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John LaForge

  • July 27, 2022

    Nuclear threats

    Threatening to make attacks with nuclear weapons is known as ‘deterrence’ when the United States does it, but it’s called madness, blackmail,...

  • June 28, 2022

    Weapons ban

    The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has been ratified by 65 governments, known in diplomatic circles as States Parties. The treaty’s...

  • March 13, 2021

    Fukushima at ten

    It’s now 10 years since the catastrophic triple meltdowns of reactors at Fukushima in Japan. As Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health...

  • June 27, 2019

    No information

    The Trump administration has halted, without explanation, the routine practice of reporting the current number of nuclear weapons in the US arsenal,...

  • April 23, 2019

    Chernobyl’s effects

    April 26 marks the 33rd anniversary of the 1986 radiation disaster at Chernobyl reactor Number 4 in Ukraine, just north of Kiev the capital. It is...

  • August 09, 2018

    Fiction and facts

    About the US atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, popular accounts still stick to the false but “greatest generation” story...

  • April 30, 2018

    Nuclear disaster

    The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of the April 26, 1986...

  • April 17, 2018

    Nuclear waste

    Last month, the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor, on the banks of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, was found to be leaking radioactive tritium ...

  • March 13, 2018

    A human-made disaster

    “Nearly seven years after the triple reactor meltdowns, this unique nuclear crisis is still underway,” Greenpeace International’s Shaun Burnie...