CND Press Roundup Thursday 3rd November 2022

War in Ukraine / NATO

• Peace News: Ban nuclear bullying. Is Putin copying 1990s British nuclear policy?

• Opinion by Martin Wolf in the FT: Geopolitics is the biggest threat to globalisation. The consequences of a great power rupture may be even worse now than during the cold war.

• The Independent: Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant cut off from power grid by Russia shelling, says Ukraine.

• The Times: Putin’s military overheard ‘discussing nuclear strike’ in Ukraine.

• The Moscow Times: Russian Military Discussed Nuclear Weapons Use in Ukraine – NYT.

• The Independent: Russia says world’s five nuclear powers are ‘on brink of armed conflict’.

• The Independent: Putin smirks as he’s asked about ‘sending everyone to heaven’ in nuclear war.

Global Abolition

• Editorial in The Morning Star: Steps towards multilateral nuclear disarmament – but media silence

Royal Navy

• The Mirror: Royal Navy’s new submarine-hunting frigate hit by year’s delay – costing £233m.

• The Mail: Campaign group targets ‘steady drumbeat of orders’ for submarines and warships.

Nuclear Energy

• Reuters: French government aims to cut red tape for new nuclear reactors.

• Euractiv: Despite conflict, Russia sends France giant magnet for nuclear fusion project.

UK Nuclear Energy

• UK Government: Over £700k in contracts awarded to fund innovations that remotely monitor legacy nuclear sites.

• BBC on a photography project of families who lived near the Dounreay nuclear power plant: The Atomics: The early days of Scotland’s first nuclear families.

• Bryony Worthington writes for Prospect Magazine: I campaigned against nuclear energy in the 2000s. Now I’ve changed my mind. As the climate emergency spirals out of control and energy insecurity becomes acute, could nuclear power hold the solution?

• City AM: Hinkley Point C could have saved customers £4bn this year, says financing chief (of Sizewell C).

• Professor Paul Dorfman spoke to the Parliamentary Sci Tech Committee Inquiry on Delivering Nuclear Power yesterday, you can watch him from 10.56.30 on Parliament TV.

• Construction News: EDF ‘confirms stake’ in Sizewell.

North Korea

• Analysis from The Guardian’s Diplomatic Editor Peter Wintour: North Korea’s recent drills show west cannot ignore nuclear threat.

• The Independent also with some analysis: North Korea fired dozens of missiles. What now?

• The Mirror: North Korea launches around 12 missiles after nuclear threats made to US and South.

Pop Culture

• Red Pepper: The apocalypse in popular culture. From plagues and zombies to nukes, asteroids and tidal waves, Siobhan McGuirk and Marzena Zukowska assess how apocalyptic fiction reflects and shapes the anxieties of our age.