Nuclear Weapons

By David Swanson

On Friday outside the gates of Stratcom, the strategic command center outside of Omaha, Nebraska, that controls U.S. nuclear weapons and military space technology and from which the next war of aggression will be run, a group of activists gathered from all over the world. A number of people gave speeches in the freezing bone-chilling wind and snow. This was mine:

Help stop new nuclear reactors! Support the North Anna legal appeal!

Do you want four nuclear reactors 30 miles from Charlottesville? Dominion Power is moving forward with their plans to construct two new reactors at the North Anna Power Station. This will put a tremendous strain on central Virginia’s water resources and threaten the safety and health of our citizens.

From the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=2158&issue_id=51

What is Complex Transformation?

By David Swanson

Jonathan Schell's latest book "The Seventh Decade" places our current situation in the context of the past 62 years of the nuclear age, or the past 68 years as Schell might prefer to date it. It was 68 years ago that scientists concluded a nuclear bomb was possible. Scientists and politicians immediately began trying to develop nukes out of fear that someone else would do so first. And as soon as nukes had been developed in one country, spies began passing the information to other countries out of fear that they would fail to develop their own nukes, thus leaving one nuclear nation unchecked.