LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY, #977 Tuesday, (07/08/2025)

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

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Following is an unavoidable, on my part, partial theft — to read the entire Manifesto, read the entire story from today’s timely article from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWs. This story is a sad but wonderfully, hopefully, told article for today and on into the foreseeable future from the “Union of Concerned Scientists”. The link is posted just below as well as in the section Nuclear War Threats of the nuclear stories in the media articles of nuclear categories listed in the sections down below

Please, if at all possible, take the time to read, understand, and react to this story that has not been properly told for a very long time until now . . .

“Here, then, is the problem stripped for 70 years, which we, who care for the future, present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable with this question:

Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war? There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.” ~a Manifesto from 1955 written by Bartrand Russell and signed by both Russell and Albert Einstein as well as other prominent scientists . . .”

And here we are obviously for a very long time ignored by the nuclear war world of three nations at the time — The United States, Russia, and Britain, but 70 years later there are nine countries and a world of ever greater dissention and fear faced with the possibility of nuclear war, the Manifesto virtually totally ignored the whole time.

What on Earth do we suppose is going to be done about it at this late date? Probably nothing, unless we have a miraculous awakening, with that being extremely doubtful, therefore notwithstanding the greatest miracle ever, as of today and tomorrow even more discouragingly perilous, our world is harking back to the insane concept of flooding the planet with more and more nuclear power plants, which are just as dangerous as nuclear war, if not moreso, and without doubt, just by the numbers, more available and more likely to cause global catastrophe and to guarantee the death of humanity and other earthly life. ~llaw

Union of Concerned Scientists

The link:


The Russell-Einstein Manifesto: A Call to Avoid Nuclear War Resonates 70 Years Later

black-and-white photo of Bertrand Russell standing at a table and reading aloud from notes he is holding, with an audience of numerous reporters writing notes inside a darkened hall with bright lights in the background

(See article for image description and photo credits. ~llaw)Subscribed

Tuesday’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS

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

There are 6 categories, with the latest addition including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

  1. All Things Nuclear
  2. Nuclear Power
  3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
  4. Nuclear War Threats
  5. Nuclear War
  6. Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are three Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in this today’s Post.)

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, Tuesday, (07/08/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double – The Atlantic

The Atlantic

… nuclear buildup has unsettled countries all across Asia. In both South Korea and Japan, he said, these concerns, combined with uncertainties about …

Benjamin Netanyahu Comes to Washington With Hopes for Peace – YouTube

YouTube

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyehu meet in person for the first time since the airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear capabilities by the U.S. and Israel.

Why France holds all the cards in nuclear deal with Britain – Politico.eu

Politico.eu

… about the chances that the project, once under construction, would act as a bellwether for the U.K. civil nuclear industry. “Hopefully once …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Smaller nuclear reactors spark renewed interest in a once-shunned energy source

Alaska Beacon

But the remaining reactor reliably produced electricity for the next four decades. “Folks shouldn’t sleep on nuclear,” Pennsylvania Democratic Gov.

Researchers announce ‘breathtaking’ development with next-gen nuclear reactor – Yahoo

Yahoo

“It’s a significant game changer for the industry.” Nuclear plants generate electricity from a process called nuclear fission, where the nucleus of an …

Smaller nuclear reactors spark renewed interest in a once-shunned energy source

Missouri Independent

Abilene Christian University won federal approval to house an advanced small modular nuclear reactor, which might be finished next year.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

FEMA to conduct training exercise at Surry nuclear power plant – WVEC

WVEC

Federal homeland security officials will conduct an emergency preparedness exercise at Dominion Virginia Power’s nuclear Surry Power Station.

FEMA to Evaluate Readiness of the Commonwealth of Virginia

FEMA

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

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Netanyahu: We removed ‘tumors’ of Iran’s nuclear and missile threats, but monitoring …

The Times of Israel

ISRAEL AT WAR – DAY 641 … Netanyahu: We removed ‘tumors’ of Iran’s nuclear and missile threats, but monitoring needed so they don’t reemerge …

Cold War over, but nuclear weapons more dangerous now, says Tok Mat | FMT

Free Malaysia Today

The foreign minister says the world faces new and more complex nuclear threats driven by modern technology andal conflict

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto: A Call to Avoid Nuclear War Resonates 70 Years Later

The Equation – Union of Concerned Scientists

… nuclear arsenals are undergoing modernization to improve their precision, performance, and range. Autonomous weapons, drone warfare, and cyber-risks …

Nuclear War

NEWS

The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double – The Atlantic

The Atlantic

Since the Hiroshima attack, Ogura and her fellow hibakusha have told and retold their stories of the bombing and its long aftermath. But even the ..

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto: A Call to Avoid Nuclear War Resonates 70 Years Later

The Equation – Union of Concerned Scientists

Sadly, a 1955 call to renounce war or risk annihilation signed by Albert Einstein and philosopher Bertrand Russell remains just as relevant today.

The Big Story: Nuclear War and the Future of National Security – The Atlantic

The Atlantic

Ross Andersen, Tom Nichols, and Missy Ryan join Jeffrey Goldberg for a conversation about the intersection of national defense, technology, …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Eruption Unknown: The Case Of The Newly Recognized Geologic Unit

National Parks Traveler

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

Geologists discover previously unknown eruption in YNP’s past – Buckrail

Buckrail

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — In this week’s Caldera Chronicles, the scientists of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) discuss the origins …

Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe, study finds | Live Science

Live Science

… Yellowstone supervolcano. “Glaciers tend to suppress the volume of … a smoking volcano caldera. Hidden layer beneath Italy’s Campi Flegrei …

LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY, #976 Monday, (07/07/2025)

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

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Nuclear Power Plants across the United States — all without both a nationalized central nuclear waste and protection facility. Nor is there an international waste management dump other than the Pacific Ocean here or around the world, and if we had such facilities, how would we safely transport nuclear waste to them?

So, just a few of the questions are, among hundreds of others — e.g. nuclear war, nuclear fallout, nuclear accidents, nuclear terrorism and on and on — what will become of all of the existing waste, and what will we do with nuclear waste from hundreds, perhaps thousands, of proposed new nuclear plants around the US of A and the globe?

When it comes to all things nuclear everywhere, we definitely have our cart thousands of miles ahead of the horse . . . ~llawSubscribed


Monday’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS

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

There are 6 categories, with the latest addition including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

  1. All Things Nuclear
  2. Nuclear Power
  3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
  4. Nuclear War Threats
  5. Nuclear War
  6. Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in this today’s Post.)

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, Monday, (07/07/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

What everyone gets right — and wrong — about nuclear weapons – The Washington Post

The Washington Post

Since the bombing campaign in Iran, I have been listening to both liberals and conservatives alike say: “Of course, we all agree Iran should not have …

Iran’s supreme leader makes first public appearance since Iran-Israel war started

WJCT News

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … It also has confirmed serious damage to its nuclear facilities, and has …

The Dalai Lama turns 90. His reincarnation is stirring up conflict with China | WEKU

WEKU

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

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Smaller nuclear reactors spark renewed interest in a once-shunned energy source

Arkansas Advocate

In the past two years, half the states have taken action to promote nuclear power, from creating nuclear task forces to integrating nuclear into long- …

Nuclear power plant building boom makes uranium a good bet: Barrenjoey – AFR

AFR

Barrenjoey says the possibility of a shortfall in uranium supply and a growing acceptance of nuclear energy will make the commodity more expensive …

Why the US must protect the independence of its nuclear regulator

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The other executive orders allow the construction of nuclear power reactors on federal lands—sites belonging to the Energy Department and the Defense …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

IAEA safety fears as Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant loses power temporarily

