The global nuclear lobby will be glad when March is over. They were glad to see the end of January – too much public interest then in the U.N. Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
March is worse, especially because of the 10 year anniversary (11th March) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, with clean-up nowhere in sight. The half-hearted hype is now on for the Olympic Games in July. The whole plan was for the Games to demonstrate that the nuclear catastrophe was actually nothing much to worry about, and yet again, to promise a ‘nuclear renaissance’.
International Women’s Day – today 8th March, is a bit of a worry for the nuclear industry. Ionising radiation is more damaging to women than to men, and polls consistently show that women oppose nuclear power. Women are rarely part of decision-making, and when they are – shock horror! With nearly equal female representation in Switzerland’s parliament – it decided to shut down the nuclear industr
The testimony is generously spiked with the China threat thesis
the note of warning in not being too morally shackled becomes a screech.
War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence,
The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The father of the hydrogen bomb was
never one too bothered by the ethical niggles that came with inventing murderous technology. It was not, for instance, “the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used.” Responsibility, however exercised, rested with the American people and their elected officials.
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