Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal
The plunging cost of storage, along with that of wind and solar power, appears to have crossed a new threshold after a tender conducted by a major US energy utility…
Doomsday Clock Statement – Timeline
IT IS 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT 2018: The failure of world leaders to address the largest threats to humanity’s future is lamentable—but that failure can be reversed. It is two…
The President and the Bomb
LRB Vol. 39; 16 November 2017 The President and the Bomb Adam Shatz is a contributing editor at the LRB, based in New York. In 1973, Harold Hering, a decorated Vietnam War…
Global Nuclear Power in 2017 : Bankruptcies, Shutdowns, Abandoned Constructions Show A Deepening Crisis
Myhcle Schneider | WNISR The Year 2017 for Global Nuclear Power in a nutshell: 4 reactor startups (12 less than scheduled), 3 shutdowns, 4 construction starts, 2 abandoned constructions, bankruptcy of Westinghouse, bailout and…
The deterrence myth
In his classic The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (1989), Lawrence Freedman, the dean of British military historians and strategists, concluded: ‘The Emperor Deterrence may have no clothes, but he is still Emperor.’…