The Atom vs the Sun: D.D. Kosambi on Nuclear and Solar Power in India
Per Kosambi, all useful science was applied science, and he recognised the ubiquitous military application of nuclear energy as an abuse — of both knowledge and power.
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Atomic Bombing of Japan was Not Necessary to End WWII. U.S. Gov’t Documents Admit it
US government documents admit the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union.
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Profiteers of Armageddon: The Nuclear-Industrial Complex
The film “Oppenheimer” has earned widespread attention. The author says that what “Oppie” began then has by now become a full-scale nuclear-industrial complex on a planet where ultimate destruction, it often seems, always lurks just around the corner.
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Collateral Damage: American Civilian Survivors of the 1945 Trinity Test
The New Mexico site of the world’s first atomic bomb test, codenamed Trinity had been selected, in part, for its supposed isolation. Yet in reality, nearly half-a-million people were living within a 150-mile radius of the explosion. All of them have been suffering from the effects of radiation ever since.
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Failed Fukushima Fixes Falling Like Dominoes
In the 12 years since the Fukushima meltdowns, Tepco’s disaster response efforts, always heralded as fixes, have been a series of hugely expensive failures. Also: “Despite Warnings, IAEA Approves Japan Release Plan for Contaminated Fukushima Water”.
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Jharkhand: Behind India’s Nuclear Pride, Villagers Weep Radioactive Cries
For some villages, such as Bango, scores of people born disabled, bodies shrivelling at age 40, loss of land, property, and livelihood, are a normalised cry of pain.
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Fukushima, the Hidden Side of the Story
“The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story,” is a just-released film documentary, a powerful, moving, information-full film that is superbly made. Directed and edited by Philippe Carillo, it is among the strongest ever made on the deadly dangers of nuclear technology.
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Nuclear Turns Fashionable
Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are the new nuclear craze, especially with the U.S. Congress. They are being advertised as a green deal for clean energy that skirts the heavy costs of paying the Middle East billions upon billions. However, the devil in the details is dangerously overlooked.
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G7 Leaders in Hiroshima – Two Articles
“G7 Leaders Gather in Hiroshima Amid Rising Threat of Nuclear War”: In a display of shameless hypocrisy, the leaders of the G7 laid wreaths at the Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima. Also: “The Splendor of a Thousand Suns: Hiroshima and Imperial Forgetfulness”.
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The Women of Three Mile Island
‘Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island’ is the title of a newly-released documentary feature film directed, written and produced by award-winning filmmaker Heidi Hutner. It brilliantly connects the proverbial dots of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster.
