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Consequences of Nuclear Tests, Pokhran and Beyond: An Interview  with Prof. Robert Jacobs

Consequences of Nuclear Tests, Pokhran and Beyond: An Interview with Prof. Robert Jacobs

This month in India marked 21 years of the 1998 Pokharan nuclear tests, amid an acerbic and jingoist election campaign, resulting in the Hindu nationalist BJP’s return to power with Mr. Narendra Modi at the helm. Now that the cacophony of the election season is over, and the PM has extended greetings to his Pakistani counterpart, it is time we think more seriously about the impacts of intensifying militarization in a nuclear South Asia. We interviewed Prof. Robert Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute on the various human, climatic and political implications of nuclear tests.

On Chernobyl and Human Future: Kate Brown's Must-watch Lecture

On Chernobyl and Human Future: Kate Brown’s Must-watch Lecture

Talk by Kate Brown author of “Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future” recorded April 16, 2019 at Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Event sponsored by Hanford Challenge

How Fukushima Nukes Kill Our Climate, Our Planet, Ourselves

How Fukushima Nukes Kill Our Climate, Our Planet, Ourselves

Anthropocene, Fukushima March 16, 2019 at 9:53 am 0 comments

Eight years ago this week apocalyptic radiation clouds began pouring out of Fukushima. They haven’t stopped. Nor have the huckster holocaust deniers peddling still more of these monsters of mass destruction. Some even deny the health impacts from Fukushima fallout that’s already more than 100 times greaterthan Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s.