1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    "Neoliberalismus" wurden die Demokratien "marktkonform" gemacht. Die Auswirkungen der Maßnahmen waren in westlichen Industriestaaten zwar nicht derart drastisch wie in den Nachfolgestaaten der Sowjetunion (da die "Medizin" schonender verabreicht wurde und die Ökonomien viel gefestigter waren). Aber es fand ebenfalls ein schleichender sozio-ökonomischer Niedergang in Form von wachsender...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    and made uninhabitable for generations. The radioactive fallout led to tens of thousands of cases of cancer, deaths, miscarriages and deformities - and not just in the former Soviet Union. Background The first nuclear reactor was built in Chernobyl between 1971 and 1977. By 1983, the plant had been expanded to include three more reactors. In the neighboring town of Pripyat the...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Dagdelen in ihrem neuen Buch. Im gegenwärtigen Konflikt mit Russland scheint man bei der NATO noch den Mythen der Achtzigerjahre nachzuhängen. Die Strategie, Russland ähnlich wie damals die Sowjetunion totzurüsten, blendet die Wirklichkeit im dritten Jahrzehnt des 21. Jahrhunderts schlicht aus. Russland gibt nicht 13 Prozent seines Bruttoinlandsprodukts für Waffen und Rüstung aus, wie es damals...

  4. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Tank explodierte und große Mengen radioaktiver Partikel (3500 Tbq) die Umgebung verseuchten. (Kosten ca. 51 Millionen US$) Nuclear Power Accidents AtomkraftwerkePlag Sewersk, Tomsk-7, ehemalige Sowjetunion 1993 Am 6. April 1993 trat in einem Tank mit einer Lösung von 8.773 kg Uran und 310 g Plutonium ein Überdruck auf, der daraufhin explodierte. "In die Atmosphäre geschleuderte radioaktive...

  5. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Prototypen luftgekühlter Reaktoren entwickelt. Im März 1961 ließ Präsident John F. Kennedy die Versuche beenden. Wikipedia en Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Der technologische Wettbewerb mit der Sowjetunion (wie er durch den Start von Sputnik 1 zum Ausdruck kam) und die anhaltend starke Unterstützung durch die Air Force ermöglichten die Fortsetzung des Programms trotz der geteilten Führung zwischen...

  6. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    at approximately 16:34 p.m. and was scheduled to fly to Great 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 Capt. Bruce Kulka, who served as navigator and bombardier, was called to the bomb bay after the plane's captain, Capt. Earl Koehler, appeared in the cockpit...

  7. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (Russian Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, scientific transliteration Aleksej Anatolʹevič Navalʹnyj; born June 4, 1976 in Butyn, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union; † 16 February 2024 in Charp, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia) was a Russian lawyer, documentary filmmaker, anti-corruption activist, dissident, opposition politician and blogger. 2020...

  8. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    Rule in Hungary in 1956. Although Eisenhower sympathized with the uprising, he wisely kept the United States out of Hungary, thereby avoiding a dangerous military confrontation with the Soviet Union. Eisenhower Against the Military-Industrial Complex Eisenhower's historic farewell address to the American people in January 1961 drew public attention to...

  9. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    In the 1960s, as part of Operation Chrome Dome, up to twelve nuclear-armed US bombers were in the air around the clock every day in order to be able to strike back in the event of a first nuclear strike by the Soviet Union. However, on that day, six hours after takeoff, a fire began to burn in the cabin of the plane. The crew was forced to eject the aircraft...

  10. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    Has the reputation of large parts of the population suffered greatly after numerous crises? The WEF elites see themselves as guardians of the liberal social and world order. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, people in the West have agreed that there is no alternative to liberalism. The historical events of the late 20th century certainly suggested this conclusion. Apparently...

  11. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    the Russians - it didn't bring in a single penny for the GDR until 1953. Because uranium extraction was initially a reparation payment for the damage caused by the Second World War in the Soviet Union. Gauern was one of the places in Thuringia where the Soviet-German stock corporation Wismut (SDAG Wismut) became active. Two thirds of the village was sacrificed for uranium mining. Ridge on...

  12. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    The environmental organization Greenpeace in Russia feared a leak. The incident brought back memories of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986 in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). Ultimately, according to the operator Energoatom, the incident at the power plant was only a minor disruption. There were no increased radioactive emissions, a...

  13. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    plutonium reprocessing area, set up a spent fuel reprocessing department in Vinca, signed a cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union in 1956 for the 6,5 MW research reactor RA (heavy water reactor with moderation and cooling) and built the RB, a critical assembly Heavy water natural uranium at zero power. The RA reactor,...

  14. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    The study was published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology at the end of August. [...] After the first nuclear test in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the USA, the Soviet Union and China (later also France and Great Britain) tested their nuclear weapons by exploding them above the ground until the 1970s. This resulted in a severe radioactive...

  15. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    Located in the Chelyabinsk Oblast on the eastern side of the Southern Urals, in 1945 it was an important part of Stalin's plans to quickly produce weapons-grade plutonium and to catch up with the Soviet Union in nuclear weapons. In 1948 the first reactor was switched on, in 1949 the first atomic bomb was detonated, and Stalin had caught up with the USA. 235 radioactive explosions occurred in Mayak...

  16. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    The costs of the BGZ last year amounted to 271 million euros... * August 29, 1949 (1st atomic bomb test of the USSR) Semipalatinsk, KAZ Wikipedia List of nuclear weapon tests The Soviet Union conducted its first atomic bomb test ("RDS-1") August 29, 1949 at the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site (now Kazakhstan). Between 1949 and 1990, the Soviet Union conducted a total of 715 tests...

  17. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    international historians complain in this documentary by Klaus Scherer. In reality, the attacks only destroyed Japan's major cities 67 and 68, they say. The entry of the Soviet Union into the Pacific War on August 8, 1945 and the breach of the current neutrality pact would have contributed significantly more to Japan's surrender than the atomic bomb. August 8 Niger | Uranium...

  18. 1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events

    and made uninhabitable for generations. The radioactive fallout led to tens of thousands of cases of cancer, deaths, miscarriages and deformities - and not just in the former Soviet Union. Background The first nuclear reactor was built in Chernobyl between 1971 and 1977. By 1983, the plant had been expanded to include three more reactors. In the neighboring town of Pripyat the...

  19. 1940 to 1949 - INES, NAMS and other events

    westlichen Welt, die 1988 stillgelegt wurde und seitdem dekontaminiert wird... 29. August 1949 - "RDS-1" 1. Atombombentest Semipalatinsk, KAZ, UdSSR Wikipedia de Liste von Kernwaffentests Die Sowjetunion führte ihren ersten Atombombentest ("RDS-1") am 29. Aug 1949 auf dem Atomwaffentestgelände Semipalatinsk (heute Kasachstan) durch. Zwischen 1949 und 1990 führte die Sowjetunion insgesamt 715...

  20. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    plutonium reprocessing area, set up a spent fuel reprocessing department in Vinca, signed a cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union in 1956 for the 6,5 MW research reactor RA (heavy water reactor with moderation and cooling) and built the RB, a critical assembly Heavy water natural uranium at zero power. The RA reactor,...

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