1. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" because he led the group of scientists who developed this deadly weapon as part of America's World War II Manhattan Project. [...] A feature film about the creation of nuclear weapons may not be an obvious candidate for a box office hit. As Nolan's teenage son said when his father told him...

  2. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    der Folgen für Umwelt und Gesundheit wird vermutlich niemals in vollem Umfang aufgeklärt werden. Hintergrund Der sowjetische Marinestützpunkt in der Chasma-Bucht nahe Wladiwostok wurde im Kalten Krieg als Staatsgeheimnis behandelt. Am Morgen des 10. August 1985 hatten Arbeiter dort gerade den Reaktor des Atom-U-Boots K-431 geöffnet, als die Welle eines vorbeifahrenden Torpedoboots das Schiff...

  3. 1940 to 1949 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Israel und Nordkorea sind jedoch auch im Besitz von Atomwaffen, wobei Israel diese nicht zugibt, und sind daher kein Mitglied des Atomwaffensperrvertrags... 1948 Habe ich etwas nicht mitgekriegt? Gab es einen der über 2050 bekannten militärischen Atomwaffentests oder gar einen bisher wenig bekannten Vorfall, möglicherweise auch aus dem zivilen oder medizinischen Bereich?...

  4. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Georgia, departed at approximately 16:34 p.m. and was scheduled to fly to Britain and then North Africa as part of Operation Snow Flurry. The plane carried nuclear weapons in case of war with the Soviet Union. Air Force Captain Bruce Kulka, who served as navigator and bombardier, was called to the bomb bay after the plane's captain, Captain Earl...

  5. 1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events

    km) long runway and an associated base. This was put into operation on March 1, 1951[2] on the basis of the Thulesag 2 agreement between the United States and Denmark. During the Cold War, the base initially served the Strategic Air Command as a base for B-36 and B-47 long-range bombers before these were replaced by B-1950 bomber units in the 1960s and 52s....

  6. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Atomreaktoren und ca. 20 Nukleartorpedos in 4300 m Tiefe... (Kosten ?) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia de K-8 (U-Boot) Das K-8 war ein Atom-U-Boot der sowjetischen Marine aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges. Es war das zweite Atom-U-Boot, dessen Bau die Sowjetunion unter der Bezeichnung Projekt 627A in Auftrag gegeben hatte. Sein Untergang im Jahr 1970 war der erste Verlust der sowjetischen...

  7. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    a total of over 20 kilograms - enough for three small warheads. Tensions between the United States and North Korea over the nuclear weapons issue led to a crisis in the spring of 1994 that almost resulted in war... Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, North Korea All of North Korea's six previous nuclear tests (2006-2017) were carried out at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site ( also known as Hwaderi). The attachment...

  8. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    a total of over 20 kilograms - enough for three small warheads. Tensions between the United States and North Korea over the nuclear weapons issue led to a crisis in the spring of 1994 that almost resulted in war... Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, North Korea All of North Korea's six previous nuclear tests (2006-2017) were carried out at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site ( also known as Hwaderi). The attachment...

  9. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    to stay below the value of 1,5 degrees. But climate protection is not a priority for the vast majority of governments. Rahmstorf explained that the issue had to be tackled “as if you were in a war situation and it was simply the top priority.” There was no lack of solutions, the necessary technologies already existed, but the political will was also lacking with Chancellor Scholz. The...

  10. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    His conclusion: Germany needed the uranium itself because it had begun work on an atomic bomb. Almost exactly a month later, Hitler invaded Poland and the Second World War began. It ended in 1945 with the dropping of the first two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA... * Ukraine | MiK military-industrial complex | Tanks Ukraine: Why the...

  11. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    was entangled in National Socialism. The involvement of the Krupp steel company in the crimes of the National Socialists is now widely known. During the Second World War, the company was not only active as a weapons producer for the German war of aggression - thousands of forced laborers, including concentration camp prisoners, were also exploited in the Krupp factories. [...] A team led by...

  12. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    In both cases, Ukrainian civilians are endangered. UN Human Rights Office has a clear opinion. Cluster munitions leave behind large quantities of unexploded ordnance and sometimes endanger the civilian population in the former combat area long after a war. Since 2010, this type of ammunition has been banned under international law - at least in the more than 110 states that have signed the Oslo Convention of 2008...

  13. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    only to measure them against the concrete challenges and to expose the emptiness of their answers... * Media | Journalists | Education Do we have to report constructively about war or the climate crisis? What is needed is enlightened journalism that sometimes provocatively names those who profiteer. How a fashion term is instead adopted unquestioningly. [...] A...

  14. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    to fend off the referendum for 100 percent renewable energy and climate neutrality by 2030... * Politics and media | military-industrial complex | Lobby of the arms industry Who fuels the war and benefits from it How the military-industrial complex influences politics and the media - The costs and risks of war are suppressed. [...] At the end of the Cold War...

  15. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    for materials, money and resources. The required quantities could only be obtained with the help of forced labor. The country also lacked resources for reconstruction after the war... Wikipedia Sarov - Arzamas-16 After the Soviet leadership's decision to develop nuclear weapons in February 1943, a corresponding institute for...

  16. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    United States | MiK military-industrial complex | Armament How the arms lobby in the USA penetrates society Four mega arms companies finance politicians, think tanks and war films: Billions more are needed against China. The military-industrial complex (MIK), which President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about more than sixty years ago,...

  17. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    almost unnoticed from Macron's energy policy... * Chomsky | Fake News | Fake quote How Noam Chomsky fell victim to a fake news attack Did the 94-year-old really gloss over the Russian war against Ukraine? This was reported by a British newspaper. Here's the real story. The Telepolis editorial. This article about an interview with the US...

  18. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    is. Some fear it has set a precedent of major EU member states throwing their weight around to win concessions... * The Ukraine war and its aftermath | The population is suffering More than 24 percent of the Ukrainian population is impoverished War as a heavy social burden: Thousands flock to the pawnshops to buy personal possessions...

  19. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    It has never been possible to generate net energy through nuclear fusion. Instead, fusion has so far been a losing proposition because it costs a lot of energy to force atomic nuclei together... * Climate War | Armor | Climate justice We have a choice: end wars or destroy the climate. Peace and environmental movements belong together. Because fossil energies are warmongers, climate protection is without...

  20. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    There is a law of silence from the government and the nuclear industry. People always claim that France is not dependent on Russia, but when we ask for numbers we don't get the information we need to understand the extent of dependence. [...] The EDF power plant division Framatome has founded a joint venture with Rosatom, with 25 percent Russian...

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