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Artillery made in Midwest is used for genocide in Gaza
By Christopher Overfelt Note: This is Issue 3 in the Midwest Weapons Report, by Christopher Overfelt. He calls the Midwest the backbone of weapons manufacturing and storage for the American Empire. He concludes: “Those who determine American foreign policy have chosen...
Trump’s 2026 Budget Request Will Harm Health of Americans
For Immediate Release Contact: Paige Knappenberger, pknappenberger@psr.org WASHINGTON – The President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request is an assault on health and equity. Many of these cuts are blatant attacks that target the most vulnerable among us, namely people...
RADIATION MEETING May 15-16
The Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies is hosting its 46th Meeting on May 15 & 16. Among the topics are advancements and limitations in low dose research, implications of attacks on commercial nuclear reactors, and development of a...
LANL Plans to Begin Venting Large Quantities of Radioactive Tritium On or After June 2nd
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CCNSUpdate050225mc.mp3 During the early days of the pandemic, on March 10, 2020, LANL mailed a notice to people on the facility mailing list about the proposed venting of radioactive tritium into the air from four...
NUKE WASTE DUMP: Ojibwe Country once again targeted
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presented “Water Is Life, Nuclear Waste Is Toxic” at the annual meeting of Environment North, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Superior, April 23, 2025. Environment North is the...
Updates on Palisades: Zombie reactor & “SMR” new builds
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] The Holtec and Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) zealous and reckless push for restart of the 60-year old zombie reactor, as well as “Small...
Help us move ‘Back from the Brink’ of nuclear apocalypse
By Dave Pack PeaceWorks Kansas City is seeking to create a KC “hub” of groups to work together in opposition to nuclear weapons, through the national effort Back from the Brink. Come to our session on this ambitious endeavor on May 18, 1-2:30 pm. In the current U.S....
Sign up: ‘Resist Nukes!’ 5/18-19
We’re resisting nuclear weapons and spreading peace at the nuclear weapon plant in KC MO on two days: Sunday, May 18, and Monday, May 19. Join us! Give us your info here, and we’ll email you the details. Out-of-towners may stay at Jerusalem Farm, 520 Garfield Avenue,...
Month of Action Roundup
Throughout the month of April, PSR has shared opportunities for our members to speak out for peace, justice, a healthy climate, and a healthy democracy. Through advocacy actions and demonstrations, PSR members around the country stood together to oppose the dangerous...
THE IRAN DEAL: Smash it then claim it
There is deep irony in the Trump administration working to secure credit for a nuclear deal with Iran, given it was the previous Trump administration that destroyed a perfectly adequate one — the JCPOA — that had ensured Iran’s uranium enrichment stayed within...
Reflection on ‘Silent Fallout’
By Brother Louis Rodemann, FSC A dozen local Kansas City peace activists gathered for a showing of the documentary film “Silent Fallout” at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church on April 13, 2025. Most of the film consisted of testimonials of survivals of the...
Re social media, PW picks Bluesky
At PeaceWorks Kansas City, our mission has always been to foster understanding, connection, and peace in our communities. Social media play a significant role in how we communicate and share our message, but we’ve grown increasingly concerned about the direction of...
Trump Is No Peace President
Trump Is No Peace President. Call Him the Proliferation President. Weapons contractors could not be happier, but for the rest of us the state of world affairs is beyond alarming. Much to my astonishment, some voters thought Donald Trump might be a “peace president.” I...
The Bomb, a two-day public symposium at UNM April 30th and May 1st
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/UTF-8CCNSUpdate042525mc.mp3 the bomb is a groundbreaking multimedia installation that immerses audiences in the strange, compelling and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons. Since General Groves and Robert...
A thought experiment on Earth Day
by Paige Knappenberger, Director of Environment & Health On Earth Day, I attended the 2025 National Academy of Medicine Climate Summit in DC. During a panel on extreme weather, Dr. David Callaway posed a powerful thought experiment: what if disasters like...
The True Cost of Nuclear Weapons: Updated Community Cost Calculator
During PSR’s April Month of Action, on Tax Day we spotlighted a newly updated resource from PSR-LA’s Co-President Dr. Bob Dodge. On April 15th, Dr. Bob Dodge released the Community Cost Calculator, a tool that exposes just how much of your hard-earned money goes...
