LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #513 (01/17/2024)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

JAN 17, 2024

In the 1960s, gentle, pot-smoking hippies believed that a new society could be created, a world filled with peace. The belief that nuclear weapons have changed human nature and made world war impossible, the author, Ward Hayes Wilson, writes, is essentially the same claim those hippies made. Photo credit: Wikiwatcher 1 via Wikimedia Commons.

(See the story, clearly in tune with my own heart, by Ward Hayes Wilson following my personal perspective and comments . . .)

LLAW’s THOUGHTS & COMMENTS :

If we laughed at the hippies in the 1960s, why the hell are we not laughing at the polictal concept of ‘deterrence’ — the concept that nuclear weapons will never be used beyond ‘threat’ level. The ‘60s hippies’ reasoning was no different than the highest levels of nuclear-armed governments today.

For about a year and a half now, I have been preaching each and every night to the multitudes that ‘all things nuclear’ must not only be abolished but also demolished or buried deep underground where none of it can ever be recovered for future use. There are millions of others who feel the same way I do, of course, but the problem is few of us take any positive action toward making that enormous effort to achieve the purpose. It can be done, but it takes a brave new world of a globally united human society to make it happen. I have defined in many other Posts how that could be accomplished. But will we ever listen? And will we ever learn? Do we not understand “reality”?

I have already written in a previous Post my rebuttal to Mr. Kallenborn’s article, and I become more pessimistic about our collective future as time passes, but I will continue on until I know in my heart that such a possibility of eliminating ‘all things nuclear’ will never happen. ~llaw

Following Article courtesy of “The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” and the author:

A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished

By Ward Hayes Wilson | January 17, 2024

In a recent piece in the Bulletin (“Why a nuclear weapons ban would threaten, not save, humanity”), Zachary Kallenborn argued that a ban on nuclear weapons would create serious risks, including unrestrained great power war and a hindering of global cooperation. He asserted that continuing to maintain small nuclear weapons arsenals for the foreseeable future is sensible.

What is troubling about this assertion is not so much that Mr. Kallenborn is wrong, but that he seems to have strayed from reality. Mistakes in a discussion about nuclear weapons policy matter because roughly 4.2 billion people depend on those policies for their safety and survival. With so much at stake, the discussion about nuclear weapons demands the highest levels of seriousness and an unflinching insistence on realism. Mr. Kallenborn has missed that mark in at least one important regard.

Nuclear weapons prevent all-out war? Kallenborn writes, “Nuclear weapons place a cap on how bad great power conflict can become and may deter the emergence and escalation of great power war.” In the world of nuclear weapons advocates, this is a common claim, viz. that nuclear weapons prevent large-scale existential wars similar to World War II. For example, John Lewis Gaddis a highly regarded historian of the Cold War, puts it this way: “As the means of fighting great wars became exponentially more devastating, the likelihood of such wars diminished, and ultimately disappeared altogether.”[1] In other words, “great” wars have disappeared altogether, and nuclear weapons are the reason.

This claim is essential for those who wish to keep nuclear weapons. After all, if nuclear weapons can stop World War II-type wars, then it is safe—even necessary—to keep them. If, on the other hand, they can’t, then all-out wars are more likely (because people wrongly think that nothing can go wrong as long as nuclear weapons are present). And when one occurs, the use of nuclear weapons is almost inevitable.

Unfortunately, the faith in the peace-inducing powers of nuclear weapons is wishful thinking. Wars are decided by human beings, and as the history of our civilization demonstrates—Winston Churchill once called it “the dark lamentable catalog of human crime”—human beings have deep-rooted urges to make war. It is not pleasant to insist on this portrayal of human nature, but the stakes require that we be brutally honest with ourselves. We have been fighting wars with dogged persistence for at least 6,000 years. As President John F. Kennedy put it, “[T]he human race’s history, unfortunately, has been a good deal more war than peace.”^[2] Every era of history and region of the world has experienced war with disheartening regularity. There are sometimes pauses and respites—sometimes for even a hundred years—but the lust for war always reemerges.

American philosopher William James explained the persistence of war this way, “Our ancestors have bred pugnacity into our bone and marrow, and thousands of years of peace won’t breed it out of us.”^[3] War is a tenacious part of our behavior. If humans were to suddenly give up fighting wars, it would be a monumental change—a revolution in human behavior. Losing our taste for war would be to surrender something central to our natures—like renouncing our predisposition for religion, our love of beauty, or our tendency to overeat.

There’s no doubt that the risk of using nuclear weapons can restrain thoughts of war … sometimes. But can the “magic” of nuclear weapons dissuade us forever? Nothing else has. The hopeful (and somewhat naive) belief that nuclear weapons will always prevent all-out wars ignores one important fact: The evidence that supports this claim—the last 78 years—amounts to only 1.3 percent of the evidence. The other 5,928 years tell a different story.

Let’s get real. The claim that nuclear weapons have somehow permanently suppressed the heretofore unquenchable desire for war is not a realist position. Typically, it is idealists who optimistically say that we can change the world by simply changing our hearts. Idealists believe that changing human nature overnight is possible. For example, in the 1960s, gentle, pot-smoking hippies believed that a new society could be created, a utopian world where people would live in communes and value love above all other things. And with this new emphasis on love, there would naturally come a world filled with peace. And we could all hold hands and sing.

If you stop and think about it, the belief that nuclear weapons have changed human nature—what Kallenborn asserts—is essentially the same claim those hippies made. Nuclear believers say that the urge to make savage war has at last been overcome. They say we can now live in peace forever. Our darker, primitive natures will never again overwhelm our sensible, rational brains. There will be no more all-out wars. And they say this utopia of peace has already arrived (just without the singing). But rather than the power of love, it is a tool—a piece of technology—that has wrought this magical transformation.

Sadly, nuclear weapons have not transformed our warlike natures into calm and peaceful ones. Unbridled war, fought with savage abandon, is still likely, perhaps even inevitable. If you doubt that anger and violence are stalking the world, read some headlines. Around the world are sudden fires of passion that leap up first here, then there. War is raging in Europe and the Middle East. With so much hatred around as fuel, is there much doubt that a war that engulfs many nations and many peoples is far off? If you don’t think so, at least some of your neighbors do. An International Red Cross survey asked millennials in 2019 if they thought a worldwide war similar to World War II would happen in their lifetimes. More than 58 percent of respondents in the United States said yes.^[4]

The belief that large-scale war has been banished forever by nuclear weapons is nothing more than a dangerous fantasy. All the evidence of history and everything we know about ourselves tells us that our warlike natures cannot change overnight. (That is the sound of genuine realism talking.)

Claims that we can change human nature are unsurprising in the mouths of gentle, pot-smoking hippies. On the lips of nuclear weapons proponents, they are realist heresy. The fact that nuclear weapons advocates can call themselves realists and at the same time claim that nuclear weapons make all-out wars impossible shows that they do not understand the assumptions that underlie their own position. Their “realism” is nothing of the kind.

The problem with relying on nuclear deterrence is that if it can’t be perfect—and perfect for all time—then it is too dangerous to rely on. Who’s to say that nuclear deterrence isn’t like a pressure cooker—able to hold off savage wars for a time, but when the top blows off at last, the destruction will be all the more far-reaching because it was held in for so long? Because of our primitive, warlike natures, nuclear weapons have to go. There are no safe hands for nuclear weapons. That is a reality that we all ignore at our own peril.

Editor’s note: Ward Hayes Wilson is the author, most recently, of It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons. The arguments here are based in part on chapter one of that book.

Notes

^[1] John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (New York: Penguin Press, 2005), p. 52.

^[2] “News conference, President John F. Kennedy,” State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1963, https://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/Press-Conferences/News-Conference-52.aspx (accessed May 24, 2023).

^[3] William James, “The Moral Equivalent of War,” in War: Studies from Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, ed. Leon Bramson and George Goethals (New York: Basic Books, 1964), p. 23.

^[4] https://www.icrc.org/en/document/majority-millennials-see-catastrophic-war-real-possibility

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There are 5 categories (plus a bonus category at the end for news about the Yellowstone caldera and others that also play an important role in humanity’s lives) as do ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 linked most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (Especially with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual appearing order:

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Nuclear Power
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A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (per above). If a category heading does not appear, it means there was no news reported from this category today. There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available at the end of this Post.

(A reminder, just in case: When linked, the access to the media story will be underlined. If there is no link to a media story of interest you can still copy and paste the headline and lead line into your browser to find the article you are seeking. Hopefully this will never happen.)

