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In a Looming Nuclear Arms Race, Aging Los Alamos Faces a Major Test
By Alicia Inez Guzmán | October 28, 2025 The New York Times nytimes.comIn a sprawling building atop a mesa in New Mexico, workers labor around the clock to fulfill a vital mission: producing America’s nuclear bomb cores.The effort is uniquely challenging. Technicians...
Layoffs? Furloughs? What we know about 13,000 Hanford jobs during shutdown
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Top Trump official makes unannounced Hanford nuclear site visit
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Rally seeks removal of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
By Ann Suellentrop, MSRN After attending the 11/2-5 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, DC, I and about 1,000 health care workers and supporters held a 2-hour “Rally for America’s Health” on the National Mall. We marched to the...
U.S. Tests ICBM Nuclear Warhead Delivery System from CA After Trump Amps Up Nuclear Testing Rhetoric
by Emma Claire Foley and Scott Yundt | Nov 4, 2025 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Tuesday, November 5, 2024 For further information, contact: info@defusenuclearwar.org or scott@trivalleycares.org In the early morning hours of November 5th, Vandenberg Space Force Base...
Vets for Peace at APHA targets public health costs of war, militarism
By Jane Stoever Ann Suellentrop, MS RN, vice chair of PeaceWorks KC, is learning how much public health depends on peace and justice. She’s in Washington, DC, at the first American Public Health Association annual meeting she’s ever attended. She’s sending us pictures...
New Report Underscores How Fossil Fuels Impact Every System of the Body
Authored by leading health experts, new report shows widespread health impact of extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPaige Knappenberger Physicians for Social ResponsibilityP: 602-549-0344 E: pknappenberger@psr.org WASHINGTON, DC –...
No Underwater Power Line
Photo Credit: Paloma Ayala Introducing: The Newest Threat to the Columbia River By: Teryn Yazdani, Staff Attorney Have you heard: There is a proposal to dig a 100-mile trench through the Columbia River? For the past few years, Columbia Riverkeeper has tracked a...
Court Allows Controversial Fracked Gas Expansion Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media Contact:Miles Johnson, Columbia Riverkeeper: 541-490-0487 Court Allows Controversial Fracked Gas Expansion Project Court rejects Oregon, Washington, and environmental organizations’ arguments against Pacific Northwest gas pipeline...
Limpieza de la presa Bonneville
Limpieza de la presa Bonneville: de Superfund a Nuevamente Segura Durante décadas, el Cuerpo de Ingenieros del Ejército de EE. UU. arrojó desechos tóxicos cerca de la presa Bonneville, filtrando contaminantes venenosos al río Columbia y provocando que los peces...
Give!Guide Partners
2025 Give!Guide Business Partners By: Alex Smith, Development Manager We are honored to be participating in this year’s Willamette Week Give!Guide. This is an annual campaign to raise funds for and draw attention to the extraordinary work of local nonprofits. This...
El Vago Llamado de Trump a Realizar Nuevas Pruebas Nucleares, el Posible Papel del Laboratorio de Livermore y La Creciente Oposición.
Nuclear Weapons El 29 de octubre, el Presidente utilizó su plataforma de redes sociales, Truth Social, para hacer un anuncio confuso, pero potencialmente muy serio: “Debido a los programas de pruebas de otros países, he dado instrucciones al Departamento de Guerra...
Trump’s Vague Call for New Nuclear Testing, Livermore Lab’s Potential Role, and the Burgeoning Opposition
On October 29th, the President used his social media platform, Truth Social, to make a confusing, but potentially very serious announcement: “Because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons on...
Faltan Solo 100 Días Para Que Expire el Acuerdo Entre Estados Unidos y Rusia Sobre Límites a las Armas Nucleares
Nuclear Weapons En tan solo 100 días, expirará el Nuevo Tratado de Control de Armas Estratégicas (Nuevo START) de 2010, el último tratado de control de armas vigente entre Estados Unidos y Rusia, los dos arsenales nucleares más grandes del mundo. El Nuevo START limita...
