LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #787, Monday, (10/21/2024)

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Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Oct 21, 2024

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This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran’s Natanz nuclear site, on April 14, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Monday, (10/21/2024)

Regarding promised further information from yesterday’s concerns about the CNN article headlined Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israel’s plans to attack Iran, sources say leaves more questions than answers, I could find nothing more than the following:

As stated in today’s following article posted here from “The Times of Israel” says Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack is already a “done deal,” an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Sunday.

Following is the most current information I could find on the present potential of an “all-out-war” situation between the two countries . . . ~llaw

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Iran complains to UN watchdog, alleging Israeli threats to hit its nuclear sites

In letter to International Atomic Energy Agency, foreign ministry argues striking such facilities is against global body’s resolutions and should be condemned

By Reuters and ToI StaffToday, 3:39 pm

The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency flies in front of its headquarters during an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, on February 6, 2023. (Heinz-Peter Bader/AP)

The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency flies in front of its headquarters during an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, on February 6, 2023. (Heinz-Peter Bader/AP)

Iran has written to the UN nuclear watchdog to raise its concerns about a potential Israeli attack on its nuclear sites, foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday at a weekly news conference.

Israel has vowed to attack Iran after Tehran fired some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on October 1, leading to speculation that Iran’s nuclear sites could be among Israel’s potential targets.

“Threats to attack nuclear sites are against UN resolutions…. and are condemned… we have sent a letter about it to… the UN nuclear watchdog,” Baghaei said in the televised news conference.

Separately, Baghaei said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will travel to Bahrain and Kuwait.

Israel has promised a “serious and significant” but has not openly listed any targets. Jerusalem has for years vowed that it would not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons and has reportedly readied the use of military force for that objective if Iran moves toward acquiring such weapons.

With an Israeli response expected, there has been speculation it may be mulling attacks on Iranian oil infrastructure or nuclear sites.

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran’s Natanz nuclear site, on April 14, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iran insists its nuclear program is strictly peaceful but has accelerated its enrichment of uranium to up to 60 percent fissile purity, close to 90% of weapons-grade, a level of purity experts say has no practical use except to make a bomb.

US President Joe Biden has publicly spoken out against Israel targeting Iran’s nuclear sites or oil infrastructure. The US said it opposes both actions for their potential to escalate the fighting, including Iranian reprisals aimed at civilian infrastructure in Israel or other regional states aligned with the West.

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Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump and former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett have both said Israel should bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Iran launched its October missile attack to retaliate against Israeli strikes targeting its allies terror groups Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza amid an ongoing war against both that was triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. It was the second direct Iranian attack on Israel this year; Israel responded to the first missile volley in April with an airstrike on an air defense site in central Iran that was reportedly guarding a nuclear facility.

Iran has repeatedly said it would give a forceful response if Israel attacks nuclear or oil sites, calling them a “red line.”

A Hezbollah drone attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in the coastal city of Caesarea over the weekend saw Israel further ratchet up its vengeful rhetoric against Iran, which tried to distance itself from the incident. The premier and his wife were not home at the time of the attack.

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept missiles launched from Iran over Baqa al-Gharbiya on October 1, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Washington has sought to temper Jerusalem’s plans to retaliate for the October 1 attack — which forced most of the country to rush to bomb shelters and safe rooms and killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank — fearing that the escalating tit-for-tat could spark a wider war drawing in others in the region. The attack caused damage in Israel, including in Israeli airbases, though the military has said that no aircraft or critical infrastructure were hit, and the Israeli Air Force was operating at full capacity.

Last week, the Washington Post reported that Netanyahu had told US President Joe Biden that Israel’s retaliation against Iran will not include strikes on non-military sites, such as its nuclear or oil infrastructure.

Two officials familiar with the matter, including one identified as a US official, pointed to Netanyahu’s softening stance as a key factor in the US decision to send an advanced anti-ballistic missile air defense system to Israel. The THAAD system has been activated after equipment and troops to operate it were airlifted to Israel in recent days.

Iran’s atomic energy agency spokesperson Behrouz Kamalvandi said last Wednesday that the probability of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites was “low” but any potential damage would be “quickly compensated,” according to Nournews.

At the same time, Iran’s top diplomat Araghchi warned UN chief Antonio Guterres that Tehran is ready for a “decisive and regretful” response if Israel attacks his country.

Palestinians inspect the debris of an Iranian missile intercepted by Israel, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack is already a “done deal,” an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Sunday.

Two officials said that the drone attack on Netanyahu’s home will not impact the scale or timing of the Israeli attack.

Nonetheless, a lengthy security cabinet meeting later that evening reportedly did not ultimately give Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant the authority to decide on the timing of a strike on Iran, as had been expected.

As Israel says it is preparing for the attack, the US is probing the leak of a pair of highly classified intelligence documents describing Israel’s preparations for a retaliatory strike on Iran.

Those documents mentioned Israeli forces handling dozens of air-to-surface ballistic missiles that could be used in a strike.

The prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Iran has placed the region on edge. Iran supports a network of militias across the Middle East, tightening the belt around Israel, which has for over a year been locked in battle with Iran-backed terror groups Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Monday, (10/21/2024)

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IEA Executive Director on Energy Demand Amid AI Boom, Nuclear Power – YouTube

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Op-Ed: AI infiltrates US nuclear plants via unregulated back door – Fierce Network

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Iran complains to UN nuclear watchdog about Israeli threats to its atomic sites, spokesman says

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Israel has vowed to attack Iran in retaliation for a volley of Iranian missiles on Oct. 1, stirring widespread speculation that Iranian nuclear sites …

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Iran complains to UN nuclear watchdog about Israeli threats to its atomic sites, spokesman says

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Threats to attack nuclear sites are against U.N. resolutions…. and are condemned … We have sent a letter about it to … the U.N. nuclear …

Middle East crisis live: Iran warns UN about Israel’s threats against its nuclear sites

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Iran complains to UN watchdog, alleging Israeli threats to hit its nuclear sites

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… nuclear sites could be among Israel’s potential targets. “Threats to attack nuclear sites are against UN resolutions…. and are condemned… we have …

Yellowstone Caldera

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LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #786, Sunday, (10/20/2024)

End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

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Sundays almost always seem to be filled with news stories that are better off being left till Monday unless there is no speculation at all involved in the article(s)’ facts and information. This article leaves more questions than answers, but bears following up on as soon as possible in an effort to discover what comes next. How the ‘leak’ occurred and from where and whether the stolen documents contained nuclear attack information is, of course, seriously important. I’m sure we will learn more in tomorrow’s LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS . . . ~llaw

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Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israel’s plans to attack Iran, sources say

By Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN

3 minute read

Updated 7:34 AM EDT, Sun October 20, 2024

CNN — 

The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents’ authenticity.

The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN.

The documents, dated October 15 and 16, began circulating online Friday after being posted on Telegram by an account called “Middle East Spectator.”

They are marked top secret and have markings indicating they are meant to be seen only by the US and its “Five Eyes” allies — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

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They describe preparations Israel appears to be making for a strike against Iran. One of the documents, which says it was compiled by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says the plans involve Israel moving munitions around.

Another document says it is sourced to the National Security Agency and outlines Israeli air force exercises involving air-to-surface missiles, also believed to be in preparation for a strike on Iran. CNN is not quoting directly from or showing the documents.

A US official said the investigation is examining who had access to the alleged Pentagon document. Any such leak would automatically trigger an investigation by the FBI alongside the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies. The FBI declined to comment.

The leak comes at an extremely sensitive moment in US-Israeli relations and is bound to anger the Israelis, who have been preparing to strike Iran in response to Iran’s missile barrage on October 1. One of the documents also suggests something that Israel has always declined to confirm publicly: that the country has nuclear weapons. The document says the US has not seen any indications that Israel plans to use a nuclear weapon against Iran.

“If it is true that Israeli tactical plans to respond to Iran’s attack on October 1 have been leaked, it is a serious breach,” said Mick Mulroy, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East and a retired CIA officer.

Mulroy added that “the future coordination between the US and Israel could be challenged as well. Trust is a key component in the relationship, and depending on how this was leaked that trust could be eroded.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech near the city of Rishon LeZion, Israel, on July 5, 2023.

Related articleUS officials expect Israel’s counterattack on Iran will come before US Election Day

The National Security Council referred CNN to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon for comment. The Pentagon and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency declined to comment. CNN has reached out to the National Security Agency for comment.

Another US official said that “these two documents are bad, but not horrible. The concern is if there are more.”

It is not clear how the documents became public, nor whether they were hacked or deliberately leaked. The US is already on high alert about Iranian hacking campaigns — US intelligence agencies said in August that Iran had hacked documents belonging to Donald Trump’s campaign.

