CND Press Roundup Tuesday 1st November 2022

War in Ukraine / NATO

• The Independent: UN nuclear agency starts probe of Russian dirty bomb claim

• Reuters: IAEA’s Ukraine inspections to address ‘dirty bomb’ accusations have begun

• The Independent: Nuclear memories: Russia, war and childhood fears rekindled

• The Mirror: Liz Truss spent final days as PM ‘obsessed with weather amid Putin’s nuclear threats’

• FT Opinion: The nuclear threats that hang over the world

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Russian actions at Zaporizhzhia show need for better legal protections of nuclear installations

• Bulletin: Russia says Ukraine is preparing a “dirty bomb.” Is it true, and what does it mean?

• The Times: Russian naval officers chatted about ‘nuking Berlin’ to spook Germany

• The New Yorker: Why Vladimir Putin Would Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

• The Telegraph: Britain ‘exposed’ to Russian missile attacks

• The Mirror: Nuclear gravity bomb more powerful than Hiroshima blast to be added to NATO’s arsenal

• Reuters: UK warns Russia of severe consequences if nuclear weapons used in Ukraine

TPNW

• The Guardian: Australia drops opposition to treaty banning nuclear weapons at UN vote

Nuclear Test Veterans

• North Wales Chronicle: 89-year-old ex-bomb test veteran helps with poppy display for Remembrance Sunday

Trident

• Banbury Guardian: County Nukewatch organisation warns of ‘deadly’ convoys passing Banbury every month

Cornwall Space Launches

• The Times: Satellites are too costly in tough times, say protesters

• BBC: Cornwall: Campaigners protest against first UK space launch

US Nuclear Posture Review

• The Guardian: Biden to scrap Trump missile project but critics attack US ‘nuclear overkill’

Indo-Pacific

• The Telegraph: US sending nuclear-capable bombers that could reach China to Australia base

UK Nuclear Energy

• Scottish Daily Express: Dounreay nuclear plant radiation scare over high numbers of ‘harmful’ radioactive particles

• The Independent: Are small modular reactors the answer nuclear power needs?

• The Star: Drones spotted swarming above UK nuclear plant as expert warns of ‘malicious intent’

• The Metro: ‘Swarm’ of drones spotted flying above UK nuclear plant

• UK Daily News: The Sizewell C nuclear power plant is one step closer as the French government gives the green light to the project

• Reuters: Poland, South Korea to cooperate on nuclear power project

•  The Times: Nuclear fusion plant will usher in new dawn of clean energy

Nuclear Energy

• The Guardian Australia: Rather than an endlessly reheated nuclear debate, politicians should be powered by the evidence

• Euractiv: EU may block Polish nuclear investment, warns opposition

Hibakusha

• The Guardian: Hiroshima survivors plead for nuclear-free world as global tensions rise