Pushing Back for Salmon
Return to Court over Columbia/Snake River Dams By: Miles Johnson Standing together for the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement In June, the Trump administration withdrew the federal government from the historic Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement: a landmark deal to...
Just 100 Days Until US – Russia Nuclear Weapons Limits Agreement Expires
In just 100 days, the 2010 New Strategic Arms Control Treaty (New START), the last remaining arms control treaty between the US and Russia, the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals, is set to expire. New START limits US and Russian nuclear forces to 1550 strategic...
Análisis Crítico del Informe Ambiental Anual del Sitio de LLNL de 2024
Environmental Justice Resumen Ejecutivo El Informe Ambiental Anual del Sitio (ASER) de 2024 del Laboratorio Nacional Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) describe la remediación eficaz de las aguas subterráneas, la reducción de las columnas de contaminantes y la protección...
Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes Speaks with Aaron Maté on the Urgency of Nuclear Disarmament
In October 2025, Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Columbia University, joined journalist Aaron Maté on Useful Idiots for a wide-ranging conversation about the urgent need for nuclear...
The Nuclear Abyss: The Last Mistake of Homo Sapiens?
By Rubén D. Arvizu* – October 30, 2025* On a Pale Blue Dot —as Carl Sagan called it—, a leader orders the resumption of nuclear tests. Donald Trump, on October 30, 2025, demanded the Pentagon detonate atomic bombs for the first time since 1992. “To match Russia and...
El Abismo Nuclear: ¿El Último Error del Homo Sapiens?
Por Rubén D. Arvizu* – 30 de octubre de 2025 En un Punto Azul Pálido —como lo llamó Carl Sagan—, un líder ordena reanudar pruebas nucleares. Donald Trump, el 30 de octubre de 2025, exigió al Pentágono detonar bombas atómicas por primera vez desde 1992. “Para igualar a...
President’s Letter – Tucker Carlson and More
President’s Letter – October 2025 Dear NAPF Community, In September, I traveled to Maine to speak with Tucker Carlson. The interview is now available on every platform where podcasts can be found, including YouTube, X, Spotify, and more. I’ve been heartened by the...
President’s Letter – Tucker Carlson and More (Spanish)
President’s Letter – October 2025 Traducción de Ruben D. Arvizu Querida comunidad de NAPF, En septiembre, viajé a Maine para hablar con Tucker Carlson. La entrevista ya está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts, incluyendo YouTube, X, Spotify y más. Me ha...
A Native American Yucca Mountain Experience
By the year 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency set the radiation protection standards for Yucca Mountain without considering the comments of the Native Community Action Council challenging the Environmental Protection Agency standard for not being protective of...
What “Nuclear Justice” Means
Benetick Kabua Maddison Executive Director, Marshallese Educational Initiative Op-Ed published in the Marshall Islands Journal, May 26,...
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...
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...
G7 Youth Summit
Marshallese and Japanese peoples have historical and tragic ties. The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targets of atomic...
Seeking Nuclear Justice: Voices from the Marshallese Diaspora in Arkansas
MEI Statement on NVRD, the Compact February 28, 2023
April Fundraising Drive a Huge Success!
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Dawn’s Story
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PRESS STATEMENT: THE ENERGY BILL TROJAN HORSE
The 1020-page Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability (CRGA) Act was a must-pass piece of legislation, Read more(Feed generated with FetchRSS)
PRESS RELEASE: “Governor Pritzker, Legislators: Preserve Illinois’ Nuclear Moratorium,” Nuclear Watchdog Group Advises
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Use: Monday, October 27, 2025 Contact: David Kraft, (773)342-7650 (o); (630)506-2864 (c); neis@neis.org “Governor Pritzker, Legislators: Preserve Illinois’ Nuclear Moratorium,” Nuclear Watchdog Group Advises CHICAGO—As the Fall Veto...
