When it comes to nuclear energy, a return to the Dark Ages can be a good thing.
In a Perfect World, Fukushima Would Halt Nuclear Renaissance in Its Tracks
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Nuclear Energy Time-Out
Sometimes chaos comes along as a wake-up call to humanity. The double-whammy of the earthquake-tsunami in Japan this week is overwhelmingly sad. To be at the total whim of the elements — to be wiped out by a wave of water from the sea – is an insult to the arrogance of modern humanity that thinks it can insulate and protect itself with technological know-how from the calamities visited on our earth by Mother Nature.
Worse Than a Meltdown? Could Be, Reports “Hysterical” New York Times
While many advise against over-reacting, chances are the Japanese nuclear crisis could be worse than a meltdown.
When Even Lieberman Is Concerned, the Nuclear Renaissance Is in Trouble
Is the nuclear energy too entrenched, especially with Peak Oil looming, to be slowed in its tracks by the reactor crises in Japan?
Will Fukushima Reactor Crisis Finally Sour Japanese on All Things Nuclear?
The Fuskushima crisis may provide an opening for those opposed to nuclear energy.
Japan Faces Possible Three-Mile Island
The crisis was compounded when back-up generators required for emergency cooling failed.
Hatoyama’s Confession
Nine months after stepping down as Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama conceded that he had just given “deterrence” as the factor necessitating retention of the US Marine Corps on Okinawa because he needed a pretext.
One of Hiroshima’s Objectives: To Prove the Manhattan Project Wasn’t a Money Pit
Ostensibly the atomic bomb was intended to shorten World War II, but U.S. war planners were actually afraid the war would end before they had a chance to deploy it.
Beneath Shortening the War and Shocking the Soviet Union Lay Another Reason for Hiroshima
Unpeeling the layers of the onion of reasons why the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
One Creature That Deserves Extinction: the V-22 Osprey
Okinawans are at the vanguard of attempts to block the deployment of a controversial U.S. aircraft.