SHARE        Thursday, October 9, 2025
The UnPeaceful Atom: Putin Confirms that All Nuclear Reactors are Pre-Deployed Weapons of Mass Destruction Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin last week eagerly confirmed that all "Peaceful Atom" nuclear power plants are fair game for military destruction and that the ensuing apocalyptic fall=out is not really his concern. He suggested that Moscow could retaliate against nuclear plants controlled by Ukraine.

SHARE        Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Gavin Newsom's Lethal Nuclear Hypocrisy Must Be Reversed California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump. But the governor has hypocritically crossed many lethal lines, especially when it comes to nuclear power and solar energy.

SHARE        Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Trump Has Torched Last Illusion of Credible Atomic Power Regulation Donald Trump has torched atomic power's last illusion of credible regulations. He's destroyed the last shreds of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission raising the likelihood of an apocalyptic radioactive disaster while escalating America's transition to energy fascism.

SHARE        Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Premiere of Atomic Bill and the Payment Due There will be a premiere next week at Wilmington College in Ohio of a new play by Libbe HaLevy -- "Atomic Bill and the Payment Due." The play, as its program notes says, is the "true story about media manipulation at the sawn of the Atomic Age and the New York Times reporter who sold to get the story" -- William Laurence who was embedded in the Manhattan Project.

SHARE        Saturday, August 2, 2025
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Moves to Repeal Limits on Greenhouse Gas Pollution EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin moved this week to repeal limits on greenhouse gas pollution. As the executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council said: "It boggles the mind and endangers the nation's safety and welfare."

SHARE        Sunday, July 13, 2025
Nuclear Power Plants Super-Heating the Planet At the core of the latest attempted "renaissance" of nuclear power is the Big Lie that atomic reactors are an answer to global warming. In fact, they're significant sources of heat. The more than 400 nuclear plants in the world fission atoms at 300 degrees Centigrade (572 degrees Fahrenheit). Meanwhile, the nuclear industry is pushing fusion reactors to run at 150 million degrees Celsius, 270 million degrees Fahrenheit.

SHARE        Wednesday, June 4, 2025
The Work and Words of Arthur Firstenberg Arthur Firstenberg passed away earlier this year. However, his work and his words must live on. He authored "Microwaving Our Planet" The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution," "The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life," and "The Earth and I."

SHARE        Sunday, May 18, 2025
New York Governor Kathy Hochul's Big Push for Nuclear Power Governor Kathy Hochul is making a big push to build new nuclear power plants in New York State.

SHARE        Thursday, April 24, 2025
Trump's Unbridled Push to Block Renewable Energy Projects The administration of Donald Trump is making an unbridled push to block renewable energy projects.

SHARE        Saturday, April 12, 2025
Regarding the Trump push for tariffs, again "these are not very bright guys". As "Deep Throat," the whistleblower who was FBI associate director Mark Felt, tells Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in the film "All the President's Men" as Woodward unravels the Watergate scandal: "about the White House", "the truth is, these are not very bright guys". Fifty years later, that is again the truth.

SHARE        Saturday, March 15, 2025
Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator In the wake of the archly anti-environmental Scott Pruitt and Andrew Wheeler, a coal, chemical and uranium company lobbyist, whom he appointed to be administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency in his first term as U.S. president, Donald Trump has again gotten himself with Lee Zeldin someone who "will carry out what he wants at EPA".

SHARE        Saturday, February 15, 2025
The Push to Resume Atmospheric Testing of Nuclear Weapons "The United States may need to restart explosive nuclear weapons testing," declared Robert Peters, research fellow for nuclear deterrence and defense at The Heritage Foundation in a lengthy report last month. Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, says "Resuming atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons would be disastrous."

SHARE        Tuesday, January 30, 2024
"Doomsday Clock" Kept at 90 Seconds to Midnight for 2024 The "Doomsday Clock" of Tje Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was kept at 90 seconds to midnight this week -- the closest to midnight that the clock has been set since it was created in 1947. Midnight is defined by The Bulletin as "nuclear annihilation."

SHARE        Saturday, December 9, 2023
Push for Nuclear Power at UN's COP28 Climate Change Conference "U.S. leads coalition to triple nuclear power by 2050 in effort to address climate change," was the headline of a December 4th CNBC conference called COP28 being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on the climate crisis. Indeed, that was what has happened--despite evidence that nuclear power is not the antidote to climate change, stopping the burning of fossil fuels and utilizing truly green energy led by solar and wind is.

SHARE        Saturday, August 5, 2023
The Dangers if Tritium Large amounts of the radioactive substance tritium are planned to be released into the Hudson River from Indian Point nuclear plant site, 25 miles north of New York City, and also from the site of the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan, this 1.3 million tons of tritium-contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima plants, into the Pacific Ocean. Tritium can't be filtered out of water. How dangerous is tritium?

SHARE        Friday, August 4, 2023
The Oppenheimer movie and the Manhattan Project Oppenheimer, the movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, is a great film, extraordinary, as most movie reviews are accurately saying, and so, so important.

SHARE        Monday, July 24, 2023
Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle With the film Oppenheimer opening this Friday and being widely heralded by media, and this past Sunday the 78th anniversary noted of the first explosion of a nuclear device, and, so importantly, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons becoming international law, the time for putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle has arrived with great timeliness and strength.

SHARE        Wednesday, November 23, 2022
"Guinea Pig Nation" -- NRC seeks greatly reduced safety regulations for "advanced" nuclear power plants The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeeks to reduce government safety regulations for what the nuclear industry calls "advanced" nuclear power plants. Dr. Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists, details this in a presentation titled "Guinea Pig Nation: How the NRC's new licensing rules could turn communities into test beds for risky, experimental nuclear plants."

SHARE        Friday, September 16, 2022
Duck and Cover -- from FEMA Among the 100 booths at the Shinnecock Indian Powwow, an annual event of the Shinnecock Nation on its territory in Southampton, N.Y., was this Labor Day weekend a Federal Emergency Management Agency booth with a flier headed: "Be Prepared For A Nuclear Explosion."

SHARE        Thursday, September 8, 2022
"50 Years a Doctor" A physician long active in the New York Metropolitan Area has written a candid and remarkably honest book titled "50 Years A Doctor, The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic." Ronald Halweil, M.D., has practiced in New York City and New Jersey. A resident of Southampton on Long Island, he tells first in his book of the changes in medicine through his half-century as a doctor.