Power Technology

18 emergency diesel generators kicked in, ensuring critical cooling for reactor cores. … The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was dependent on a 750kV …

Russian fake about malfunction at South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant refuted

pravda.com.ua

Russian propaganda has circulated false claims alleging that Kyiv concealed an emergency failure at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), …

Kremlin propaganda spreads fake news about emergency failure at South Ukrainian NPP

УНН

The report about an alleged emergency failure at the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, which could have led to a catastrophe, is fake. This was …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

The Power Of The Nuclear Threat – The Organization for World Peace

The Organization for World Peace

The classification for nuclear weaponry dates back to the Cold War, when the threat … As long as any one nation holds a nuclear weapon, the threats …

Energy independence crucial as China and Russia expand fossil fuel use – Fox News

Fox News

… threat of nuclear war‘ · Brian … Making the United States more dependent on renewable energy would make the U.S. electricity grid less reliable and …

Iran supreme leader makes first public appearance since Iran-Israel war started

Fox 13 News

The 86-year-old spent the war in a bunker as threats to his life escalated. … After the U.S. inserted itself into the war by bombing three key nuclear …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Iran demands accountability for Israel and US after ‘war of aggression’ | News | Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran’s military, nuclear and civilian sites, killing at least 935 people.

America isn’t prepared for a strike against our nuclear weapons

The Hill

This system, called an “airborne alert” is largely immune to surprise attack, because an aircraft that is already in the air is vastly more difficult …

The war lasted 12 days. The environmental impact on Iran may last decades

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The United States joined the war on June 21, and struck three nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, and facilities near the ancient city of Isfahan. A …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Eruption Unknown: The case of the newly recognized geologic unit – USGS.gov

USGS.gov

About 631,000 years ago, a massive eruption formed what today is known as Yellowstone Caldera. New deposits, discovered within the caldera, are…

Sakurajima Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMISSIONS CONTINUING OBS VA DTG

Volcano Discovery

VOLCANO: SAKURAJIMA [AIRA CALDERA] 282080. PSN: N3136 … List and interactive map of current and past earthquakes near Yellowstone volcano.

LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest WEEKEND NEWS, Sunday, (07/06/2025)

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

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Read the sentence at the bottom of the flow chart: It is a huge part of the nuclear waste that’s not recycled and it has nothing to do with the process of a nuclear fuel cycle which is intenionally incomplete and adds to the dirty radioactivity of nuclear waste, which is virtually everywhere there is a nuclear power plant. The reason for the failure to recycle is all about money . . . We will more than pay for it at some necessity point in the future, and it will not be cheap nor safe . . . ~llaw

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

There are 6 categories, with the latest addition including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

  1. All Things Nuclear
  2. Nuclear Power
  3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
  4. Nuclear War Threats
  5. Nuclear War
  6. Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Saturday Post.)

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, Sunday, (07/06/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

U.S.-Iran nuclear talks to resume in Oslo – WAMC

WAMC

So at this point, we’ve probably imposed sanctions on everything that we can. There’s still Iran’s ability to export a small amount of oil to China.

U.S.-Iran nuclear talks to resume in Oslo – NPR

NPR

NEPHEW: They certainly could, or at least sanctions relief, right? So at this point, we’ve probably imposed sanctions on everything that we can.

Nuclear nightmare that is lurking on Australia’s doorstep | news.com.au

News.com.au

With all eyes well and truly on the Middle East’s boiling tensions, a bigger nuclear threat is looming much closer to Australia.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power? | Energy – The Guardian

The Guardian

Not only is nuclear essential if we want to reach net zero – it’s the key to tackling poverty, too.

Flexible nuclear power and fluctuating renewables? — An analysis for decarbonized multi …

ScienceDirect.com

Many governments consider new nuclear power plants to promote decarbonization. On the one hand, dispatchable nuclear plants can complement …

Nuclear comeback? Japan’s plans to restart reactors hit resistance over radioactive waste

Climate Home News

The controversy could delay Japan’s goals to use carbon-free nuclear energy to replace electricity generation from expensive imported fossil fuels and …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

UN chief: Russian strikes threaten nuclear safety at Zaporizhzhia NPP – Ukrinform

Ukrinform

Russian airstrikes on Friday severed the last of two external power lines supplying the ZNPP, forcing the plant to rely on emergency diesel generators …

UN Secretary-General condemned Russian strikes on Ukraine and expressed concern for …

112.ua

Accidents and Emergencies … António Guterres noted that these strikes have created a threat to nuclear safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Met Office warns Brits in nine places need ‘emergency‘ kit for 12 hours – The Mirror

The Mirror

… emergency food kit for Sunday. … Find more about Sellafield nuclear power plant safety fears as ‘potentially deadly nitrogen gas leaks …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Opinion: Putin’s Nuclear Blackmail – Kyiv Post

Kyiv Post

… nuclear threats that landed like deflated balloons. The very fact that Ukraine survived 42 months of war and Russia sustained catastrophic losses …

Nuclear nightmare that is lurking on Australia’s doorstep | news.com.au

News.com.au

The Golden Dome would operate using a network of satellites and interceptors working from space to neutralise incoming threats. … As the threat of …

France, Germany and UK condemn ‘threats‘ against UN nuclear watchdog head: joint statement

MSN

France, Germany and Britain on Monday condemned “threats” against the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency after Iran rejected its …

Nuclear War

NEWS

China and Russia Keep Their Distance From Iran During Crisis – The New York Times

The New York Times

None of the other three states rushed to aid Iran during its war with Israel or when U.S. forces bombed Iranian nuclear sites. China and Russia …

Iran’s supreme leader makes first public appearance since Iran-Israel war started – NPR

NPR

After the U.S. inserted itself into the war by bombing three key nuclear sites in Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump sent warnings via social media …

After Russia’s Hint Of Nuclear Weapons For Iran, China’s Declaration In Europe Stuns Israel, USA

YouTube

… nuclear issue and stressed that war is not a solution. China reaffirmed its support for Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy and criticized the …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

In Yellowstone National Park, even animals sometimes make mistakes

News From The States

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. Idaho …

In Yellowstone National Park, even animals sometimes make mistakes – Yahoo

Yahoo

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. Advertisement.

LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest WEEKEND NEWS, Saturday, (07/05/2025)

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The PG&E Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant located near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo county in California. It is the last commercial nuclear power plant in California.

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There are 6 categories, with the latest addition including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

  1. All Things Nuclear
  2. Nuclear Power
  3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
  4. Nuclear War Threats
  5. Nuclear War
  6. Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Saturday Post.)

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, Saturday, (07/05/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

How America created Iran’s nuclear program | If You’re Listening – YouTube

YouTube

But there are still many questions about the conflict: Has Iran … all plans for an Iranian nuke? And what does an American bowling alley …

U.S.-Iran nuclear talks to resume in Oslo | KERA News

KERA News

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University, about the prospect of a new nuclear deal between …

Did Trump PLANT Story About Elon’s Drug Use? – YouTube

YouTube

… all the platforms. We also have a live 24-hour news channel that … Trump Admin CHANGES THE STORY About Iran’s Nuclear Weapons. The Young …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Ukraine war briefing: Power to Zaporizhzhia plant cut off as UN watchdog warns nuclear …

The Guardian

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi acknowledged that power had been restored after 3½ hours but added on X that nuclear …

Floating nuclear power plants to be evaluated for Mediterranean

World Nuclear News

The American Bureau of Shipping, Core Power and Athlos Energy are to collaborate on the evaluation of the potential of deploying floating nuclear …

UN chief condemns Russian strikes on Ukraine, warns of nuclear safety risk – UN News

UN News – Welcome to the United Nations

… nuclear safety at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). In a statement issued by his spokesperson, António Guterres expressed alarm over ..