Axios first reported on the leaked documents Saturday.

major leak of US intelligence last year also strained the US’ relationships with allies and partners, including South Korea and Ukraine, after a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman posted highly classified information on the social media platform Discord.

This story has been updated with additional information.

CNN’s Evan Perez and Katie Bo Lillis contributed to this report.


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Sunday, (10/20/2024)

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Nuclear Power

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Democrats Embrace Nuclear Power In Heated Senate Races – HuffPost

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Candidates vying to preserve the party’s narrow majority see atomic energy as a way to win center-right voters and shore up the U.S. grid.

Demand for nuclear power sees resurgence – Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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NEW YORK — Nuclear power is garnering renewed attention amid growing demand for power and cleaner energy.

Big Tech’s dash for nuclear power – Financial Times

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Nuclear War

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Chinese researchers put data link hardware to the doomsday test: paper

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Engineers push communications equipment to the limit to see if it could survive a nuclear attack.

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Opinion: Russia’s Clownish Convoy of Threats – Kyiv Post

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The Navy’s Los Angeles-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine Dilemma | The National Interest

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Iran’s FM believes he can wage war against Israel and not receive any pushback – analysis

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Yellowstone Caldera

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LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #785, Saturday, (10/19/2024)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Oct 19, 2024

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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The winner of November’s presidential election will confront a challenge with no immediate cure-all: America’s nuclear weapons are aging faster than they can be replaced. Moreover, this dilemma is compounded by the dual shocks of China’s breathtaking nuclear buildup and Russia’s geopolitical reversion into an acute threat—to say nothing of a North Korea that is improving its own arsenal and an Iran that is, arguably, a de facto nuclear power.” ( text from the AEI article by Kyle Balzer attached)

LAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Saturday, (10/19/2024)

The following article uses “deterrence” as the one and only possibility to avoid future threats of a coming nuclear war, and, true enough, that seems to be the only option that the nuclear-armed countries and all the rest of us, too, have left to hopefully live another day.

Even the New START Treaty between Russia and the U.S., signed in 2010, has already been violated (see the article), so ‘deterrence’ seems to be the only option left, and according to the article the United States has a long and expensive way to go to improve its status in the temporary world of ‘deterrence’, which amounts to creating mutual fear among nuclear nations of each others’ stockpile of nuclear weapons.

As I have mentioned time and time again in this blog, ‘deterrence’ cannot continue indefinitely because of unsustainable financial and mutual ‘trust’ necessities, creating nothing more than a temporary patch to avoid inevitable nuclear war — from which there will be no winner . . . ~llaw

The winner of November’s presidential election will confront a challenge with no immediate cure-all: America’s nuclear weapons are aging faster than they can be replaced. Moreover, this dilemma is compounded by the dual shocks of China’s breathtaking nuclear buildup and Russia’s geopolitical reversion into an acute threat—to say nothing of a North Korea that is improving its own arsenal and an Iran that is, arguably, a de facto nuclear power. 

Put simply, the US strategic nuclear posture has very little, if any, slack to offset a growing range of threats before next-generation weapons systems begin replacing older platforms. Immediately upon taking office, then, the next president should consider stop-gap measures to mitigate the long-term structural problems afflicting America’s nuclear program. 

All three legs of the nuclear triad are under strain. Land-based Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles are nearly 60 years old—and their scheduled replacement, the Sentinel, has incurred significant cost overruns and might not enter service until the late 2030s. Sea-based Ohio-class submarines are nearly forty years old and will begin to reach the end of their service life in 2027 before the first next-generation Columbia-class boat is delivered. And the air-based leg, featuring B-2 and B-52 strategic bombers, is heavily taxed due to operating costs, force reductions, and the decision to dramatically scale back the nuclear air-launched cruise missile inventory.     

Therefore, the US triad desperately needs more capability in the short term to offset geopolitical threats that the aging and delayed program of record was not sized and shaped to address. Fortunately, the next president has two, albeit imperfect, off-the-shelf options that could help mitigate present burdens. 

First, the United States could upload more warheads on either the land- or sea-based legs. The 400 operational Minuteman silos, for example, are currently loaded only with single-warhead missiles. If loaded with all available warheads, however, the Minuteman fleet can reportedly carry some 800—if not more. As for the sea-based leg, the US Navy normally operates 12 Ohio-class submarines, armed with 20 Trident D5 ballistic missiles, which carry approximately 960 warheads (four to five warheads per Trident). If fully uploaded with eight warheads per missile, the force expands substantially. 

However, this option does not come without political, material, and operational costs. Politically, the US upload capacity is limited by the New START Treaty signed with Russia in 2010. Each signatory is confined to 1,550 strategic warheads spread across their respective nuclear triad until 2026 (the United States already deploys some 1,400 strategic warheads). Given that Russia is currently in violation of New START, however, and in light of Russia’s barbaric war in Ukraine and its unceasing nuclear threats against NATO, the next president has cause to exit the agreement. 

Nonetheless, though additional warheads are readily available in the reserve stockpile, this upload option also comes with material costs that cannot be ignored—most notably in straining submarine maintenance schedules. And operationally, loading additional warheads on Trident would impact its range and targeting flexibility. 

The second off-the-shelf option entails modifying Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs), an existing conventional sea-launched cruise missile, with W80 non-strategic warheads from the reserve stockpile. In the near term, this would return a regional nuclear option—free from New START central limits—to the sea-based fleet, filling a gap that emerged following the retirement of the nuclear-tipped Tomahawk (TLAM-N) in 2013. Since the next-generation nuclear sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) won’t arrive until the mid-2030s, this would help address the massive Chinese and Russian theater-range arsenals in the short term. 

In the Asia-Pacific, for example, TLAM-N’s retirement left the United States without a forward-deployed nuclear option to offset China’s growing regional capabilities. And in Europe, Russia’s arsenal of some 2,000 theater nuclear weapons dwarfs the hundred or so gravity bombs the United States forward deploys on the Continent. 

However, much like the upload option, modifying TLAM comes with its own set of costs. The US Navy would have to pull some missile launchers away from conventional missions. And resources and time would have to be devoted to certifying personnel for the nuclear mission. 

Still, the attack submarine fleet would not have to devote large numbers of launchers to nuclear missions: the United States simply needs to convince its adversaries that a regional strike option is on station and ready to respond. Refurbishing the TLAM-N, then, might be more appealing than uploading Minuteman and Trident, given that cruise missiles evade New START restrictions and American adversaries are growing theater nuclear forces. 

The above options are not perfect—indeed, far from it. Nonetheless, their costs are relatively modest when placed in a broader perspective: The nuclear arsenal is the backbone of America’s global military posture, which has deterred great-power war since 1945. 

As former Secretary of Defense James Mattis once quipped, “America can afford survival.”  

Learn more: America’s Enemies Would Rejoice at a U.S. Military Retreat from Europe | The U.S. Is Losing a New Nuclear Arms Race | Nuclear Bipartisanship: An Enduring American Tradition | History Supports Senator’s Plan to Revive the Nuclear Arsenal

Kyle Balzer

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Saturday, (10/19/2024)

All Things Nuclear

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Nuclear Power: A Game-Changer for Data Centers in the AI Era – U.S. Global Investors

U.S. Global Investors

Shares of companies involved in uranium and nuclear, like NuScale Power, Oklo, Cameco and Centrus Energy, have been surging, driven in large part by …

Nuclear Energy Is Making a Comeback. A New Batch of Stocks to Play the Trend. | Barron’s

Barron’s

When they’re not inventing sentient chatbots, tech giants have a new obsession: nuclear power. … The new kind of nuclear plants built by Kairos and X- …

ADVANCE Act keeping NRC ‘very busy,’ official says, highlighting 30+ implementation actions

Utility Dive

January 2025: Modernization of nuclear reactor environmental reviews · April 2025: Licensing considerations for non-electric uses of nuclear energy …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Nuclear power specialists from around the globe learn how to prep for disaster at TEEX

KBTX

18 students from 14 …

Harris Nuclear Plant in New Hill to test emergency sirens – MSN

MSN

On Wednesday, the Harris Nuclear Plant in New Hill will test its sirens. The annual three-minute siren test is scheduled to happen between 10 a.m. …

Tablet distribution guards against unlikely nuclear crisis in Delaware | Bay to Bay News

Delaware State News

… emergencies in Delaware.” Additionally, in case of an emergency … nuclear plant is considered highly unlikely.” If potassium iodide is …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Russia flaunts doomsday weapons to curb Western support for Ukraine – Defense News

Defense News

Putin also declared the revised document envisages possible nuclear weapons use in case of a massive air attack, holding the door open to a potential …

Putin says Russia won’t let Ukraine obtain nuclear weapons | Reuters

Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would not let Ukraine get nuclear weapons, after Ukraine’s leader said that since Kyiv had …

Ukraine not considering nuclear arms, top official Yermak says – Reuters

Reuters

Ukraine is not considering developing nuclear weapons and recent reports on the topic were driven by an incorrect interpretation of remarks by …

Nuclear War Threats

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ISW analyzes Putin’s latest nuclear threats – RBC-Ukraine

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ISW analyzes Putin’s latest nuclear threats Photo: Russian dictator Vladimir Putin (getty images) … War in Ukraine Putin nuclear weapon Ukraine .