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/17/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

The 3 Best Nuclear Energy Stocks to Own for 2024 | InvestorPlace

InvestorPlace

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A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

All the evidence of history and everything we know about ourselves tells us that our warlike natures cannot change overnight. (That is the sound of …

Nuclear ambitions in the push for renewable energy – The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

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Nuclear Power

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Nuclear power expansion plans highlight fuel bottlenecks | Business – Chemistry World

Chemistry World

Western governments look to overcome Russian dominance of key uranium processing steps. Nuclear energy shuffled into the spotlight in December …

The benefits of nuclear energy – Orano – Orano

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Fukushima nuclear plant operator in Japan says it has no new safety concerns after Jan. 1 quake

ABC News

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan says it has no new safety worries and envisions no changes to the …

Dutch initiative to boost nuclear workforce

World Nuclear News

Nuclear power currently has a small role in the Dutch electricity supply, with the 485 MWe (net) Borssele pressurised water reactor providing …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Putin Ally Issues Ominous ‘Red Button’ Threat Over NATO War Report – Newsweek

Newsweek

Sergey Mironov, leader of A Just Russia, said that as a nuclear power, Russia “will take all available forces and means to defend its territory.”

A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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How Russia Is Building the Nuclear Weapons of the Future | The National Interest

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Nuclear Power Emergencies

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Nuclear Disablement Teams visit commercial atomic power station in Pennsylvania – DVIDS

DVIDS

… nuclear infrastructure of commercial power plants. “The NDTs were able to expand their understanding of commercial nuclear power emergency …

U.S. Army Nuclear Teams’ Visit Enhances Preparedness – BNN Breaking

BNN Breaking

… Power Station to gain insights into commercial nuclear power plant operations, enhancing their capability for nuclear infrastructure emergencies.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

2024 could bring ‘a lot of ruin,’ but nuclear threat could be a stabilizing force – UPI.com

UPI

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are far from over. Little noticed was a nuclear threat sounded again by Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev …

The Urgent Need for Enhanced U.S. Missile Defense Amid Rising Nuclear Threats – Medriva

Medriva

Rising Nuclear Threats: A Global Concern. As the world becomes more volatile and uncertain, the threat of nuclear war looms larger in the minds of …

NATO’s Escalating Wargames Threaten a Nuclear Exchange With Russia | Stop the War

Stop the War Coalition

… threats outside its borders. CND General Secretary Kate Hudson said … Either of these wars could go nuclear and they have to be brought to a …

Yellowstone Caldera

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Are You Prepared? 12 States Where A Volcano Eruption Could Happen At Any Time

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List and interactive map of current and past earthquakes near Yellowstone volcano. Quakes Felt · Quakes Felt. See quakes that people felt in the last …

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023

LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #457 (11/21/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 21, 2023

[Why Yellowstone is a bonus Post to this “All Things Nuclear” Nightly Production. It and others could be a way out if we act soon enough.]

To my way of thinking, the Yellowstone Caldera (and others around the planet) may be by far the best chance to foil doomsday, as the ultimately successful solution to forging ahead, forgetting about the world-wide fear of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, as well as fossil fuels and their greenhouse gas global warming effect. It is incorporated into my “Blue Print” plan for destroying all things nuclear “Management”.

As for the Yellowstone Caldera and all the rest of them having their own life-ending potential, at least their devastating capability is not created by the activity of our human selves, and there is also the caveat concerning the ability to cool and control the destructive power of calderas by harnessing and using their natural power production that would reduce their potential to ‘boil over’, making them safer in the long run than we currently believe. Their collective power could comfortably provide enough electricity for the entire planet forever. Yellowstone alone could well support electrical power plants all over both of the American continents for hundreds of years. And there are others, such as the Long Valley caldera in western California, less than 800 miles southwest of Yellowstone. There are also several large calderas in South America. And the largest one of all is located in the Philippines. There are dozens of others around the world, some more active than Yellowstone. And harnessing them for power generation is much easier than one would tend to think. Yellowstone provides an example of how power generation could work by tapping the ready-made steam of calderas that could provide the heat to create electricity all by themselves. I will provide that video in a future Post of “All Things Nuclear”. You can also track it down yourself is you’ve a mind to, which might whet your interests by making the effort to broaden your scope and knowledge of our harrowing world crises from all things nuclear to its cousins, the other fossil fuels.

What follows is a brief primer considering the potential of developing the Yellowstone caldera and other similar calderas to provide all the electrical power we could ever need, and by doing so perhaps saving us in two ways from the 6th Extinction . . .

The following article by Dr. Thomas F. Arciuolo, gives us reinforcing look that the Earth’s human world(s)might well be able to get along without any fossil fuels, including uranium (nuclear fuel). The cooling affect of volcanic activity in the calderas might also allow us to live without fear of devastation from calderas such as the Yellowstone. The question is, though, can humanity buy into such an effort rather than go to war and more wars over who controls the potential natural energy production, needing only a delivery grid system. Could we possibly come together and create a global free energy program without letting greed and greenbacks get in the way? ~llaw

Supervolcano Could Solve the Climate and Energy Crises

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Ultimate Interfaces Corporation

December 10, 2022, 16:10 GMT

SHARE THIS ARTICLE: Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano: A Solution to the Climate and Energy Crises

Scientists propose a new and revolutionary method to harness the Yellowstone’s supervolcano., and generate enough electricity to power the American continent.

With the dawn of the 3rd decade of the 21st century, humanity is embarking on a 2nd Renaissance.”

— Dr. Thomas F. Arciuolo

MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES, December 10, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The climate crisis poses a major threat to human civilization. Burning fossil fuels to generate energy is the primary cause of this crisis, due to greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, our energy requirements are expected to grow significantly in the future, as would be expected.

At the same time, we face another great crisis. Underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming lies a powerful supervolcano, which has the guaranteed potential for an eruption that will be catastrophic to the entire world.

Researchers Dr Thomas Arciuolo and Dr Miad Faezipour propose a solution to these problems, by harnessing the mighty energy reserve within the Yellowstone Supervolcano to generate clean, emission-free energy.

The team’s proposed technology would generate phenomenal amounts of electricity – enough to power the entire American continent. Their plan would also cool the supervolcano’s magma chamber, preventing a super-eruption. NASA has predicted that cooling the magma by just 35% would prevent such a calamity. The project would also generate thousands of jobs and ensure energy-independence for the USA.

(Note: Concerning jobs creation, the total number of jobs lost would far outdistance the new jobs created. However, there would be thousands upon thousand of alternative jobs created by getting rid of all things nuclear as well as fossil fuel plants, mining reclamation, and ancillary supportive occupations ~llaw)

The proposed copper-based, volcanic energy harvesting technology has the potential to produce triple the USA’s predicted energy requirements for 2050. The excess power could be sold to other countries on the American continent for profit, and to fund the facility’s construction.

Arciuolo and Faezipour’s pioneering technology has been fully simulated, to prove that its methodology is both practical and efficient. The use of volcanoes to generate power has already proved successful in Iceland and Hawaii.

Harvesting energy from Yellowstone’s supervolcano would provide safer and more dependable power than any form of energy used today, including solar, wind, and nuclear. The team’s technology would not only generate huge profits, but it would also prevent a catastrophic eruption, while significantly mitigating the climate crisis and meeting the American continent’s energy needs for the years and centuries to come.

This technology could be adopted globally by other nations to provide a world-wide solution to climate change and energy production.

Dr. Thomas F. Arciuolo
Ultimate Interfaces Corporation
+1 203-640-7100
email@ultimateinterfaces.com

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

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category. There is one Yellowstone Caldera bonus story available in this Post. If a category heading does not appear, it means there was no news reported from this category today.

(Just a reminder: When linked, the access to the media story will be underlined. If there is no link to a media story of interest you can still copy and paste the headline and lead line into your browser to find the article you are seeking. Hopefully this will never happen.)