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Power cut for a time to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant; Kyiv blames Russian strike

Reuters

“The ZNPP currently relies on power from its emergency diesel generators, underlining (the) extremely precarious nuclear safety situation,” it said.

UN chief condemns Russian strikes on Ukraine, warns of nuclear safety risk – UN News

UN News – Welcome to the United Nations

Fragile situation. The airstrikes on Friday severed the nuclear plant’s last external power connection, forcing the ZNPP to rely on emergency diesel …

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost all external power: UN watchdog – Anadolu Ajansı

Anadolu Ajansı

Power plant ‘currently relies on power from its emergency diesel generators, underlining extremely precarious nuclear safety situation,’ says head …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

News Analysis: Israel declared triumph, but Iran’s nuclear future still looms

Los Angeles Times

The Israelis too have threatened to strike again should they perceive a threat. But that calculus thrusts all sides into a perpetual game of cat-and- …

Iran Update, July 4, 2025 | Institute for the Study of War

Institute for the Study of War

Johanna Moore, Ben Rezaei, Avery Borens, Katherine Wells, and Brian Carter. Information Cutoff: 2:00 PM ET. The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at …

INTERVIEW – Echoes from Nagasaki: Survivors warn against devastation of nuclear war

Anadolu Ajansı

As global threats grow, aging survivors of US atomic attacks on Japan feel growing urgency to remind the world of nuclear war’s horrors – Anadolu …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Ukraine war briefing: power to Zaporizhzhia plant cut off as UN watchdog warns nuclear …

The Guardian

IAEA chief says electricity restored after 3½ hours as Ukraine blames Russian shelling for outage; Kyiv accuses Putin of ‘humiliating’ Trump with …

UN chief condemns Russian strikes on Ukraine, warns of nuclear safety risk – UN News

UN News – Welcome to the United Nations

… war – warning that the strikes again jeopardised nuclear safety at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). In a statement issued by his …

Russia hits Ukraine with largest barrage of war after Putin-Trump call | AFP – YouTube

YouTube

29:46 · Go to channel · U.S. SHOCKS with Nuclear DECISION on Ukraine! Nuclear Threat to Russia. Putin is Furious! War & Politics 24 New 4.4K views.

Yellowstone Caldera

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In Yellowstone National Park, even animals sometimes make mistakes – Idaho Capital Sun

Idaho Capital Sun

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists … Volcano Observatory and the Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano …

Yellowstone Hot Springs Create Perfect Environment for Ancient Microbes

Discover Magazine

Read More: What Does a Year at Yellowstone Caldera Look Like? Deep Breaths. With the new information gathered, researchers hope it will shed light …

LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest, #975, Friday, (07/04/2025)

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

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My Personal Reasons and Thoughts about our Nuclear Future as it relates to this Blog:

Over the last 3 years I have watched, created, and learned in multiple ways to understand what I have, seemingly without conscious consideration ,attempted to make of my latter days of life — a part of which is this daily blog about the pitifully dangerous world we have become forced to exist in — and that it is mandatory to do what I, as well as you, the reader, can do to enlighten our own individual lives by seeking to help our collective lives on planet Earth move forward rather than statically sideways or even bassackwards as it has for the what I call the nuclear years,

It all began for me with the “Manhattan Project”, which changed the world in so many ways, including war, beginning about the same time I was born. One could thus say that I have lived with the “nuclear age” all of my life and as a young adult I somehow oddly became a part of the “nuclear industry” itself as a professional employee for a corporation that was one of the first allowed to provide uranium fuel to the early nuclear reactor power plants on a commercial basis, spending much of 3 decades learning and working in and about the industry. I left the nuclear world shortly after the “3-Mile Island” nuclear accident, suddenly realizing the world-wide danger of “all things nuclear”, including a grown-up realistic vision of the prior nuclear bombing of Japan forcing an immediate stop to WWII, but coming at the malicious expense of ordinary public citizens of hundreds of thousands of Japanese people who had little or nothing to do with the war, but were brutally sacrificed to end a war that had been confined to military theatre operational battles, as in all wars before the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States on August 6th and August 9th of 1945, when I was not yet 4 years old. The word “nuclear” has gradually taken a nasty tone in my mind, and I have long wished it to be removed forever from human use and “disappeared” from our knowledge that it ever existed. But, of course, that wish will never come true.

So that is why I have tried my best to simply report the reasons they — the bassackwards ones who are our world leaders and their masses of followers — should take the time to, on their own and freely, consciously, carefully, look into the endless information that I (and others, too) have provided, without fanfare or seeking “sponsors”, to warn the world on a daily basis for, in my case, more than 3 years that we humans are on the verge of extinguishing most all life on planet Earth — hoping all the while that curious concerned average folks around the world would come to the realization and band together to decry the facts that nuclear weapons and, yes, nuclear energy devastation are rapidly approaching in a way more than simply what we continue to call “threats” for now.

The ridiculous re-birth of the nuclear power industry may well become a major threat to the future of humanity and other life for many highly possible reasons if the industry and its commercial power suppliers and the future AI/Computer generated uses and users continue to successfully move nuclear energy forward around the globe, Nuclear power generation will become, and already are, what I refer to as “stationary nuclear bombs”. Such an effort by questionable human intelligence can easily create its own style of Pandora’s Box of dangers, including nuclear accidents, nuclear or uranium theft, black markets, and possible subversion, including terrorism, sabotage and insurrection. The larger the market grows the greater the risk of insurrection . . .

We fail to understand that most of humanity does not realize where we are blindly leading ourselves, like lemmings, to a place where our own self destruction exists because humanity is not intellectually qualified to avoid the outcome of the use of all things or anything nuclear, and that once used, for the madness and eventual failures of both the spoils of war and the peaceful generation of electricity, the consequences of nuclear waste, terrorism, and accidents will never go away.

So it is that I will continue to post the compilation of “TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS DIGEST”, which every day, seven days a week, features as many as 15 of the best nuclear-based media stories in 5 categories and up to 3 “bonus” stories about the “Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes”, but I will no longer add my personal opinions nor selected images (other than leaving those already inserted in a current media article).

This personal decision has arrived because I am well into an important nuclear based novel, draft titled “El Nuclear Diablo”, that will eventually serve the same intended purposes as the blog, but in a more interesting, exciting, readable, and literate level — and hopefully also in a more appreciable and adventurous way than my daily whines that I have long posted on the blog . . . ~llaw

And as one devoted everyday bibliophile — as I had come to think of it — I do hope you will continue to visit this very important daily Post, and I am considering, but have not come to any conclusion, offering a Q&A section to replace the “In my Opinion” area. Today’s July 4th Post will be the last in the present format, and I have appropriately explained some of my personal reasons for discontinuing the blog as we — meaning all the occasional readers
In My Opinion: (for the last time in this format . . .}

This very welcome Post and fittingly timed (Published today) as my last chosen piece for commentary is close to my heart is a very well told story of extremely dangerous political neglect from “Pediatric Research”. It is a timely and excellent piece that all of us need to read and think seriously about where the future of humanity is involved.

I need only to add the following (the 2nd to last paragraph) from the short but to-the-point article to say, as a final personal concern that should also be yours, how precisely my biggest fear about the future failure of mankind to prevent the passing of most human and other life on planet Earth! ~llaw

The 2nd to last paragraph:

It is an alarming failure of leadership that no progress has been made on these needed measures, nor on many other feasible steps away from the brink, acting on the obligation of all states to achieve nuclear disarmament. Nine states jeopardise all humanity and the biosphere by claiming an exclusive right to wield the most destructive and inhumane weapons ever created. The world desperately needs the leaders of these states to freeze their arsenals, end the modernisation and development of new, more dangerous nuclear weapons, and ensure that new technology such as artificial intelligence can never trigger the launch of nuclear weapons.

