Guthrum, chez Old Holborn:
I have never understood the kow towing to the USA by successive British Governments since World War II that has led to us running after them in an illegal war and condoning torture.
My theory about this (which I have mentioned before) is to do with the Bomb.
“The Bomb, Dimitri. The Hydrogen Bomb.”
[Kubrick: [...]
Archive for the ‘nuclear’ Category
Kowtowing
Posted in nuclear, tagged special relationship on 5 August, 2009 | 16 Comments »
How I learned to stop worrying, and love the Bomb
Posted in nuclear, tagged blackmail on 6 April, 2009 | 16 Comments »
The Appalling Strangeness on nuclear weapons:
…even if all countries and all rogue agents do agree to get rid of nuclear weapons, you can’t unlearn the knowledge of how to create them. And you cannot stop other nations or other players, such as international terrorists, gaining or using that knowledge again in the future. The knowledge [...]
“Where’s my plutonium?”
Posted in nuclear, tagged uranium reserves on 4 April, 2009 | 3 Comments »
[Troy Kennedy Martin: Edge of Darkness]
Despite what I said about New Scientist, An Englishman, exercising his freedom of transaction, bought one and read it, and now he’s cross. Told you so.
Apparently it says in NS that there will not be enough uranium to keep nuclear power going until 2100, whereas Wikipedia gives an wholly different [...]
The tale is told of Junior Tom…
Posted in nuclear, tagged DIY on 3 September, 2008 | 23 Comments »
…who built his own atomic bomb (via Boing Boing).
The Guardian wishes us to believe that it would be frighteningly, terrifyingly easy for The Terrorists to build an implosion-type atomic device, on the basis that two ‘non-experts’ (both physics PhDs, and one a Professor) were able to design one.
It is indeed very easy for anyone with [...]
Iran next
Posted in nuclear, tagged iran on 27 July, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Trooper Thompson, at England’s Freedome, Souldiers’ Rights, refers to this article, from The American Conservative, which suggests that Israel is so desperate to have Iran attacked by the USA that it might be prepared to stage a ‘false flag’ operation of its own in order to achieve this (the rest of the site is, like [...]