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

We’re long past nuclear deterrence: Bring on mutually assured prevention | The Hill

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See all Hill.TV See all Video. Top Stories. See All · Senate · Senate … Where things stand on a potential Israel-Hamas hostage deal. by Laura Kelly 2 …

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… Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees all of the agency’s nuclear weapons work. In 2014, Lawrence Livermore scientists began raising …

Disarmament Grows More Distant as US Plans Another “Upgrade” to Nuclear Bomb

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Nuclear Power

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US to announce global nuclear fusion strategy at COP28 – Reuters

Reuters

The U.S. will lay out the first international strategy to commercialize nuclear fusion power at the upcoming UN climate summit in Dubai, …

Floating Nuclear Power Plants: Benefits and Challenges discussed at IAEA Symposium

International Atomic Energy Agency

… nuclear power plant (FNPP). Interest is growing in installing small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges or platforms to provide clean …

Paradigm shift on nuclear power – Energy Central

Energy Central

After four decades, the Philippines is tapping nuclear power again as a viable alternative source of energy. Last week, Energy Secretary Raphael …

Nuclear War

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Why North Korea may use nuclear weapons first, and why current US policy toward …

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Because it will face an intense “use-it-or-lose-it” dilemma, North Korea will likely employ nuclear weapons early if war erupts on the Korean …

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The Nation

… nuclear arms race poster during the cold war, nuclear war tensions. Demonstrators march toward Central Park during a nuclear disarmament rally of …

Gaza Massacre could lead to Nuclear War | Common Dreams

Common Dreams

As military veterans who have experienced the deadly threat of nuclear weapons from the Cuban Missile Crisis onward, as well as being distraught …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Entergy’s nuclear plant north of Baton Rouge was forced into temporary emergency shutdown

NOLA.com

Entergy’s River Bend nuclear power plant near St. Francisville was forced into a temporary emergency shutdown over the weekend due to a technical …

5 TPP power units taken out for emergency repairs – Ukrenergo | Ukrainian news

ukranews.com

Consumption limits were not introduced,” the message says. As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Energoatom national nuclear energy …

Paradigm shift on nuclear power – Energy Central

Energy Central

the Philippines’ initial attempt on nuclear energy, through the Bataan Nuclear Power … power plants for maintenance or emergency repair purposes. This …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Gaza Massacre could lead to Nuclear War | Common Dreams

Common Dreams

As military veterans who have experienced the deadly threat of nuclear weapons from the Cuban Missile Crisis onward, as well as being distraught …

Why North Korea may use nuclear weapons first, and why current US policy toward …

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Russia has probably not used nuclear weapons in Ukraine because the war is not existential. A defeat there is not an offensive threat to the Russian …

Dangers only multiply: Could Israel’s war on Gaza go nuclear? – MR Online

MR Online

Dangers only multiply: Could Israel’s war on Gaza go nuclear? … threats to launch more October 7ths until Israel is “annihilated”), this remains the …

Yellowstone Caldera

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The Mystery Of Flagg Ranch, OR, The Case Of The Unknown Ignimbrite

National Parks Traveler

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

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023

LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #449 (11/13/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLAW’s COMMENTARY: 
LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #449 (11/13/2023)
“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT
NOV 13, 2023
LLAW’s COMMENTARY: 
On this Monday evening after a long Veterans’ Day holiday, it is a good time to update where I am on my “Blue Print” concept for destroying all things nuclear before all things nuclear destroys us along with most all other living critters on planet Earth. If you’re not familiar with the “Blue Print” plan that I have described in earlier Posts, I’m sure you will be aware of it at some point in the not too distant future. I will be updating information much more frequently as I work, along with others, toward the final draft over the next few months. And then we will submit the concept to the eight nuclear possessing governments around the world employing the USA as the designated leader. I have successfully done this, of course on a much, much smaller corporate scale, one time before back in the Reagan rein with the Department of the Interior, and we were successful. So I know, essentially or basically, how to go about presenting this issue to a government that can be forced to listen. And the United States’ government is where I intend to begin. If we are successful then, we will have a strong base to pass the “Blue Print” along to other countries.

Up until recently this has been a personal impossible pipe dream that I know how to construct and make happen, and though I will need help to perfect the “Blue Print” from everywhere, I know where to find that help when the time comes. But for now the basic idea you need to know involves changing our international concept of the corporate profit ideal (Capitalism), at least until the job is done, from manufacturing or producing commercial products for greenbacks and money-bags full of profits to the sole purpose of paying for and saving our planet (and us) from creating our own extinction.

The effort, from our normal viewpoint won’t look all that much different than now because many of of our present commercial businesses will still be producing and making much of what they have always produced and made - say producing food, clothing, housing, transportation, electricity, etc. as they’ve always done, but you won’t be paying them for it and the corporations won’t be profiting from it because, of necessity, all financial capital and monetary exchange or transactions will be controlled by what I call “The Organization” (of which each and every one of us will be a part) that will act and operate much like an old fashioned Farmers’ Market or a Co-Op controlling all financial transactions with all expenses and former profits going toward the cost of destroying all things nuclear, which essentially amounts to putting the uranium that fuels all things nuclear along with all of its supporting facilities (like nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons for instance), nuclear-related equipment (like reactors), and buildings or constructs containing nuclear reactors, and nuclear waste, for example. “Destroying” means putting all of everything nuclear or related to it back in the deep underground where uranium was mined, burying it forever back where it came from - never to be dug up again. It is a mammoth project and the expeditious need for it to be done immediately rather than sometime later will be the soul objective of us all. (I know that sounds insane, but insane or not, it must be done and done quickly if we are to survive.)

There is also one other important issue that must be solved to make this happen. We need objective and honest leadership and help - the kind of help that has no alternative or deviant ideas about how to ‘beat the system’ individually and profit from the “Blue Print” beyond the day it goes into effect until the day it is over and done with. (And it may be that, when the last day arrives and the dust clears, those kinds of grifters and carpetbaggers will no longer be acknowledged nor admired as nations’ leaders.) We presently have leaders and corporate presidents in all countries who know how to ‘play the game’ and find ways to ‘cheat’ the system for personal gain. For the “Blue Print” to work, such attempted personal greed must never happen. If that seems impossible, and it may be, then we will all end up as dust in the wind of the 6th Extinction. It may be that the help we need may come from an unexpected place. ~llaw

ACCESS TO “LLAW’s ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA:

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated inks is listed below by nuclear Category. There are three Yellowstone Caldera stories available in this Post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.(Just a reminder: When linked, the access to the media story will be underlined. If there is no link to a media story of interest you can still copy and paste the headline and lead line into your browser to find the article you are seeking. Hopefully this will never happen.)

And today’s nuclear world’s News:

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Illinois to lift moratorium on nuclear construction

World Nuclear News

The new bill, among other things, instructs the Illinois Emergency … nuclear technology and all of the benefits that it offers.” Researched …

China and the United States Hold their First Nuclear Security Talks in Years – UN Dispatch

UN Dispatch

I just don’t think, given everything else going on in the world, that the time is now. But my hope is that as time goes on, there will be more …

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Boise State Public Radio

All Things Considered · We Are Idaho · Community Conversations · Morning … Idaho small nuclear reactor project canceled. November 10, 2023. Meet the …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

How to interpret a bad day for nuclear power – Axios

Axios

NuScale Power Corp. share price … It’s easy to over-interpret the death of small modular reactor firm NuScale’s Idaho project, but it nonetheless has …

Lockheed Martin tapped to build nuclear–powered deep-space probe – New Atlas

New Atlas

Under a US$33.7-million Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract, Lockheed Martin is developing a next-generation nuclear–reactor-powered …

U.S. Re-Enters the Nuclear Fuel Game – IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum

Centrus Energy delivers first batch of uranium that’s critical for advanced reactors.

Nuclear War

NEWS

The Collapse of Global Arms Control – Time

Time

The Collapse of Global Arms Control. Demonstration against ongoing war in Ukraine and nuclear weapons in Japan People attend the protest against the …

US and South Korea sharpen deterrence plans over North Korean nuclear threat – AP News

AP News

… nuclear ones, to defend the South in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack. He also said the document will provide a template for the allies …

US, South Korea revise deterrence strategy, boost drills over North Korea threat – Reuters

Reuters

… nuclear and missile threats, and vowed to maintain … nuclear planning discussions to better coordinate an allied nuclear response during a war.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

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Liquid Dataport and Intelsat Keep Businesses Connected During Emergencies

MyJoyOnline

Load-shedding distributes demand for electrical power across multiple power sources and is used to relieve stress on an energy source when demand for …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

US and South Korea sharpen deterrence plans over North Korean nuclear threat – AP News

AP News

… nuclear attack. He also said the document will provide a template for the … threats of nuclear conflict. Arriving in South Korea over the weekend …

US, South Korea revise deterrence strategy over North Korea threat – Reuters

Reuters

… nuclear and missile threats, South Korea’s defence ministry said. The Tailored Deterrence Strategy (TDS) is aimed at countering North Korea’s nuclear …

55th Security Consultative Meeting Joint Communique – Department of Defense

Department of Defense

He noted that any nuclear attack by the DPRK against the United States or … nuclear and other WMD use and conventional threats. The two leaders …

Yellowstone Caldera

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World’s First National Park, world record in Wyoming

World Record Academy

The caldera is considered a dormant volcano. It has erupted with tremendous force several times in the last two million years. Well over half of the …

Plant health as a new effective monitoring system for volcanic activity – Phys.org

Phys.org

… Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, U.S., to determine their reaction to hydrothermal activity (circulating fluids in the vicinity of a magma source …

Reykjanes Volcano Update: Eruption in Coming Days Likely | VolcanoDiscovery

Volcano Discovery

… caldera, and Ijen. Yellowstone quakes · Yellowstone quakes · Latest earthquakes under Yellowstone volcano. List and interactive map of current and …

The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war:

We’re pausing our live coverage

We’re pausing our live coverage of the war in Ukraine for now – but here are the key developments you may have missed over the weekend.

