“So far, the workers have tested positive for extremely low levels of radiation, not enough to cause adverse health effects, according to officials at the federal Energy Department, which oversees the plant.”

There it is. I wrote below about “a sentence virtually guaranteed to appear in any mainstream American news coverage about accidents involving radiation,” […]

How appropriate, given the ongoing story of USS Reagan’s exposure to radiation from the Fukushima meltdowns, that today is the 60th anniversary of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru’s famous exposure to fallout from Castle Bravo, an American test explosion of a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.

“If there are no records, one’s cause of […]

Very fine to learn that Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein is recycling a little bit of the mountain of tax dollars he accumulated from years of playing Wall Street roulette in the defense industry. Harking back to the private equity firm’s early days under former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, Carlyle wheeled and dealed with […]

While the ruined Fukushima reactors continue to hemorrhage radionuclides and scientists along the California coast prepare to look for them in local kelp, the usual powers in Japan try to suppress public debate about nuclear power. What else can they do, talk logically about it? Prime Minister Abe, who wants to turn the country’s idle […]

The death last week of former Lockheed chief executive Lawrence Kitchen recalls one of the most corrupt eras in the tenebrous history of the American defense industry. Fattened by the gluttonous Pentagon budgets of the Reagan years and coddled by a Justice Department loath to disturb a business so adored by California Republicans, Lockheed under […]