Iltalehti ti 28.5. klo 22.49. Iskut Venäjän ydinohjusten ennakkovaroitusjärjestelmään ovat uusi käänne Ukrainan sodassa, ja niiden seuraukset voivat olla kauaskantoisia.
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Torstaina 23.5. Ukraina iski Armavirin kaupungissa Krasnodarin alueella sijaitsevaan tutka-asemaan. Heti perään maanantaina se iski tutka-asemaan Orskin kaupungissa Orenburgin alueella.
Huhtikuun puolivälissä Ukraina yritti iskeä Kontainer-järjestelmään Mordvan alueella.
Iida Siimes.: "Diplomatiaa ennen tuomiopäivää" , Voima 2/2024
Norjan Kirkkoniemeltä käsin raportoiva Barents Observer julkaisee uutisia Arktisista alueista ja erityisesti Venäjän valtavista Kuolan niemimaan ydintukikohdista. Kun lehden päätoimittaja Thomas Nilsen vieraili Helsingissä esitelmöimässä journalisteille vuoden 2024 tammikuussa, hän vei yleisöltään yöunet pitkäksi aikaa. Nilsen kertoi, miten veden alla ydinvoimalla kulkevaa ja ydinkärkeä kantavaa nopeaa Poseidon-torpedoa ei voi mitenkään torjua. Kun se on laukaistu liikkeelle, se kulkee vääjäämättä maaliinsa. Jos se räjähtää esimerkiksi Venäjän oletettujen vihollismaiden, kuten Yhdysvaltain tai Britannian rannikolla, sen räjähdysvoima ja aiheuttama tsunami tuhoavat koko rannikon. Myöhemmin ydinlaskeuma tuhoaa vielä lisää.
Tiedeyhteisö ympäri maailmaa nimittää Poseidonia ”tuomiopäivän aseeksi”. Putin on uhonnut rakentavansa näitä ainakin kolmekymmentä.
Venäjällä on maailman suurin ydinasearsenaali. Maa ei kunnioita diplomatian eikä sodan sääntöjä. Venäjä ei ole edes julistanut sotaa Ukrainaa vastaan, mutta se sotii maassa silti, jo yhdennettätoista vuotta.
Popular resistance , March 24, 2024
ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals For Sanity
SUBJECT: On The Brink Of Nuclear War
Several celebrities, including J Robert Oppenheimer’s grandson, have signed an open letter pleading for nuclear disarmament, days before Christopher Nolan’s epic 'Oppenheimer' is expected to sweep up at the Oscars.
NRK Joakim Reigstad Norden-korrespondent
rapporterer fra Lappeenranta, Finland
Publisert 9. feb.
Eija Piispanen ombestemte seg da hun hørte at presidentkandidat Alexander Stubb vil tillate lagring og transport av atomvåpen i Finland. Nå går stemmen hennes til motkandidaten.
An der Verlässlichkeit der USA als NATO-Partner bestehen seit einer Trump-Rede große Zweifel. SPD-Europakandidatin Barley hat deshalb EU-eigene Atombomben ins Spiel gebracht. Brandgefährlich sei das, kritisiert ein Parteigenosse.
Unification theory with no extra dimensions. The first part unifies the strong nuclear force with the gravitational force in a mathematical way; the quantum vacuum is treated as a deformable system by the strong nuclear force. The second part unifies the nuclear force with the quantum vacuum in a hypothetical structure; the quantum vacuum is treated as a supersymmetric and metastable system with properties related to the different types of particles’ motion.
Finlands säkerhetspolitiska miljö förändrades i grunden när Ryssland invaderade Ukraina i februari 2022. Efter en säkerhetspolitisk omvärdering beslöt Finland att ansöka om medlemskap i försvarsalliansen Nato i maj 2022. Finland blev medlem i Nato i april 2023.
"Natos engagemang i att förstärka det gemensamma försvaret och skrämseleffekten har framhävts sedan 2014, då Ryssland illegalt annekterade Krimhalvön. Som en del av Natos reformprocess har man bl.a. utökat närvaron i fördragsorganisationens östliga medlemsländer, utvecklat truppernas beredskap och snabbinsatsförmåga, effektiviserat beredskapsplaneringen och utökat de militära övningarna. I en mera omfattande helhet bestående av skrämseleffekt och försvar ingår utöver konventionella trupper också kärnvapen och missilförsvar. De kompletteras av cyberförsvar och rymdkapaciteter."
End the Insanity: For Nuclear Disarmament
and Global Demilitarization
Eileen Crist, Judith Lipton, David Barash
This article was originally published by
The Ecological Citizen, Vol 7, No 1, 2024
REPUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION
Missiles could be placed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk in case of potential war between Nato and Russia. The Guardian 1.2.24
The US is planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years amid a growing threat from Russia, according to a report. Warheads three times as strong as the Hiroshima bomb would be located at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk under the proposals, the Telegraph reported.
The US previously placed nuclear missiles at RAF Lakenheath and removed them in 2008 after the cold war threat from Moscow receded. Pentagon documents seen by the newspaper reveal procurement contracts for a new facility at the airbase.
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “It remains a longstanding UK and Nato policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at a given location.”
This new weapon, dubbed the B61-13, is expected to deliver around 360 kilotons of destructive power – 21 times the yield of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945; it will be among the most powerful nukes in the U.S. arsenal.
The United States Air Force has successfully tested its first prototype hypersonic missile, the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW.
"By Brett Tingleyn published December 13, 2022
The exact speed of the AGM-183A isn't known, although some have alleged it might reach Mach 20.