Russian forces intensified attacks on positions in eastern Ukraine.

In Bakhmut, Moscow is attempting to regain lost territory, the head of Ukraine’s ground forces wrote on social media at the weekend.

“Toward Bakhmut, the Russians have become more active and are trying to recapture previously lost positions. Enemy attacks are being repelled,” Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi said.

Ukraine also reported Russian troops are attempting to surround Avdiivka, south of Bakhmut, which is considered to be a stronghold.

Elsewhere, Russia has shelled Kherson, in the southwest of Ukraine, officials claimed, 62 times across the weekend, injuring four civilians.

On Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians to prepare for new waves of Russian attacks on infrastructure over winter.

“Russia is preparing for Ukraine. And here, in Ukraine, all attention should be focused on defence, on responding to terrorists on everything that Ukraine can do to get through the winter and improve our soldiers’ capabilities,” he said in his nightly address.

The warning came after Ukraine claimed Russia fired its first missile strike on Ukraine in almost two weeks.

There have also been reports over the weekend, from The Washington Post, claiming a Ukrainian officer coordinated the attack on the Nord Stream pipeline – which carries gas into Europe from Russia – though the officer in question denied any involvement.

November 8, 2023November 8, 2023

LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #444 (11/08/2023)

ALL THINGS NUCLEAR

LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #444 (11/08/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 8, 2023

LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

One more evening and new (although most of the old are new too) especially to new readers who never saw or read those that were only available to Facebook faithful. So, as I’ve mentioned before, I will occasionally pick an older Post to points that have been made over the last year-plus that are important to the future of all life on planet Earth. But I have added my feelings about a Forbes article today . . .

This Post was short and intense – letting the images do the inferred “talking”. I well know those long roads to the uranium mines in Wyoming and other western states. I began my career in the uranium and nuclear industry at a mine called the Lucky Mc Mine in central Wyoming in the 1960s as an accountant for the San Francisco based company. I remained in the company’s uranium and other enterprises into the early 1980s. The 3-Mile Island nuclear accident prompted me to ‘escape’ from the nuclear business, realizing that the ‘stuff’ we were selling all over the world was immanently dangerous.

Over the years I have learned just how lethal “All Things Nuclear” are, and yet I see ridiculous stories in tonight’s media news from Forbes, with propaganda direct from the industry that headlines with How Policy Saved America’s Nuclear Power Plants, and leads on with this line. “Federal and state policy kept America’s nuclear power plants online to preserve clean energy supplies and prevent emissions increases and . . . I have to admit I laughed derisively at the opening to this article (and of course I will not read it because it is pure industry propaganda from the industry. Nuclear power plants do not produced ‘clean’ energy, and they are proud owners of the dirtiest and most toxic waste on the planet that they know what to do with except to dump it in the ocean. Oh, yes, it is ‘treated’, but what will happen when the ‘treatment’ wears off? And we haven’t even mentioned the words “meltdown” or “nuclear war” yet. ~llaw

Shared with the Public on June 8th, 2023 . . .

Uranium and its products of nuclear weapons and nuclear power is the road to Nowhere – a desolate world that looks something like this lonely road to the first step and the last step to desolation and annihilation.

Stop nuclear insanity before nuclear insanity stops humanity! ~llaw

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TONIGHT’S CATEGORIZED NUCLEAR NEWS

ACCESS TO “LLAW’s ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA:

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated inks is listed below by nuclear Category. There are no Yellowstone Caldera stories available in this Post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Science is Everywhere camps at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History – YouTube

YouTube

13 Things from the 1970s, Kids Today Will Never Understand! … all of us’ I See the full speech. MSNBC New 1M views · 6:10 · Go to channel · A Recipe …

Feds come to Kemmerer to explain the permitting process for proposed nuclear plant

Wyoming Public Media

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent federal agency that oversees all things nuclear, like the TerraPower project near Kemmerer.

Holtec plans to build new nuclear reactors at its energy plants — but not at Pilgrim, for now

WCAI

All Things Considered · Podcasts …more programs · The Point · News Roundup … Holtec and other supporters contend that nuclear energy can be safe and …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

How Policy Saved America’s Nuclear Power Plants – Forbes

Forbes

Federal and state policy kept America’s nuclear power plants online to preserve clean energy supplies and prevent emissions increases as …

Should Texas Build More Nuclear Power Plants?

Texas Monthly

Even if nuclear takes off, it will be years before it catches up to the contributions of natural gas, or even wind power, to the state’s energy mix. “ …

Ukraine war live updates: Russia claims Kyiv attacked 3 nuclear power plants – CNBC

CNBC

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev claimed Wednesday that Ukraine tried to attack three nuclear power plants.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Kremlin says nuclear arms dialogue with US is necessary but not ready to be lectured

Reuters

After fears of a nuclear war were triggered by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States and the Soviet Union sought to slow the arms race with …

Ukraine war live updates: Russia claims Kyiv attacked 3 nuclear power plants – CNBC

CNBC

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev claimed Wednesday that Ukraine tried to attack three nuclear power plants.

Why a Russian nuclear expert thinks the Doomsday Clock should move away from midnight

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 brought the nuclear risk to an entirely new level. From the very first day of the war, Russia …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Indian Point nuclear plant to conduct emergency siren test – News 12 – Westchester

News 12 – Westchester

The Indian Point nuclear power plant will be conducting a test of its emergency siren system this evening. All 172 sirens are scheduled to emit at …

My experience of the nuclear industry so far – IMechE

IMechE

… energy mix, particularly considering the current climate emergency. I strongly believe that nuclear power will be needed to power tomorrow, along …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

ARTHUR CYR: The Continuing Threat of Nuclear Weapons | Opinion | jacksonprogress-argus.com

Jackson Progress-Argus

Military threats are not only external. In early 1961, President Eisenhower closed his Farewell Address by warning of the dangers of our massive arms …

Why a Russian nuclear expert thinks the Doomsday Clock should move away from midnight

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

… nuclear threats that has been reaffirmed this year, a Russia nuclear expert argues … nuclear war cannot be won therefore must not be fought. But …

Preventing AI Nuclear Armageddon by Melissa Parke – Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

… nuclear threats. And UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not mention the acute threat posed by nuclear-weapons-related AI applications at all, even …

The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war”:

Key points

EU officially recommends launch of Ukraine membership talks when ‘outstanding conditions met’ View post
Adam Parsons analysis: Ukraine moves closer to EU embrace – but still faces many hurdles View post
How Ukrainian forces could ‘create problems’ for Russia over winter, according to military analyst Michael Clarke View post
Ukraine spy agency behind car bombing that killed Russian-backed politician View post
Russian milblogger issues warning over Moscow’s prospects in war View post
Philip Ingram analysis:Who is winning the war? View post
Your questions answered:How bad are sanctions making life for ordinary Russians? View post

November 6, 2023

LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #442 (11/06/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

November 5, 2023November 5, 2023

LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #441 (11/05/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

An Analogy to Today’s World(s): Day Five of American Indian Heritage Month, 2023:

It is hard to believe that the American Indian Wars lasted off and on for over 300 years – from 1609 to 1924.

