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The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.
The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.
You are one of the unfortunate ones whose body decays rapidly in the face of radiation poisoning. You hang your head over the toilet to vomit again and again, and die praying to the porcelain gods.
That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit.
The USA has a long history of radiation damaging workers health.
Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.
They were somewhere near Chelyabinsk 56, someone said. You don't want to go there, a Russian added. One of Stalin's biggest messes.
Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.
Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship
Nagasaki was an embarrassment to the art of war
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.
The construction of the nuclear doomsday machine - and its continued maintenance and development since the mid-twentieth century - is surely one of the most astounding acts of collective insanity in the history of the human species.
Walter Junior, were in the toolshed outside their home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, when a Mark 6 atomic bomb landed in the yard. Mrs.
The new European Soviet.
Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear bomb didn't work well because it was made in Korea.
As a sea level adapted human, I am more fearful about the radiation levels on top of high altitude mountains, mile high modern cities and inside jet aircraft than from nuclear reactors and bombs, as that is where I get the most radiation exposures in the modern world.
Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
It was stupid behaviour. And you take a look at the explosion, and it knocks you down and you wake up every morning and you're scared and you're depressed and sad, and you kind of got to let that knock you down and knock you down.
Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
another billion deaths in the months that followed from mass starvation - from a mere 1.5-megaton regional nuclear war.
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.
Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.
I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.
UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy had dumped in a 540-square-mile area around the Farallones between 1946 and 1970.
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.
Divorce: fission after fusion.
The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.
I made a nuclear reactor when I was 14
If you want to radiation poison a nation, just start shipping them cheap ionizing smoke detectors for the home with a little too much radiation in them.
On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.
The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
This is crazy. We're standing here, talking about nuclear bombs being dropped on Carcery Vale.
It's insane.
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.
The radiation experiments are part of the climate and historical background for mind control experimentation.
We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.
There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
I was very much a child of the Cold War.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people.
There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.
Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.
Eustatius in the Caribbean. At present, there was powder
The war-sick camp,
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
Iran's nuclear program ... there was going to be a time limit ...
Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.
During the years that both Stalin and Hitler were in power, more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the bloodlands, or in Europe, or in the world.
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.
During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into
the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.
Where were they when the Russians went down?
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.
Nuclear is clear so near to fear and tear.
the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.
C-bombs destroyed most of Asia and North America back in the Twentieth Century.
France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.
My recent activities have been concentrated on criticism on and actions against Japan's and worldwide plutonium programs, since it is, as I believe, one of the greatest threats to the world ...
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
What a place to put a city, right on the front line of absolute zero. No wonder a cow burned it down.
I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
As I remember, the worst result of a World War II block was a flood of Argentine Gin. Sensitive martini-boys and Gibson-girls still shudder ...
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.
The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.
Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.
It was officially known as Kwan-li-so Number 18. That meant Penal Labor Colony in Korean. It was a concentration camp. It was a gulag. It actually was hell, near the Taedong River in North Korea's P'yongan-namdo province.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Then along came that tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi plant and, well, no one is building nuclear power plants in Japan now, are they?
The USA is a hazardous place to be a radiation researcher.
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
Raining radiation on this ozone-deprived planet. The only thing she ever longed for was short-lived love.
Soldiers handling reactor graphite by hand shows how uninformed people were in the early days of the clean-up operation.