2 Robots Crippled By Record Levels Of Radiation Leaking At Fukushima Daiichi

Two robots sent to survey the true extent of a recently discovered breach at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant have been crippled by record levels of radiation emanating from the breach.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
A member of the media tour group wearing a protective suit and a mask looks at the No. 3 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. (Toru Hanai/AP)

TOKYO --- While media attention has largely drifted away from the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in the years since the disaster, a recent and disturbing development has once again made Fukushima difficult if not impossible to ignore. On Feb. 2, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, quietly released a statement

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For 40 Years, Iran’s Been Preparing For The War The US Has Been Threatening

War with Iran has long been a possibility for the US, but only as a last resort. Previous administrations have recognized that this is not a war the US can win, but will Trump do the same?

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Iran's Revolutionary Guard

IRVINE, California --- (Insights) The Trump administration’s aggressive rhetoric and actions have alarmed the world. The protests in response to his visa ban that have targeted mostly Muslims from seven nations the United States has targeted in its wars of aggression have overshadowed and distracted from an even darker threat: a looming U.S. war

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Kerry’s Hiroshima Wreath-Laying Decried As ‘Nuclear Hypocrisy’

Historic visit and call for ‘nuclear-free world’ come amid an unprecedented weapons build-up in the United States.

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
From left, Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Britain's Foreign Minister Philip Hammond carry wreath to offer at the cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Monday, April 11, 2016. (Kyodo News via AP)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made headlines on Monday for being the highest ranking U.S. official to visit the Hiroshima Peace Park in Japan, after which he and other world leaders issued a call for a "world without nuclear weapons." But the historic visit comes amid a massive nuclear weapons build-up within the United States, and

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Tens Of Thousands Join UK Anti-Nuke Demo Billed As Biggest In Generation

‘We are not alone,’ Jeremy Corbyn tells crowd. ‘There are many people around the world…who have wanted a non-nuclear future for their country and their planet.’

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton
Early estimates had Saturday's crowd in the "many tens of thousands." (Photo: @GreenpeaceUK/Twitter)

In what was called "Britain’s biggest anti-nuclear weapons rally in a generation," tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday to protest the UK's nuclear weapons system—Trident—and to call for global disarmament. According to the Guardian, "Campaigners gathered from across the world: some said they had traveled from Australia to

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Daniel Ellsberg: Nixon Almost Took Vietnam War Nuclear In November 1969

‘There was pressure to make the war larger’ and ‘nuclear targets were picked’ by the Nixon administration, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower revealed.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Daniel Ellsberg is given an armband by a protester in Lafayette Park, Washington in front of the White House, while attending an anti-nuclear protest, June 28, 1978. (AP Photo/Jeff Taylor)

MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and Dan’s sixty-year scholarly analysis as a former nuclear planner for Rand

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Kerry: Iran Only Days Away From Implementation Of Nuclear Pact

Iran was initially not expected to implement everything until spring, and early on US officials were expressing annoyance that Iran was complying “too fast.”

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
John Kerry, Javad Zarif Iran US feature photo

It’s been coming for awhile, but according to Secretary of State John Kerry, Iran is just “days” away from a final implementation of all of its obligations under the P5+1 nuclear deal, setting the stage for sanctions relief under the pact’s terms. Once Iran is done, it will just be a question of how quickly the IAEA can verify the

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