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Mark

#Russia's budget deficit hits $61 billion, surpassing annual target by 30%

Kremlin originally planned for 3.8 trillion ruble ($47.6bil) deficit in 2025. July figure already exceeds the full-year target by more than 30%

Deficit comes as #Kremlin raised defense spending to highest level since #ColdWar. Many Russian officials warn about possibility of #recession

kyivindependent.com/russias-bu

The Kyiv Independent · Russia's budget deficit hits $61 billion, already surpassing annual target by 30%Av Tim Zadorozhnyy
#RussianAggression#economy#RussianImperialism
DoomsdaysCW

What Can We Learn From the Birth of the #NuclearEra?

By Eric Ross, #CommonDreams
August 3, 2025

"In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals #India and #Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to 2 billion lives worldwide.

"The instability of a global order structured on nuclear apartheid has also come into sharp relief in the context of the recent attacks on #Iran by #Israel and the #UnitedStates. That system has entrenched a dangerous double standard, creating perverse incentives for the #proliferation of world-destroying weaponry, already possessed by nine countries. Many of those nations use their arsenals to exercise imperial impunity, while non-nuclear states increasingly feel compelled to pursue nuclear weapons in the name of national security and survival.

"Meanwhile, the largest nuclear powers show not the slightest signs of responsibility or restraint. The United States, #Russia, and #China are investing heavily in the 'modernization' and expansion of their arsenals, fueling a renewed arms race. And that escalation comes amid growing global instability contributing to a Manichean world of antagonistic armed blocs, reminiscent of the #ColdWar at its worst.

"The nuclear threat endangers not only global peace and security but the very continuity of the human species, not to speak of the simple survival of life on Earth. How, you might wonder, could we ever have arrived at such a precarious situation?

"The current crisis coincides with the 80th anniversary of the #TrinityTest, the first detonation of an atomic weapon that would soon obliterate the Japanese cities of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki and so inaugurate the #AtomicAge. So many years later, it’s worth critically reassessing the decisions that conferred on humanity such a power of self-annihilation. After all, we continue to live with the fallout of the choices made (and not made), including those of the scientists who created the bomb. That history also serves as a reminder that alternative paths were available then and that another world remains possible today."

Read more:
beyondnuclearinternational.org

Beyond Nuclear International · Hiroshima’s history lessonAll of us now carry the burden of Oppenheimer’s legacy
#NoNukes#NoWar#NoNuclearWeapons
Bo Jacobs

I’ve been collaborating on a project for a #documentary film about #nuclear testing and the global hibakusha. The full film will be out in the fall, but there is a shorter, German version being screened this week on @ZDF in Germany, and streaming on their site. You can watch it here and click on the subtitles in your own language. The later film will be in English.

@histodons @sts #Hiroshima #ColdWar

vimeo.com/1101618091/973040296

VimeoIm Schatten der Bombe - Silent War (click CC for subtitles)please click on CC for subtitles (these are automatic subtitles, usually they're not very good) IN THE SHADOW OF THE BOMB - 80 YEARS OF HIROSHIMA A film by…
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DoomsdaysCW

How 'peaceful' nuclear energy gave us weapons (and still does)
It's Complicated

#ItsComplicated - Civil #NuclearPower is thought to be about providing a low carbon energy alternative to fossil fuels, not #NuclearWar. But the closer you look these two industries are intrinsically linked for nuclear-armed countries.

Jul 24, 2025

"Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates how the connection between civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons spans decades and continents as well as exposes siphoning of public money and the origins of the Iran nuclear program.

"Nuclear weapons and nuclear power share a common history, similar technologies, skills and research and development. For example, the process of enriching #uranium to make it into fuel for nuclear power stations is also used to make #NuclearWeapons. The UK’s first nuclear power stations were built primarily to provide fissile material for nuclear weapons during the #ColdWar.

"The development of both the nuclear weapons and nuclear power industries is mutually beneficial. The UK government uses the #HinkleyPoint C nuclear power station to subsidise #Trident, Britain’s nuclear weapons system, and other nuclear-armed states are also striving to maintain expensive military infrastructures through the civilian industry.

"After all, the civil nuclear power industry grew out of the #AtomicBomb programme in the 1940s and the 1950s. It was under the misleading slogan of ‘#AtomsForPeace’, that the US exported highly enriched uranium to countries around the world. Many of those countries went on to produce military nuclear weapons."

youtube.com/watch?v=ymVyBEjZ9z

YouTubeHow 'peaceful' nuclear energy gave us weapons (and still does)Av It's Complicated
#UraniumMining#UraniumEnrichment#NoNukes
Dr. John Barentine FRAS

I am pleased to report that my paper on the history of the early 1960's U.S. Project West Ford is published today in the Journal for the #History of Astronomy.

In short, at the height of the #ColdWar, the U.S. military proposed the test of a passive microwave relay system in near-Earth orbital space that posed a very real threat to ground- and space-based #astronomy. Astronomers were pretty upset at the prospect, and they banded together to use the bully pulpit of public opinion to change the direction of the test. Project West Ford relates to the modern international #SpacePolicy framework through its influence on what became the Outer Space Treaty a few years later.

The forceful response of the astronomy community more than 60 years ago offers distinct lessons for how that same community might confront the ongoing threat of large satellite constellations and rapidly proliferating #SpaceDebris.

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HZ

#Space#SpaceEnvironment
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