War With the Ghosts
What are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them?
Archive for the 'nuclear' Category
Nuked by Friend and Foe
An unsentimental appraisal of our energy choices doesn’t boost your popularity.
The Magic Pudding
Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence?
Picking Up the Gauntlet
Arthur Scargill has challenged me to a duel. Name your date, sir.
Nuking the Treaty
Iran is the least of the world’s offenders against non-proliferation.
Ban the Bomb - But Only in Iran
When will Bush and Brown acknowledge that there is already a nuclear power in the Middle East?
A Catalogue of Idiocy
The emerging disaster at Dounreay is a powerful argument for open government. Read more »
Thanks, But We Still Don’t Need It
Some of the arguments against nuclear power are no longer valid, but it remains the wrong technology.
A Self-Vindicating Policy
Building new nuclear weapons creates the threats they are supposed to avert.
How Much Energy Do We Have?
Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one.
Our Own Nuclear Salesman
The government’s chief scientist appears to have succumbed to politics
The Treaty Wreckers
In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed the global restraint on nuclear weapons
Proliferation Treaty
Of course Iran wants the bomb, and the international system has given it everything it needs to build one.
Two Kinds of Mass Death
The argument for nuclear power has strengthened, but it’s still not good enough.
The British Threat
By hardening its position on nuclear weapons, Labour is encouraging proliferation
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Dirty Bombs Waiting for a Detonator
The British ships about to pick up a consignment of plutonium present one of the gravest of all threats to global security.
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Nuclear Power is Melting Down
Fifty years of fraud may be coming to an end
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The UK’s Nuclear Terrorists
The British Government is increasing the dangers of nuclear proliferation
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Don’t Trust Them!
Britain’s nuclear industry keeps lying
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Secret Dumping
Britain’s hidden nuclear crisis is beginning to resemble Russia’s
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