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Americans still justify Hiroshima/Nagaski bombings
More Americans still believe the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago were justified, but the margins have narrowed compared to previous polling. These were the conclusions of a new Pew Research Center survey that found 35 percent of American adults...
Film recalls heroism of Nagasaki nurses
A new drama — “Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash” — directed by Jumpei Matsumoto, whose grandfather survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, has been released in Japan as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing. The film tells the story of the unsung...
LANL Expands Nuclear Bomb Production, Rejects Cleanup,
Nuclear Watch New Mexico Still Plans to Release Tritium FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 3, 2025 Contact: Scott Kovac, 505.316.4148, scott[at]nukewatch.org Santa Fe, NM – Eighty years after the first radioactive waste was buried at the Los Alamos National Laboratory...
Discussion August 17 of deterrence without threat, media & democracy, and nuclear dangers
You are cordially invited to a discussion August 17, 2-4 PM, at the Bluford Library, 3050 Prospect, KCMO, of deterrence without threat, media and democracy, and a proposed campaign to reduce nuclear dangers. The discussion will be led by Spencer Graves, Secretary of...
Campaign to reduce nuclear dangers
A consortium of philanthropies led by Carnegie issued a Call for Proposals for two-year projects to reduce nuclear dangers. Preproposals were due 2025-07-31. The Missouri Peace Foundation, a 501(c)(3) affiliated with PeaceWorks Kansas City, a 501(c)(4), submitted a...
Hiroshima vigil, 80th anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2025, Columbia, SC, 6:30 p.m.
Hiroshima vigil on 80th anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2025, Columbia, SC, 6:30 p.m. SRS Watch will be there
A reckless provocation
Trump moves US nuclear subs closer to Russia after tit-for-tat exchange By Stephen Prager, Common Dreams In an ominous post Friday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that he had “ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions”...
Trumps makes rare nuclear threat against Russia
[USS Virginia, underway in July 2004. The Virginia class, or the SSN-774 class, is a class of nuclear-powered attack submarine with cruise missile capability in service with the United States Navy.] As reported by the New York Times: Trump Says He Ordered Subs...
It’s the Buzz! Radioactive Wasps at SRS Point to Plutonium Pits and High-level Rad Waste
The radioactive wasps are harbingers of bigger problems at SRS: massive amounts of high-level nuclear waste, site contamination, a shift to plutonium pit production (requiring shipment of and the dangerous processing of plutonium) and a DOE facility that just can’t be...
Beyond the bomb: learning the truth, honoring legacy
By Kimmy Igla Eighty years ago this August, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, changing the course of history and revealing a critical truth: the harm caused by nuclear weapons begins long before they are used—starting in the communities...
Alarming Problems with Proposed Tritium Venting at LANL
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CCNSUpdate080125mc.mp3 To prepare for a public meeting with the U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (“the Board”) in Santa Fe on Monday evening, CCNS followed its policy of reviewing at least the last eight...
Arnie Gundersen on Nuclear Hotseat re: Palisades
Here is Nuclear Hotseat Podcast host Libbe HaLevy’s write up: Arnie Gundersen is a nuclear engineer, whistleblower, and green energy advocate who has been a consulting expert on many nuclear reactor issues, including the shut down of the San Onofre nuclear facility in...
‘Who is my neighbor?’ takes anti-nuke twist
Archbishop John Wester gave the homily, excerpted here, at a Mass in Santa Fe, NM, on July 13, part of the observance of the 80th anniversary of the first test of a nuclear weapon—the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945. Developed in collaboration with Jay Coghlan (director...
US nukes back in Britain
According to multiple news sources, Nukewatch UK and CND, US nuclear bombs are back in Britain after a 17-year hiatus. A US transport plane was tracked from a New Mexico Air Force base to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, believed to be carrying B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs,...
Trump interference at NRC creating chaos
Annie Caputo, one of three currently seated commissioners (two Democrats and one Republican) of the five seats on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), has announced her resignation in an email sent on July 29, 2025 to NRC staff. Republican Commissioner Caputo...
