End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Aug 18, 2025
On My Mind Today:
As if reading from this Post below . . . and despite the kinds of tolls on human and other life already taken — including open air atomic bomb testing from the Marshall Islands, to the same at Nevada’s Area51, to the reality of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing more than a hundred thousand innocent civilians to end WWII, we continue to build our world-wide nuclear arsenals in case nuclear WWIII is necessary for reasons beyond our human ken.
Even with these catastrophes and more, we still want to build more nuclear power plants to make ourselves more millionaires and billionaires and seek more “comfort” for our commercial and private selves with more and more electricity, not to mention out-of-control nuclear waste, and, perhaps worst of all, continue to add to the already over-gorged world(s) of nuclear weapons of mass destruction that are capable of destroying life on planet Earth many times over simply because we don’t trust our neighbors.
So it is that Robert Oppenheimer and those others of the Manhattan Project along with the high-placed others who made the critical decisions were then — but are not now — the only ones who are guilty, or soon could be, of the dark guilt of Oppenheimer’s remorseful self-revelation, “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” ~llaw
My sincere thanks to Michelle UluOla for relating the following major example of what nuclear radiation can do and does, by neglectful, accidental, or intentional occurrences even without the devastation of nuclear war:
Reports like this never made it into our history books, and this is just the tip of the proverbial ice berg.
And as always, those who created the terror and destruction, shrug later and say “Oops,” and never do anything to clean up or prevent more of it.
In 1965, the “father of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, recalled the moment this way: ‘We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.’
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Truly heartbreaking. In July 1945, a group of thirteen-year-old girls went camping in America, swimming in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico. The girl pictured at the front is Barbara Kent. Unbeknownst to them, nearby the Manhattan Project had just detonated a nuclear bomb as a test…
Kent later described that day:
“We were all just shocked… then suddenly, a huge cloud appeared overhead, along with strange lights in the sky,” Kent recalled. “It even hurt our eyes to look up. The whole sky turned strange, as if an intense sun had come out.” A few hours later, white flakes began falling from the sky. Excited, the girls put on their swimsuits and played in the river amid the flakes. “We grabbed the white flakes, thinking it was snow, and smeared it on our faces,” Kent said. “But unlike snow, it was hot. We just thought, ‘Well, it’s summer.’ We were only 13.”
Those flakes were radioactive fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test—the first atomic bomb detonation in history—conducted at 5:29 a.m. atop a 100-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in Jornada del Muerto valley. Though the site was chosen for its supposed isolation, thousands lived within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles, and none were warned or evacuated before or after the test, even as fallout continued to fall for days.
Barbara Kent and all her friends eventually developed cancer. Every girl in that photo died before turning thirty. Kent was the only one to live longer, surviving several bouts of cancer herself. Often forgotten is the heavy toll paid not only by those targeted in the bombings in Japan but also by those living near where the bombs were first tested.
Dapo Michaels, a scientist fascinated by the project, was unaware of the long-term effects. When he realized the consequences, guilt overwhelmed him, leading to a mental breakdown. He was eventually institutionalized and passed away.
Similar tragedies unfolded at Maralinga in Australia, where many Aboriginal people died of cancer—losses that remain largely unknown
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All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Critics shouldn’t block NASA’s nuclear path to a moon base – The Hill
The Hill
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BWX Technology soars to all-time high, leading nuclear stocks as Trump targets moon reactor – MSN
MSN
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“Iran Is Down, But It Is Not Out” | Internationale Politik Quarterly
Internationale Politik Quarterly
If that stockpile is still available to Iran, it can generate enough fissile material for a single nuclear weapon in about four or five days, if it …
Nuclear Power
NEWS
Google, Kairos Power plan advanced nuclear plant for Tennessee Valley Authority grid by 2030
CNBC
TVA will purchase the electricity from the reactor, making it the first utility in the U.S. to sign an offtake agreement with an advanced nuclear …
Nuclear Reactor Faces 18 Hours Without Cooling as “Pipes Burst Like Burning Arteries …
Sustainability Times
In a dramatic turn of events, a technician’s error at the Golfech nuclear power plant in France nearly sparked a catastrophe, highlighting the ever- …
Google announces Tennessee as site for small modular nuclear reactor – Reuters
Reuters
Google , with Kairos Power, has selected Tennessee as the site of an advanced nuclear power plant that is expected to supply electricity to the …
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
To Get Peace in Ukraine, Trump Should Play the Nuclear Card – Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
… threats against the United States made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. … War. Join the Conversation. Commenting is a benefit of a …
The Bomb And The Button: Time To Call Pakistans Nuclear Blackmail By Its Name – NDTV
NDTV
… war they’ve fought. … The danger is not just Pakistan’s bomb – it is the cosy geopolitical arrangement that allows nuclear threats to flourish …
Asim Munir’s Islamic Rhetoric Reflects Pakistani Military’s Narrowing Mindset: Rana Banerji
Frontline – The Hindu
Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir threatened to “take half the world down” if the country faced an existential threat—delivering this nuclear …
Nuclear War
NEWS
‘Ended possible N-disaster’: Trump’s ‘6 wars settled’ flex ahead of Zelenskyy meet
The Times of India
US News: US President Donald Trump has claimed to have mediated six wars in six months, including averting a potential nuclear disaster, …
This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like – YouTube
YouTube
History Hit New 349K views · 32:07 · Go to channel · Nuclear Historian Answers Nuclear War Questions | Tech Support | WIRED. WIRED New 571K views · 1: …
‘This is the Cuban Missile Crisis in space’: Russia is building a space nuke that could wipe …
Fortune
The weapon would combine a physical attack that would ripple outward, destroying more satellites, while the nuclear component is used to fry their …
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
Experts Discover Over 86000 Earthquakes Hiding Underneath Yellowstone Volcano — Thanks to AI
Green Matters
The team employed AI algorithms to study the fault lines and cracks beneath the Yellowstone volcano to make the stunning discovery.
Yellowstone National Park dazzles with scenery and photo opportunities – Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque Journal
Yellowstone National Park dazzles with scenery and photo opportunities. 20250817-go-yellowstone … Yellowstone Caldera · Yellowstone National Park …