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There does not seem to be much value in having nuclear weapons.
They may exist for a MAD (Mutu­al­ly Assured Destruc­tion) pur­pose. And yet, many peo­ple tell me that Israel’s ene­mies don’t care about MAD, because they (as well as dis­pen­sa­tion­al­ist Chris­tians) believe that they will be in “a bet­ter place” after the destruc­tion. For those of us who believe that it is this world that counts, our task is to avoid such a destruc­tion. And then there’s the argu­ment from deter­rence. If Israel’s ene­mies are “MAD” enough to risk such destruc­tion, then, there is no deter­rent val­ue in any nuclear weapon.
uninhabitable for a significant amount of time
How long a time is “significant”?
Our fam­i­ly has in per­son­al (though dis­tant) inter­est in Cher­nobyl (or as translit­er­at­ed from the Ukrain­ian: Chornobyl).
Hil­lel (Har­ry) Hurvitz
My pater­nal grand­fa­ther (and his father before him) was born in Cherni­hiv (or as we learned to pro­nounce it: Chernigov). Both Cher­nobyl and Chernigov are in what seem to be two love­ly, agri­cul­tur­al­ly fer­tile riv­er val­leys. The two cities are less than 50 miles away from each oth­er (as the crow flies, over two sets of hills/mountains with a third riv­er val­ley in between).
from east (right) to west (left) Chernig­nov, Cher­nobyl and the ‘Zone of Alien­ation’
An arti­cle that appeared at tree­hug­ger (That’s an unashamed name!) on August 4, 2010 shared an inter­est­ing report. Near­ly 25 years have passed since the “acci­dent” of 1986. Since then, an area of near­ly 200 square miles, “the Cher­nobyl exclu­sion zone” was iso­lat­ed because of the nuclear dis­as­ter occurred. That area has been near­ly free of human con­tact. No humans have been “poach­ing”. Nonethe­less, ani­mals still strug­gle to sur­vive there.
I have heard that cur­rent nuclear pow­er-plant safe­guards are far bet­ter than they were in the mid 1980s. Yet, when­ev­er I do a Google search for some com­bi­na­tion of these three or four words:
civil­ian
I come up with sites that deal with Pak­istan, Iran, Israel, or India but not the civil­ian nuclear pow­er plant indus­try the Wikipedia arti­cle for which is exten­sive. How­ev­er, the arti­cle pri­mar­i­ly lists the major acci­dents, not what kinds of safe­guards have devel­oped. It is hard to know how safe any of these reac­tors are. In fact only on August 1, 2010, it seems, at least one drone crashed into the Bushehr reac­tor in Iran.
We were told that the kind of “acci­dent” we have expe­ri­enced this past sum­mer of 2010 in the Gulf of Mex­i­co with the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon oil spill was high­ly unlike­ly. But that’s the way it is with acci­dents.
In Daniel Gilbert’s review of the recent book BEING WRONG, Adven­tures in the Mar­gin of Error by Kathryn Schulz, he presents the ques­tion: “why we don’t know we are mak­ing [errors]?” Indeed. And, when it comes to “unin­hab­it­able for a sig­nif­i­cant amount of time”, I’d rather be safe than sor­ry.
so what should we use for energy?
Of course, none of what I’ve writ­ten above answers the big ques­tion of how we con­tin­ue. I’ve also read that wind and solar col­lec­tion farms are nowhere near the scale we would need to pow­er our cur­rent uses.
I don’t, yet, have an answer for that ques­tion.
The fol­low­ing but­ton dates from the 1980s. It may be Isare­li made, though in its man­u­fac­ture, and the clum­sy style of its Hebrew let­ter­ing, it appears Amer­i­can made. It match­es Amer­i­can, Eng­lish-lan­guage ver­sions that date from the same peri­od. The text trans­lates as “Nuclear Pow­er? No Thanks”.
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Hiroshima 広島市 Day Again (may we have many) « davka | דוקא | despite everything
« אלול comes every year
I love my gay rabbis »
There does not seem to be much value in having nuclear weapons.
