Haleema Saadia

House In Sunlight East Twickenham: watercolour

Groups Warn Trump Executive Orders Would Spike Cancers Caused by Exposure to Nuclear Radiation | Common Dreams Trump's nuclear power executive orders prioritize profit over people's lives, risking cancer and birth defects for generations to come. Are we willing to sacrifice our health for the sake of industry ...

"More than 40 civil society groups—including Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Sierra Club, Nuclear Watch South, and the Appalachian Peace Education Center(all liberal institutions Trump hates) —signed the letter to the commission…1/2

How the United States achieved its de facto nuclear test ban—and how to preserve it Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing.

🚨 JUST IN: Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing, writes David Cortright.

#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky

Trump's new radiation exposure limits could be 'catastrophic' for women and girls The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon loosen radiation exposure safety standards at nuclear plants and operations. Experts warn the general public is unsafe.

🚨 JUST IN: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon loosen radiation exposure safety standards at nuclear plants and operations. Experts warn the general public is unsafe, Lesley M.M. Blume and Chloe Shrager write.

@lesleymmblume.bsky.social @chloeshrager.bsky.social

#NRC #radiation #nukesky

🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social.

We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
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YouTube video by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists What you should know about nuclear weapons

VIDEO: @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social explains why it is so incredibly difficult to convey the size and destructive force of nuclear weapons—and always has been.

Video by @erik-english.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org

www.youtube.com/watch?v=czyk...

#nuclearweapons #AHouseOfDynamite #Trump #nukesky

Declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel The declassified document reveals an urgent need for an international review of the proliferation risks of HALEU.

🚨 JUST IN: A newly declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, and reveals an urgent need for an international review of #HALEU use, writes Ed Lyman (@nucsafetyucs.bsky.social).

#uranium #enrichment #proliferation #IAEA #safeguards #nukesky

Responsibility Over Rivalry: Why India and Pakistan Should Reject Nuclear Testing | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network

President Trump's recent announcement could open a Pandora's box of nuclear testing, say @khansahar1.bsky.social and @haleemasaadia.bsky.social but it presents India and Pakistan a rare moment of normative leadership to jointly reaffirm their nuclear moratoriums.

Responsibility Over Rivalry: Why India and Pakistan Should Reject Nuclear Testing | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network

At a time when great powers are drifting from restraint, South Asia can stand apart.

Choosing responsibility over rivalry would strengthen both states’ credibility and leadership.
#NukeSky

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Read our full @apln.network piece ⬇️

www.apln.network/analysis/com...

Instead, both countries can seize this moment to show responsible nuclear leadership:
- Reaffirm their testing moratoria
- Signal restraint without formal CTBT membership
- Reopen space for nuclear confidence-building measures (NCBMs)

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If the U.S. resumes testing, others could follow, including Russia, China, and potentially South Asia’s nuclear rivals.

But renewed testing would offer little strategic gain for India or Pakistan, while raising diplomatic, economic, and escalation risks.

#NukeSky
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Responsibility Over Rivalry: Why India and Pakistan Should Reject Nuclear Testing | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network

Is nuclear testing making a comeback?
Pres. Trump’s declaration about restarting US nuke tests risks unraveling decades of restraint
In our @apln.network commentary, @khansahar1.bsky.social & I argue:India & Pakistan should reject nuclear testing and lead by example.
www.apln.network/analysis/com...

Loved working through this one together, Sahar! Grateful for the chance to unpack such a timely issue with you 🙏

Responsibility Over Rivalry: Why India and Pakistan Should Reject Nuclear Testing | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network

New @apln.network commentary on implications of the nuclear testing debate for 🇮🇳 and 🇵🇰, by @khansahar1.bsky.social & @haleemasaadia.bsky.social -

Responsibility Over Rivalry: Why India and Pakistan Should Reject Nuclear Testing | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network

When Trump posted about nuclear testing, I jumped on a call with @haleemasaadia.bsky.social to discuss what it would mean for South Asia if the US broke the moratorium on testing. The conversation led to this: www.apln.network/analysis/com...

Thank you @apln.network!

#nukesky

Does Pakistan know this?

The experts respond to Trump’s proposal to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” What did Trump mean by resuming nuclear testing? And what are the implications, in the worst-case scenario?

🚨 JUST IN: What did Trump mean by resuming nuclear testing? And what are the implications, in the worst-case scenario?

Bulletin's Dan Drollette reports, extensively quoting nuclear expert @nukestrat.bsky.social and others.

#nuclearweapons #nucleartesting #Trump #nukesky

American military film crew filming “surrender” of Bikini Atoll

Nuclear testing you say?

"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”

#NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky

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@proftjcurry.bsky.social's piece on the Edinburgh Race Review shows that decolonising UK universities means more than renaming buildings. It demands confronting how empire shaped their wealth and ideas.
"Decolonisation...is not a metaphor." 👏

Another resource: What would be the purpose of nuclear testing if the US matched what Russia is accused of doing? The @nationalacademies.org panel on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty outlined what one might do with so-called hydronuclear, extremely low-yieldand very low-yield tests.

Why America Stands to Lose If It Resumes Nuclear Testing China and Russia would finally be able to catch up.

Last year, I wrote an article for @foreignaffairs.com on why the US stands to lose the most from a resumption of nuclear testing.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

DoD (DoW?) doesn't run US nuclear testing. DoE does. So I think the actual tip off of what Trump meant came from the statement itself. But who knows. Renewed US nuclear tests was on my bingo card for any GOP administration, as @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social and I discussed on our podcast many times

In the 33 years before the U.S. halted nuclear testing in 1992, countries conducted over 1,000 tests. In the 33 years since? Roughly 20. The global moratorium—and the treaty backing it—has curbed both the spread and sophistication of nuclear weapons worldwide.

For the morning crowd:

Trump's confused post last night may or may not be about nuclear testing.

He may be responding to Putin's claims of science-fictiony weapons.

He may be referring to the delivery vehicles, which are tested frequently.

I doubt there will be any further action.

Hahaha
years of fitting arms control complexity into 280 characters finally paying off 😆

I’ll give someone $1000 if they can find one factually correct statement in this post

It's funny that Trump "instructed" Dept of War to resume nuclear testing when it's actually the Dept of Energy that conducts nuclear tests.
#NukeSky

As long as no one starts turning off their CTBTO IMS there will be a wealth of global data to further validate the accuracy of the system.

The paradox, as you rightly point out, is it’s counter to their entire purpose.

Though, Russia would probably turn off their IMS. They’ve done it before.

IMS data would be crucial.It sharpens the paradox:technically resilient verification system operating in a politically collapsing armscontrol order
&as you note,if Russia(or others)disengage,the erosion of reciprocal participation could quickly hollow out the system’s credibility&cooperative purpose