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Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us

Pediatric Research (2025)Cite this article

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations should urge their governments to support such a mandate and support the new UN comprehensive study on the effects of nuclear war.

The first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert 80 years ago, in July 1945. Three weeks later, two relatively small (by today’s standards), tactical-size nuclear weapons unleashed a cataclysm of radioactive incineration on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the end of 1945, about 213,000 people were dead.2 Tens of thousands more have died from late effects of the bombings.

Last December, Nihon Hidankyo, a movement that brings together atomic bomb survivors, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its “efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”.3 For the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the award validated the most fundamental human right: the right to live. The Committee warned that the menace of nuclear weapons is now more urgent than ever before. In the words of Committee Chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes, “it is naive to believe our civilisation can survive a world order in which global security depends on nuclear weapons. The world is not meant to be a prison in which we await collective annihilation.”4 He noted that our survival depended on keeping intact the “nuclear taboo” (which stigmatises the use of nuclear weapons as morally unacceptable).5

The nuclear taboo gains strength from recognition of compelling evidence of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war, its severe global climatic and famine consequences, and the impossibility of any effective humanitarian response. This evidence contributed significantly to ending the Cold War nuclear arms race.6,7

While the numbers of nuclear weapons are down to 12,331 now, from their 1986 peak of 70,300,8 this is still equivalent to 146,605 Hiroshima bombs,9 and does not mean humanity is any safer.10 Even a fraction of the current arsenal could decimate the biosphere in a severe mass extinction event. The global climate disruption caused by the smoke pouring from cities ignited by just 2% of the current arsenal could result in over two billion people starving.11

A worldwide nuclear arms race is underway. Deployed nuclear weapons are increasing again, and China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and UK are all enlarging their arsenals. An estimated 2100 nuclear warheads in France, Russia, UK, US and, for the first time, also in China, are on high alert, ready for launch within minutes.8 With disarmament in reverse, extensive nuclear modernisations underway, multiple arms control treaties abrogated without replacement, no disarmament negotiations in evidence, nuclear-armed Russia and Israel engaged in active wars involving repeated nuclear threats, Russia and the US deploying nuclear weapons to additional states, and widespread use of cyberwarfare, the risk of nuclear war is widely assessed to be greater than ever. This year the Doomsday Clock was moved the closest to midnight since the Clock’s founding in 1947.10

Led by Ireland and New Zealand, in late 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly to establish a 21-member independent scientific panel to undertake a new comprehensive study on the effects of nuclear war,12 with its final report due in 2027. Noting that “removing the threat of a nuclear war is the most acute and urgent task of the present day”, the panel has been tasked with examining the physical effects and societal consequences of a nuclear war on a local, regional and planetary scale. It will examine the climatic, environmental and radiological effects of nuclear war, and their impact on public health, global socioeconomic systems, agriculture and ecosystems.

The resolution calls upon UN agencies, including WHO, to support the panel’s work, including by “contributing expertise, commissioned studies, data and papers”. All UN Member States are encouraged to provide relevant information, scientific data and analyses; facilitate and host panel meetings, including regional meetings; and make budgetary or in-kind contributions. Such an authoritative international assessment of evidence on the most acute existential threat to humankind and planetary health is long overdue. The last such report dates from 1989. It is shameful that France, UK and Russia opposed this resolution.13

In 1983 and 1987,14 WHO convened an international committee of scientists and health experts to study the health effects of nuclear war. Its landmark, authoritative reports were influential and an excellent example of WHO fulfilling its constitutional mandate “to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work”. In 1993, WHO produced an additional shorter report on the health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons, which included discussion of the production chain of nuclear weapons, including processing, testing and disposal.15

However, despite WHA having mandated WHO to report periodically on relevant developments, no further work was undertaken and in 2020 WHO’s mandate on nuclear weapons and health lapsed.

The Marshall Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu, supported by seven co-sponsoring states and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), are working to renew WHO’s mandate. They are seeking wide support for a resolution on the health effects of nuclear weapons/war at this year’s WHA in Geneva on 19-27 May.1 WHO would then re-establish a programme of work on this most critical threat to health, and be able to lead strongly in providing the best health evidence to the UN panel.

Health professionals are well aware how crucial accurate and up-to-date evidence is to making good decisions. We and our organisations should support such a renewed mandate by urging our national WHA delegates to vote in support and commit the modest funds needed to re-establish WHO’s work programme, especially now, as the organisation faces severe financial strain with the US decision to withdraw its membership.

Our joint editorial in 202316 on reducing the risks of nuclear war and the role of health professionals, published in over 150 health journals worldwide, urged three immediate steps by nuclear-armed states and their allies: adopt a “no first use” policy, take their nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, and pledge unequivocally that they will not use nuclear weapons in any current conflicts they are involved in. We also urged nuclear-armed states to work for a definitive end to the nuclear threat by urgently starting negotiations for a verifiable, timebound agreement to eliminate their nuclear arsenals, and called on all nations to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.17

It is an alarming failure of leadership that no progress has been made on these needed measures, nor on many other feasible steps away from the brink, acting on the obligation of all states to achieve nuclear disarmament. Nine states jeopardise all humanity and the biosphere by claiming an exclusive right to wield the most destructive and inhumane weapons ever created. The world desperately needs the leaders of these states to freeze their arsenals, end the modernisation and development of new, more dangerous nuclear weapons, and ensure that new technology such as artificial intelligence can never trigger the launch of nuclear weapons.

The UN scientific panel and a renewed mandate for WHO’s work in this area can provide vital authoritative and up-to-date evidence for health and public education, evidence-based advocacy and policies, and the mobilised public concern needed to trigger decisive political leadership. This is a core health imperative for all of us.

References

  1. World Health Organization. Effects of nuclear weapons and war on health and health services. EB156/CONF./10, Executive Board (accessed 4 March 2025); https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB156/B156_CONF10-en.pdf (2025).
  2. Tomonaga, M. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a summary of the human consequences, 1945-2018, and lessons for Homo sapiens to end the nuclear weapon age. J. Peace Nucl. Disarmament 2, 491–517 (2019).

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  3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
  4. Nuclear War Threats
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  7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only) (Note: If the IAEA Weekly News does not return by the following Friday from today, this category will be removed)

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 DIGEST, Friday, (07/04/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Iran cracking down on people suspected of aiding Israel in war last month – WSIU

WSIU

… nuclear scientists during last month’s war … All Things Considered · Morning Edition · Law Enforcement · Politics …

Trump Admin CHANGES THE STORY About Iran’s Nuclear Weapons – YouTube

YouTube

major channels on almost all the platforms. We also have a live 24-hour news channel that features all our shows. The Young Turks is the flagship …

Nuclear Power/IAEA Fast Facts | CNN

CNN

May 30, 2011 – Germany announces it will abandon the use of all nuclear power by the year 2022. … that is aimed at reining in Iran’s nuclear prog

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Wisconsin governor signs bills to bolster nuclear power – POLITICO Pro

POLITICO Pro

Evers, a Democrat, said exploring nuclear power options are a way to combat climate change and lower carbon emissions. “We must continue our efforts …

Nuclear Power/IAEA Fast Facts | CNN

CNN

Kansai Electric Power Company’s Takahama nuclear plant in western Japan. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images. CNN —. Here’s a look …

Record-Breaking Results Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality | Scientific American

Scientific American

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Ukraine nuclear power plant alert as ALL external electricity cables helping keep reactor fuel …

Daily Mail

… Atomic Energy Agency said on X, adding that the plant was relying on its emergency diesel generators for power. Its six reactors are all shut down …

IAEA Chief Visits Liberia, Pledges Support for Cancer Care, Farming, Clean Water

allAfrica.com

The move marked a significant step toward stronger nuclear governance and emergency preparedness. … nuclear power as part of its energy mix. Close …

IAEA: Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant without electricity | blue News – Bluewin

Bluewin

“The nuclear power plant is currently dependent on electricity from its emergency diesel generators, which underlines the extremely precarious …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

US faces long-term battle to contain Iran after Trump’s strike on their nuclear facilities

Fox News

… threat of nuclear war‘ · Brian … Israel insists on striking preemptively if it detects renewed threats.