Yet now we are facing war over an entire planet called Earth, a massive futile and fatal concept of nonsensible wars with nuclear weapons of mass destruction. There is something desperately wrong with the whole concept of one man’s homeland being invaded by another man’s desires, mercilessly taking dominion over the weaker man’s territory that was never theirs. But power, greed, and domination seems to be our natural way of life. In order for humanity and other life on planet Earth, we must forget the eons of the past come together in unity and live as one. ~llaw

This link provides some of the history of a not so beautiful story:

The link is set as a cut and paste link only because it may be sensitive to some folks . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars?fbclid=IwAR05x5KkA5XC4gyB64jcqL5A7LF5i05z7Wmh8uUsEYrXXHeH58EkPGy8uVA

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated inks is listed below by nuclear Category. There is one bonus Yellowstone Caldera story available in this Post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

TONIGHT’S CATEGORIZED NUCLEAR NEWS:

All Things Nuclear

NEW

Russia’s Nuclear Submarine Launches the Devastating Bulava Missile | News9 – YouTube

YouTube

… all digital platforms. It includes a publishing platform, viz. www … Trump: This Is What ‘We’re Going To Do Things Immediately Within 24 Hours’ If I …

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week – Yahoo News

Yahoo News

A family rests in their at-home nuclear fallout shelter. Welcome to Bunker Talk. This is a …

Breece Hall analyzes Austin Ekeler’s game compared to other RBs ahead of Jets-Chargers matchup

YouTube

… all things New York sports. SNY delivers the most comprehensive access to all of the Tri-State area’s professional and collegiate sports teams …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Arkansas man arrested after trying to crash through gates at South Carolina nuclear plant

AP News

The Oconee Nuclear Station has three nuclear reactors and started generating power 50 years ago on Lake Keowee. The Associated Press is an …

Person of interest in custody for nuclear plant incident – YouTube

YouTube

Investigators say that someone tried to drive through a gate at a major nuclear power complex in South Carolina. SUBSCRIBE to ABC News on YouTube: …

Video Person of interest in custody for nuclear plant incident – ABC News

ABC News

Investigators say that someone tried to drive through a gate at a major nuclear power complex in South Carolina.

Nuclear War

NEW

Israel-Palestine war: Netanyahu reacts to Israeli leader’s nuclear bomb remarks | WION

YouTube

An Israeli Minister has drawn severe criticism for suggesting dropping a nuclear bomb on the war-torn region. Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai …

Israel minister says nuclear attack on Gaza is ‘an option’ – The New Arab

The New Arab

While the Israeli military pounds Gaza without relent, Israel’s far-right Minister for Heritage has said that a nuclear attack on Gaza is ‘an …

Israel-Hamas war: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas denounces Gaza ‘genocide’ in …

Euronews.com

The latest developments from the Israel-Hamas war. Israeli minister suspended after saying dropping nuclear weapon on Gaza ‘an option’.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Real nuclear threat in Ukraine is not Russia’s weapons, expert warns | World – Daily Express

Daily Express

A major threat in the ongoing war in Ukraine is represented not by … The Kremlin has issued nuclear threats multiple times since the invasion of …

N. Korea warns of nuclear capabilities as S. Korea, US, Japan up military cooperation

The Korea Times

… nuclear war and the third world war.” “Who can provide assurance that the … nuclear and missile threats. Last month, a joint maritime blockade …

Russia’s new nuclear submarine test launches Bulava missile – The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post

… threats, as ties between Moscow and the West have hit new lows over the war Russia launched in Ukraine in 2022.

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone supervolcano warning as 90000 would ‘immediately’ die in horror eruption

Daily Express

The US’s Yellowstone caldera is one such supervolcano and has for decades seriously concerned volcanologists who fear that humans won’t be able to …

Sky News Coverage of the Russia/Ukraine War:

Key points

Fire ignites after Russian drones hit ‘civilian targets’ View post
Russia’s large-scale assault in Donbas town ‘flounders’ View post
Moscow making ‘disturbing’ effort to raise nuclear risks View post
‘Infighting in Russian military’ over Wagner View post
Ukrainian commander gives downbeat assessment of counteroffensive View post
Philip Ingram analysis:Who is winning the war? View post
Sean Bell explains:Why Russia is very unlikely to seek end to war before US election View post
Your questions answered:Why does Russia need North Korean weapons? View post
Live reporting by Charlotte Chelsom-Pill (now) and Brad Young (earlier)

November 1, 2023November 1, 2023

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #437 (11/01/2023)

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #437 (11/01/2023)

“End nuclear insanity before nuclear insanity ends humanity”

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY: So the Biden Administration and the U.S. Military wants to manufacture a nuclear bomb that is 24 times more powerful than the two we used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, to end WWII in 1945. There is really no way to compare “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” to today’s nuclear weapons because they are two different kinds of bombs. We already have bombs that are hundreds and even thousands of times more powerful than the atomic bombs we dropped on Japan. So it seems to me the media ought to do what real journalists used to do and that is to check out the ‘facts’ before writing a story that should embarrass the whole media industry with its ignorance, not to forget the inane words of our government. If that’s what Biden or some military general or anyone in his cabinet actually said, then what they said is okay from a journalistic viewpoint – but we need to point out that whoever said such a thing is laughably wrong, and take the time to tell us why.

But that’s not the most important issue, or so it seems to me. The real issue is: “Why on Earth is anyone anywhere building more nuclear weapons?” There is already enough nuclear weaponry to destroy everything on the planet several times over. We have learned, during the Russia/Ukraine war that nuclear power plants will make incredibly powerful nuclear weapons as well. All we have to do is drop a nuclear bomb on a nuclear power plant and we’ve go two weapons of mass destruction for the price of one. What the hell is wrong with humanity?

We ought to be well on the way toward destroying ‘all things nuclear’ rather than moving closer every day to destroying ourselves, which we are evidently absolutely bent on doing. For what reason do we want to do that? As a long-time employee in the nuclear industry, I am in the process of writing a ‘blueprint’ that provides a way for us to come together as a species by destroying everything nuclear and dumping and burying it all back in the open pit mines where uranium originally came from, including not only the nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, but also all of the world(s)’ weapons and power plants and storage facilities together with every other product that belongs to the family of uranium and the nuclear buildings and facilities that exist as soon as physically possible so that no one will ever again be allowed to have anything to do do with anything nuclear.

It can be done, and it must be done, or sooner or later humanity will commit world-wide genocide (it doesn’t matter whether it’s because of nuclear war with bombs designed to be weapons of mass destruction or the failure to understand that our nuclear power plants are nuclear weapons of mass destruction as well. What do we do with the nuclear waste? Dump it all in the oceans as Japan is being allowed to do right now? We can’t let that happen.

We are all essentially freshmen to the idea of understanding nuclear energy and how to clean up the global mess we have already made and each day it gets worse and more prolific while we clamor for more of it without even understanding what to do with the left overs or how to avoid accidents that are actually unavoidable because anything can cause a nuclear accident whether such accidents are man-made or Acts of Nature. A clue for us all is what we’ve done to cause climate change and global warming and all those ridiculous ways about how to save ourselves from CO2 that we continue to insanely pump into the atmosphere while knowing that greenhouse gasses, left unchecked will eventually kill us in a similar way as radiation poisoning. The writing is there profanely written on the walls of every power plant and every refinery – not just fossil fuel (uranium, by the way, is a fossil fuel as well) but every nuclear power plant and every nuclear reactor, too.

It is my hope that, since we are too proud, ignorant, or stupid to take it upon ourselves to do away with ‘all things nuclear’ that there will be intervention from somewhere by someone or something with enough common sense to not allow us to destroy planet Earth right along with ourselves, even though there is another way, if there is enough time left before the ultimate day arrives, to do it ourselves. But it would require the voluntary cooperation of all humankind around the human world(s).

