CND Press Digest: Tuesday 15th August 2023

Posted: 15th August 2023

War In Ukraine/NATO

  • Energy Intelligence The Times: Every day residents look across the Dnieper River and see the Russian army as the fate of the Zaporizhzhia power station looms on the horizon.
  • Russia is in the process of equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic Zircon missiles, the head of Russia’s largest shipbuilder told the RIA state news agency in an interview published on Monday.

AUKUS

  • What are hypersonic missiles and how do they work?

Nuclear Testing

  • The Bulletin on the survivors of the Trinity nuclear test.
  • St. Louis activists writes for the New Civil Engineer: Long term vision and collaboration will be critical to the future of nuclear infrastructure.

Nuclear Energy

  • A pro-nuclear article in The Irish Times which claims: All energy sources increase our dependence upon foreign nations. One of the advantages of nuclear is that uranium fuel is compact and years’ worth can be procured and stored in advance. Uranium is very widely distributed, greatly decreasing the reliance upon any one fuel supplier. There is already enough known uranium resources in stable nations to satisfy our energy needs for many hundreds of years using nuclear fission.
  • Renew Economy on the recent report by the Australian Senate which argues against nuclear power.
  • The Guardian: Environmental experts have criticised the Swedish government’s plan to build at least 10 nuclear reactors in the next 20 years, more than doubling the current number, saying it will be too expensive and will come too late to meet energy needs.

Fusion

  • The Telegraph reflects on why Britain fell behind the US in nuclear fusion development.

Fukushima

  • BBC: Hundreds of people in South Korean took to the streets of Seoul on Saturday to protest against Japan’s contentious plan to release treated nuclear wastewaterinto the Pacific Ocean.

Iran Nuclear Deal

  • Iran is committed to resolving its nuclear dispute with world powers through diplomacy, the country’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters in a televised news conference on Monday.

North Korea

  • North Korea continued developing nuclear weapons and producing nuclear fissile material in 2023 and evading United Nations sanctions that aim to cut off funding for Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, according to an unpublished United Nations report seen by Reuters on Thursday.

CND

  • The Irish Times with a short history of Irish CND and its Cold War-era campaigning.

Hiroshima

  • Seeds from a tree that survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima are being grownin Glasgow. The precious ginkgo seeds – harvested from the “survivor tree” – were gifted to the city council as part of an international peace initiative.

Oppenheimer

  • ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That’s an act of rigor, not erasure, writes the LA Times.

Best,

 

Pádraig McCarrick

 

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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