(JAI: 15 years ago, a Tsunami followed the 2011 (9 on the Richter scale) earthquake that triggered it. Here is but 5 minutes of filmed horror <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05fRwBn_0jo&t=56s> lifted from the link in the text of the article below. An article that was sent on by a good comrade.
(Nuclear fission produced disasters may not rival fossil fueled ones in breadth of areas affected but these surpass the horrors of its kindreds in scope of damage inflicted almost instantaneously to be visited upon those caught in its wake. (Fusion produced power is humankind's only hope of solution but it seems almost always to be 10 years away from being '10 years away'. If but a fraction of our abilities squandered upon weapons production--and the damages inflicted by their usage--we could have long ago caught up to and passed the high noon of that time period but the development of such would pull the rug out from under the profit margins of those draculas' demons of death. (From the good comrade's preface to the posting): <<With nine nuclear-armed nations and *roughly 12,000 nuclear warheads* <https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals> on this planet, worries about nuclear war are unavoidable. However, the danger of a nuclear disaster at a seemingly “peaceful” nuclear facility is often ignored. The future of atomic energy remains uncertain, but it is our duty to eliminate this hazardous energy source before another Fukushima triggers a war-like catastrophe all its own.>> https://tomdispatch.com/searching-for-solace-in-a-nuclearized-world/ Joshua Frank, The Nuclear Disaster You Weren't Thinking About Posted on March 19, 2026 Consider it something of a human miracle that, 80 years after the United States atomically obliterated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, with eight other countries now possessing such weaponry (and my country and Israel at war <https://www.armscontrol.org/issue-briefs/2026-03/did-irans-nuclear-and-missile-programs-pose-imminent-threat-no> with a nation they fear might become the ninth), nuclear weapons have never again been used in wartime (though they have repeatedly been tested out <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/trump-nuclear-arms-underground-tests.html> in peacetime). As it happens, however, another kind of nuclear weaponry (though never thought of that way) has indeed spread globally and could go off at any moment, day or night. I’m thinking, of course, about nuclear power plants, of which there are about 440 operating in 31 countries <https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide>. As we (should have) found out 15 years ago, when a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, went haywire, as is so vividly described today by *TomDispatch* regular <https://tomdispatch.com/gazas-looming-cancer-epidemic/> Joshua Frank, author of the forthcoming book *Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future* <https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Energy-Hucksters-Extractors-Industrialists/dp/B0FJQDX7ZW?ref_=ast_author_dp>, the nuclear dangers on this planet are now only multiplying. And that’s even more the case because, on an ever more rapidly overheating <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds> planet faced with accelerating climate change, nuclear power has become a distinct alternative to coal, oil, and natural gas, which release such devastating levels of fossil fuel emissions into the atmosphere in what might be considered a slow-motion alternative to nuclear war. Consider it strange as well, as you read Frank’s piece, that, from 1945 to today, nuclear disasters have largely been localized (if such a word can even be used, given the subject) to Japan. And with that in mind, consider our increasingly nuclearized world and its dangers. Full at https://tomdispatch.com/searching-for-solace-in-a-nuclearized-world -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41193): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41193 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118426568/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
