What We Tell Children When the World Seems Unsafe

We have to teach the safety drills for our time, summon our often precarious reserves of courage and find our lullabies where we can.

As published in the New York Times.

Regarding the photo that accompanies the article -- depicting a ''duck and cover" drill -- note that up until the culmination of the Manhattan Project, with the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, air raid drills in places like New York City were civil defense exercises against conventional bombings.

For a short time after VJ Day and the welcome end of World War II, Americans celebrated in relief. But quickly, the realization sank in that, if America could atom bomb Japan, then future adversaries could atom bomb the U.S. This is documented in Paul Boyer's book By the Bomb's Early Light.

It is high time to abolish nuclear weapons, as well as nuclear power. Humankind would sleep so much better at night, once this victory is won.

Thousands of Hanford workers told to stay home for a 4th week because of coronavirus

As posted at the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects' "What's News" website section:

Updated - Thursday, April 09, 2020

• Tri-City Herald - Thousands of Hanford workers told to stay home for a 4th week because of coronavirus - By Tri-City Herald Staff

Daily Testing, Protective Gear Needed for Essential Workers During Pandemic, HASC Chair Says

As reported by the ExchangeMonitor.

This article begs some questions.

Why should White House staff, and nuclear weapons complex staff, be able to get tested for Covid-19 on a DAILY BASIS, when most Americans (including doctors and nurses and other front line workers battling the pandemic) still, this late in the game, are having difficulty accessing testing themselves?!

And why CAN'T we just let the nuclear enterprise stop?!

Nuclear abolition would make the world a safer, healthier, and better place.

Fourth coronavirus case confirmed at Savannah River Site

As reported by the Aiken Standard.

SRS is a major U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex facility in South Carolina.

Navy to remove 2,700 sailors from aircraft carrier struggling with coronavirus in Guam

As reported by the Washington Post.

Update on April 2, 2020 by admin

Navy removes aircraft carrier captain who raised alarm about coronavirus response

as reported by the Washington Post.

Update on April 8, 2020 by admin

Acting Navy secretary resigns after insulting aircraft carrier’s ousted captain

The decision comes after a political crisis erupted concerning a coronavirus outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

• By Dan Lamothe, Paul Sonne and Seung Min Kim
  

[As also reported by the Washington Post.]