Such is the purpose of this daily Post. We seek a unique world(s)-wide borderless effort for humanity to come together as a planet Earth community in order to save our ken from self-destruction and inevitable extinction if we fail to unite in a single direction peacefully and purposefully. Stay tuned as we make a diligent effort to convince war-mongering world(s) to trade in their weapons for a world of unity and felicity. It will only happen if we can bury the hatchet from now into the undefined infinite future. We all need to join the cause to save ourselves from each other. ~llaw

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A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with links is listed below by nuclear Category. There are three bonus Yellowstone Caldera stories available in this post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

From Gaza to the Pacific, All Oppression Is Connected – Inkstick Media

Inkstick Media

How the US handles Gaza threatens everything from the Biden presidency to the Pacific’s “zone of peace” ambitions. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://inkstickmedia.com/from-gaza-to-the-pacific-all-oppression-is-connected/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MTYxNTIaYjNjNDg2MDIyNWU5NjVmYzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0PT2NM_dNjvAoPI3DVRKbA

Israeli military hits Gaza’s largest refugee camp – Little Rock Public Radio

Little Rock Public Radio

The attack on northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp caused widespread damage, injuries and deaths, Gaza officials say. Israel describes Jabalia as a Hamas … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/npr-news/2023-10-31/israeli-military-hits-gazas-largest-refugee-camp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MTYxNTIaYjNjNDg2MDIyNWU5NjVmYzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw00i4mXTqKCSV3z6SM8_2nG

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Nuclear Power

NEWS

Climate Central Solutions Brief: Nuclear Energy

Climate Central

Nuclear energy is produced through fission—a process that breaks the bonds between subatomic particles in the nuclei of some weakly-bound isotopes of … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.climatecentral.org/report/climate-central-solutions-brief-nuclear-energy&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDc5NDIaOTU5MTZkNWRlYjc1OTI5Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2kib5MJ6YwoxzHXVu8Q299

3 energy companies compete to build a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic – NY1

NY1

… reactor at the Dukovany nuclear power station as the country strives to become more energy-independent and wean itself off fossil fuels. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/ap-top-news/2023/10/31/3-energy-companies-compete-to-build-a-new-nuclear-reactor-in-the-czech-republic&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDc5NDIaOTU5MTZkNWRlYjc1OTI5Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2d4RnoCiAgqWNDc4AvOgMU

How well protected are Ukraine’s nuclear power plants – DW – 11/01/2023

A nuclear power plant is more than just a reactor, says Humenyuk. It is a complex facility that consists of safety systems that provides electricity … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.dw.com/en/how-well-protected-are-ukraines-nuclear-power-plants/a-67271615&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDc5NDIaOTU5MTZkNWRlYjc1OTI5Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0ckI8md8qivFza70I3SPhP

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Nuclear War

NEWS

Why Putin toned down his nuclear rhetoric – Financial Times

Financial Times

Russian president unnerved his foes and friends about the war in Ukraine turning into an atomic conflagration. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ft.com/content/d98446ac-b56e-4f1d-bfa9-ebaed4e26884&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MjQzNjIaYjhiODY0NWExNDkwZmU3Zjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3C9rKfI57fxzvLId3vZbWJ

Opinion: The threat of nuclear war is closer than AU students might think – The Eagle

The Eagle

… nuclear weapons suddenly became vastly more realistic — but in a new way. This time, nuclear war would feature tactical nuclear weapons. Tactical … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2023/11/opinion-the-threat-of-nuclear-war-is-closer-than-au-students-might-think&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MjQzNjIaYjhiODY0NWExNDkwZmU3Zjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2WLN2L6MJ4y5p9VQwfV_1k

A Panicked Case for Nuclear Weapons Modernization – Inkstick Media

Inkstick Media

The US shouldn’t wage a new Cold War, let alone two, despite the latest US strategic posture recommendations. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://inkstickmedia.com/a-panicked-case-for-nuclear-weapons-modernization/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MjQzNjIaYjhiODY0NWExNDkwZmU3Zjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1H2zty7vW98XseS_oYRciQ

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Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

How well protected are Ukraine’s nuclear power plants – DW – 11/01/2023

“When substations come under fire, the nuclear power plant’s emergency protection is activated,” says nuclear energy expert Olha Kozharna. “Such … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.dw.com/en/how-well-protected-are-ukraines-nuclear-power-plants/a-67271615&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk4MjIaZTg5NDBiYzgxZmVjYjJmNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0ckI8md8qivFza70I3SPhP

US / Regulator Approves Revision To Indian Point Nuclear Station Emergency Preparedness Plan

NucNet

The Indian Point nuclear power station in New York state. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted a request by Holtec Decommissioning … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.nucnet.org/news/regulator-approves-revision-to-indian-point-nuclear-station-emergency-preparedness-plan-11-3-2023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk4MjIaZTg5NDBiYzgxZmVjYjJmNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2raLKjDA8i3D8mWb_RzWu9

Emergency planning changed for Indian Point | The River Reporter

The River Reporter

… emergency declaration. After a nuclear power plant has permanently ceased operations and removed fuel from the reactor vessel, the risk of an … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.riverreporter.com/stories/emergency-planning-changed-for-indian-point,123081&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk4MjIaZTg5NDBiYzgxZmVjYjJmNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw22ZgNlksQyomTJK1kZ88Dj

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Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Opinion: The threat of nuclear war is closer than AU students might think – The Eagle

The Eagle

The era of constant nuclear threat is not as distant a memory as it may seem. When Russian troops first invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the threat … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2023/11/opinion-the-threat-of-nuclear-war-is-closer-than-au-students-might-think&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDgwMzIaZjY4NGUyMzhiYWM3ZTM5Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2WLN2L6MJ4y5p9VQwfV_1k

Why Putin toned down his nuclear rhetoric – Financial Times

Financial Times

… war, an indirect one for now.” In winning … Western analysts warn that Putin’s toned-down rhetoric does not mean the nuclear threat has disappeared. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ft.com/content/d98446ac-b56e-4f1d-bfa9-ebaed4e26884&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDgwMzIaZjY4NGUyMzhiYWM3ZTM5Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3C9rKfI57fxzvLId3vZbWJ

The Axis of Resistance Threat to Israel | The National Interest

The National Interest

… nuclear threat, but it is not far below it.” In a similar vein, then-IDF … War, Israel now faced the threat of a multi-front war. Hamas’s attack … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://nationalinterest.org/feature/axis-resistance-threat-israel-207126&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDgwMzIaZjY4NGUyMzhiYWM3ZTM5Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw01W_0OVNoADCIHlB49BhX7

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Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

The complicated history of Ferdinand Hayden and the founding of Yellowstone National Park

Idaho Capital Sun

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. SUPPORT NEWS YOU … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/11/01/the-complicated-history-of-ferdinand-hayden-and-the-founding-of-yellowstone-national-park/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk3MzIaODRkZDY4NTllNDE2NWM4Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2J0Fw1051pk1IrHFtKJcZC

Yellowstone Volcano Eruption Map: This is the Instant Death Zone If the Supervolcano Will Erupt

Nature World News

Yellowstone is known as a site that sits on top of a dormant volcano, which experts believe to be a supervolcano that is waiting to erupt. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/59214/20231031/yellowstone-volcano-eruption-map-instant-death-zone-supervolcano-will-erupt.htm&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk3MzIaODRkZDY4NTllNDE2NWM4Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3bLFse2Cn3znfaid6Yp5Ss

The complicated history of Ferdinand Hayden and the founding of Yellowstone – Alternet.org

AlterNet

In fact, in 1805 the governor of the Louisiana Territory described a map drawn on a bison hide by an Indigenous American showing a “volcano” on the … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.alternet.org/yellowstone-national-park/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk3MzIaODRkZDY4NTllNDE2NWM4Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1M1BizueyyQb-15M29pLN-

Sky News Coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war . . .

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NEWS.SKY.COM

Ukraine war latest: Russia ‘concerned’ control is slipping in parts of country, analysts suggest; Putin moving forces in

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☄️LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR”☄️ #436 (10/31/2023)

“End nuclear insanity before nuclear insanity ends humanity”

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY: The following opinion piece is from LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #425 (10/20/2023), intended to provide background commentary to those who follow our new media outlets unrelated to our former daily Posts (more than a year of them, but only a few will be reposted for this purpose). They will be helpful for new subscribers to follow some of the issues and opinions. There are also several technical Posts that describe how uranium mining, milling, refining, and finally reactor fuel, and waste that will provide new subscribers with a high level understanding of how the nuclear power plant industry operates. Oddly enough it is not significantly different than the military process of building a nuclear bomb, except instead of a nuclear reactor, the military builds a nuclear bomb.

The commentary from October 20 begins here:

What possesses us humans, who in truth know nothing about (or don’t care about) the mayhem and weaknesses of the major nuclear industries – principally known as 1) creators of nuclear weapons of war and 2) as commercial providers of costly, dangerous, and unreliable nuclear generated electricity. We continue to lie to ourselves (or at least listen to and accept the propaganda) that anything nuclear is of sound technology, good for us, cheap, safe, clean, and will last forever, when it is none of the above?