Adding Slack to the US Nuclear Posture | American Enterprise Institute – AEI

American Enterprise Institute

Given that Russia is currently in violation of New START, however, and in light of Russia’s barbaric war in Ukraine and its unceasing nuclear threats …

EU Statement – UN General Assembly 1st Committee: Nuclear Weapons – EEAS

EEAS – European Union

The EU condemns in the strongest possible way Russia’s aggressive actions, irresponsible nuclear rhetoric and threats … nuclear war cannot be won and …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Temporal, spatial, and chemical evolution of Quaternary high-silica rhyolites in the Mineral …

USGS.gov

… caldera and post-caldera eruptions of the Valles Caldera and Yellowstone Caldera volcanic systems. Collectively, these geochemical …

Weak Mag. 2.8 Earthquake – Abai, 51 km Southwest of Ust-Kamenogorsk, East Kazakhstan …

Volcano Discovery

Follow the latest news and update on the volcano-seismic crisis that started on São Jorge Island in the Azores on 19 March 2022! Yellowstone quakes.

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #784, Friday, (10/18/2024)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

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How to Build an AI: A Step-by-Step Guide

AI will eventually build its own computers/robots because it will grow beyond human intelligence capability and capacity ~llaw (stock photo)

LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Friday, (10/18/2024)

How to Build an AI: A Step-by-Step Guide

AI will eventually build its own computers/robots because it will grow beyond human intelligence capability and capacity ~llaw (stock photo)

“You Tube” has managed to seize the entire “All Things Nuclear” (Category 1) this Friday, so take your personal preference(s) about their temporary ‘monopoly’ on this unusual Friday for nuclear news. Also, the Friday AIEA has provided several interesting stories this week that should be of interest to us all.

My major concern regarding today’s nuclear news is our apparently ‘blind’ belief that spreading SMRs (Small Nuclear Reactors) on every street corner in or near cities around the world to support AI and other demand for electricity will add to the doomsday speculation that is growing more aggressive every day. Nuclear power plants of every kind, big and small, are extremely dangerous for lots of reasons, including not only disastrous nuclear accidents, but also nuclear war (as we are are already seeing in the Russia/Ukraine war), nuclear sabotage, nuclear terrorism, and disposal of nuclear waste that is already out of control with neglect, especially in the United States. And, of course, the more there are, the greater the nuclear risks . . .

We are rapidly seeing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) being shoved aside by our governments and out-of-control corporate demands for creating what is even today uncontrollable, powerful, and dangerous Artificial Intelligence (AI). We will, of course, move forward with the very simple idea that computers can handle almost all of our human intelligence (and some manufacturing) activities, including military and corporate management and product assembly and operation that could easily gain control over all human activity, enslaving us to live under AI demands without human consent or participation. Or, it could just do away with us altogether.

Our blind lemming-like death-wish continues to move forward without any existing form of controlling something that can and will control itself at the ultimate human expense — our very existence — if nuclear war doesn’t end it all first. ~llaw


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

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

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Friday, (10/18/2024)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks Amazon Nuclear Investment | Bloomberg Talks – YouTube

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AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks Amazon Nuclear Investment | Bloomberg Talks. 53 … All Things Considered | NPR. NPR New 111K views · 41:49 · Go to channel …

Nuclear weapons or NATO membership,” Zelensky pitches ‘victory plan’ against Russia | N18G

YouTube

… nuclear weapons, and then this is defence for us, or we should have … All Things Secured•555K views · 20:45 · Go to channel. If You HEAR THIS …

Russian President Putin: ‘Won’t Allow Ukraine To Obtain Nuclear Weapons’ | Maroof Raza | ET Now

YouTube

Nuclear Weapons In Ukraine? Here’s What Putin Said! Russian Prez Putin … All Things Considered | NPR. NPR New 121K views · 9:32 · Go to channel …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

The next big AI trade could be nuclear power: Morning Brief – Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance

Chips and energy are the picks and shovels of the AI movement, making reexamining nuclear power a logical conclusion. But if investors want to follow …

Micro nuclear reactors are being built that can deliver 5MW of power for up to 100 … – TechRadar

TechRadar

Westinghouse says its eVinci microreactor could power future data centers, and even be used on the moon.

Amazon and Google Sign Nuclear Energy Deals as AI Power Demands Surge – CNET

CNET

The two tech giants are looking to a new generation of small modular reactors, while Microsoft has its own nuclear plans tied to the Three Mile …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

How prepared is Kansas for a nuclear emergency? – KSNT

KSNT

… emergency managers are prepared to protect the community from the worst case scenario. Crews at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant work …

Virginia considers small nuclear reactor at Lake Anna to meet growing power demand

WUSA9

… emergency, it shuts down and cools off on its own. According to Amazon, an SMR would bring at least 300 megawatts of power to the Virginia region …

Russia must immediately stop attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

unn.ua

… power to nuclear power plants, which could lead to emergencies at nuclear facilities. We are deeply concerned about drone and missile attacks that …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Opinion | Bomb survivors’ Nobel Prize a reminder to world on edge of nuclear war

South China Morning Post

As the world lurches towards nuclear conflict, we cannot afford to forget the catastrophe unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Proliferation News 10/17/24 – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

… Nuclear Facilities, TASS Says, NuclearWar Risks Rise Again, Stoked by Global Conflicts, Amazon, Google Make Dueling Nuclear Investments to Power …

Putin Unveils Apex ‘Doomsday’ Weapon, Flaunts Atomic Arsenal in Bold Nuclear Testing

YouTube

Comments22 · ‘Nuclear Weapons Or NATO…’: Zelensky’s New Demand Stuns West As Putin’s War ‘Frustrates’ Ukraine · Technical Officers Or Fighters? · Angry …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Russia tests nuclear unit as it rolls out ballistic missiles in latest threat to West

The Independent

… nuclear war over the West’s support for Ukraine. The drill involves a … Ukraine has criticised these threats as “nuclear sabre-rattling” to …

Putin’s nuclear doctrine isn’t his worst threat – The Japan Times

The Japan Times

… nuclear threats that are losing their power. It does nothing to remove the enormous hurdles to actually following through with a nuclear attack.

World Update: how the Middle East conflict could escalate – The Conversation

The Conversation

Vladimir Putin’s regular threats about his nuclear arsenal have focused … I grew up during the cold war under the shadow of the nuclear threat.

IAEA Weekly News

18 October 2024

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

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18 October 2024

New IAEA Report on Climate Change and Nuclear Power Focuses on Financing

The 2024 edition of the IAEA’s Climate Change and Nuclear Power report has been released, highlighting the need for a significant increase in investment to achieve goals for expanding nuclear power. Read more →

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17 October 2024

International Conference on Small Modular Reactors Next Week

More than 1000 participants from nearly 100 countries are set to attend the first IAEA International Conference on Small Modular Reactors and their Applications, from 21 to 25 October at the Agency’s headquarters in Vienna. Read more →

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16 October 2024

World Food Day 2024: DG Highlights Joint IAEA and FAO Atoms4Food Initiative to Reduce Global Hunger

Speaking on World Food Day at the opening session of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum in Rome, Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, marked the day with Qu Dongyu, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization. The Director General highlighted the IAEA and FAO’s long-standing partnership and the importance of their joint Atoms4Food initiative. Read more →

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15 October 2024

2023 IAEA Annual Report Presented to the UN General Assembly

The 2023 IAEA Annual Report is now available to read online, in all the official UN languages. Read more →

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15 October 2024

IAEA Initiates First Practical Steps of Additional Measures at Sea Near Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

The IAEA initiated today the first practical steps of additional measures at sea near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Read more →

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14 October 2024

What Is Blue Carbon?

The IAEA works with scientists all over the world to study Blue Carbon, the organic carbon that is captured and stored by the ocean in vegetated coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, saltmarshes or seagrass meadows. Read more →

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #783, Thursday, (10/17/2024)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Thursday, (10/17/2024)

This from other points of worldview that clarify complicated and important issues concerning the tangled web of global war growing out of the Russian/Ukraine war as it applies to the USA, NATO, as well as as the connected concern over the Middle East situation and a possible Israel/Iran war.

