California Is Already Preparing for a North Korean Nuclear Attack

Beware of radioactive pets, and don’t expect the feds to show up anytime soon.

As reported in an exclusive by Jana Winter in FP (Foreign Policy).

How North Korea Could Pull Off a Pacific Nuclear Test

As reported by Stratfor.

Prospect of Atmospheric Nuclear Test by North Korea Raises Specter of Danger

As reported by the New York Times.

The article reports:

According to one estimate by a physicians group opposed to nuclear weapons, 2.4 million people could die from cancer caused by the radioactivity from the more than 2,000 known tests that have already taken place.

The link above points to the website of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, which reports:

An article featured in Volume 94 of American Scientist on Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests and Cancer Risks states that a number of studies of biological samples (including bone, thyroid glands and other tissues) have provided increasing proof that specific radionuclides in fallout are implicated in fallout-related cancers.

It is difficult to assess the number of deaths that might be attributed to radiation exposure from nuclear testing. Some studies and evaluations, including an assessment by Arjun Makhijani on the health effects of nuclear weapon complexes, estimate that cancer fatalities due to the global radiation doses from the atmospheric nuclear testing programmes of the five nuclear-weapon States amount to hundreds of thousands. A 1991 study by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) estimated that the radiation and radioactive materials from atmospheric testing taken in by people up until the year 2000 would cause 430,000 cancer deaths, some of which had already occurred by the time the results were published. The study predicted that roughly 2.4 million people could eventually die from cancer as a result of atmospheric testing.

Trump escalates a war of words with North Korea, calling leader Kim a ‘madman’

As reported by the Washington Post.

The video that accompanies the article shows President Donald J. Trump speaking at a political rally in Alabama. He references the North Korean regime's threat to launch a nuclear tipped missile into the Pacific Ocean, and warns about the cancer that the plume (of radioactivity) could cause downwind and downstream.

Of course, Trump failed to acknowledge the radioactivity plumes the U.S. created with its many scores of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, from 1946 to the early 1960s, including in the Pacific Ocean, as in the Marshall Islands. Even after U.S. (and U.K.) nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site went underground, after the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty, up to one-third of all tests leaked radioactivity into the environment. An infamous example was the "Mighty Oak" test blast in 1986, which cracked the earth open, and a mushroom cloud, including radioactive contamination, erupted out, blowing and falling out downwind.

Amid Tensions with North Korea, 51 Countries Sign Ban on Nuclear Weapons Despite U.S. Opposition

As reported by Democracy Now!:

Amid tensions over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, 51 countries have signed the world’s first legally binding treaty banning nuclear weapons. It prohibits the development, testing and possession of nuclear weapons, as well as using or threatening to use these weapons. It was first adopted in July by 122 U.N. member states, despite heavy U.S. opposition. None of the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons signed the measure, including Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel. We speak with Susi Snyder, nuclear disarmament program manager for the Netherlands-based group PAX and author of the report "Don’t Bank on the Bomb."

Snyder, along with ICAN, was a 2016 Nuclear-Free Future Awards winner.