Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik Radio's "Loud & Clear" program

A newly drafted United States nuclear strategy that has been sent to President Trump for approval will permit an expanded use of nuclear weapons. This document is called the Nuclear Posture Review. The following is a 30-minute except interview on the issue of nuclear weapons. The program was recorded one week ago in the studio of Radio Sputnik. Brian and John speak with Greg Mello, the executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group, and Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear.

Listen to the audio recording here.

The show is hosted by Brian Becker and John Kiriakou.

Update on January 24, 2018 by admin

"Loud & Clear" had Beyond Nuclear and Los Alamos Study Group back on for its Jan. 24th broadcast, talking about the safety and security risks of age-degraded atomic reactors in the U.S. Preceding that interview, "Loud & Clear" interviewed Dan Ellsberg on his new book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Listen to the audio recording of that entire Jan. 24th broadcast, here.

Correspondence between Ruth Thomas, Environmentalists, Inc., et al., and DNFSB

Link to letters, dated October 25, 2017 (signed by Ruth Thomas of Environmentalists, Inc. and Ellen Thomas of Proposition 1 Committee), and October 18, 2017 (signed by Ruth Thomas), to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB); and attached, a May 18, 2017 DNFSB letter, to Dr. Ronald Wilder (this letter is also included in the link).

(Same documents as above, only in .pdf format.)

Link to DNFSB response to Ruth Thomas, dated Jan. 4, 2018.

Abe snubs head of Nobel-winning no-nukes group

As reported by Japan Times.

Beatrice Fihn op-ed in Financial Times: "Time to step off the nuclear tightrope"

Re: nuclear proliferation, Beatrice Fihn published this op-ed in the Financial Times.

Beatrice Fihn is executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

Washington Post editorial: Russia and the United States are wrecking a landmark treaty

The Washington Post Editorial Board has published an opinion, calling for the preservation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.S.S.R. Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 8, 1987. The Washington Post editorial asserts that the U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin administration's recent actions are putting this foundational treaty at risk, which could significantly worsen an already deteriorating nuclear weapons tension even more.