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On Nuclear Disarmament and the Right to Peace | Seminar Series at the People’s Academy of International Law
On April 22, 2026, Ivana Nikolić Hughes joined the People’s Academy of International Law seminar “Nuclear Disarmament and the Right to Peace,” alongside Ryan Costello, Anna Illing, and Olga Kuznetsova, moderated by Marjorie Cohn. The event page is available HERE. The...
Ivana Hughes and Peter Kuznick on 94.1 KPFA’s Sunday Show (with Philip Maldari)
https://www.wagingpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/20260503-Sun0900.mp3On May 3, 2026, Dr. Ivana Hughes and Prof. Peter Kuznick joined the Sunday Show on 94.1 KPFA, hosted by Philip Maldari. They discussed nuclear weapons, focusing on the gap between attention on...
Webinars upcoming on No To Nuclear
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE Transatlantic Dialogue is an initiative that joins activists primarily from North America and the United Kingdom in discussion about nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Join the conversation on Tuesday, May 26 when Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond...
Hearings on New Plutonium Pits Across The Country, and Taking Action Through Written Comments
Ann Suellentrop delivering comments at the Kansas City NNSA hearing. Photo Credit: PeaceWorks KC, Nuclear Watch New Mexico It has been over a month since the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) from the National Nuclear Security Administration...
Newly Released Tritium Review Analyzes LANL Tritium Reports, Highlights Infant Doses
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ccnsupdate052226mc.mp3 A newly released independent review of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 2025 tritium venting raises serious concerns about radiation risks to children and infants and highlights major gaps in...
Corporate greenwashing is rampant
This week on Beyond Nuclear International, we republish a searing article by UK climate campaigner and longtime thought leader in this space, Jonathon Porritt. If we are to truly get ‘beyond nuclear’, dispensing once and for all with nuclear power and fossil fuels, we...
An Ordinary Insanity. See the Ellsberg film
Join the Thursday, June 4, 8pm EDT free online premiere of An Ordinary Insanity, a new 28-minute documentary featuring Daniel Ellsberg. Filmed by Oscar-nominated director Judith Ehrlich one year before his death, Ellsberg provides a powerful wakeup call about the...
New Mexico Takes Action to Support Clean-up at LANL; Submit Your Comments by Monday, June 8th
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CCNSUpdate051526mc.mp3 On Thursday, April 23rd, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) issued a draft permit modification to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in order to speed up cleanup of Los Alamos...
Oh Good! A Data Center Larger than NYC!
Back in February, Billionaire Shark Tanker Kevin O’Leary announced a partnership with a Utah developer to build a data center complex twice the size of Manhattan in Box Elder County. The Stratos artificial intelligence data center project will have a footprint of more...
Plutonium Pit Production Draft PEIS – Recording of Public Hearing in Santa Fe, NM, Thurs May 14, 2026
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Report: Nearly 100 fed staff left Hanford in 2025
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GAO Report: Hanford Cleanup: DOE’s Plans to Grout and Dispose of Millions of Gallons of Tank Waste
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U.S. House proposes even deeper Hanford cuts than Trump administration
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Conflict and exchange continue at the NPT conference in its final week | Article in the Asahi Shimbun
Read Article in Asahi ShimbunThis article was originally published in Japanese on 18th May 2026, by Kyota Tanaka of Asahi Shimbun. Find the original publication in Japanese HERE. The excerpt below has been translated into English and may contain minor inaccuracies....
Hot, Tick Summer
by Paige Knappenberger, Director, Environment & Health Program A tick fell on my husband’s face last weekend as we watched our sons play on our back patio in Northwest Washington, DC. I grew up in Arizona, so ticks were never something I worried about as a kid....
100,000 gallons of radioactive nuclear waste made safer in Eastern WA
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Major cleanup milestone reached at Hanford Waste Treatment Plant
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100K gallons of waste turned to glass at Hanford
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Golden Dome or Golden Scam?
New Report from PSR, IPPNW, and Back From The Brink On May 19, PSR along with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Back From The Brink, released a new report on the proposed Golden Dome defense system. Organizations hosted a press conference...
$1.5 Trillion for Military?? My Tax dollars going for the worst — NO
Media Contacts: Daryl G. Kimball, executive director (202-463-8270 x107), Xiaodon Liang, Senior Policy Analyst (x113) (Washington, D.C.) — The Arms Control Association (ACA) calls on Congress to reject and cut down the president’s request for a defense budget of $1.5...
US & EU Nuclear ESCALATION Is Insane | Dr. Hughes & Prof. Kuznick on Neutrality Studies
Pascal Lottaz speaks with Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Prof. Peter Kuznick of American University about the NPT review conference, nuclear deterrence, first strike thinking, Trump and launch power, pressure for more states to seek...