Opinion: Repealing the nuclear moratorium would be a costly mistake for Illinois
LEGISLATURE CONFRONTS THE NUCLEAR PANDORA’S BOX (Original title) 13 October 2025 According to the legend, an overly curious but ill-informed Pandora opened a container she was warned not to, in the process unleashing all the ills of the world upon mankind. In...
NEIS ACTION ALERT – UPDATE 10/21/25 GOV. PRITZKER AND LEGISLATURE BACK NEW ILLINOIS NUKES
NEIS ACTION ALERT – UPDATE 10/21/25 GOV. PRITZKER AND LEGISLATURE BACK NEW ILLINOIS NUKES Last chance to take action! Urge the Governor, elected officials to OPPOSE SB1527 AND REMOVE LANGUAGE from any bill promoting nuclear moratorium repeal Read more(Feed generated...
PRESS RELEASE: Former U.S. NRC Chairman Pans U.S.- UK Nuke Deal
PRESS RELEASE — FOR IMMEDIATE USE Sept. 18, 2025Greetings —As a courtesy to our environmental colleagues and former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dr. Gregory Jaczko, we provide his remarks pursuant to the proposed U.S./U.K. nuclear power...
VIEW THE RECORDING: Santa Fe Ecumenical Conversations Towards Nuclear Disarmament at Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Community – …
Archbishop John C. Wester and NukeWatch New Mexico presented a special evening at Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Community on Monday, October 27, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. MT. Following a presentation from NukeWatch executive director Jay Coghlan on U.S. nuclear weapons...
AP: Trump appears to suggest the US will resume testing nuclear weapons for first time in 30 years
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and CHRIS MEGERIAN | October 30, 2025 apnews.comBy Trevor Hunnicutt, Ismail Shakil and Kanishka Singh | October 30, 2025 reuters.com(Feed generated with FetchRSS)
Observe Armistice Day 11/11, at 11am
Join the Kansas City Chapter of Veterans for Peace on 11/11 at 11. Well, they actually gather at Liberty Memorial, formerly called the National World War I Monument and Memorial, at 8 am at the entry to the monument. They put up a tent and gather as peace witnesses...
Transforming nuclear waste to radioactive glass at Washington state’s Hanford site
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DOE needs national waste management program, Baltzer says
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How many Tri-Citians work for the federal government? It’s complicated
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Are Hanford federal shutdown layoffs imminent? What we know
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Wrap Up: Hanford WTP filling containers; Trump interested in nuke testing; Westinghouse, Cameco reach nuclear power deal with DO…
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3 steps to take re Trump’s threat to test nukes
By Kristin Scheer In an Oct. 31 e-mail, the group Back from the Brink addresses concerns about President Donald Trump’s vague social media post Oct. 29 threatening to resume nuclear weapon testing. By Nov. 2, Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News,...
Ann Suellentrop shares public health fight to save our country
“Welcome to the fight. Welcome to the movement. Your mission begins now.” That was the opening message to 6,000 public health advocates at the annual meeting in DC of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The 6,000 were painfully aware of fired public health...
Action You Can Take NOW to Stop Nuclear Weapons Testing
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CCNSUpdate103125mc.mp3 In response to the president’s call to resume testing of nuclear weapons, contact your two United States Senators to support Senate Resolution 323 that urges the United States to lead a global...
Trump threatens to restart nuclear testing
US President Donald Trump says the US will start testing nuclear weapons again, a statement that has raised alarm in the peace movement and in nations across the world. According to news reports, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that “We’ve halted many years ago,...
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, Condemn the Recent Suggestion of Nuclear Testing by the U.S.
On October 29, before a meeting in South Korea with Chinese President Xi, President Donald Trump announced on social media that he “instructed the Department of War to start testing [U.S.] Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” with Russia and China. The post contains...
Ann’s travels for peace & justice
By Jane Stoever Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, says she has always had an insatiable appetite for peace and justice issues. She recently completed two phenomenal journeys and plans on a third one soon. She will be sharing her stories and some treasures from her travels Nov....