And now we are apparently considering moving (or adding to) ‘All things Nuclear’, of introducing nuclear warheads into outer space. Does that mean when one country’s leaders decide to ‘nuke’ another all it has to do is let the earth do the flying and when the target country is directly beneath them, simply electronically open the satellite’s Bombay doors and drop their bombs with no danger of retaliation – at least from the ground. Wow, that would make the ICBM (missile) obsolete as well as military aircraft! Also, obviously, then, once one country is busy planning on doing that, the rest of the nuclear capable ones will follow instantly in an arms race, many of which we have been going through for eons. It is a ridiculous joke we have played on ourselves since the stone age!

So it is the grand effort of ‘do unto others before they do unto you’ technology that goes right along in typical human warlike stupidity. What if we could just learn to love (or at least honor) one another, shake hands, destroy and bury all of this genocidal nuclear technology, and spend our resources (money) on taking care of the entire human race and our only home instead of trying to eliminate us and our Earth.

Do these ‘pillars of political and corporate power’ know something we don’t know about our future or of planet Earth’s? llolloll! Of course not, unless they, too, are being directed and advised by a higher and more powerful life form! But I doubt such a ‘higher’ life form would deal with humanity in such a potentially violent way. All we are doing is playing a foolish and childish game of playground tag that will end up in what we are referring to in advance called, “The 6th Extinction”.

The last extinction was caused by a meteorite colliding with planet Earth (65+ million years ago) long before humans entered the picture, and after Earth regenerated Herself with living organisms (and eventually humans) She returned to a special place in the cosmos where living things could live, reproduce, and prosper, and we humans became a part of it all.

But, now, looking back just a few centuries, it is plain to see that we cared, not about our only home, but only about what we could take for ourselves, and now the process of ‘playing god’ is instilled in us to the point that we seem to believe that we are superior to Mother Nature, and that we can plunder, pillage, rape, kill, as humans, human parasites or animalistic epiphytes, leaving only a vast wasteland behind even unto the precious oceans and our priceless atmospheres. We are, as Pogo inferred, our own worst enemies. And the hell of it is, we seem to have no presence of mind to change our ways by turning away from approaching oblivion. ~llaw

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ACCESS TO MEDIA:

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with links is listed below by nuclear Category. There is one Yellowstone Caldera story available in this post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

America’s strategic nuclear posture review is miles off the mark | The Hill

The Hill

After identifying what it calls the unique threats posed by two peer adversaries, China and Russia, the report lays out a comprehensive, all-of- … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4282404-americas-strategic-nuclear-posture-more-deterrence-and-more-weapons/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDUzNzUyGmIzYzQ4NjAyMjVlOTY1ZmM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw32aTSfyEIcgIrtPuiTHtdl

3 energy companies compete to build a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic | The Hill

The Hill https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-business/ap-3-energy-companies-compete-to-build-a-new-nuclear-reactor-in-the-czech-republic/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDUzNzUyGmIzYzQ4NjAyMjVlOTY1ZmM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0oDAh6gISBlyAMBD8HMjhp

October 31: Pentagon pursues new nuclear bomb. Rockets strike Israeli hospital 4 times.

NewsNation

Happy Halloween, the celebration of all things spooky and the semi-official beginning of the 2023 holiday season. The Federal Open Market …

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Nuclear Power

NEWS

3 energy companies compete to build a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic – WOKV

WOKV

In a separate deal, CEZ had signed a deal with U.S. energy giant Westinghouse Electric Co. to supply nuclear fuel for the Dukovany nuclear plant, … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wokv.com/news/3-energy-companies/5LUOSSNQYFCV5EFWDPJN23VX3Y/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDc1NDQyGjk1OTE2ZDVkZWI3NTkyOTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0ZY_3Ya2GMle8Tr8wqY5B1

Nebraska lawmakers consider ways to expand nuclear energy production

The North Platte Telegraph

As a new form of nuclear technology grows more popular, officials in Nebraska are looking for ways the state can tap into it as a source of energy … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://nptelegraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/nebraska-lawmakers-consider-ways-to-expand-nuclear-energy-production/article_a3ce222e-a5bc-5e6b-908c-fe67e3670035.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDc1NDQyGjk1OTE2ZDVkZWI3NTkyOTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3G0wXp_6wIcjO5-6jqr_7j

3 energy companies compete to build a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic

AP News

1 of 2 |. FILE – A man fishes with the towering Dukovany nuclear power plant in the background, in Dukovany, Czech Republic, Sept. 27, 2011. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://apnews.com/article/czech-energy-security-nuclear-dukovany-tender-bid-6b3b1c147ac3bdfbd639c05e8707fe33&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDc1NDQyGjk1OTE2ZDVkZWI3NTkyOTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0j-jaKVXSODbDKaA86BzXe

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Nuclear War

NEWS

US wants nuclear bomb 24 times more powerful than one dropped on Japan

New York Post

Amid ongoing wars in Israel and Ukraine, the United State Department of Defense is proposing the creation of a new nuclear bomb that would be more … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.newsnationnow.com/your-morning/october-31-pentagon-pursues-new-nuclear-bomb-rockets-strike-israeli-hospital-4-times/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDUzNzUyGmIzYzQ4NjAyMjVlOTY1ZmM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1mGFDme7l_HKYNqMYRsRO7

US to build new nuclear gravity bomb – New Atlas

New Atlas

… nuclear weapon inventory with 3,708 commissioned warheads. That’s a small fraction of what it was at the height of the Cold War and only a few … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://newatlas.com/military/us-to-build-new-nuclear-gravity-bomb/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDczMDIyGmI4Yjg2NDVhMTQ5MGZlN2Y6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2P2BOsjrXlRk_GwK0XXIMu

Australia must lobby US for ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons, says ex-minister Gareth Evans

The Guardian

Evans told Guardian Australia it was “sheer dumb luck” that the world had avoided a nuclear attack in the 78 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/01/australia-must-lobby-us-for-no-first-use-of-nuclear-weapons-says-ex-minister-gareth-evans&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDczMDIyGmI4Yjg2NDVhMTQ5MGZlN2Y6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3EI4B306B7zevxBqW9Xxak

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Terms for Describing Advanced Nuclear Power Plants | IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

Emergency preparedness and response · Safeguards and verification · Basics … INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Terms for Describing Advanced Nuclear … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.iaea.org/publications/14816/terms-for-describing-advanced-nuclear-power-plants&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDcwNjAyGmU4OTQwYmM4MWZlY2IyZjQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw26Z2Rf2MQuXUsiC5uJ-Fec

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Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Pentagon pursues new nuclear bomb 24x the power of one dropped during WWII

NewsNation

… War II. Military officials argue these … nuclear weapon reflects “a changing security environment and growing threats from potential adversaries. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/military/pentagon-pursues-nuclear-bomb-more-powerful-dropped-wwii/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDQ4OTEyGmY2ODRlMjM4YmFjN2UzOTY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw25szXSp7vRNYV7NxHOENhT

US wants nuclear bomb 24 times more powerful than one dropped on Japan

New York Post

“Today’s announcement is reflective of a changing security environment and growing threats from potential adversaries,” Assistant Secretary of Defense … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://nypost.com/2023/10/30/news/us-wants-nuke-24-times-more-powerful-than-one-dropped-on-japan/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDQ4OTEyGmY2ODRlMjM4YmFjN2UzOTY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw12Hus47Rhi33hFP99rXB80

Health Professionals: Reducing the Risks for Nuclear War – Medscape

Medscape

… nuclear weapons, the fact that there is a land war being waged in Europe just now, in which various threats have been made coming from the Russian … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996959%3Fsrc%3D&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDQ4OTEyGmY2ODRlMjM4YmFjN2UzOTY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2erEWZXWwD084nTRlXMYjN

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Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone supervolcano could be ‘gearing up to explode’ with consequences explained

Daily Express

Yellowstone volcano’s magma chamber mapped in documentary. Modern humans have never witnessed a supervolcano eruption — if they had, there’s a good … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1829677/yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-volcanoes-spt&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDU2MTcyGjg0ZGQ2ODU5ZTQxNjVjODY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw23PGWpzq768NPlhPTDwOp5

Sky News Coverage of the Russia/Ukraine:

Analysis: Who is winning the war?

By Philip Ingram MBE, former colonel in British Military Intelligence and NATO planner

In July, the then Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov said that he “believes that Ukraine will win the war by next summer and could be admitted to NATO in July 2024”.

The reality of what Ukraine has really achieved on the ground would suggest this was an overly optimistic assessment – but who is winning?

In early June, Ukraine launched its long-expected counteroffensive against the Russian defences having had some significant successes in late 2022 taking back huge areas of ground around Kherson in the northeast and then Kherson in the east of the country. They had tied Russia up around Bakhmut, exhausting the Wagner fighters to the point where they had to be withdrawn from the front line.