Plan to increase nuclear pit production at Los Alamos lab gets heavy pushback at Santa Fe forum
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Hanford advocates push back on proposed federal cleanup cuts
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PNNL faces deeper workforce cuts under proposed federal budget
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My View John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe, NM
Speak out on pit production at hearing...
Scrutinize nuke plans
San Francisco Chronicle- Marylia Kelley The U.S. government plans to produce 80 or more deadly plutonium bomb cores, called pits, to place inside new nuclear warheads. Manufacturing will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in...
The nuclear Labubu? Every governor’s got to have one
Why are US governors across the country chasing after new reactors as if they are the latest fad toy, a kind of nuclear Labubu? They are falling all over each other to get them like obsessive parents outside a toy store at dawn. New reactors will be over-priced, a...
New nuclear renaissance? Same as the old nuclear renaissance but not an actual renaissance
The promise of a new nuclear renaissance is about the same as the promise of the last one. Big on aspiration, low on likely delivery, Watch our video. (Headline photo of Botticelli painting republished under a CC BY 2.0 licence)
Highway 24 Fire burning at Hanford Reach National Monument
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California’s Equitable Building Decarbonization Program Launches: Full Circle Moment for Environmental Justice Communities & Adv…
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Hanford crews remove waste from 23rd old underground tank
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Oregon may boost fees for moving radioactive material through state
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PNNL wins innovation award for Hanford waste glass work
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Nuclear shadow from World War II hangs over salmon returns in the Columbia River
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Looking for a Hanford site job with good pay? Free website can help
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Lawsuit by Livermore Non-Profit Results in Government Public Hearing about New Nuclear Weapons Production and the Dangers Involved
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Public Hearing tomorrow 5/12 on Plutonium Bomb Core Production Plan, and Livermore Lab’s Role Lawsuit by Livermore Non-Profit Results in Government Public Hearing about New Nuclear Weapons Production and the Dangers Involved Livermore – The...
Local nuclear weapons activities
Tracy Press– Patricia Howell May 8, 2026 Editor, Public hearing on nuclear weapons in our back yard! I am a director for Tri Valley Community Against Radioactive Environment (CARES). It is a citizen group that keeps watch on the activities of Lawrence Livermore...
Plutonium Hearing
Pleasanton Weekly Letters to the Editor– Marylia Kelley May 8, 2026 Tri-Valley residents have a rare opportunity to stem plutonium increases locally and impact nuclear weapons policy nationally at an upcoming public hearing. The National Nuclear Security...
Are Trump’s nuclear plans illegal?
13 organizations, including Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information & Resource Service, have filed comments to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, suggesting Trump’s nuclear “orders” may violate long-standing legislation The so-called “Rubber-Stamp Rule”, an...
Draft PEIS Released! Livermore Public Hearing May 12
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is coming to Livermore on May 12 to hear oral public comments about its nationwide plutonium pit production plan, in which Livermore Lab will be doing plutonium pit support work. To prepare, we held a Virtual Comment...
Tri-Valley CAREs Heads to DC! Help Support Our Team!
Dear Tri-Valley CAREs member, We are organizing locally for the Livermore public hearing on plutonium pit production while also preparing to go to Washington, DC for this year’s Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s (ANA) DC Days! We need your support! The President...
COMMENT TRAINING for the Plutonium Pit Production Draft PEIS – Recording of Kansas City-Focused Training May 6, 2026
Learn more about the government’s plan to mass produce new plutonium pits for nuclear weapons, Kansas City’s role in this program, and how to give a well-informed and impactful testimony at the public comment hearing in Kansas City on May 7 or submit written comments...
Murray warns proposed cuts could impact Hanford, rural healthcare
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Murray, union leaders warn of layoffs under Trump proposed Hanford budget
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LLNL’S Priority is Nuclear Weapons
The Independent– Tanvi Kardile April 23, 2026 The administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget request for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been released, and it is staggering. The one-year funding request for $3,202,772,000 is the highest ever for LLNL....
Public Hearing about Lab’s Plutonium Bomb Core Work!
The Independent– Scott Yundt April 30, 2026 The government is restarting the production of Plutonium Pits (nuclear bomb cores) for the first time since 1989. A public hearing is scheduled in Livermore because of Livermore Lab’s (LLNL) involvement—which includes...
Plutonium Bomb Cores
The Independent– Marylia Kelley May 7, 2026 It’s May. Spring is in the air. Breathe deeply. But more plutonium too? The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to produce 80 or more plutonium bomb cores, called pits, each year to place inside new...
US continues to fall short on the Compact
Statement on the Compact of Free Association Benetick Kabua Maddison, ED/CEO, Marshallese Educational Initiative 10/19/2023 A renewed...
What “Nuclear Justice” Means
Benetick Kabua Maddison Executive Director, Marshallese Educational Initiative Op-Ed published in the Marshall Islands Journal, May 26,...
Fairness of the Restoration of Benefits
Arkansas is home to thousands of Marshallese residents who were encouraged to migrate to the United States following 12 years of...