The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. By Nat Parry The United States continues to demonstrate double, triple and quadruple standards in its policies toward nuclear proliferation and disarmament. On the one hand, it flouts its own ...read more

Contract employees working on the demolition of a plutonium vault complex at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.in Washington State in 2011. (Photo credit: Energy Department) By John LaForge Federal and state officials said in February six giant underground tanks holding an ...read more

The Y-12 nuclear weapons manufacturing plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (U.S. government photo) By John LaForge Three disarmament radicals who snuck into the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex last summer are preparing for their February 2013 trial, and face the prospect that any ...read more

George Monbiot is not impressed with a new envrionmental venture funded by Britain's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council that aims to injecting water droplets into the atmosphere from a huge balloon attached to a hosepipe. If all goes well, the eventual aim is to ...read more