Nuclear Notebook: #Israeli #nuclear weapons, 2022

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | January 17, 2022

"Conducting research on Israeli nuclear weapons has historically been very challenging, not least because Israel purposely does not acknowledge its own possession of nuclear weapons. Moreover, Western governments normally do not include Israel in their descriptions of nuclear-armed states. Additionally, Israeli nuclear whistleblowers have faced significant penalties; in 1986, former nuclear technician #MordechaiVanunu was kidnapped by Israeli intelligence services and spent 18 years in prison after giving a detailed interview about Israel’s nuclear program to the Sunday Times (Myre 2004). This chilling effect means that individuals with knowledge of Israel’s nuclear program have been understandably reluctant to provide on-the-record information, which dilutes the ability of open-source researchers to analyze Israel’s nuclear forces. Thankfully, over the past two decades, historians like Avner Cohen and William Burr have contributed invaluable research that has made previously unknown nuances of Israel’s opaque nuclear policy available to the public.1

"Additionally, since 1997 a US law known as the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment has prohibited US companies from publishing satellite imagery at a resolution that is 'no more detailed or precise than satellite imagery of Israel that is available from commercial sources.' For decades, this has meant that the majority of commercially available satellite imagery of Israel has been limited to a resolution of approximately two meters, making it very difficult to analyze in detail. However, in June 2020, the US Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs Office announced that it would now allow commercial imagery providers to offer enhanced imagery of Israel at a resolution of 0.4 meters (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2020). The move was made in order to bring American imagery providers in line with their foreign counterparts, which had already been producing imagery at that level for several years. As a result, we have incorporated higher-resolution imagery into this article."

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2022-01/nuclear-notebook-israeli-nuclear-weapons-2022/
#IsraelNuclearWeapons #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists #NuclearWeapons #NuclearClock #IsraeliWarCrimes

Probably closer than 90 seconds now... YIKES!

A moment of historic danger:
It is still 90 seconds to midnight

2024 Doomsday Clock Announcement
January 23, 2024

"Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. #China, #Russia, and the #UnitedStates are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their #nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.

"In 2023, Earth experienced its hottest year on record, and massive floods, wildfires, and other climate-related disasters affected millions of people around the world. Meanwhile, rapid and worrisome developments in the life sciences and other disruptive technologies accelerated, while governments made only feeble efforts to control them.

"The members of the Science and Security Board have been deeply worried about the deteriorating state of the world. That is why we set the Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight in 2019 and at 100 seconds to midnight in 2022. Last year, we expressed our heightened concern by moving the Clock to 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been—in large part because of Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine.

"Today, we once again set the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight because humanity continues to face an unprecedented level of danger. Our decision should not be taken as a sign that the international security situation has eased. Instead, leaders and citizens around the world should take this statement as a stark warning and respond urgently, as if today were the most dangerous moment in modern history. Because it may well be.

"But the world can be made safer. The Clock can move away from midnight. As we wrote last year, 'In this time of unprecedented global danger, concerted action is required, and every second counts.' That is just as true today."

Read more:
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/

From 2022, via #BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists. Unfortunantely, it seems their "good news" section is wrong about how fast and how much the global temperature would rise in just 2 years!

‘Silent killer’: A series on surviving the extremely hot future

What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?

"This is not something that human beings or other animals can rapidly evolve out of."

By Matthew Huber | July 20, 2022

"[In June 2022], during a slow-moving #HeatWave that smothered much of the United States, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported at least 2,000 cattle had died from heat stress. In 2021, as the Pacific Northwest sweltered under a heat dome, more than 650,000 farm animals perished in British Columbia alone. And in 2015, a deadly heat wave in India killed more than 17 million chickens.

"Hot, humid conditions can lead to massive heat casualties in animals—in #livestock as well as #WildAnimals. These events will become more extensive, longer lasting and more damaging as the world warms, potentially threatening economies and #ecosystems. While many studies have demonstrated the impact of individual events or gradual trends in #HeatStress on livestock, there is a Panglossian tendency among many working in livestock agriculture to believe in a nearly infinite capacity for modern agricultural practices and breeding to overcome heat-stress induced challenges.

"Much of the warming that has occurred in places like the United States or Europe can be dealt with through breeding in key traits from variants from warm countries like India or North Africa. But as high heat conditions travel beyond the upper ranges of temperatures recently experienced (over the past few thousand years) in North Africa, India, or South America, there will limited genetic diversity to draw upon to prepare for these conditions. There are temperature ceilings that humans and mammals (and many other animals) cannot survive, if breached. What those limits are, and what happens when they are crossed, will have profound implications for agriculture and #biodiversity in a warming world."

https://thebulletin.org/2022/07/extreme-heat-animals-livestock-wildlife/

"I look at the clock on the wall
It says three minutes to midnight
Faith is blind when we're so near..."
- #MidnightOil #MinutesToMidnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eXt8OtIPbU

The map on this website shows where Japan #NuclearPlants are. Closest to the #JapanEarthquake2024 area is #ShikaNuclearPlant, followed by #KashiwazakiKariwa .

#Onagawa: The Japanese #NuclearPowerPlant that didn’t melt down on 3/11

By Airi Ryu, Najmedin Meshkati | March 10, 2014
#BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists

“The earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, were natural disasters of a magnitude that shocked the entire world. Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster. It was a profoundly manmade disaster—that could and should have been foreseen and prevented.”

https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/onagawa-the-japanese-nuclear-power-plant-that-didnt-melt-down-on-3-11/
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