13 Articles
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
How to Squash the Baneberry of the East a la Dorothy Gale
If the overwhelming concern is about another country's nuclear bombs going off and hurting other people, then we should focus on nuclear testing, which has killed more people worldwide than even the holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test
The first mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since Cold War testing would have been formed by a 2006 Nevada non-nuclear bomb test had we not forced its cancellation. But a sentence in the cancellation press release has kept the test un-dead.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Sermon for the downtrodden activist
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Nearly every one of us has at one time or another been unheard; our voices and our points of view, as part of our contributions to causes greater than ourselves, have been drowned out, ignored, or pushed aside. This sermon is for them.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
DOE saying it's protecting us is a hard pill to swallow
Because of 9/11, the Department of Energy has decided to not allow online public access to documents that ironically are drawn up to adhere to a federal environmental act that heavily encourages public participation. The DOE says it is doing this to 'protect' us whereas the DOE is undermining American's most influential environmental policy act.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Going subcritical: a nuclear test is a nuclear test is a nuclear test
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Since 1997, the DOE has aimed a subcritical testing 'gun' at the entire world that has fired blanks over and over again and the impact is no different than when a madman runs around aiming a gun at other people and firing blanks. The effect is de-stabilizing.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Speak now or for the next five years hold your peace
The Nevada Test Site, formerly the 'proving grounds' for 100s of nuclear detonations through 1992, continues to this day host nuclear simulation experiments. Yet these activities, often associated with nuclear contamination, were never evaluated in the 'permit' that the American people signed off on in 1996. Americans should insist that a new permit process (a site-wide EIS) be initiated for the Nevada Test Site.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Say No to the Divine Strake
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The Pentagon agency that is planning the "Divine Strake" for the spring has come clean about their test. Sort of.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Divine Misgivings
As most of the ash and dust settles and the rest continues to float along the jet stream, I won't doubt what the Pentagon will do next. There will be an analysis and a fancy presentation. This time their audience will be the U.S. Congress.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Divine Misgivings
I will be in Hawaii when Divine Strake goes off. Before then, I will watch patiently as the Pentagon agency that is planning the test, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, wriggles and writhes through the course of legal, administrative and grassroots obstacles.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Divine Strake for Thanksgiving
Sometime between this year's Thanksgiving and next, turkey feed and cranberries, mushrooms and salads, and ginger and sage will be growing in soils with a few added 'nutrients': radioactivity from the Divine Strake test.
Sunday, November 5, 2006
Stairway to Divine Strake
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On Thursday, a U.S. government lawyer speaking on behalf of a Pentagon agency sponsoring Divine Strake told a federal judge that she could not promise 60 days' notice before the test would be carried out sometime in mid-2007.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Survive the Demise
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There is no justice. Or fairness. Or democracy. Or law. Or order. There is only a pack of feral, aristocratic human beings that are seeking dominion of the human race at any cost while the rest of us the domesticated ones sit crouched, huddled, cold, starved, scared, and witless.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
GI Joe vs Albert Schweitzer
When Albert Schweitzer ultimately decided to voice his concerns about the seriousness of the consequences of radiation and the testing of nuclear weapons, he called upon the world in his "A Declaration of Conscience" to muster the courage "to leave folly and to face reality." Yet, nearly 50 years later, we haven't left folly. We are still blurring the lines between play and reality.
