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To the editor: "Better to jaw jaw than war war,” Winston Churchill. Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un is a potentially positive step in moving away from military conflict with North Korea. At the same time, we must be realistic about outcomes.
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Radioactive contamination is spreading inside a deteriorating processing plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state that was last used in the 1950s and 1960s to process plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
To the editor: President Reagan wrote: “A nuclear war cannot be won, and must never be fought.” I am appalled, and frankly terrified, at the casual, ignorant way Mr. Trump talks about nuclear weapons.
To the editor: Readers should not believe what they see in TV commercials and newspaper cartoons about the Iran nuclear deal: there is no self-inspection. I looked up the deal online and it says that the International Atomic Energy Agency does the inspections: “Iran will allow the IAEA to monitor the implementation.”
To the editor: Readers should not believe what they see in TV commercials and newspaper cartoons about the Iran nuclear deal: there is no self-inspection. I looked up the deal online and it says that the International Atomic Energy Agency does the inspections: “Iran will allow the IAEA to monitor the implementation.”
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson said they will not extend Friday’s deadline for resolving a dispute with the U.S Department of Energy over cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site.
Mayor seeks government support of new non-nuke deal TOKYO — Nagasaki’s mayor criticized Japan’s government on Friday for failing to back an international nuclear disarmament effort as the country marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of his city. Mayor Tomihisa Taue said Japan’s inaction “betrayed expectations of the global community.”