They may exist for a MAD (Mutu­al­ly Assured Destruc­tion) pur­pose. And yet, many peo­ple tell me that Israel’s ene­mies don’t care about MAD, because they (as well as dis­pen­sa­tion­al­ist Chris­tians) believe that they will be in “a bet­ter place” after the destruc­tion. For those of us who believe that it is this world that counts, our task is to avoid such a destruc­tion. And then there’s the argu­ment from deter­rence. If Israel’s ene­mies are “MAD” enough to risk such destruc­tion, then, there is no deter­rent val­ue in any nuclear weapon.
uninhabitable for a significant amount of time
How long a time is “significant”?
Our fam­i­ly has in per­son­al (though dis­tant) inter­est in Cher­nobyl (or as translit­er­at­ed from the Ukrain­ian: Chornobyl).
Hil­lel (Har­ry) Hurvitz
My pater­nal grand­fa­ther (and his father before him) was born in Cherni­hiv (or as we learned to pro­nounce it: Chernigov). Both Cher­nobyl and Chernigov are in what seem to be two love­ly, agri­cul­tur­al­ly fer­tile riv­er val­leys. The two cities are less than 50 miles away from each oth­er (as the crow flies, over two sets of hills/mountains with a third riv­er val­ley in between).
from east (right) to west (left) Chernig­nov, Cher­nobyl and the ‘Zone of Alien­ation’
An arti­cle that appeared at tree­hug­ger (That’s an unashamed name!) on August 4, 2010 shared an inter­est­ing report. Near­ly 25 years have passed since the “acci­dent” of 1986. Since then, an area of near­ly 200 square miles, “the Cher­nobyl exclu­sion zone” was iso­lat­ed because of the nuclear dis­as­ter occurred. That area has been near­ly free of human con­tact. No humans have been “poach­ing”. Nonethe­less, ani­mals still strug­gle to sur­vive there.
I have heard that cur­rent nuclear pow­er-
plant safe­guards are far bet­ter than they were in the mid 1980s. Yet, when­ev­er I do a Google search for some com­bi­na­tion of these three or four words:
civil­ian
I come up with sites that deal with Pak­istan, Iran, Israel, or India but not the civil­ian nuclear pow­er plant indus­try the Wikipedia arti­cle for which is exten­sive. How­ev­er, the arti­cle pri­mar­i­ly lists the major acci­dents, not what kinds of safe­guards have devel­oped. It is hard to know how safe any of these reac­tors are. In fact only on August 1, 2010, it seems, at least one drone crashed into the Bushehr reac­tor in Iran.
We were told that the kind of “acci­dent” we have expe­ri­enced this past sum­mer of 2010 in the Gulf of Mex­i­co with the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon oil spill was high­ly unlike­ly. But that’s the way it is with acci­dents.
In Daniel Gilbert’s review of the recent book BEING WRONG, Adven­tures in the Mar­gin of Error by Kathryn Schulz, he presents the ques­tion: “why we don’t know we are mak­ing [errors]?” Indeed. And, when it comes to “unin­hab­it­able for a sig­nif­i­cant amount of time”, I’d rather be safe than sor­ry.
so what should we use for energy?
Of course, none of what I’ve writ­ten above answers the big ques­tion of how we con­tin­ue. I’ve also read that wind and solar col­lec­tion farms are nowhere near the scale we would need to pow­er our cur­rent uses.
I don’t, yet, have an answer for that ques­tion.
The fol­low­ing but­ton dates from the 1980s. It may be Isare­li made, though in its man­u­fac­ture, and the clum­sy style of its Hebrew let­ter­ing, it appears Amer­i­can made. It match­es Amer­i­can, Eng­lish-lan­guage ver­sions that date from the same peri­od. The text trans­lates as “Nuclear Pow­er? No Thanks”.
כֹח-גרעיני? לֹא-תודה
Size: 3.81
Text כֹח-גרעיני?
לֹא-תודה
‍‍כ״ו אב תש״ע - August 6th, 2010 | Tags: 1980s, black, family, hiroshima, iran, orange, yellow | Category: family, lapel buttons
146 queries. 3.144 seconds.