On February 10, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published a statement from Ukraine’s nuclear regulator spelling out that, unless Ukraine has resumed control of the station and safety examinations had been carried out, none of the six power reactors…
Last September, six months after Russian forces overran and occupied Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), and less than a month after violence threatening the site had escalated, guarded optimism suddenly broke out concerning the station’s nuclear safety prospects. Relief was at…
President Vladimir Putin, on the basis of a military invasion and improvised “referenda” widely deplored by many states and the United Nations, declared on September 30 that the Russian Federation will annex four occupied territories in Ukraine. Beginning soon Russia…
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international governmental organization of which both Russia and Ukraine are members, and so it is profoundly challenged by nuclear safety and nuclear security threats unfolding at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).…
Quotes of the week: “History gives us no reason to expect that a nation’s first atomic bomb, if simply designed, will fail.” — Fred Chrles Iklé, Bernard Brodie, Alexander George, et.al., “The Diffusion of Nuclear Weapons to Additional Countries: The…
Quote of the week: “The one thing nuclear weapons do seem to be good for is deterring major attacks on those who have them. In this respect, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, like NATO’s 2011 campaign in Libya, will only…
Quote of the week: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is … fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s…
Quotes of the week: “The world is full of abandoned meanings.” – Don DeLillo, White Noise “I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in…
Lyric of the week: “You can throw me in the Colbert County jailhouse You can throw me off the Wilson Dam But there ain’t much difference in the man I wanna be And the man that I really am. Listen…
Quote of the week: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” ― Confucius Let’s start with the good news. We’re not out of the woods yet, but the war in Ukraine, like those preceding it, is…