As an example of a global view, this quote from French columnist for Le Monde, Sylvie Kaufman, speculated on the possibility of a Trump victory in next month’s U.S. presidential elections leading to a slowdown of US military aid to Ukraine and ultimately a Russian victory. “There are three weeks to get ready for the worst possible outcomes,” she wrote. “The defeat of Ukraine would also be the defeat of Europe. We must now imagine the consequences a Russian victory would have in Europe,”

I urge you to read this article. The speculation is well considered and documented, although it is doubtful that the final two paragraphs will ever come to be . . . ~llaw

Conspiracy of silence shrouds Biden’s Ukraine summit in Berlin as NATO holds nuclear exercises

Alex Lantier

17 hours ago

  • Outgoing US President Joseph Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are to meet tomorrow in Berlin for an emergency summit on the Ukraine war. To date, state officials and media in countries whose leaders are attending the Berlin summit have given no concrete information on what the summit agenda will be.
President Joe Biden listens as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 3, 2023. [AP Photo/Susan Walsh]

The four leading NATO imperialist powers are however clearly meeting to discuss plans for an international military escalation. It comes only a few days after the Pentagon publicly deployed US troops to Israel amid the genocide in Gaza, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and calls for US-Israeli bombing of Iran. Moreover, Biden was originally slated to travel to Germany to discuss a monumentally reckless plan for mass long-range bombings of Russia.

This trip to Europe, Biden’s last as US president, was previously scheduled to be a NATO summit at the Ramstein airbase, to discuss authorizing Ukraine to launch strikes with long-range US, German, British and French missiles deep into Russia. However, the Ramstein summit was suddenly cancelled last week and replaced with the four-power summit in Berlin, disinviting the other NATO member states.

The deafening silence on the agenda of the Berlin summit amounts to a conspiracy by the major NATO powers to hide both the disaster they have caused in Ukraine and the Middle East and their planning for an even more catastrophic military escalation.

While Biden ostensibly cancelled the Ramstein summit to stay in the United States during the emergency response to Hurricane Milton, this came shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin changed Russia’s nuclear doctrine in response to threats of NATO missile strikes. The Kremlin announced that it could use nuclear weapons in response to strikes on Russia carried out by a non-nuclear power with the assistance of nuclear powers.

Further underscoring the nuclear war threat, NATO is now holding two weeks of nuclear war exercises, codenamed Steadfast Noon, set to end on October 28. This involves 60 nuclear-capable aircraft practicing strike maneuvers over Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Britain and the North Sea. About Steadfast Noon, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told reporters: “In an uncertain world, it is vital that we test our defense and that we strengthen our defense so that our adversaries know that NATO is ready and is able to respond to any threat.”

NATO is also holding the two-week “Exercise Strike Warrior” naval war games in waters northeast of Britain, with a 20-ship task force led by UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.

Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented a reckless, five-point “victory plan” to the parliament in Kiev, supposedly to ensure Russia’s defeat. His plan called for Ukraine to join NATO, use NATO countries’ weapons for strikes on Russia at will, and develop a “non-nuclear deterrence package” whose content he did not specify.

For the fourth point, Zelensky boasted of Ukraine’s “natural resources, including critical minerals worth trillions of dollars.” He cryptically pledged to provide a “return on investment” to the United States and other NATO powers, apparently by handing over these resources to them, which he said was spelled out in “a secret annex, which is shared only with certain partners.” In short, Zelensky, while claiming to be fighting for Ukrainian freedom from Russia, is in fact selling off its resources to the NATO powers’ major corporations.

Finally, he called to integrate Ukrainian troops into NATO armies after the war. Zelensky claimed this would force Russia to “join an honest diplomatic process to bring the war to a just end.”

The coverage of Zelensky’s proposals in international media has been staggeringly superficial. It is a matter of record that in recent months, NATO heads of state have also advanced the proposals Zelensky made yesterday. While they are clearly part of an ongoing discussion of policy in the ruling elites of the NATO countries, the media and political establishment are asking none of the obvious questions that flow from Zelensky’s remarks.

What estimates are Biden, Scholz, Starmer and Macron seeing on how many millions would die if NATO’s use of Ukraine as a launchpad to bomb Russia triggers nuclear war? If Ukraine joined NATO, how soon do they believe the NATO and Russian militaries would be fighting each other? And how does Zelensky intend on this basis to reach peace, since the Kremlin went to war precisely to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and letting NATO station troops on Russia’s borders?

At the same time, Zelensky’s “victory plan” clearly faces major obstacles, starting with the fact that none of the major NATO imperialist powers have yet agreed, at least publicly, to admit Ukraine into NATO now, or to let Ukraine use their missiles for long-range strikes on Russia.

Moreover, there is mounting popular opposition to Zelensky, who has suspended elections and rules as a dictator. Yesterday, Hromadske television reported that thousands of people marched in Kiev to protest Zelensky, demanding to know the whereabout of their relatives, in one of the largest anti-war protests in Kiev to date. Many of the protesters were reportedly relatives of Ukrainian soldiers who made an ill-fated attempt to invade Russia and are now trapped near Kursk, pinned down by artillery.

At the same time, a report attributed to US intelligence sources circulated widely on Telegram yesterday claiming to show that Ukraine has suffered a staggering 1.8 million losses in the war, including over 700,000 killed in action. Since Zelensky’s regime does not regularly update the number killed in the war, it is impossible to precisely evaluate this number. However, it is plausible. More than a year ago, US military pundits like Douglas MacGregor were already citing Pentagon briefings to claim that Ukraine had suffered over 300,000 deaths.

Ukraine has been bled white in a war that is lost, unless there is a massive intervention by US-NATO troops in Ukraine for an open war with Russia that directly poses the risk of escalation to nuclear war.

There is mounting crisis and panic in European ruling circles over Ukraine. Last week, former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg argued that Ukraine should negotiate a peace with Russia—which the NATO powers themselves forced Ukraine to reject after Russian and Ukrainian negotiators agreed on a peace deal shortly after the war began. Then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pressed Zelensky to reject the deal, which might have saved hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who have since died in the war.

In her regular column yesterday for the French daily Le Monde, Sylvie Kaufmann speculated on the possibility of a Trump victory in next month’s US presidential elections leading to a slowdown of US military aid to Ukraine and ultimately a Russian victory. “There are three weeks to get ready for the worst possible outcomes,” she wrote.

“The defeat of Ukraine would also be the defeat of Europe. We must now imagine the consequences a Russian victory would have in Europe,” Kaufmann continued. She said that in such a scenario, “the Europeans will not be able to compensate for the loss of American aid. The Ukrainian army would have more and more difficulty resisting Russian offensives.” She speculated that certain Balkan countries could abandon plans to join the European Union. She also worried that the EU itself might split apart if Italy, Hungary or other EU member states abandoned the Ukraine war.

Despite growing talk of defeat and negotiations in ruling circles, the major imperialist powers are firmly set on a policy of escalation. With Russian troops already stationed in Syria and Iran, a planned US-NATO military escalation coordinated with Israel against Iran or other Middle Eastern countries could also very rapidly lead to a direct military confrontation with Russia. Indeed, both Ukraine and the Middle East are fronts in a global conflict NATO is waging against Russia and China.

The decisive question is mobilizing the mass opposition that exists in the working class to NATO plans for escalation in Ukraine and to the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza. According to a Eurasia Group poll earlier this year, 91 percent of Americans and 89 percent of West Europeans oppose plans for military escalation against Russia. This anger will only grow as it becomes obvious that the United States and Europe have both wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on a dirty war that is lost, financing this spending with attacks on social spending and real wages.

An international anti-war movement must be built in the working class, at workplaces and in schools, to call a halt to the war and take power out of the hands of the corrupt and monumentally reckless ruling elites that have led it, on a perspective of a struggle for socialism.


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Thursday, (10/17/2024)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Big Tech’s power demands mean nuclear is getting a fresh look from electricity providers – Newsday

Newsday

Nuclear power already provides about 20% of all electricity generation in the U.S., and the International Atomic Energy Agency expects that nuclear …

Nuclear Energy Stocks Surge After Amazon Extends Recent Frenzy – WSJ

WSJ

What to Read Next ; Amazon Continues Push to Add More Nuclear Energy With 2 New Deals. 13 hours ago ; Opinion: One Thing We All Agree On. 15 hours ago.

Nuclear power could solve US electricity needs. But at what cost? – WRKF

WRKF

Just as the pendulum was about to swing the other way, the COVID-19 pandemic ground nearly everything to a halt. But now, a plethora of planned data …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear Energy Stocks Surge After Amazon Extends Recent Frenzy

The Wall Street Journal

Shares of nuclear power companies surged Wednesday after Amazon said it would work with utilities to explore deploying futuristic small modular …

Amazon makes fresh nuclear bet. Is it good news for this year’s hottest stocks?

