- Democracy in the nuclear age – remembering Bill Mitchell
My dear friend Bill Mitchell died on 25th May: a grievous loss for his family and friends as well as for all those who care about the Earth and about democracy. The story of Bill’s profound impact on my life and on the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research is a story really worth recounting […]
- Government Data Projects Worker Cancer Deaths at New Plutonium Bomb Factory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For further information contact: Arjun Makhijani, 301-270-5500 Lisa Ledwidge: 612-879-7517 Press Release “Modern Pit Facility” Would Also Violate U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Commitments No Scientific Basis for Replacing Plutonium “Pits” in Existing Nuclear Arsenal Takoma Park, Maryland, June 26, 2003:A new plant designed to manufacture plutonium triggers for the U.S. nuclear arsenal is […]
- Nuclear Targeting: The First 60 Years
By Arjun Makhijani On May 5, 1943, the Military Policy Committee of the Manhattan Project met for the first time to discuss potential targets for the nascent atomic bomb. While Manhattan Project scientists had been pursuing the bomb with the single-minded desire to beat Hitler to the punch, the meeting produced the first official signals […]
- Racism, Resources and Nuclear Weapons: Some Reflections on the Rodney King Case
By Arjun Makhijani An essay written in 1992 after the conclusion of the first trial of the police officers accused in the Rodney King beating at the request of the Military Production Network (since re-named Alliance for Nuclear Accountability) The near-total acquittal of the police officers in the Rodney King case and the angry destruction […]
- More Stringent, Coordinated Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed to Determine Radioactive Iodine Risk
PRESS RELEASE More Stringent, Coordinated Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed to Determine Radioactive Iodine Risk to U.S. Milk and Water Food, Water and Air Monitoring Should Continue in Government Shutdown U.S. Agency Claims on Radiation Danger and Risk Are Contradictory, Misleading Takoma Park, Maryland: April 7, 2011 – Total releases of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137 from […]
- Comments on the U.S. Department of Energy Draft Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Stockpile Stewardship and Management for a Modern Pit Facility
Download the Press Release July 16, 2003 Brice Smith, Ph.D and Arjun Makhijani Ph.D. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland. The following are the comments on the Draft Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Stockpile Stewardship and Management for a Modern Pit Facility, henceforth referred to as the Draft SPEIS, on behalf […]
- Radiation and Health, the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant and Worker Health
Transcript of radio commentary that aired in July 2003 on KUNM public radio 89.9 fm in Albuquerque. Link to audio at end of page.
- Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps
We offer the following observations and interpretations on the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute, titled Progress Report to Congress: A Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population of Nuclear Weapons Test Conducted by the United States and Other Nations (referred to hereafter as […]