Sedan Dan Henriksson inledde arbetet med musikverket Aniara sommaren 2016 har världen förvridits, i fråga om kärnvapen, artificiell intelligens och klimat. Dan refererar till Honkelas Rauhankone – Tekoälytutkijan testamentti
Bulletin's associate editor for nuclear affairs, François Diaz-Maurin, provides his review of the nuclear year; plus six nuclear stories that marked 2023—and that you should read.
Pierre Agostini The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Ferenc Krausz Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching och Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Tyskland
Anne L’Huillier Lunds universitet, Sverige
”för experimentella metoder som genererar attosekundpulser av ljus för studier av elektrondynamik i materia”
Experiment med ljus fångar de kortaste ögonblicken
Newsweek 29.11.23: A new nuclear warhead has been approved and cleared for use in a variety of U.S. aircraft, notably the B-2A Spirit bomber. The warhead is part of continuing efforts to modernize the nation's nuclear stockpile for military use.
Spirit will be the first domestic combat aircraft to employ the B61-12 nuclear bomb, unveiled Monday as part of the 335-page unclassified Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP), a report for the 2024 fiscal year by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The latter works within the Department of Energy (DOE) and designs, produces, delivers and certifies the nation's nuclear stockpile for military operation.
In October, the House of Representatives approved a resolution to increase defense spending in fiscal year 2024 by about $1.11 billion over the current fiscal year—including $19.114 billion for the continued modernization of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile and infrastructure and $1.946 billion for naval warships.
Collectively, the world’s estimated 12,512 nuclear warheads belong to just nine countries. However, there are more than two dozen additional countries that participate in nuclear mission-related arrangements. While these countries do not have direct launch authority over any nuclear warheads, they play an important role in their storage, planning, delivery, and safety and use-control, and therefore merit a degree of scrutiny alongside their nuclear-armed peers.
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades.
Kärnvapenuppföljargruppen är en grupp av självständiga experter. Dess uppgift är att bedöma kärnvapnens roll och de risker som är förbundna med dem då Finland blir medlem i Nato samt att analysera hur Finland behandlar, tar ställning till och verkar i frågor som rör kärnvapen. Gruppens medlemmar är: Tarja Cronberg, Jaakko Ellisaari, Tytti Erästö,Kati Juva, Mika Kerttunen, Claus Montonen, Juha Pyykönen, Erkki Tuomioja, Katariina Simonen, Juha Vuori och Raimo Väyrynen.
Recension av "Oppenheimer" i Jacobin: [av Leigh Phillips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts.]
"But even if in the film it’s the radicals who appear to have the first misgivings, it would be a mistake to think that it was the political right that approved of the bombing and only the Left who opposed it. The newspaper of the CPUSA, the Daily Worker, declared after the bombing that the Allies were lucky to have found struck “before the enemy can devise countermeasures.” The paper went on: “So let us not greet our atomic device with a shudder, but with the elation and admiration which the genius of man deserves.” Perhaps, one might counter, such calculation is to be expected from Stalinists. Yet the non-Stalinist but still progressive magazines The Nation and the New Republic felt little differently. Nation editor Freda Kirchwey wrote at the time: “The suffering, the wholesale slaughter it entailed, have been outweighed by its spectacular success.”
Few escaped the twentieth century with their honor intact, although it’s noteworthy that it was the more religious side of the liberal-left who was the first to mark their disquiet at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As historian Paul Boller noted, it was in fact the social gospel–oriented Catholic weekly Commonweal and its protestant counterpart Christian Century that straight out of the gate argued that the bombings had destroyed the nation’s moral position in the world.
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sista stycket: Det finns återigen en antydan i Nolans film. Det ursprungliga löftet om gränslös frigörelse från dominans - vare sig från andra människor eller från resten av naturen - som gavs när modernitetens tre världar förenades under 1900-talets första år, har inte svikits så mycket som det har lämnats ouppfyllt. Det som Oppie och Rabi och resten av efterkrigstidens progressiva motståndare till kärnvapenspridning strävade efter - en internationalistisk egalitarism utan CPUSA:s dogmer och falska vissheter, där hela världen drog nytta av kärnkraften men kärnvapen var förbjudna - förblir målet.
China’s Global Security Initiative should be carefully considered and discussed. Even a brief survey of world events indicates the pressing need for a different set of security arrangements from those currently pursued by the US and NATO allies.
Ola Tunander har gitt Spartakus.no tillatelse til å publisere hans bidrag til tidsskriftet Vardøger 40 23. Artikkelen er sårt tiltrengt folkeopplysning. Her dokumenteres opptakten til Ukraina-krigen og hva den egentlig handler om. Den angir også et mulig scenario for hvordan krigen kan eskalere til en atomkrig.
Nicholas Shakespeare, The Spectator 24 Augusr 2019
Novel explosives of the Cold War
SOE=Special Operations Executive
Orwell’s searing satires as well as samizdat works from Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak proved powerful weapons in the fight against communism
March 3, 2023
Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine
by Joshua Frank
och inte bara i Ukraina utan också i t ex Taiwan, Saudiarabien osv. Riskerna med Kärnkrkraftverk och kärnavfall i perioder av krig och konflikter. J. Frank är Counterpunch-sajtens redaktör.
Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection
Lili Xia, Alan Robock, Kim Scherrer, Cheryl S. Harrison, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Isabelle Weindl, Jonas Jägermeyr, Charles G. Bardeen, Owen B. Toon & Ryan Heneghan
WSJ Nov 4, 2022: A U.S. flag officer talks candidly about the fading U.S. deterrent. “This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” said Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the commander of US Strategic Command. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested [in] a long time.”
En atombomb för själen
Publicerat: ons 14.12.2022
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