MarketWatch

splashed into the world of nuclear energy with a new arrangement that will help power its artificial-intelligence data centers, Amazon.com Inc. is …

Is It Too Late to Buy Soaring Nuclear Energy Stocks? LEU, CCJ, SMR – Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance

NuScale Power, Oklo, Cameco, Centrus Energy, and other nuclear stocks have soared since Microsoft announced its massive nuclear energy deal with …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Nuclear emergency in Russia: Putin fears the worst – MSN

MSN

Russia could face an unprecedented nuclear disaster as its Kursk nuclear power plant is now dangerously close to the frontlines of the war.

Sibiga: Russia prepares strikes on nuclear energy facilities in Ukraine – all the latest news today – 112

112

The situation at the nuclear power plant remains unstable. The IAEA is also discussing a new emergency plan with the occupiers, which will be …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Are growing tensions between Israel and Iran a nuclear threat? | VOA News – YouTube

YouTube

Iran Israel War: Will Israel Attack Iran’s Nuclear Sites? Is the World Heading to a Nuclear War? WION•66 watching · 2:47 · Go to channel …

Will NATO annual nuclear exercise “Steadfast Noon” once again shroud Europe in … – China Military

China Military

… nuclear war. The second is new members. Finland participates in the nuclear exercise as a NATO member for the first time this year, in addition …

Russia refuses to answer whether they will start a nuclear war because of Ukraine

Telegrafi

The specter of nuclear weapons has loomed over the Ukraine war since Putin on February 27, just three days after the war began, ordered his nuclear …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

NATO Is Showing Off Its Tactical Nuclear Capabilities to Russia as a Warning

The National Interest

… War In UkraineNuclear Weapons. NATO Is Showing Off Its Tactical Nuclear … nuclear threats against the United States and NATO over Ukraine.

Iran says attack on nuclear sites improbable – Middle East and Africa – The Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post

“We have always taken these threats seriously,” Kamalvandi said. … The Iranian spokesperson added that the UN nuclear watchdog and the international …

Conspiracy of silence shrouds Biden’s Ukraine summit in Berlin as NATO holds nuclear exercises

World Socialist Web Site

… nuclear doctrine in response to threats of NATO missile strikes. The … Further underscoring the nuclear war threat, NATO is now holding two .

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #782, Wednesday, (10/16/2024)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

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Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (Image: Google maps Bojidar 93)

LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Wednesday, (10/16/2024)

It is hard to determine the serious immanent danger aspects mentioned in this article from the British “Daily Express” because there hasn’t been a lot of other coverage concerning the previous Ukraine attack on the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia. What I have read is primarily about Russia’s outrage denouncing Ukraine for their bold retaliation crossing the border into Russia and attacking the Kursk nuclear plant as a response to Russia’s continued attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. But there is no doubt that the overall situation, including threats to the other two Ukraine power plants possibly under siege by Russia, and the surprise attack by Ukraine on the Kursk plant has raised the implications of this ongoing war to an apparent far greater international level.

The difference of the immanent radiation danger of both countries’ nuclear power plants becoming active WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) at this stage of the “nuclear power plant wars” is that Zaporizhzhia has been shut down due to the previous Russian attacks, but the Kursk plant is so far still operational, which increases the danger of a possible meltdown . . . Stay tuned. ~llaw

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At the beginning of October, Ukrainian drones were shot down just three miles from the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), sparking widespread panic.

By John Varga

11:39, Wed, Oct 16, 2024 | UPDATED: 11:43, Wed, Oct 16, 2024

Kursk Nuclear Power Plant

Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (Image: Google maps Bojidar 93)

Russia faces the prospect of a catastrophic nuclear disaster due to the proximity of one of its atomic power plants to the frontlines.

At the beginning of October, Ukrainian drones were shot down just three miles from the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), sparking widespread panic.

The plant is located a mere 18 miles from the frontline, near the city of Kurchatov and has come in closer range of Ukrainian missiles and drones, following Kyiv’s daring incursion into the Kursk region at the beginning of August.

Ukraine‘s Security and Defence Council representative Andriy Kovalenko denied any attempt by Kyiv’s forces to strike the plant at the time, calling such a move “pointless”.

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Operators at the Kursk Nuclear Power Station (Image: Bojidar 93 Google Maps)

However, the fact remains the KNPP remains vulnerable to a military strike – whether intentional or not – and was never designed to withstand such an attack.

Unlike Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia NPP, the Kursk plant is still operational and therefore the consequences of a direct hit on it could be devastating.

Alexander Nikitin, a nuclear advisor at the environmental Bellona Foundation, told the Russian investigative outlet Verstka that the plant’s design never accounted for the possibility of a military attack.

He called the current situation “an unprecedented emergency”, echoing warnings made by Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A source from Russia‘s state nuclear agency Rosatom pointed out that the Kursk plant was built during the time of the Soviet Union and much of its technology and materials were old.

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Bob Woodward on Russia considering using nuclear weapons against Ukraine – YouTube

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Bob Woodward talks about his new book and the most serious nuclear threat he’s covered

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Welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. BOB WOODWARD: Thank you. DETROW: I wanted to start with the war in Ukraine, actually, because we knew from public …

Bob Woodward’s newest book is making headlines – NPR

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All Things Considered · Fresh Air · Up First. Featured. The NPR Politics … nuclear threat as a very real possibility. He details a call between a …

Nuclear Power

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Amazon enlists nuclear small modular reactors in push for net carbon-zero

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New Small Modular Reactor agreements are part of Amazon’s plan to transition to carbon-free energy.

Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors

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… nuclear reactor, or SMR, near Dominion’s existing North Anna nuclear power station. Nuclear reactors produce no carbon emissions. An SMR is an …

Amazon, Google make dueling nuclear investments to power data centers with clean energy

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Nuclear energy is a climate solution in that its reactors don’t emit the planet-warming greenhouse gases that come from power plants that burn fossil …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Putin nuclear disaster fears erupt as Russian plant faces ‘unprecedented emergency

Daily Express

At the beginning of October, Ukrainian drones were shot down just three miles from the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), sparking widespread …

FEMA to evaluate emergency readiness of communities around power plant – FOX56

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… emergency planning and preparedness activities that take place beyond the nuclear power plant boundaries. Onsite activities continue to be the …

FEMA to Evaluate Readiness of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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… emergency at the nuclear facility … emergency planning and preparedness activities that take place beyond the nuclear power plant boundaries.

Nuclear War

NEWS

NuclearWar Risks Rise Again, Stoked by Global Conflicts – WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

The threat of a nuclear confrontation, which a decade ago seemed fanciful, is no longer unimaginable. Advertisement. Russian President Vladimir Putin …

U.S. warns of growing nuclear and missile threats by North Korean military in support of Russia – PBS

PBS

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that North Korea is sending military personnel to help Russia’s war effort, without providing details …

Would America Survive a Nuclear First Strike? | The National Interest

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… Nuclear WeaponsNuclear First StrikeDefenseNuclear War. Would America … war in Ukraine has sparked a nuclear crisis of unprecedented duration …

Nuclear War Threats

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U.S. warns of growing nuclear and missile threats by North Korean military in support of Russia – PBS

PBS

… and its allies are “alarmed” by North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats as well as its increasing military support for Russia’s war in Ukraine.

NuclearWar Risks Rise Again, Stoked by Global Conflicts – WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Efforts to contain nuclear threats have centered on the 1970 Treaty on … How concerned are you about the threat of nuclear war? Join the …

Senior US official warns of North Korean nuclear threats and help for Russia – CBS 17

CBS 17

… nuclear and missile threats as well as its increasing military support for Russia’s war in Ukraine, but said he couldn’t confirm Ukrainian claims .

Yellowstone Caldera

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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

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Brig. Gen. William Rogers, director of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate and Air Force program executive officer for ICBMs, speaks during a leadership ceremony at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, on August 27, 2024.

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Tuesday, (10/15/2024)

Although the magical word ‘deterrence’ is not used, this ‘must read’ article, from “Truthout”, helps to explain what nuclear “deterrence” is doing to the economy of the United States and other nuclear armed nations, which will also continue to ‘rub off’ on economically smaller non-nuclear countries. This story and my comments relate to and expands on my “All Things Nuclear” blog post from yesterday.

All we need to know and understand is that as long as nuclear ‘deterrence’ is the only way to defend ourselves from our fear of nuclear war, our economic stability around the world will only get worse, and of course the lower and middle classes of all nations’ citizens will be the first to continue to suffer to a growing greater degree until poverty, rather than war may take its ultimate toll on humanity, although nuclear war is, of course, far and away the most likely.

