This post explains.I haven’t yet checked out the new material.

According to the caption, this is the backing video from the Too Dark Park tour:

And live from Montreal and Toronto 2004:

The NMA song “Here Comes the War” doesn’t explicitly name nuclear weapons. However, the single “included a diagram explaining how to build a simple atomic bomb!”

The entire 1975 ACDA report is worth reading, but I was struck by the amount of space devoted to peaceful nuclear explosions. See below.

There’s quite a bit in this report about ACDA’s structure. There’s not room for it here, but I give you this chart:

The 1975 edition of ACDA’s annual report to Congress contains a short section on IAEA safeguards which reminds me that there are few new issues or ideas:

And if one day the final fire explodes across the whitened sky
I know you’ve said you’d rather die and make it over fast
With courage from your bravest friends, waiting outside for the end
With no bitterness but an innocence that I can’t seem to grasp
I know somehow I will survive – this fury just to stay alive
So drunk with sickness, weak with pain, I can walk the hills one last time
Scarred and smiling, dying slow, I’ll scream to no one left at all
I told you so, I told you so, I told you so . .
Oh God I love the world

A really underrated band called Anacrusis covered this song:

Last month, IPFM blogged about this March report from India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change. IPFM rightly focused on the portion of the report concerning delays in India’s PFBR program.

I would recommend their post, but I was struck by this observation about Indian nuclear power post the U.S.-India 123:

3.3 The Committee is also aware of the fact that apart from helping India acquire badly needed natural uranium from other countries, the Indo-US Nuclear Agreement of 2005 has not yet resulted in new commercial projects with foreign assistance. Negotiations with the French and American companies have been going on for over a decade. The Committee feels that at this point of time it would be better for the DAE to adopt a standardised 700 MW heavy-water reactor and use that standardised design for its expansion programme in an aggressive manner.

The plan for the day
will be swift as the lightning they harness
The atom display is not mindless illusion
At master control, assessment will not
Be by humans-There’s no turning back

I have seen some accounts from (George W.) Bush administration officials of Israel’s 2007 strike on the nuclear reactor under construction in Syria. But Ehud Baraks’ account in his 2018 book My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace is the most detailed (only?) account from an Israeli official that I have seen. The tale is basically told on pages 621-23 of the ebook edition that I own. But this is a great summary paragraph:

“We struck just after midnight, in an intricately coordinated air raid that evaded not only a Syrian response, but Syrian notice. The reactor was destroyed. Although even today some details remain subject to Israel’s military secrecy regulations, accounts published abroad in the weeks and months that followed painted an accurate picture. In the aftermath of the strike, Israel deliberately made no public comment. We refused to say whether we’d had anything to do with an attack. As we’d hoped, this gave Syrian president Bashar al-Assad both the space and good reason to deny it had happened—in fact, to deny he’d been trying to make a nuclear weapon—and removed any compelling reason for him to retaliate.”