that its “leaders” absolutely do away with “all things nuclear” rather than allow our own extinction to be controlled by a few men with big egos of “self aggrandizement” who believe, realistically so, that they control the very future of global human inhabitance.
I believe that in order to save most all life, including other species, on planet Earth, we have no choice but to unite against the tyranny of all dictatorial governments, including our own USA, that have control over human freedom and civil rights and demand that “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” be dismantled and returned to the depths of barren earth where nuclear fuel (uranium) originally came from.
It is a huge internationally cooperatively required job, of course, but if there is “a will there is a way” to make it happen. But only “We the People” can make it happen. ~llaw
An Open Pit Uranium Mine – Put it all back where it came from including today’s buildings, facilities, bombs and nuclear power plants — all things nuclear . . . If it has been reclaimed, reclaim it again. ~llaw
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:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are noYellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA News (Friday’s only) (NOTE: It’s back!)
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, Friday, (08/08/2025)
All Things Considered. Next Up: 8:00 PM The World. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … The Trump administration is accelerating plans to place a nuclear reactor …
… Could Go Nuclear,” Foreign Affairs, May 20, 2022.. Pyongyang’s threats of preemptive nuclear use, combined with its development of tactical nuclear …
The subsequent articles describe how a nuclear war could start, who controls the use of nuclear weapons in the United States, and how a nuclear attack …
IAEA Weekly News
8 August 2025
Read the top news and updates published on IAEA.org this week.
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The IAEA team at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) this morning heard several rounds of outgoing artillery fire coming from very near the site perimeter, the latest stark reminder of persistent nuclear safety dangers during the military conflict, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. Read more →
As cities worldwide face growing water stress, an IAEA-coordinated research project demonstrates that isotopic techniques offer a powerful way to safeguard this vital resource. Read more →
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