Obviously, we cannot have it both ways, and so the simple saving grace, if we are human enough, is to “lay down our arms”, unify around the world, and remove, now and forever, all things nuclear from our way of international life. ~llaw

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Costly Replacement of ICBMs With Sentinel Missiles Increases Risk of Nuclear War

Many of our unmet needs as US citizens are due in part to the cost of the US nuclear arsenal.

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Richard Krushnic ,

Nancy Goldner ,

Jonathan Alan King ,

Truthout

Published

October 15, 2024

Brig. Gen. William Rogers, director of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate and Air Force program executive officer for ICBMs, speaks during a leadership ceremony at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, on August 27, 2024.
Brig. Gen. William Rogers, director of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate and Air Force program executive officer for ICBMs, speaks during a leadership ceremony at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, on August 27, 2024.

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At the September 10 presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris described her support for maintaining the “most lethal fighting force” in the world. Almost certainly that includes the United States’ plan to upgrade its nuclear arsenal with more powerful, more accurate nuclear warhead delivery systems, as well as new tactical nuclear warheads and bombs for use on the battlefield.

The world is already awash in nuclear weapons with an astonishing capacity for mass death: The U.S. has 14 Ohio-class nuclear-armed submarines. A single submarine can launch 24 missiles. Each missile can carry eight independently targeted warheads with blast forces many times greater than the Hiroshima bomb — 100,000 tons of TNT equivalent versus 15,000 tons. The missiles launched from just one such submarine can obliterate the major cities of any nation on Earth. The U.S. also maintains 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in fixed silos and hundreds of strategic nuclear bombs mounted on B-52 and B-2 bombers.

The U.S., North Korea, France, Russia and China are all upgrading their nuclear weapons arsenals, developing new nuclear weapons, or deploying them more closely to current target areas. Israeli leaders have threatened to use nuclear weapons against Iran, a risk which has intensified since the former’s escalation against Lebanon. Russia has threatened to use nukes if Ukraine moved to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or if the U.S. assists Ukraine in firing conventional missiles deep into Russia. The U.S. has never disavowed first use of nuclear weapons in a conflict. Russian scholar Gilbert Doctorow worries that the U.S. may launch a first nuclear strike against Russia to prevent its total victory in Ukraine. Former senior CIA analyst Ray McGovern, one of several members of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, fears the U.S. may use tactical nukes in Ukraine to forestall total Russian victory in that war. Trump’s advisers are calling for renewing nuclear weapons testing, in violation of the multilateral Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

The first steps in this unsound direction were taken by the U.S. under President Barack Obama, when design and production of this new generation of nukes began. Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden continued with Obama’s plan, increasing its annual funding.

The 2023, U.S. military budget voted by Congress, included $51.5 billion for nuclear weapons, an 18 percent increase over the previous year and more than all of the other nuclear-armed nations combined. The budget continues funds for upgrading all three legs of the U.S. nuclear weapons triad — ICBMs in fixed silos, nuclear-armed submarines and long-range strategic bombers — with new nuclear missiles. This is happening as the U.S. — the world’s most powerful nuclear-armed nation — has withdrawn from major nuclear disarmament treaties representing decades of successful diplomacy.

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Tuesday, (10/15/2024)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Appropriations 101, Energy and Water Edition

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In the second installment of the Appropriations 101 series, Energy and Water Development Subcommittee Chairman Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) joined …

Israel tells US it will hit Iran’s military, not nuclear or oil sites, source says | CNN

CNN

Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, have assured the US that a counterstrike on Iran will be limited to military targets rather than oil or …

Israel Assures U.S. It Will Not Strike Iran’s Oil and Nuclear Facilities, Officials Say – WSJ

WSJ

U.S. has sought to contain planned Israel counterattack on Tehran, hoping to head off wider Middle East war.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Google goes nuclear to power its artificial intelligence ambitions – BBC

BBC

Technology firms are increasingly turning to nuclear sources of energy to supply the electricity used by huge data centres that drive AI. The …

Google to buy power from small modular nuclear reactor company Kairos for AI needs

Yahoo Finance

In March, Amazon.com purchased a nuclearpowered datacenter from Talen Energy. Last month, Microsoft and Constellation Energy signed a power deal to …

Google and Kairos Power Partner to Deploy 500 MW of Clean Electricity Generation – Kairos Power

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Google inks deal with nuclear company as data center power demand surges – CNBC

CNBC

Google is the latest tech company to turn to nuclear energy as power demand from data centers surges.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Energy demands but nuclear power back on the table | | starbeacon.com

Star Beacon

… power Microsoft data centers, has many people thinking about the use of nuclear power again. Ashtabula County Emergency Management Agency Director …

Benton and Franklin County emergency sirens, alert systems to be tested Oct. 17

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… nuclear power plant, according to an Energy Northwest press release on the tests. The testing will be conducted by Energy Northwest with the …

Emergency THAAD Deployment To Israel Heightens Concerns On Strain To U.S. Air Defenses

The War Zone

Nuclear Power · Nuclear Propulsion · Nuclear Policy · Nuclear History · Nuclear … Emergency THAAD Deployment To Israel Heightens Concerns On Strain To …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Costly Replacement of ICBMs With Sentinel Missiles Increases Risk of Nuclear War

Truthout

Many of our unmet needs as US citizens are due in part to the cost of the US nuclear arsenal.

Netanyahu tells U.S. that Israel will strike Iranian military, not nuclear or oil, targets, officials say

The Washington Post

The signal is being seen in Washington as a sign of restraint after concerns that an Israeli strike on oil or nuclear facilities could trigger a …

Would America Survive a Nuclear First Strike? | The National Interest

The National Interest

-Bacon highlights that the U.S. discontinued its 24/7 airborne alert for its nuclear command post after the Cold War, replacing it with a 15-minute …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Kremlin says NATO’s nuclear exercises fuel tensions in light of ‘hot war‘ in Ukraine | Reuters

Reuters

… War Two, that the U.S. was ready to engage in talks with Russia, China and North Korea without preconditions to reduce the nuclear threat. “In the …

US Carrier Strike Group Pivots to NATO Waters Amid Russia Threat – Newsweek

Newsweek

US Carrier Strike Group Pivots to NATO Waters Amid Russia Threat · US To Expand NATO Air Base To Hold Nuclear-Capable Fighter Jets · Video Shows F-16 ‘ …

There is not serious risk now of nuclear escalation by Russia – NATO official – Ukrinform

Ukrinform

Despite Moscow’s nuclear threats against the backdrop of Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine, NATO considers it irresponsible to engage in .

Yellowstone Caldera

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Cosmic Clocks Help Keep Time In Yellowstone – National Parks Traveler

National Parks Traveler

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

Mag. 2.6 quake – South Pacific Ocean, 42 km west of La Serena, Elqui, Coquimbo, Chile, on …

Volcano Discovery

Its vast caldera has an amazing moonscape and several … List and interactive map of current and past earthquakes near Yellowstone volcano.

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #780, Monday, (10/14/2024)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Oct 14, 2024

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A mushroom cloud formed during the nuclear weapons test Castle Bravo on Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.

LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Monday, (10/14/2024)

This “last minute” message from, Scott D. Sagan, a Political Scientist at Stanford University, who writes about nuclear issues reminds us of how Donald Trump helped free Iran from restricted use of nuclear power. That agreement, created by President Obama, prevented Iran from creating nuclear weapons by restricting Tehran’s ability to make highly enriched uranium bomb material mentioned in the article below, which Trump unilaterally canceled in 2018.

Such a totally irresponsible action alone should prevent Trump from ever setting foot in the White House again, but his views on nuclear weapons and nuclear warfare go even further, considering his ridiculous belief that he can control (through “friendship”) Russia’s Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong un, and China’s Xi Jinping. Obviously, he has no rational understanding of nuclear conflict and that none of these well-armed nuclear-threat countries are our allies, but rather exactly the opposite. ~llaw

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Opinion: I study nuclear war. Kamala Harris must be our next president.

Scott D. Sagan

Op-ed contributor

The risk of nuclear war in the Middle East today is dangerously high, and Donald Trump is responsible.    

Let me explain. 

I grew up in Dearborn, Michigan in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War. I clearly remember the “duck and cover” exercises we conducted in elementary school, crawling under the wooden desks when an alarm bell rang out at the Greenfield Village School. Our teacher tried to calm our nerves by claiming this was “a hurricane drill.” But with Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis on the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite, we all knew what the drills were really about. 