Cut spending for Nukes
>Ben Cohen’s (of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream) Up In Arms campaign just finalized permits for a large public art installation in Duffy Square (right in Times Square) for tomorrow and Thursday. If you are in NYC, good photo ops. Details here....
Hiroshima
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Trump’s EPA Put Our Health and Future on the Chopping Block: Repealing the Endangerment Finding
Contact: Brian Campbell bcampbell@psr.org Today’s proposal to repeal the Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases and rollback emissions standards for motor vehicles is antithetical to EPA’s mission and will seriously harm the health of Americans and people around...
Palisades steam generators: Enviros object to NRC-Holtec conspiracy
[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 release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216,...
Dan Hirsch, Presente!
As reported at the website of Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG): Dan Hirsch Has Passed Away Published July 25, 2025 It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Dan Hirsch has passed away. He passed away peacefully, though in significant pain, at his home in Ben...
Caution: Radioactive Wasps at SRS! The New “Killer Wasp?!”
Head’s up! A nest of radioactive wasps was recently discovered in one of the high-level waste tank areas at SRS! Does this indicate a new type of killer wasp is on the loose?
JOANNA MACY, PRESENTE!
JOANNA MACY, PRESENTE! Founder of Nuclear Guardianship Project As reported in a New York Times obituary, Joanna Macy has passed on at the age of 96. She has been a giant of the anti-nuclear movement, both in the U.S. and overseas, for many decades. She wrote Despair...
DIABLO ZOMBIES?! NRC rejects emergency petition
[“Diablo Boys” cartoon by Mark Bryan — ArtOfMarkBryan.com] ]On July 23, 2025, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) notified attorneys representing San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (SLOMFP), Friends of the Earth, and Environmental Working Group that their...
Join Us on Saturday, August 9th for Nagasaki Commemoration Events in Los Alamos
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CCNSUpdate072525mc.mp3 All are welcome to join peacemakers and activists on Saturday, August 9th at 10 am in Los Alamos to commemorate the 80th year since the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on that day in 1945. At...
Palisades: Statement re: NRC Staff Partial Authorization for Holtec’s Restart of the Closed Atomic Reactor
[Photo by Gabriela Bulišová, of participants at the Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp in August 2000, at Van Buren State Park, immediately north of the Palisades atomic reactor. Banner by Laura Bulow of NEIS. The steam from Palisades, and the water of Lake...
LIHEAP Cuts Put Americans in Peril Amidst a Summer of Relentless Heat
It’s been an extremely hot and humid summer for many in the U.S. Extreme heat is particularly challenging for those low-income families and rising energy costs mean that even those households that have air-conditioning often find they can’t afford to keep it running....
Trinity bomb test in 1945 … horrific consequences
By Ann Suellentrop I attended events in New Mexico commemorating the July 16 anniversary of the Trinity bomb explosion in 1945, 80 years ago. The Trinity test paved the way for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A new plaque “honors and acknowledges” the Trinity...
Introducing the Alliance for Heat Resilience and Health
PSR has partnered with the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, Federation of American Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, and more allied organizations to create a new coalition focused on extreme...
Tell EPA: Protect health, regulate hazardous air pollution!
EPA needs to hear from health professionals as they attempt to repeal consequential emissions standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. In another dangerous move from this administration, EPA seeks to expose millions of Americans to mercury, arsenic,...
Environmentalists Protest NRC Cover-Up
[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, Kalamazoo, MI, (240) 462-3216,...
PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT – RESTART INSPECTION REPORT 05000255/2025003
from: nrc_mail_r3 resource <nrc_mail_r3.resource@nrc.gov> to: Kevin Kamps <kevin@beyondnuclear.org> date: Jul 18, 2025, 10:15 PM subject: PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT – RESTART INSPECTION REPORT 05000255/2025003 SUBJECT: PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT – RESTART...
Palisades Steam Generators: Enviro Coalition Reply to NRC & Holtec Answers
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] On July 18, 2025, the environmental coalition resisting the unprecedented restart of the closed Palisades reactor, filed its REPLY with the U.S....