Beijing fears Russia’s defeat due to nuclear arsenal risks – Chinese expert – Ukrinform

Ukrinform

Chinese leaders have repeatedly warned against not only the use of nuclear arms, but even nuclear threats,” Wang said answering Ukrinform’s Beijing …

Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us | Pediatric Research – Nature

Nature

… threats, Russia and the US deploying nuclear weapons to additional … The growing threat of nuclear war and the role of the health community.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Iran won’t attack the US but will continue nuclear development, senior Iranian official says

Politico

Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said Iran had “already responded” to the U.S. attack on its three nuclear enrichment facilities late last …lear threat is more precarious than during the Cold War

The Washington Post

How nuclear war could start. (Cristiana Couceiro/For The Washington Post). By Hans Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns and Allie …

U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear sites lead to fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire | Fox News

Fox News

New Cold War?: US faces long-term battle to contain Iran after Trump’s strike on their nuclear facilities. The CIA is now acknowledging severe, long- …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone scientists discuss real dangers of thermal areas – Buckrail

Buckrail

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — In this week’s Caldera Chronicles, the scientists of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) discuss the common …

Could Yellowstone National Park Visitors See New Thermal Feature Again This Summer?

Discover Magazine

A Hydrothermal Hotbed. Yellowstone National Park is a hotbed of volcanic history. Situated within the Yellowstone Caldera, the park is home to …

IAEA Weekly News

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So the Pentagon has softened their initial “few months” downtime to Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities to a “one or two years” delay, allowing Trump to save enough face to allow at least one of his lies to be no more than a downtime prediction mistake.

But the Pentagon does not go so low as to say that Trump’s “obliteration” claim is a fact nor anywhere near-so. And the extended lies (see yesterday’s Post) piled on top of one-another cannot be softened no matter the “erroneous” time estimate. We must remember that a year or two is not a long time. For instance, I have been writing this blog for nearly three years, which is hard for even me to believe! llolloll!

I also want to add here that this “In My Opinion” section as well as the daily lead-in media article will no longer be a part of this blog, and the blog will become only known as and titled as LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY, leaving out the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW.

But rest assured the media stories will remain in their collected categories here, allowing users to read or not read any or all the 15 or so individual stories in whatever category of nuclear sections you may prefer to follow.

I will explain the changes and the abridgement in more detail in tomorrow’s 4th of July Post, which will be the last one in the present format. ~llaw

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US says its strikes degraded Iran’s nuclear programme by one to two years

Pentagon says its intelligence assessments show that Iran’s nuclear sites were destroyed in ‘bold’ US attacks.

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The aftermath of an Israeli strike on Evin Prison in Tehran [File: Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

By Al Jazeera Staff

Published On 3 Jul 20253 Jul 2025

Washington, DC – The Pentagon has announced that United States military strikes against Iran set back the country’s nuclear programme by one to two years, an assessment that follows President Donald Trump’s claims that the programme was “obliterated”.

Defense Department spokesperson Sean Parnell said on Wednesday that the three Iranian nuclear facilities targeted by Washington were destroyed, echoing the president’s remarks. He praised the strikes as a “bold operation”.

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“We have degraded their programme by one to two years at least,” Parnell told reporters. “Intel assessments inside the department assess that.”

Since the US sent a group of B-2 stealth bombers to Iran on June 21, Trump has consistently lashed out at any suggestions that the attacks did not wreck the country’s nuclear facilities.

He has maintained that Iran’s nuclear programme has been “obliterated like nobody’s ever seen before”.

An initial US intelligence assessment, leaked to several media outlets last month, said the strikes failed to destroy key components of Iran’s nuclear programme and only delayed its work by months.

For its part, Tehran has been coy about providing details about the state of its nuclear sites.

Some Iranian officials have said that the facilities sustained significant damage from US and Israeli attacks. But Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said last week that Trump had “exaggerated” the impact of the strikes.

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There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

  1. All Things Nuclear
  2. Nuclear Power
  3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
  4. Nuclear War Threats
  5. Nuclear War
  6. Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There is one Yellowstone Caldera bonus story available in today’s Post.)
  7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

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 DIGEST, Thursday, (07/03/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Iran cracking down on people suspected of aiding Israel in war last month – WCBU

WCBU

… All Things Considered. Next Up: 5:30 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … nuclear scientists during last month’s war. Copyright 2025 NPR.

Iran cracking down on people suspected of aiding Israel in war last month – WSIU

WSIU

… nuclear scientists during last month’s war … All Things Considered · Morning Edition · Law Enforcement · Politics …

After US and Israeli strikes, some nuclear experts say Iran could be more dangerous

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

“They can go right up to the brink, and basically do everything except assemble the weapons in their final form and still be technically in compliance …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Smaller nuclear reactors spark renewed interest in a once-shunned energy source

North Dakota Monitor

In the past two years, half the states have taken action to promote nuclear power, from creating nuclear task forces to integrating nuclear into …

Wisconsin governor signs bills to bolster nuclear power – AP News

AP News

Governor Tony Evers has signed two bipartisan bills to boost nuclear power in Wisconsin. One bill signed Wednesday allocates $2 million for a …

Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe – The New York Times

The New York Times

Power plant operators in Switzerland and France idled reactors so that discharged cooling water would not harm wildlife in already-hot rivers.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Readout on WHO participation in global nuclear emergency exercise

World Health Organization (WHO)

… Organization (WHO) concluded its participation in a 36-hour nuclear emergency exercise organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

At least 8 deaths as Europe’s heatwave causes forest fires, health alerts and shuts a nuclear reactor

ABC News

Swiss utility Axpo shut down one reactor unit at the Beznau nuclear power plant … Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents · England · Environment.

Consortium advances floating nuclear power for the Mediterranean – SAFETY4SEA

Safety4Sea

In an effort to support the development of floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), ABS, CORE POWER and Athlos Energy have formed a consortium to …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Amid Warnings of Iranian Sleeper Cells, a History of Failed Plots – The New York Times

The New York Times

A protest in Tehran last week against the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear sites. … threats. Whether the cease-fire lasts will have implications for the …

Stratcom Provides ‘Tailored Deterrence’ Against Threats – DVIDS

DVIDS

Kehler disagrees with those who argue that nothing can deter some of adversaries who threaten the United States today, particularly violent extremists ..

Implications of Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Sites for IAEA Credibility – RUSI

RUSI

Military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and Tehran’s criticism of the IAEA threaten … The war in Ukraine and the recent strikes on Iranian …

Nuclear War

NEWS

After US and Israeli strikes, some nuclear experts say Iran could be more dangerous

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

A group of Iranians wave flags following Iran’s attack on U.S. military base in Qatar, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tehran, Iran, June 23, 2025.