And I recall how scared I was again about the danger of nuclear war a few years later, as a teenager in the 1970s. On Oct. 6, 1973, Israel was attacked by Egyptian and Syrian forces in a surprise attack in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. The Israeli Defense Forces gradually fought back, supplied by U.S. emergency arms shipments, defeating the Syrians and crossing the Suez Canal to surround the Egyptian Third Army in the Sinai desert. Then, on Oct. 24, 1973, the Soviet Union threatened to send troops to Egypt to enter the war, on the side of its Egyptian allies. 

Suddenly, President Richard Nixon put U.S. nuclear forces on a high-level DEFCON 3 alert to try to deter the Soviet Union from sending forces to the Middle East. Threatening nuclear war was not prudent (I thought that even in my teenage years), but simultaneously, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger successfully put pressure on Israel to accept a cease-fire and end the 1973 war.  This cease-fire eventually led to the Camp David Accords and the peace between Israel and Egypt that still exists today. 

We also now know that Nixon, facing Watergate soon thereafter, was so distraught and irrational in his decision-making that Secretary of Defense James Schlessinger actually warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff not to automatically follow military orders from the president, but rather to check with him first. Schlessinger’s actions were not constitutional, but were prudent and wise. 

This dark history is relevant today. For I have never been worried about a nuclear war in the Middle East since then … until now.   

A mushroom cloud formed during the nuclear weapons test Castle Bravo on Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.

No deal

A war is raging in the Middle East, and Iran is on the brink of getting nuclear weapons.  Donald Trump is responsible for this dangerous development because his administration withdrew, in 2018, from the U.S.-Iranian nuclear deal that restricted Tehran’s ability to make highly enriched uranium bomb material.  

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors in Iran verified that Tehran was in compliance, but then-President Donald Trump claimed that he, the self-proclaimed “master of the deal,” would get a better agreement. 

He did not.   

Iran was a year or two away from getting the bomb when the Obama Administration negotiated the Iran nuclear agreement, and when Trump cancelled it. Now, U.S. intelligence agencies report that Iran “has greatly expanded its nuclear program” and “has the infrastructure and experience to quickly produce weapons-grade uranium.” The head of the IAEA now estimates that Iran has “amassed enough nuclear material for several weapons, not just one.”  That is the direct result of Trump’s ego and poor decision-making. 

In the coming weeks or months, Israel may well attack the Iranian nuclear facilities in response to Iran’s recent missile and drone attack on Israel. But Israel lacks the confidence that it could destroy all of the Iranian nuclear materials, both because the enrichment centrifuges are in deep underground facilities — and because most of the IAEA inspectors were kicked out of Iran due to Trump’s rash withdrawal from the nuclear deal. This means Israel can’t be sure that it knows where all Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities are now located. And even if an attack is successful in the short-term, Iran will likely then rush to rebuild a nuclear arsenal. 

High stakes

When you get to the polls, think about that scenario. 

Do you want a President Kamala Harris who supports Israel, but has expressed doubts about the way Israel is fighting its wars today?   

Or do you want a President Trump, who criticized calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, has said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “knows what he’s doing” and advised him “have victory, get your victory, and get it over with.” 

Do you want a President Harris, a former prosecutor known to stay calm and focused under pressure?   

Or do you want a President Trump, who was so impulsive and vengeful at the end of his term in office that his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, like Nixon’s secretary of defense, told senior military officers to check back with him before following any presidential orders to use military force?  

The voters of Michigan may well decide who is the next president of the United States.  They should remember that the risk of nuclear war is on the ballot in November.  

Scott D. Sagan is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and the author, among other books, of The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons


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All Things Nuclear

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Bob Woodward takes NPR behind the headline-grabbing moments in his new book

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Like the one about the COVID test machine then President Donald Trump sent Russian President Vladimir Putin in the early days of the pandemic. Or the …

Bob Woodward takes NPR behind the headline-grabbing moments in his new book

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Woodward spoke to All Things Considered host Scott Detrow about the … about the threat of nuclear weapons. But in the book, you describe …

U.S. to send air defense system and troops to Israel – WCMU Public Radio

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All Things Considered · Destination Out · Fresh Air · Here and Now · Homespun … nuclear deterrent. Copyright 2024 NPR. National & World News.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear power could solve U.S. electricity needs. But at what cost? – Louisiana Illuminator

Louisiana Illuminator

From Bill Gates to the Energy Department, momentum is building behind nuclear power again after a failed resurgence 20 years ago.

Nuclear power could solve US electricity needs. But at what cost? – SC Daily Gazette

SC Daily Gazette

The U.S. Department of Energy has identified 85 sites in 28 states where nuclear reactors would be suitable to replace closing coal plants. Montana …

Nuclear Power Makes a Comeback as Data Centers Adapt to Rising Power Demands

Urban Land Magazine – Urban Land Institute

Despite the infamous incident, operators restarted the undamaged reactor at the plant in 1985. It continued to hum along for more than three decades.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Australian Navy sailors graduate AUKUS nuclear power school – Inside Government NZ

Inside Government NZ

… Nuclear Power School. The seven sailors, alongside a third group of … National call-up for Tairāwhiti emergency controller · Infrastructure …

Nuclear War

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Opinion: I study nuclear war. Kamala Harris must be our next president.

freep.com

Growing up in Dearborn, we drilled for a nuclear attack. The risk of nuclear war is significantly higher because of Donald Trump.

Kremlin says NATO’s nuclear exercises fuel tensions in light of ‘hot war‘ in Ukraine | Reuters

Reuters

The Kremlin said that NATO’s annual nuclear exercise involving nuclear-capable military aircraft, which began on Monday, was fuelling tensions in …

NATO Conducts Nuclear Exercise After Russia Warning – Newsweek

Newsweek

The military alliance started its annual nuclear exercise “Steadfast Noon” with up to 60 aircraft taking part on Monday.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Flexing ‘nuclear muscles’ will bring NATO numerous risks and hidden dangers

Global Times

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently stated, “The nuclear threat is not confined to history books,” and “nuclear weapons remain a clear and …

US ready for talks with Russia, China, North Korea to reduce nuclear threat, Biden says

The Kyiv Independent

… dangers of today’s world but precisely because of them.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly made nuclear threats against Ukraine and …

NATO Conducts Nuclear Exercise After Russia Warning – Newsweek

Newsweek

Analysts doubt that Putin would resort to nuclear weapons, but he ramped up the rhetoric about Russia’s nuclear threats at the end of September .

Yellowstone Caldera

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Cosmic clocks help to keep time in Yellowstone | U.S. Geological Survey – USGS.gov

USGS.gov

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

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #779 Sunday, (10/13/2024)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Oct 13, 2024

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Missiles are launched during a simulated nuclear counterattack drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea on April 22. (See Article for Photo Credits)

LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Sunday, (10/13/2024)

I have no idea who the “experts” are, or if they even exist, when it comes to nuclear forbearance, nuclear proliferation, and other questionable activities dealing with subjective nuclear concerns. But, of course, this one of nuclear “deterrence” is the one that may be the most important and dangerous of all because the very concept is based on fear of each other.

Deterrence is the only factor that prevents nuclear war, most all other country-to-country agreements and pledges having become broken or gone by the wayside, and deterrence is merely a temporary fragile thread that cannot, for many reasons, survive forever among the nations that have nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) because to continue on is unaffordable both financially and cooperatively trustworthy over time, and time is of the essence where nuclear war and all other things nuclear is concerned. Someone will push the nuclear button in due time and that one single action by a single world leader will end the world as we know it.

The coming inevitable Doomsday is inevitable barring a sudden cooperative change of heart by all nuclear armed countries (which will never happen), or by an unknown force of some kind that has not yet revealed its influence over humanity. ~llaw

Nuclear deterrence still at heart of great power strategy, experts say

  • AFP, PARIS

Nuclear-armed powers have no intention of giving up the atom bomb as part of their military strategy, experts said after the Nobel Peace Prize committee urged against any weakening of the nuclear “taboo.”

Awarding this year’s peace prize to Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors pushing for a nuclear weapons ban, the committee on Friday said the atom bomb attacks on both Japanese cities in 1945 had led to a “nuclear taboo” which had, however, come under “pressure” since.

While none of the countries possessing nuclear weapons have used them in war since 1945, the implicit or even explicit threat to do so is part of their arsenal.

Missiles are launched during a simulated nuclear counterattack drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea on April 22.

Photo: The North Korean Central News Agency via EPA-EFE

Moscow has repeatedly brandished the nuclear threat in a bid to dissuade the West from supporting Ukraine, which has been fending off Russia’s invasion since February 2022.

Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center director Alexander Gabuev said it was “no coincidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin made a nuclear threat on the eve of a meeting between US President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about Kyiv’s possible use of missiles capable of striking Russian territory.

The Nobel committee wanted to send “a strong signal” to Russia, said Bruno Tertrais, political scientist at France’s Strategic Research Foundation.