Mothballed nuclear plant on brink of revival
Michigan’s Palisades plant is planning to turn on again this fall after Democrats and Republicans got behind the project — but it’s not free from controversy. As reported at E&E News. Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, a Palisades watchdog...
Who Pays the Price for Nuclear’s Clean Energy Promise?
Nuclear has been promoted as a climate solution for an energy-hungry society looking to wean itself from oil and gas. But is it as clean as advocates say? Article published by ATMOS on 7/9/25. Words by Yessenia Funes Luminograms by Marton Perlaki (The unprecedented...
UPDATE: COMMENT BY JULY 25 — STOP radiation health menace
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), hosted a pre-decisional public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, to take VERBAL comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which directs the NRC to “reconsider” its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model for...
Press Release: Newsome’s Blank Check for Unlimited Oil Drilling
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United for Justice: Reflections on Nuclear Abolition, Democracy, and Community
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Beyond Nuclear appealing en banc at D.C. Circuit Court against Holtec’s CISF license
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES). The design incorporates the shape of the state of New Mexico, its turquoise and gold colors, as well as the Zia Pueblo sun symbol, which also appears on the state flag.] On...
46th Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill Commemoration on Saturday, July 19th
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CCNSUpdate071825mc.mp3 The Red Water Pond Road Community Association and the Pipeline Road Community invite you to attend the historic 46th commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill on Saturday, July...
BOB ALVAREZ, PRESENTE! Remembrance by a U.S. Senate colleague
BOB ALVAREZ, PRESENTE! Remembrance by a U.S. Senate colleague Michael Slater, a former co-worker of Bob Alvarez on the staff of U.S. Senator John Glenn, has published an appreciation in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, after Bob’s death on July 1st. Slater...
ZOMBIE NUKE?! Our legal resistance mounts
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ZOMBIE NUKE?! Our legal resistance mounts On July 15, our environmental coalition appealed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners regarding the NRC Atomic Safety...
TRINITY, 80 YEARS ON
TRINITY, 80 YEARS ON Nuclear perils remain, resistance persists On July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army’s Manhattan Project secretly tested a plutonium bomb, code-named “Trinity,” in southern New Mexico (pictured). As they do annually, New Mexicans commemorated the fallout,...
COMMENTS STILL ACCEPTED: STOP radiation health menace
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), hosted a pre-decisional public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, to take VERBAL comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which directs the NRC to “reconsider” its use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model for...
Learn more about anti-nuke work in New Mexico!
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES). The design incorporates the shape of the state, its turqoise and gold colors, as well as the Zia Pueblo sun symbol, which also appears on the state flag.] On July 16, 2025 —...
Trump DOGE to NRC: “rubber stamp” nuclear power
On July 14, 2025, E&ENews by Politico featured a news story with the headline “DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear.” The Politico article explains that President Trump implanted a representative from the White House executive branch of his US Department...
KC delegates report on DC Days
By Kristin Scheer About 20 people trickled into All Souls’ Conover Hall on Wed., July 9. They heard from delegates PeaceWorks KC sent to Washington, DC, for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) DC Days lobbying event. Ann Suellentrop, of the boards of...
80th Anniversary of Trinity –July 16
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Official Release Party for “We have to talk opera”
You are cordially invited to a hybrid Official Release Party for the Baily & Graves 5:22 m:ss “We have to talk opera” video. July 20, 2-4 PM Central. Lucile H. Bluford branch library, 3050 Prospect Ave, Kansas City, Missouri. Snacks, soft drinks, viewing the video...
UPDATE: STOP EO radiation health menace
Tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), at their public meeting on July 16, 1-5:30 PM ET, that science demonstrates radiation exposure is always harmful. Registration required. The NRC is taking comments on Trump Executive Order (EO) 14300 Section 5(b), which...
Tell DOE No to Expanded Plutonium Pit Production at LANL and Savannah River Site – Comments due Monday, July 14th
http://nuclearactive.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CCNSUpdate071125mc1.mp3 As you may know, the recent federal reconciliation bill increased the budget for expanded plutonium pit production at the Savannah River Site, located in South Carolina, by one billion...