US says its strikes degraded Iran’s nuclear programme by one to two years – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

There has been no independent assessment of the aftermath of the US attacks, which came as part of a 12-day war between Israel and Iran. Visual …

Pentagon says US strikes set back Iran nuclear program ‘one to two years’ – The Guardian

The Guardian

… nuclear weapons and meant it delayed the nuclear program by years. … war with Iran signals perilous shift from showman to strongman. 23 Jun …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

How the US tops volcano list | Te Awamutu News

Te Awamutu News

I can’t talk about US volcanoes without mentioning Yellowstone—the “supervolcano” that sparks questions nearly every time I talk to Americans: Is it …

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The following article from “The Bulwark” provides additional evidence of Trump’s and his Whit6 House associates lying to the American — and the world’s — public citizens who rely on the media for accurate information about important “facts” that could affect their future welfare or the lack of it. The media also expects it from the various and sundry world leaders to tell the truth.

Here is an example of the negative importance of Trump’s lies taken from “The Bulwark” story below: The myth of total destruction was important because it underpinned Trump’s second lie: that no further negotiations or military operations were necessary to curtail the nuclear program. “I don’t care if I have an agreement or not” with Iran, the president told reporters at a NATO meeting on June 25. “We destroyed the nuclear,” he explained. “We blew it up. It’s blown up to kingdom come.”

And just a day or so later Trump was telling us that the Iran/U.S nuclear operations agreement would be back at the table before the end of the week, totally contradicting his previous two lies with a 3rd one, ending just two more days from now on July 4th. Iran said, “no”.

We have a president and a totally unqualified executive branch — as well as half of a congress — serving us here in the United States who are openly lying to the American public, including the media.

This must stop before Trump’s lies cause insurmountable concern and fear among the militaries and innocent citizens of our own and other countries — already severely divided — if for no other reason than Trump’s constant falsehoods being delivered by media and social networks to the leaders and citizens everywhere, irreparably threatening our lives as well as a world of innocent other species. ~llaw

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Trump’s Team Is Lying About Iran’s WMD

He savaged Bush for distorting intelligence and overselling the military’s initial success in Iraq. Now Trump and his team are doing the same in Iran.

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IN 2016, DONALD TRUMP REBUKED George W. Bush for peddling erroneous intelligence and false assurances about the war in Iraq. He accused Bush of deliberately misrepresenting Iraq’s nuclear weapons program, and he mocked Bush’s premature “Mission Accomplished” speech.

Bush and his administration “lied,” Trump charged at a Republican presidential debate in February 2016. “They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none.”

Two days after that debate, Trump derided the May 2003 speech in which Bush infamously proclaimed that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” and “the United States and our allies have prevailed.” Trump recalled that Bush had stood on an “aircraft carrier saying all sorts of wonderful things, how the war was essentially over. Guess what? Not over.”

Nine years later, Trump is doing what he accused Bush of doing. He has launched a preemptive military strike, this time in Iran. He has defended the strike by misrepresenting intelligence. He has prematurely declared the mission a total victory. And he is impugning the patriotism of anyone who challenges his lies.

ON JUNE 21, AFTER A WEEK of war between Israel and Iran, the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. Three hours later, Trump went on TV and announced that “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” The claim was absurd—the damage couldn’t have been assessed that quickly, and the operation hadn’t even targeted most of Iran’s enriched uranium—but Trump repeated it on June 22June 25June 26June 27, and June 29.

Trump’s senior officials joined him in the lie. “Iran’s nuclear program is obliterated,” said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on June 25. “This was complete and total obliteration,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “There’s no doubt that it was obliterated,” said Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, referring to Iran’s underground nuclear site at Fordo.

“Obliterate” wasn’t just rhetoric. Trump was literally insisting that the three sites and Iran’s whole program had been annihilated. “It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability,” he wrote in a Truth Social post on June 24. At the White House, he said of Fordo: “That place is gone. . . . That place is gone.”

The myth of total destruction was important because it underpinned Trump’s second lie: that no further negotiations or military operations were necessary to curtail the nuclear program. “I don’t care if I have an agreement or not” with Iran, the president told reporters at a NATO meeting on June 25. “We destroyed the nuclear,” he explained. “We blew it up. It’s blown up to kingdom come.”

Nor would America have to bomb Iran again. At a June 25 press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, a reporter asked Trump: “If the Iranians do rebuild, would the United States strike again?” Trump dismissed the question. “Sure,” he scoffed, “but I’m not going to have to worry about that. It’s gone for years.”

The basis of these assurances, Trump explained, wasn’t just the totality of the destruction. It was that Iran, according to Trump, was so devastated, exhausted, and demoralized that it no longer wanted to develop nuclear weapons. “They don’t even want to think about nuclear,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One on June 24. At the press conference with Rutte, the president added: “I don’t think they’ll ever do it again. . . . I think they’ve had it. The last thing they want to do is enrich.”


IN ONE VENUE AFTER ANOTHER, reporters pressed Trump about evidence that his assurances were false or baseless. He refused to listen. For example, after the bombing, Iran’s foreign ministry reaffirmed that its nuclear enrichment program would continue. But on June 25, when a reporter asked Trump about those statements, he dismissed them. “The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now,” he repeated. “No, they won’t do that.”

On June 27, in a Fox News interview, Maria Bartiromo questioned Trump about reports, apparently sourced to Israeli intelligence, that Iran had moved nearly 900 pounds of enriched uranium out of Fordo before the bombing. Trump waved off that possibility. “They didn’t move anything,” he insisted. Two days later, when a reporter asked about Pickaxe Mountain, another of the sites where satellite imagery suggested enriched uranium might be stored, Trump returned to his mantra that Iran had no interest in continuing such work: “The last thing they’re thinking about right now is enriched uranium. They’re not thinking about it.”

Meanwhile, the president made up stories about various damage assessments. On June 25, at a press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, Trump declared that “the high commission of Iran just said it [Fordo] was totally demolished.” No such commission exists, and statements from Iran’s government have said no such thing.

On Truth Social, Trump announced, “Israel just stated that the Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED!” But Israel’s actual assessments, quoted in a White House fact sheet, made no such boast. Officially, the Israel Atomic Energy Commission said Israeli and American strikes had “set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.” Unofficially, Israeli officials told reporters that the extent of damage at the three targeted sites was unknown.

As Trump spewed his fictions and embellishments, he blithely contradicted himself. In the press conference with Rutte, he said of Fordo: “Iran went down to the site afterwards. They said it’s so devastated. . . . Two Iranians went down to see it, and they called back, and they said, ‘This place is gone.’” But two minutes later, Trump mentioned that “nobody can get in to see” the facility’s underground chambers, because “the tunnels are totally collapsed.”

In his interview with Bartiromo, Trump said Iran wouldn’t have moved enriched uranium out of Fordo before the bombing, because it hadn’t expected the site to be attacked. “Nobody thought we’d go after that site, because everybody said that site is impenetrable,” he explained. But seconds later—apparently forgetting or not caring that he had just brushed off the idea of Iranian preparations—he claimed that vehicles spotted at Fordo in the days before the strike were there “to seal up the entrance” with concrete.

Trump also alluded to unspecified intelligence that supposedly vindicated his boasts. At the NATO meeting, he said of Fordo: “We’ve collected additional intelligence. We’ve also spoken to people [who] have seen the site. And the site is obliterated.” He posted the same statement, again without evidence, on Truth Social. The next day, at a White House event, he asserted that “the target has now been proven to be obliterated, just as we said.”


TRUMP IS LYING. A week and a half after the bombing, he has offered no such proof. Instead, his flunkies have issued empty statements claiming, with zero discernible evidence, that “new intelligence” or “credible intelligence” backs him up. The charlatan who accused Bush of politicizing intelligence and lying about weapons of mass destruction is politicizing intelligence and lying about weapons of mass destruction.

But that’s not the worst of it. The worst part is that Trump, like Bush, is suggesting that anyone who disputes the president’s statements about a war is sabotaging America’s armed forces.

