This Day in Alaska History-January 15th, 1959
NATO Announces Nuclear Drills as Nobel Goes to Atomic Weapon Abolitionists
Disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn stressed that the exercise is practice for “wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians” with weapons that would also “flatten cities and poison survivors.” The NATO military block announced Friday that its annual nuclear exercise is set to begin this week—news that arrived just as Japanese atomic bomb survivors who advocate […]
Microsoft Deal Would Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI
“This is another chapter in a nightmare that won’t end,” a campaigner said. The corporation that owns the shuttered nuclear plant on Three Mile Island on Friday announced a deal with Microsoft to reopen the facility to provide power to the tech company for data centers using artificial intelligence. Three Mile Island is well-known as the site […]
UAF receives funding to enhance nuclear proliferation detection
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been named to a group of 12 universities tasked by the federal government with improving and expanding the nation’s detection of nuclear weapons proliferation. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded two groups of universities a combined $50 million over five years for research related […]