“I ain’t no highfalutin neocon; I’m just a simple country warmonger”

15 years ago today, the world watched Fukushima-Daiichi being shattered. As an editor, I'm seeing the narrative shift from "safety at all costs" to "tripling capacity" (as seen at yesterday's Paris Nuclear Energy Summit). But is the nuclear disaster over? (1/n) #Fukushima15 #NukeSky #NuclearEnergy

Democratic members of Congress need to attack this war as a crime, because that’s what it is. “The president did not plan out his war of aggression as well as he could have” is a foolish and self-defeating position to take.

How do governments justify the unjustifiable? Join OPSR for The Decision to Drop the Bomb. Vincent Intondi examines the story behind the decision made 80 years ago and the narratives used to explain & defend that choice. 🗓️ Wed., Feb. 4 🕕 6:00 PM PT 💻 Zoom (oregonpsr.org/decision) (link in bio)

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In less than 7 months Trump et al Regime has twice pulled a surprise attack on critical assets of people/states it was ostensibly negotiating with at the time (Iran & Venezuela). I want us to be clear about that.

As I’ve been saying, this has major ramifications for nuclear launch procedures. It’s foolish to think legality offers any kind of constraint on what is clearly a de facto unilateral power for the president to launch a first strike.

People like me have sometimes gotten pushback for not considering the supposed legal checks on presidential “sole authority.” Lawyers would not allow an illegal strike, we were told - and in any case the military would refuse such an order. Would like to know what those folks think now!

In Massachusetts, residential proximity to a nuclear power plant (NPP) was associated with significantly increased cancer incidence, with risk declining by distance, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. #NoNukes #NukeSky hsph.harvard.edu/news/cancer-...

Good @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social piece pushing back against a recent Foreign Affairs article: "Below the confidence in America’s power to shape the global status quo seems to lurk a quiet admission that the American empire is fracturing" jacobin.com/2025/11/nucl...

No one could have predicted, etc. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

🚨 JUST IN: A newly declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, and reveals an urgent need for an international review of #HALEU use, writes Ed Lyman (@nucsafetyucs.bsky.social). #uranium #enrichment #proliferation #IAEA #safeguards #nukesky

My @ucs.org colleague @lauraegrego.bsky.social explains how #AHouseofDynamite has the better take on the flawed US anti-missile system than the Pentagon's inaccurate claims that it works. Bottom line: the system has not been shown to work under realistic conditions.

As a reminder, here's what happened after we exploded 100 nuclear devices in the atmosphere at the Nevada Test Site from 1951-62:

Nuclear testing you say? "Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War” #NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-conte...

We're getting nights like this basically monthly now, and the major funders of nuclear policy work are still retreating

If a complete update and renovation of existing weapons was accomplished during his first term, as he said, then we can cancel all future modernization plans, yeah?

Let's go!

🌍 Today is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. OPSR is proud to endorse this joint appeal, making an urgent global call to abolish nukes, cut dangerous budgets, and invest in a safer, healthier future for all. 👉 tinyurl.com/NuclearAbolitionDay

My book comes out in three weeks. www.bloomsbury.com/us/contempor...

Excellent @sciam.bsky.social Golden Dome article details the lack of information about the proposed system, the enormous amount of taxpayer $$$s it will consume (even as it fails), & the negative ramifications for US security overall: www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

The president has sole authority to order nuclear use- How did we get here? How does it work? What’s the issue? Can we solve it? My new @scientistsorg.bsky.social report on nuclear launch authority in the U.S. - “All the King’s Weapons” - is out! Read it below 👇 fas.org/publication/...

“A law firm representing opponents of offshore wind farms is demanding that Brown University retract research that details links between the fossil fuel industry and anti-wind groups.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Inspired by this article, I finally sat down with John Hersey's Hiroshima this Saturday while at the river. In the book Hersey interviews a handful of survivors a year after Hiroshima, with follow ups 40 years later. The stories in that book will likely stay with me the rest of my life.

Was interviewed on Al Jazeera earlier today on the 80th commemoration of #Hiroshima and #nuclear weapons. vimeo.com/1107535248?s...

When your missile defense scheme is feasible and cost-effective www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Visit the Hiroshima Peace Museum exhibit at the Corvallis Museum, now til Aug. 10 (closed Mon and Tues; always free for OSU students w/ID card). There's a commemoration at 6:30pm Aug. 6 at Howland Plaza @ First St. & Madison Ave & an all ages "Family Peace Day", 1-3 pm Aug. 9 at the Corvallis Museum

"ORGANIZATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY," slide 11 of 41 [gallery]

The Declaration's final recommendation calls on scientists, academics, civil society, and communities of faith to help create the pressure needed to compel action from global leaders. Without action, it warns, “there can be no doubt that our luck will finally run out.”

Very excited to check this out

"And the advancement of that movement—for socialism, for freedom, for social peace, for the unity of the multiethnic working class—is how we end the 9/11 Era." www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...

I guess blowing up Fordow and declaring Iran denuclearized is the new closing Yongbyon and declaring North Korea denuclearized?

Aren’t you all glad we have this thing called deterrence? Everyone seems deterred from attacking each other and I feel so much safer with nuclear weapons in the world.

We had a deal in place. It was working. Iran was not building nuclear weapons.

If the act of war is illegal you really and truly do not need a preamble about how you're glad the president who did the illegal thing picked a target you're happy to see hit

ICAN condemns the United States’ illegal military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities. By joining Israel’s strikes, the US is violating international law and putting global non-proliferation efforts at risk.

President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites is reckless and draws the US directly into Israel’s war with Iran. This is a war that the American people do not want and the world does not support. We call for Congress to intervene and halt this war.

Have to wonder why any country would ever engage in good faith diplomacy with the United States ever again.

reminding everyone there’s no such thing as a tactical nuclear weapon

Apparently this person was asked to provide medical documents that proved she needed to mask. This is why “health exceptions” to masks bans don’t work.

"Trump reneged on more than a billion dollars the Biden administration promised to tribes for renewable energy and salmon recovery."

Virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority. A man you can bait with a Tweet…

Nationalize 'em

lol @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

They're literally doing the meme

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... W admin alums arguing that arms races are good, actually You might remember the W admin from its hits like 'no way will missile defense lead to arms races' fast forward 20 years and missile defense is still a money pit but at least we have arms races

Project 2025 isn’t just influential in Washington. Its friends and creators are literally running the show, according to a new analysis from @DeSmog buff.ly/xyzwHZE