In 2005, as the Iraq war soured and the purported Iraqi nukes failed to turn up, Democrats accused Bush of having manipulated intelligence to justify the war. Bush responded by challenging his opponents’ patriotism. Their accusations of manipulation “send the wrong signal to our troops,” the president warned. “As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them.”

Vice President Dick Cheney joined Bush in this flag-waving counterattack. “American soldiers and Marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions,” he fumed, while “back home, a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie.” One could argue, said Cheney—pretending not to endorse this argument himself—that the “untruthful charges against the commander-in-chief have an insidious effect on the war effort.”

Trump, having rebuked Bush and Cheney, is now copying their tactic of hiding behind the troops. At the NATO meeting, he called journalists “scum” for reporting, accurately, that according to a preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment, the damage from the Iran strike was limited. He accused the press of “hurting” the mission’s pilots by “trying to minimize the attack.” And he said CNN’s Natasha Bertrand, one of the first reporters to reveal the assessment, “should be FIRED” for denying the truth—“TOTAL OBLITERATION!”­­—and for “attempting to destroy our Patriot Pilots by making them look bad.”

Hegseth went further. At a Pentagon briefing, he lambasted journalists for challenging Trump’s tale of obliteration. “You, the press corps . . . It’s like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump,” the defense secretary raged. He accused reporters of trying “to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful. . . . You’re undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots.”

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Given outstanding questions about covert aspects of Iran’s nuclear … In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from the plan — which was signed by all …

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Nuclear Power

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Regulatory hurdles could jeopardize growth of nuclear energy

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Smaller nuclear reactors spark renewed interest in a once-shunned energy source

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Illustration of the Hypergrid project integrating nuclear, solar, and wind power to support AI data centers. Image generated by AI.

Nuclear War Threats

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What Israel’s attack on Iran means for the future of war – Al Jazeera

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… nuclear weapon. … As drone surveillance and autonomous systems become embedded in everyday geopolitics, war risks becoming the default condition, and …

Hormuz threat shows Iran committed to continuing war with Israel, US | The Jerusalem Post

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Zero tolerance for a nuclear weapon to be in the hands of the mullahs,” she said. Is Iran still a nuclear threat? Despite major accomplishments …

Trump lit a fire under NATO, but more needs to be done to contain the Russia-China axis

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… threat of nuclear war‘ · Brian … attack threats from drones. “We are going have armor on the modern …

Nuclear War

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Opinion | This is how a nuclear attack on the U.S. might unfold – The Washington Post

The Washington Post

It is difficult to imagine the devastation of a nuclear war. Our team at the Federation of American Scientists asked Sébastien Philippe, a …

The global implications of the US strikes on Iran – Brookings Institution

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On June 21, the U.S. military carried out a series of coordinated strikes against several Iranian nuclear facilities. The attack marks a major …

Will the Bombing Stop Iran From Going Nuclear? – The New York Times

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An axiom in the national security world says you cannot bomb a country into giving up its nuclear weapons programs. The attack itself only …

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A wa world and geopolitical threats: heat, hostility and nuclear security

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… nuclear emergency response. Several governments in Southeast Asia are planning to build new nuclear reactors and small modular units. But policy …

Yellowstone Caldera

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Grand Prismatic Spring: Boiling, colorful & full of bacteria (Yellowstone Monthly Update, July 2025)

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This entire future nuclear use-based fiasco has turned into “the world against Donald Trump” and his fabrications about destroying or demolishing — or “obliterating” as Trump refers to the Iran nuclear facilities bombing.

There are new aerial photos showing Iran workers at at least one of the bombed “obliterated” sites apparently working at entrances and on opening air vents to the surface and other indications that the damage is being repaired. All of this and other evidence defies Trump’s assertions, and the watchdog IAEA (International Atomic Agency) has reported all along that Iran’s nuclear facilities will be operational in just a few months.

To try to cover his tracks, Trump has now told the American people and the world that renewed negotiations relative to Iran’s nuclear program(s) and facilities will begin as early as this week, which Iran also refutes. I would say it’s kind of hard to trust someone who invited you to negotiate, makes talks progress impossible with impossible demands, ends all talks, and then bombs your facilities in the middle of the night only days later.

All I can say is one or more lies piled upon others does not make a truth, no matter how you try to hide your constant mistakes. Trump represents a dangerous nuclear war threat, not only to the USA, but to the world. So stay tuned . . . ~llaw

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Foreign minister’s comments come as the G7 calls for negotiations on a deal to address Iran’s nuclear programme.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses a special session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 20, 2025 [Denis Balibouse/ Reuters]

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Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi has ruled out a quick resumption of talks with the United States after President Donald Trump said US negotiations with Tehran could restart as early as this week.

Araghchi’s comments on CBS Evening News on Monday came as the foreign ministers of the G7 issued a statement calling for dialogue on a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme.

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Iran and the US were holding talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme when Israel launched attacks on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure. The US later joined in Israel’s attacks, by bombing the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan sites on June 21.

Tehran insists its programme is peaceful, but the US and Israel say they want to ensure Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon.

Araghchi said negotiations would not start as quickly as Trump had indicated, and that Iran first needs assurances against further attacks.

“In order for us to decide to reengage, we would have to first ensure that America will not revert back to targeting us in a military attack during the negotiations,” the minister said.

“I think with all these considerations, we still need more time,” he said, although “the doors of diplomacy will never slam shut”.

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Spending More On Nuclear Weapons Is A Bad Bet – Forbes

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It would be one thing if all this new spending was making us safer, but it is not. As former secretary of defense William Perry has noted, ICBMs are …

Trump Should Abolish the Nuclear Regulatory Commission – City Journal

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When it comes to nuclear energy, President Trump is making the right moves. He began last month with executive orders targeting everything from supply …

Satellite imagery reveals ongoing work at Iranian nuclear site bombed by US | CNN

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New satellite images show continuing work at Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment plant, which was struck by US B-2 bombers just over a week ago.

Nuclear Power

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Momentum builds for a nuclear energy revival – Business North Carolina

Business North Carolina

Momentum is building for a nuclear energy revival as power demand and climate concerns soar. Can the industry overcome its long-term pitfalls?

Building a nuclear power plant would be a costly endeavor, experts say – Spectrum News

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Schlissel is a rocket engineer who’s studied nuclear engineering and is aware of concerns over the safety of nuclear power. “If they’re not run and …

Smaller nuclear reactors spark renewed interest in a once-shunned energy source

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Nuclear Power Emergencies

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Radioactive fallout fears rise across Arab world following strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites

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… nuclear reactor had increased due to the escalation. … radiation emergencies to protect the thyroid gland from absorbing radioactive iodine.

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Oil Ministry highlights nuclear radiation risks, underscores preventive measures

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… nuclear emergencies. She stressed that prevention … He described nuclear reactors as power plants that produce electricity through nuclear …

Nuclear War Threats

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Iran hardens stance against IAEA and its chief in wake of US-Israel attacks – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Will Iran double down on its nuclear programme after the war? … In the meantime, France, Germany and Britain have decried “threats” made against …

G7 urges talks to resume for deal on Iran nuclear program – Reuters

Reuters

G7 condemned threats against head of U.N. nuclear watchdog. WASHINGTON … war against Iran aimed to prevent Tehran from developing its own nuclear …

U.S. intelligence agencies warn of Iranian cyberattack threat – WCPO

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Nuclear War

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Trump’s Attack on Iran May Have Made the Nuclear Crisis Worse – Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Iran still has what it needs to build a nuclear weapon despite Trump’s airstrikes, and military hardliners are poised to gain greater control.