With the delivery of fresh Western-trained troops, equipped with Leopard and Challenger tanks, Bradley and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, HIMARS and 155mm artillery, the expectation was they would punch through Russian defences like a hot knife through butter and reach the coast with the Sea of Azov in a few short months.

HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System)

However, they lacked air superiority, attack helicopters, sufficient air defence and, most significantly, enough combat engineering assets to enable the extensive Russian defences to be breached in any significant way. In reality they lacked sufficient troops, tanks, artillery, missiles, and infantry fighting vehicles as well. The went too early against the delivery timetables of Western equipment.

The Russian defences delayed and slowed the Ukrainians down. The Russian use of attack helicopters and well-planned defences showed the vulnerability of Western armour and stopped the Ukrainians making significant progress, meaning that at the start of the autumn mud season, the conditions for Reznikov’s winning remain a long way off.

An emboldened Russia even counterattacked the Ukrainians near Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast, but only after receiving 1,000 containers of ammunition and equipment from North Korea.

The current territorial picture in Ukraine has not changed much since June.

Today’s Image of Interest:

EXPRESS.CO.UK

Supervolcano could be ‘gearing up to explode’ with consequences explained

Scientists have long warned abo

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Languages, Thoughts, and Survival in a Dystopian World War Between Mother Nature and Humankind

If, in a future dystopian world, there arises an unavoidable crisis between Gaia’s nature (Earth) and human’s (World) technology, which in my view is inevitable, nature will prevail in every conceivable way where mankind’s present unnatural materialistic way of life, including our ‘cleverly’ self-imposed evolving technocratic languages, thoughts and ill-conceived deeds are concerned. Language is the root, the very beginning of our underdog fight for survival. ~llaw

To clearly understand what this is all about, be sure to read the entire article below as well as those related articles of interest, also below:

Calliope, the Olympian Muse of epic writing and poetry

20 inspiring nature words you didn’t know you needed

Hundreds more are documented in Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks.

DEREK BERES

20 January, 2020

Photo: Ahmed Saeed / Unsplash

In Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane revives hundreds of nearly-forgotten words to remind us of our relationship with nature.
New dictionaries are deleting nature words while adding technology terms, which Macfarlane states further separates us from the environment.
The words we speak shape the reality we understand, making it essential to aptly describe what is happening on the planet.

A’ Ghnùig (Gaelic)

The steep slope of the scowling expression.

Human nature is part of nature too.

Adnasjur (Shetland)

Large wave or waves, coming after a succession of lesser ones.

Surfers know the danger of being caught in one of these cycles.

Blinter (Northern Scots)

A cold dazzle.

Bobbles (North Sea Coast)

Choppy, short waves roused by wind.

Caitein (Gaelic)

First slight ruffling of the water after a calm.

Dringey (Lincolnshire)

Light rain that still manages to get you soaking wet.

The perfect word to yell out when you leave your umbrella at home.

Èit (Gaelic)

Practice of placing quartz stones in moorland streams so that they would sparkle in moonlight and thereby attract salmon to them in the late summer and autumn.

While this holds little practical utility for most of us today, it’s an example of the complex relationship between humans and nature and our attempt at condensing seemingly disparate realms—vision; nighttime; hunting; seasons—into one word. Also, pay attention to Macfarlane’s “user-value framework” explained below. To have a language that describes a world that doesn’t include us in its workings is essential.

Feetings (Suffolk)

Footprints of creatures as they appear in the snow.

Flinchin (Scots)

Deceitful promise of better weather.

Weathermen have gotten better, but not that good…

Glassel (Britain)

A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock.

Hot-spong (East Anglia)

Sudden power of heat felt when the sun comes from under a wind-shifted cloud.

Nothing like that feeling.

Kimmeridge (Britain)

The light breeze that blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing.

Lunkie (Scots)

Hole deliberately left in a wall for an animal to pass through.

Skiddle (Galloway)

To throw flat stones so that they skim on the surface of water.

I wrote an entire song to describe the feeling I had when doing this as a kid. Little did I know it was already named!

Slogger (invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Sucking sound made by waves against a ship’s side.

Squatted (Kent)

Splashed with mud by a passing vehicle.

Stravaig (Scots)

To wander aimlessly, unguided by outcome or destination.

Is this even practiced in a world with GPS?

Summer Geese (North Yorkshire)

Steam that rises from the moor when rain is followed by hot sunshine.

Terra nullius (Latin)

“Nothing-place,” uninhabitable land.

Ungive (Northamptonshire)

To thaw.

To create what he termed a “psychedelic society,” the ethnobotanist Terence McKenna declared that we must completely remake “our fundamental ontological conceptions of reality.” In order to accomplish this, he suggested a new language to address the new reality we are embarking upon. “A new reality will generate a new language,” he wrote in his essay, “Psychedelic Society.” “A new language will make a new reality legitimate and a part of this reality.”

Humans structure reality by how we name things. A language is not only a means for transferring ideas and directives to others; it serves as a guiding philosophy for how you understand reality. McKenna was imagining a new future, yet he also knew that the archaic techniques of ecstasy provided by shamanism was a means for looking back to reconstruct our present reality. In some ways he was suggesting the resurrection of an old language for new purposes.

Likewise, British writer Robert Macfarlane (recently featured on the Think Again podcast) has devoted his career to understanding and, at times, translating the natural world (for us novices, at least). His book, Landmarks, is an attempt to create a dictionary of forgotten languages that describe the world in ways that help us to understand reality differently and, perhaps, more perceptively.

“We inhabit a post-pastoral terrain, full of modification and compromise,” he writes, noting that we now have difficulty imagining reality outside of a “user-value framework.” Indeed, environmental decimation would be impossible if we had a better way of discussing what is actually happening to the planet. The problem is the language of technology has displaced discussion of nature. A recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary added words such as broadband, chatroom, and voice-mail while deleting actor, dandelion, and heron—words the gatekeepers decided were no longer relevant to the experience of childhood.

Yet, as Macfarlane writes, “language does not just register experience, it produces it.” We educate children by the words we teach them. Australian environmental philosopher, Glenn Albrecht, coined the term solastalgia to describe “the pain or distress caused by the loss or lack of solace and the sense of desolation connected to the present state of one’s home and territory.” That’s a word millions of his countrymen are feeling at this very moment.

When I asked Albrecht about Landmarks—Macfarlane offered an overwhelmingly positive blurb on Albrecht’s book, Earth Emotions—he replied,

“One of the major things is the recovery of language, which is being lost in a world which is transforming so rapidly that the old words for the way that humans have culturally and bio-physically evolved are being lost. He’s reviving them and putting them back into the language.”

We can only see what we name. A culture deficient in terminology is incapable of registering what is being destroyed in terms of environmental as well as personal awareness. The above 20 words from Landmarks remind us of what is possible to imagine—and experience—when we have names for it.

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Stay in touch with Derek on Twitter and Facebook. His next book is Hero’s Dose: The Case For Psychedelics in Ritual and Therapy.

Dealing with the emotional consequences of climate change – Big … ›

What is Happening to the Oceans’ Plankton, and what the Hell is Ecocide?

Two recently recognized and extremely important global related issues with seriously concerning elements and rapidly encroaching ecologic disasters are embedded as links in this post. First, If plankton provides nearly 70% of the oxygen that humans breathe and if all the fish in the sea depend on it as a food source, this first story seems more like the beginning of a dystopian novel than a scientific article. We need to keep a close eye on this dangerous development, and hope that a cause is quickly found and that it can be promptly corrected.

Or will we simply go on treating our environmental crises with a yawn and a shrug? Our ecological and environmental world is rapidly coming apart at the seams, including human apathy and neglect, mostly resulting from economic or financial greed, or “Ecocide” as described in this second important article, but also in a large part from a general attitude of denial and knowledge. ~llaw (12/23/18)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

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A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished

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Supervolcano Could Solve the Climate and Energy Crises

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PG&E Disasters:

1. Groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California

2. Metcalf sniper attack

(Included here for evidence of PG&E’s extended reputation of illegalites)

3. Wildfires

4. Wildfire Liability

5. Sierra blaze

6. San Bruno, California explosion

7. Butte Fire

8. October 2017 Northern California wildfires

8. Ghost Ship fire

9. Tubbs Fire

10. Camp Fire (The worst of them all)

11. Dixie Fire

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