Environmental Justice under attack on Earth Day
Earth Day is meant to celebrate the wonders of this planet and to recommit to our duty to protect it for generations to come. Today, the Trump administration chose this occasion to notify more than 450 Environmental Protection Agency employees focused on environmental...
Congress should exercise its authority to stop strikes on Yemen
New Signal Leak Raises Alarm as Civilian Deaths Mount in Unconstitutional U.S. Strikes on Yemen WASHINGTON, D.C. – Action Corps, a humanitarian advocacy group, and Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots peace network, on Tuesday, April 22, called for Congress...
Tell Congress to Stop Spending Your Tax Dollars on Nuclear Weapons
Robert Dodge, MD, PSR-Los Angeles Co-President | Common Dreams We have the answer to realize significant cost savings, while simultaneously promoting sound fiscal policies that benefit us all and don’t threaten the survival of the human race. Read more The post Tell...
Mass Mobilization Event: Hands Off!
Action Alert from our friends at Denver PSL : Free speech and democratic rights are under attack in this country. Trump and his...
PACK THE ROOM to pass SB25-276 out of the Senate!
From our friends at the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC): SB 276 has passed two Senate committees, and is now heading to the...
All Out For Jeanette Vizguerra
From our friends at SEIU: Last month, ICE detained prominent Colorado immigrant rights activist, Jeanette Vizguerra. Jeanette is...
Free Jeanette Vizguerra Mother and Community Leader
Add your voice to Free Jeanette by signing the petition! Click Here to Sign the Petition!
Virtual Know Your Rights Workshop
Every person, regardless of their immigration status, has constitutional rights. Understanding these rights is the first step in...
SRS & Growing Nuclear Weapons Role: Talks April 28 (Aiken, SC) & May 10 (Columbia, SC)
You are encouraged to attend one of these talks about the role of Savannah River Site in the nuclear arms race and enter into constructive dialogue about what the public can do to challenge the massive waste of resources on the nuclear buildup and the security and...
GOP states sue NRC to deregulate SMR licensing
The governors of the states of Texas, Utah, Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona and their respective offices of state attorneys general have joined together with a number of fledgling nuclear start-up companies still in the design development phase for new, unproven small...
ZOMBIE NUKE?! Band-Aids on Critical Safety System?!
[Photo showing the exceedingly thin-walled tubes within a typical pressurized water reactor steam generator] ZOMBIE NUKE?! Band-Aids on Critical Safety System?! The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published a Federal Register Notice about Holtec’s License Amendment...
TRUMP v. EARTH: EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?!
TRUMP v. EARTH EOs Gut State Laws, Nuke Regs?! President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on April 8th, overriding state laws that oppose nuclear facilities such as radioactive waste dumps, atomic reactors, uranium mines, mills, enrichment, etc. For example, Texas...
DEFEND EJ! Double donations, stop nuke waste dumps!
DEFEND EJ! Double donations, stop nuke waste dumps! Thanks to very generous donors, we have raised $3,500 in matching funds for legal work to block two high-level radioactive waste dumps in the Southwest, Interim Storage Partners’ in Texas, and Holtec’s in New Mexico....
Palisades concerns mount
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] As reported by Waleed Alamlehon Fox17 TV in West Michigan. Beyond Nuclear is quoted.
Second Annual WIPP Plutonium Trail Caravan on Saturday, April 26th
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/UTF-8CCNSUpdate041825mc.mp3 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico that it would cleanup and dispose of its plutonium-contaminated nuclear bomb waste by depositing it into the Waste...
Excellent article on NNSA’s scheme to make new plutonium pits: “DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency,” April 16, 2025, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
As we prepare for a Federal Register notice on environmental meetings on the impact of plutonium pit production at SRS and Los Alamos, this article is very timely.
Urge Your U.S. Representative: Stop Spending on Nuclear Weapons
April is Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Month of Action, and today, on Tax Day, we are calling on our members to speak out against the dangerous and unjust misuse of our tax dollars. Every year, PSR tracks how much our country spends on nuclear weapons...