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Yellowstone Caldera

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Bison dies in rarely seen hot springs mishap at Yellowstone National Park – MLive.com

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US president denies multiple reports and accounts that say US strikes did not destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities.. (See image source, image credits, and description in “Al Jazeera” article below.) ~llaw

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And the Trump denials about the Iran/USA/Israel day-to-day facts relating to the “obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear facilities of by now well-known facts from knowledgeable sources everywhere except, of course, from the White House, his questionable and impossible to believe claims continues on, obviously creating more world-wide dissension and division on a daily basis.

For a more local understanding of these nuclear issues from the U.S. media, see The New York Times and the Washington Post (and others) in TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS DIGEST below . . .

Trump seems to be digging himself a deeper hole of international disbelief, not to mention his credibility with the American people, including millions of those who voted for him and may well be having serious second thoughts about his veracity, mental capacity, as well as his questionable ability to run the country in an acceptable way in not only ia possible war-like scenarios, but in general . . . ~llaw

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US president denies multiple reports and accounts that say US strikes did not destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

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United States President Donald Trump has reiterated a vow not to allow Iran to get nuclear weapons following the end of Iran and Israel’s recent 12-day conflict, in which the US militarily intervened, and has stuck closely to his narrative as questions remain about the impact of US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.

On the Fox News programme Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Trump repeated his claim that Iran was “weeks away” from making the weapons before Israel attacked on June 13. Nine days later, the US targeted Iran’s top three nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

Both US intelligence and the United Nations nuclear watchdog have ascertained that Tehran was not building a nuclear arsenal. Iran has long insisted that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes only.

While Trump has said that the sites were “obliterated” by the US bombers, in the wake of the attacks, several major news organisations, citing intelligence sources, have reported that the US strikes did not destroy the facilities.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that it was unclear what damage had been sustained at the Fordow plant, which houses the bulk of Iran’s most highly enriched uranium needed to make a nuclear weapon.

On Sunday, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Iran could restart uranium enrichment in a matter of months, while Trump insisted over the weekend that the attacks had set Iran’s nuclear ambitions back “by decades”.

According to an IAEA report last month, Iran has more than 400kg (880lb) of uranium enriched to up to 60 per cent purity, close to the roughly 90 per cent weapons grade – which is enough, if enriched further, for nine nuclear weapons.

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“One cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there.” “It is clear that there has been severe damage, but it’s not total …

U.N. Inspector Says Iran Could Enrich Nuclear Fuel in ‘Matter of Months’

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“Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the …

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Trump Wants to Expand Nuclear Power. It Won’t Be Easy. – WSJ

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U.S. nuclearpower plant construction faded in the 1990s. The U.S. has added only three reactors since then—one in Tennessee and two in Georgia …

U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran could enrich uranium again in “a matter of months” – NPR

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Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CBS that Iran had a “a very vast ambitious” nuclear …

Google to Buy Power From Nuclear Fusion. The ‘Longer Term’ Is Getting Closer. – Barron’s

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Every nuclear plant in the world today is powered by fission reactions, which generate energy by splitting the nucleus of an atom. Fusion, by contrast …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

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Niigata holds first public hearing on nuclear reactor restart plan – The Japan Times

The Japan Times

… reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. … An emergency evacuation plan has also been approved.

Carolinas heatwave prompts rare emergency power order by US energy department

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Nuclear War Threats

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Sleeper cells and threat warnings: how the US-Iran conflict is spinning up fear

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… threats to national security that we are only partially prepared for.” For example, recent “war on terror”-styled reporting from Fox News, an …

UK, France, Germany condemn threats against IAEA head after Iran newspaper calls for his arrest

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Trump reiterates Iran nuclear talking points despite swirling questions – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

During the attack on the sites, reports emerged that Iran had removed the enriched uranium from Fordow, but Trump claimed that was false. “It’s a very …

Intercepted call of Iranian officials downplays damage of U.S. attack – The Washington Post

The Washington Post

… nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected, said four people familiar with the classified …

Nuclear threat is still before us. But we can go from crisis to conversation on Iran. | Opinion

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Dialogue, such as the proposed “Oppenheimer Dinner,” is necessary to initiate solutions and discuss the positive aspects of nuclear energy. The war in …

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Just a quick update on a Sunday from CNN about how the damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities was not, as Trump and his amateur Secretary of Defense insist, “obliterated” according to the United Nations’ evaluation by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and chief Rafael Grossi.

Grossi’s view seems to support the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency rather than that of Trump and his “Secretary of Defense”. The CNN link to to this Sunday’s story is posted here . . .

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/world/iaea-iran-enriched-uranium-intl

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi's comments appear to support an early assessment from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency.

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s comments appear to support an early assessment from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency.

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Sunday, (06/29/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’ | CNN

CNN

… all of Iran’s nuclear materials – but argued that this was … “What I was concerned about is that there were other things that were not clear.

how U.S. strikes on Iran could impact nuclear non-proliferation across the world | Iowa Public Radio

Iowa Public Radio

… about how U.S. strikes on Iran could impact nuclear proliferation globally … All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM The Daily. 0:00. 0:00. All Things …

‘Too early to tell’ if Iran has given up its nuclear ambitions: Sen. Lindsey Graham

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

… all you need to know about who you’re dealing with.” Here are more highlights from Graham’s interview: Graham says Trump told him “it’s time to …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

‘Too early to tell’ if Iran has given up its nuclear ambitions: Sen. Lindsey Graham

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

Pressed by “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl about those comments and whether Iran has given up its “ambitions to be a nuclear power,” Graham said, …

‘NOT A COMPETITION’: CEO warns China is dominating US on nuclear power – YouTube

YouTube

… nuclear power and China’s dominance in the industry. #foxbusiness #energy #nuclearpower Subscribe to Fox Business: https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse Watch …

Hochul’s nuclear plant announcement draws sharp criticism from nuclear energy opponents

RiverheadLOCAL

Governor Kathy Hochul continued her push for nuclear power in New York State with her June 21 announcement that she has directed the New York …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

EMRC Concludes Participation in International ConvEx-3 Exercis… – Jordan News

Jordan News

… nuclear incident at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania … Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies. last updated: 6 h ago.

U.S. Declares Power Emergency as Intense Heat Wave Hits Southeast

MSN

… power outages and health emergencies, underscoring the urgent need for resilient energy … Iranian officials weigh nuclear damage as ceasefire holds …

Facing Possible Prison, Bolsonaro Seeks To Rally Faithful – Barron’s

Barron’s

More Americans … Nuclear Power’s …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Iran’s ballistic missiles, nuclear threat prompt Israel’s airstrikes | The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post

That threat was as existential to us as a nuclear bomb.” Advertisement … War Two,” he commented. “And these were surgicerations ..

Three facts about Iran’s nuclear program and threat to Western civilization – Fox News

Fox News

… threats to Western civilization beyond Israel … threat of nuclear war‘ · Brian .

Argentina accuses Iran of threatening IAEA head Grossi – The Times of Israel

The Times of Israel

Argentina has condemned what it said were threats against UN nuclear … war · IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (left) holds an assessment. 4.

Nuclear War

NEWS

UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’ | CNN

CNN

… attack it said aimed at preventing Tehran developing a nuclear bomb. Iran has insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. The US then …

A week of shifting descriptions of Iran attack spark ongoing questions about extent of … – ABC News

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

While the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth repeatedly claimed that Iran’s nuclear program has been “obliterated,” preliminary assessments …

U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites set up “cat-and-mouse” hunt for missing uranium | Reuters

Reuters

Israel and Hamas at War · Japan · Middle East · Ukraine and Russia at War … nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors …