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The Japanese Ground Self Defense Force is getting to use its tanks in a radioactive operational environment. The results should be REALLY interesting for all of the world's armed forces.

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George Monbiot's riting this in a Guardian blog is a guaranteed flame-magnet, but it is important that the debate around nclear power does not devolve into an environmentalist rout. Hard, hard questions have to be fully answered about HOW we move forward before we start pulling the plug on every single nuclear plant out there.

I have yet to see someone prove, using figures in BTUs, that renewables are the answer to the problem given current and projected generation capabilities. What this crisis should, and I think will do, is push funding of alternative energy research to the top of the priority list.

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The Guarddog offers a remarkably even-handed discussion of the events and makes some salient points, primarily that TEPCO's biggest error was not screaming for help much sooner. Never, never, let the guys appointed to run the business day-to-day handle a crisis of any magnitude. Get experts immediately.

All of Japan will pay the price of TEPCO's face.

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Samuel Wade at China Digital Times does an excellent job wrapping up reports of China's plans to review its nuclear program.

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Peter Wynn Kirby offers a profound and thoughtful reflection on Japan's troubled relationship with the atom. Despite the whimsical title, the essay provides a moving peek into a little-understood (by Gaijin) part of Japan's national psyche.

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"Modern life requires learning from disasters, not fleeing all risk."

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"The containment structures appear to be working, and the latest reactor designs aren't vulnerable to the coolant problem at issue here."

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Has nuclear ambiguity outlived its shelf life.

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U.S. intelligence agencies are working to track down an alarming report from inside North Korea revealing that the communist regime is secretly developing underwater nuclear torpedoes and mines.

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"Containing a nuclear Iran would not be easy. It would require considerable diplomatic skill and political will on the part of the United States. And it could fail."

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" In a world where the strongest conventional military power cannot envision giving up its nuclear weapons before all other nations have abandoned theirs, how will humanity ever rid itself of these weapons? In order to speed the reduction of its own nuclear arsenal and encourage other countries' disarmament, the United States will have to confront three daunting obstacles: the insecurities of nations, including some currently protected under the U.S. nuclear umbrella and others that see a nuclear capability as the answer to many of their security problems; the notion that nuclear weapons are the great equalizer in the realm of international relations; and the proliferation risk that inevitably arises whenever nuclear supplier states offer to build civilian reactors for nonnuclear states. "

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"But just because Global Zero emerged as a response to a real problem does not mean its own program is unproblematic. The world has changed radically since the Cold War, when the combined arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union peaked at an estimated 75,000 warheads, but strategic logic has not. This means that the Global Zero program rests on three fallacies -- those of premise, process, and purpose."

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"What to do about Iran's nuclear program is one of the most vexing foreign policy challenges confronting the Obama administration. This debate is increasingly characterized both by growing pessimism about whether the international community's diplomatic efforts and economic sanctions can prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and by guarded optimism that the consequences a nuclear-armed Iran are manageable."

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Gady epstein gets it right again.

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