‘Resist Nukes’ in KC 5/18-19
By Jane Stoever Local and national peace folks are planning a May 18 gathering and May 19 action, “Resist Nukes!” It will feature planning, preparing, and then protesting at the KC National Security Campus (KCNSC). That’s where electrical/mechanical parts are...
‘Silent Fallout’ links (see film 4/13)
By Spencer Graves Soon after I saw the 4/4 KC-area showing of the documentary Silent Fallout, I plowed through research related to key points in the film. As secretary of PeaceWorks KC, and as a statistician, I’m hereby beefing up the documentation of this movie on...
‘Silent Fallout’ exposes nuke-test results; see film 4/13
By Kristin Scheer On April 4, PeaceWorks KC hosted a showing of the film Silent Fallout at Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church in Lenexa, KS. Attendees discussed the film afterwards, some saying they will watch the movie again, on April 13 (see time/place...
new nukes/arms race
https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-4/is-a-nuclear-renaissance-coming/ The post new nukes/arms race appeared first on The Colorado Coalition.
Saturday, April 26th Second Annual WIPP Plutonium Trail Caravan from Santa Fe to Las Vegas, New Mexico
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CCNSUpdate041125mc.mp3 The Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico that they would cleanup and dispose of its plutonium-contaminated nuclear bomb wastes by depositing waste into the Waste...
“To Use A Mountain” (Yucca/NTS doc film)
[Yucca Mountain and the Nevada (Nuclear Weapons) Test Site, renamed the Nevada National Security Site, are located on Western Shoshone land, as acknowledged by the 1863 “peace and friendship” Treaty of Ruby Valley, aigned by the Western Shoshone Nation and U.S....
TRUMP LOVES NUKES: In Words & Deeds, Industry Promoted
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the ill-fated George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power renaissance (relapse) attempt underway at...
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Updates from across U.S.
ZOMBIE NUKES?! Updates from across the Country It’s been three long years since Holtec’s CEO, Krishna Singh, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, first floated trial balloons at Palisades in s.w. MI (a bait and switch trick, and con job), to reverse decommissioning...
Engage Congress in your district!
Thank you to the folks across the country who joined us at last weekend’s Hands Off! mobilizations. If you weren’t able to attend or you’re looking for a way to continue our Month of Action, check out the next opportunity to engage your elected officials. Did you know...
Tell Congress: Support Nuclear Arms Control and Prevent a New Arms Race
Photo: IPPNW The clock is ticking on nuclear arms control. In less than a year, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) will expire, removing the last remaining cap on U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. Without action, we face the risk of an unrestrained...
Nuclear-Free Future Award laureates honored
S.P. Udayakumar of India, Márcia Gomes and Norbert Suchanek of Brazil and Germany respectively, and Edwick Madzimure of Zimbabwe, received their Nuclear-Free Future Awards at a moving ceremony in New York on March 4. The event was founded by Claus Biegert (pictured)...
PeaceWorks signs pledge to protect/resist
PeaceWorks KC has joined a growing movement of politicians, community leaders, organizations, and individuals to sign the Pledge to Protect and Resist the Trump agenda. This brief but powerful pledge is: “I PLEDGE to show up to protect the rights, safety and dignity...
US expands war in Middle East
By Christopher Overfelt The United States military has signaled its intent to dramatically escalate its genocide in the Middle East, deploying more than 100 war planes from US bases to sites in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, including six B-2...
Palisades ASLB Rejects All Environmental, Safety, & Health Contentions; Watchdogs Vow Appeal
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216,...
JOIN US: REPORT BACK on Nuclear weapons UN meeting
You are invited to an informal zoom REPORT BACK to the community, April 16, 4:30 PM ET on the third Meeting of States Parties (MSP3) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) that took place in NYC at United Nations Headquarters, March 2-7. Mary Olson...
Local Communities Say NO to LANL Expansion; Public Comments Due on Thursday, April 10th
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CCNSUpdate040425mc.mp3 Community members and Tribal advocates are standing together to say NO to the proposed expansion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). As part of a growing movement for environmental...
X-Energy submits SMR permit to build in Texas
Reuters news reports on March 31, 2025 that the privately owned X-Energy nuclear startup company has submitted an application for a construction permit to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a proposed “first-of-its-kind” High Temperature Gas (helium)...