Russia had “normalized,” even “trivialized,” talk of a nuclear weapons use since its invasion of Ukraine, he said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said last week his country would use nuclear weapons “without hesitation” if attacked by South Korea and its ally, the US.

In the Middle East, Israel, the region’s only nuclear-armed state, has vowed a “deadly, precise and surprising” response to Iran’s direct strike on Israeli territory on Oct. 1.

Meanwhile, Tehran has significantly ramped up its nuclear program and now has enough material to build more than three atomic bombs, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

“The logic of deterrence is firmly entrenched in countries that have nuclear weapons,” said Tertrais, adding however that the risk of atomic bomb use “is no greater now than five years ago.”

Standard nuclear doctrine — developed during the Cold War between superpowers the US and the Soviet Union — is based on the assumption that such weapons would never have to be used, because their impact is so devastating, and because nuclear retaliation would probably bring similar destruction on the original attacker.

This is why China has never given up its “no first strike” doctrine, said Lukasz Kulesa, Director of Proliferation and Nuclear Policy at the Royal United Services Institute.

Other countries have also signaled that nuclear arms use would be a last resort while not ruling it out completely to maintain credibility in the eyes of opponents, Kulesa said.

However, keeping a safe balance between threat and restraint can never be risk-free, he said.

“There is always a possibility of failure. There is also a possibility of inadvertent escalation that can go all the way to the nuclear level,” he said.

Countries possessing nuclear weapons today are the US, Russia, the UK, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea.

Israel is also widely assumed to have an arsenal of nuclear weapons, although it has never officially acknowledged this.


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All Things Nuclear

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Israel is expected to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran for its missile attack – Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio

All Things Considered · Book Public · Fronteras · The Ghost of Frank J … nuclear agreement. McNally says that strike was small and easily …

Navy Just Reloaded A Vertical Launch System For The First Time While Underway At Sea

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Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover … Chinese Submarine That Sunk Had Exotic Hybrid Nuclear Powerplant: Report …

Israel is expected to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran for its missile attack – WMUK

WMUK

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM The Daily. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … nuclear agreement. McNally says that strike was small and easily …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Lukashenko says Russian nuclear shift was overdue – Reuters

Reuters

He said Moscow would consider any assault on it supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack. The announcement was the Kremlin’s answer to …

State governor announces plans for new nuclear energy development – Yahoo

Yahoo

Tennessee has greenlit a nuclear energy development plan that will continue to strengthen energy independence in the United States and support …

Nuclear deterrence still at heart of great power strategy, experts say – Taipei Times

Taipei Times

Nuclear-armed powers have no intention of giving up the atom bomb as part of their military strategy, experts said after the Nobel Peace Prize …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Japan’s Strategy to Boost LNG Purchases: A Move Toward Greater Energy Security

Modern Ghana

Japan is considering a significant increase in its liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchases for emergency reserves, aiming to enhance its energy …

Japan may boost LNG buys for emergency reserve to nearly 1 million tonnes a year

The Business Times

… utility in urgent need, hedging against unexpected supply crunches triggered by military conflicts or nuclear reactor halts, among other issues.

Nuclear War

NEWS

After Hinting At Nuclear Bomb; Iran Now Gives ‘6 Months Nuke‘ Warning To Israel; Big Attack Plan?

YouTube

Iranian MP Mohammad Manan Raeisi made a big admission on Tehran’s nuclear weapons. The Iranian MP said Tehran can develop nuclear weapons within …

US nuclear targets map shows exactly where enemies could strike in America – Irish Star

Irish Star

A map has shown potential targets in the event of a nuclear world war across all American states, with a concentration in the East and along the …

Editorial: Nuclear disarmament is an urgent cause in a world on the brink | Morning Star

Morning Star

TOMORROW Nato begins nuclear war drills over western Europe. Exercise Steadfast Noon tests the nuclear capability of non-nuclear weapons states …

Nuclear War Threats

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The looming nuclear threat a call for global security reform

Global Times

… nuclear threats. However, we must … Why have the existing security mechanisms failed to effectively prevent the threat of nuclear war?

Nobel Peace Prize winners warn of rising risk of nuclear war – World – Business Recorder

Business Recorder

“The international situation is getting progressively worse, and now wars are being waged as countries threaten the use of nuclear weapons,” said …

Bob Woodward on “War” – CBS News

CBS News

Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has rattled his nuclear saber, and the U.S. has dismissed those threats as . . .

Yellowstone Caldera

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Saturday, (10/12/2024)

This simple prescient and common sense statement from a survivor of the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki by the United States and the co-leader of the recently honored Nobel Prize group, Nihon Hidankyo, echoes the similar words of those who knew and understood “All Things Nuclear” since the 1940s Manhattan Project scientists who helped build and denounce the two nuclear bombs used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima that ended World War II. We should all know by now that we cannot continue on the nuclear path, including nuclear power, that we are presently on and survive . . . ~llaw

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Risk of nuclear war rising amid global conflicts, Nobel peace laureate says

‘Path to self-destruction’: Survivors recall horrors of nuclear bombings as they draw parallels to ongoing wars.

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Conflicts raging around the world, including in Gaza, are heightening the possibility of a nuclear war, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize warned, renewing calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Nihon Hidankyo, the grassroots group of Japanese atomic bomb survivors, won the prize on Friday for its “efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons”.

On Saturday, Shigemitsu Tanaka, a survivor of the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki by the United States and co-leader of the group, said the “international situation is getting progressively worse, and now wars are being waged as countries threaten the use of nuclear weapons”.

“I fear that we as humankind are on the path to self-destruction. The only way to stop that is to abolish nuclear,” the resident of Nagasaki told reporters.

Nagasaki was the second Japanese city that was hit by a US nuclear bomb on August 9, 1945, killing at least 74,000 people. Three days earlier, the US bombing of Hiroshima had killed 140,000 people.

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Friday, (10/12/2024)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group – NPR

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Heard on All Things Considered · Eleanor Beardsley … The Nobel Committee said the organization has helped create a taboo against the use of nuclear …

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

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… nuclear weapons, one that is threatened today. … The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. Tags. All Things Considered.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear power is entering a renaissance. Here’s why – YouTube

YouTube

… nuclear power is ramping up again around the world, including Canada. Amanda Lang speaks with John Gorman, the head of the Canadian Nuclear …

Nuclear energy in the spotlight at Climate Week NYC 2024 – Clean Air Task Force

Clean Air Task Force

Nuclear energy, often neglected in this forum, was a significant theme throughout Climate Week NYC 2024.

Was California too quick to abandon nuclear power? – Energy Central

Energy Central

Energy company Constellation announced last month it aims to restart the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island amid growing energy demand.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Japan to boost LNG purchases for emergency supply – Offshore Technology

Offshore Technology

… energy and nuclear power now providing more power, meaning gas demand has fallen 25% since its 2014 peak. However, Japan’s objective is to …

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Accidents and Emergencies … NAEC “Energoatom” has brought another power unit of one of the nuclear power plants out of scheduled preventive …

The jobs emergency | Getting your resume robot-ready – eNCA

eNCA

Eskom’s logo is seen at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station. AFP/Rodger … The jobs emergency | Getting your resume robot-ready. Saturday 12 …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Risk of nuclear war rising amid global conflicts, Nobel peace laureate says – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

‘Path to self-destruction’: Survivors recall horrors of nuclear bombings as they draw parallels to ongoing wars.

U.S. Highly Vulnerable to Nuclear First Strike | RealClearDefense

RealClearDefense

With the end of the Cold War, it was decided that the airborne alert was no longer necessary. Instead, a smaller fleet of aircraft was maintained on a …

Iran ‘Nuclear Attack‘ Fear: USA Betrayed By Biggest Arab Ally; Move Days After Tehran Call

YouTube

In a dramatic turn of events, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), appears to be distancing himself from the United States.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

NATO Secretary General says Putin’s nuclear threats should be ignored – RBC-Ukraine

RBC-Ukraine

However, in the third year of the war, the West has stopped being afraid of Putin and is ignoring his threats. In response, the Kremlin recently …

Nobel Peace Prize: Take Award as Chance to Contain Nuclear Threats – The Japan News

The Japan News

Nobel Peace Prize: Take Award as Chance to Contain Nuclear Threats … Amid an unprecedented increase in the nuclear threat posed by Russia’s aggression …

U.S. hails Japan anti-nuclear weapon group’s winning of peace prize – Kyodo News

Kyodo News

The Biden administration, meanwhile, has committed to strengthening nuclear deterrence efforts amid concerns about growing nuclear threats from .

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Satellite’s radar to measure ground movement in Yellowstone – Montana Standard

Montana Standard

… Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Monthly Update for October 2024. … Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists …