Spring Nukewatch Quarterly
Posted: 2nd May 2025
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Minnesota Legislature Considers Repeal of Nuclear Moratorium
Bills are circulating in the Minnesota legislature (and many other states!) to repeal the state’s 31-year-old moratorium on building new nuclear reactors. Members of the Nukewatch and the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Mississippi River testified before committees in the House and Senate and are collaborating with the Rise and Repair Alliance to oppose the repeal….
Three Declarations of Genocide and the U.S. Responses
Three recent reports by respected international humanitarian organizations have generated global approbation and negative reactions by both the Israeli and U.S. governments.
– Amnesty International
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) report on the situation in Gaza…. READ MORE
U.S. Anti-War/Anti-Poverty Activist Ends 7.5-Month Prison Term in Germany
Solitary nonviolent witness appears painfully ineffective in the age of state terrorism and vigilante shooting sprees. Yet Susan Crane of Redwood City, California, who was released from prison in Koblenz, Germany, on January 17, after spending 7.5 months incarcerated over protest trespass convictions (and refusing to pay fines), has perhaps influenced thousands of people in Europe and the States with her example.
Seven Reasons Why Nuclear Energy is Not the Answer to Solve Climate Change
For more than a decade, Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson has demonstrated how the U.S. and 139 other countries can transition to renewable energy for all purposes by 2050, without nuclear energy. Yet the debate on the necessity of nuclear power to abate climate chaos lingers on…. READ MORE
Raytheon Pushes Doomsday Clock Closer to Midnight
TUCSON, Ariz — In Tom Lehrer’s classic Cold War ditty, “So Long Mom,” a nuclear bomber pilot sings, “I’ll look for you when the war is over, an hour and a half from now.”
It’s darkly funny, because even though we don’t talk much about it, we all know it’s true. Planned or imagined, nuclear war scenarios rarely last longer.
But how much time have we got before then?..... READ MORE
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