The British experience with nuclear-powered submarines: Lessons for Australia My new report prepared for Friends of the Earth Australia demonstrates that the development of a nuclear-powered, conventionally-armed nuclear submarine fleet entails multiple public health risks and ...

The British experience with SSNs reveals a litany of problems and it can confidently be predicted that problems will beset the AUKUS submarine program ‒ the joint development of nuclear-powered submarines by the UK, the US and Australia.

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

The rocket tests threatening Country The Koonibba Test Range’s rocket launches are making Country unsafe again, displacing Traditional Owners who were moved off the land for nuclear testing.

Again in Australia:

The Koonibba Test Range’s rocket launches are making Country unsafe again, displacing Traditional Owners who were moved off the land for nuclear testing. By Claire G. Coleman.
"The rocket tests threatening Country"

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

Those left behind: The long shadow of Britain’s nuclear testing in WA The era of British atomic tests on West Australian soil has had enduring fallout. Now, the descendants of the servicemen exposed have made an emotional pilgrimage.

Another article on the impacts of British nuclear testing in Australia - "Those left behind: The long shadow of Britain’s nuclear testing in WA"

By Victoria Laurie
AUGUST 10, 2025

www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

Government Officials Who Push the Button of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should—Or Should They Have to Face the Consequences? Government Officials Who Push the Button of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should—Or Should They Have to Face the Consequences?

Another must read from Code Pink www.codepink.org/govofficials

The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it Australia’s future nuclear submarines will produce highly radioactive waste, and allies in the UK and the US still don’t have a safe place to store their own

A must read article from the Guardian's Ben Doherty today on the waste and the worry of #AUKUS

"The lethal legacy of Aukus will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it"

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

What happened at Hiroshima? Eighty years ago, the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, the only nuclear weapon ever used in warfare.

A powerful report from the BBC on the impact of the US atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... though it may serve the UK audience to be honest about British nuclear testing on other countries (Australia, Kiribati, USA) too. #NuclearTruth

www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

Where-ever you are in the world, we can ALL work toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must ensure that today’s conflicts don’t become tomorrow’s nuclear catastrophes. #HumanRaceNotArmsRace

Finally, while some trot out the phrase "a world free from nuclear weapons" almost as a token, some pale wish or half hoped for dream, Hibakusha and all survivors of nuclear violence remind the world it is the work of all of us.

Let's honour this and rid the world of nuclear weapons.

#Hiroshima80

3. The song of peace from Hiroshima performed at the end of the ceremony is a reflection of so much of the spirit we have come to know from Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) - not simply sorrow, but resilience and determination and a vision beyond the devastation

#Hiroshima80

2. The speech of the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture was brilliant. He spoke of the fallacies of nuclear deterrence with such articulate force.

His message is an important contribution to the growing dialogue on breaking down nuclear deterrence. Seek it out.

#Hiroshima80

The official commemoration in Hiroshima (live-streamed) has just ended. A few reflections on it:

1. The speech of the Children Representatives was powerful & heartening - grounded in respect and fueled by hope and determination. We can all learn from these children's beautiful works.

#Hiroshima80

Peace Memorial Ceremony Live Stream｜広島市公式ウェブサイト 広島市公式ウェブサイト

Live now - commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/english/peac...

Pacific journalist Nic Maclellan has a new article out - a timely reminder of the ways Pacific places were used in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago...and the challenges of military and nuclear colonialism that continue to this day.

Read on!

insidestory.org.au/tip-of-the-s...

Russia downplays Trump's nuclear submarine move, urges caution Comments by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev led Donald Trump to announce he had repositioned two of the US's nuclear submarines.

US nuclear submarines and the Russian response www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Over the last year we have found ways to remember the events around the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through our translated protocols, in conversation with intergenerational Hibakusa, a workshop with journalists on our protocols and our protocols in the community

#Hiroshima80 #Nagasaki80

The US atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki took place on 6th and 9th August 1945

Next week we mark the 80th year since these events which caused ~250,000 deaths by years end

With Hibakusha, we continue to call for a world free of nuclear weapons

#Hiroshim80 #Nagasaki80

China's nuclear bombers now 'within range of Australia' from South China Sea Intelligence reveals China has built island bases capable of launching nuclear bombers from the South China Sea.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

1/What did the first nuclear bomb leave behind?

On July 18, our team from @nuclearban.bsky.social an, @nucleartruthprj.bsky.social & @meinonprofit.bsky.social visited Laguna Pueblo with Elder Petuuche Gilbert to witness the long-term impact of uranium extraction. #Trinity80 #NuclearBan

Reflections on the life and work of Kazuyo Yamane from Nuclear Truth Project friends

The Nuclear Truth Project pays tribute to Kazuyo Yamane who passed away recently in Japan

🧵More highlights from the Solidarity Tour 👣🫂

On July 17, reps from @nuclearban.bsky.social , @nucleartruthprj.bsky.social & the Marshallese Educational Initiative visited Acoma Pueblo and White Sands as part of the #Trinity80 Anniversary Solidarity Tour in New Mexico.

#NuclearBan #NuclearTruth

📢$100 BILLION is what the 9 nuclear armed countries spent on their nuclear arsenals. Citizens in these countries pay the cost, but the entire world will pay the price if nuclear weapons are ever used again.

Read how much each country spent⬇️
www.icanw.org/hidden_costs...

#NuclearBan

The atomic bomb marker inside your body It is 80 years since the first nuclear weapon test – codenamed Trinity – detonated in the desert of New Mexico. Today the hidden legacy the explosion can still be found in our cells.

When we say that nuclear weapons are in our DNA we are not saying it lightly

Each of our bodies - & those of every living creature - carries the violence of nuclear weapons "testing" in our bodies

These bombs transformed our environment

We live our lives with this harm
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Having commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear explosion yesterday, today the @nucleartruthproject and @nuclearban begin the last three days of the solidarity tour, visiting Acoma Pueblo, Jackpile uranium mine and Red Water Pond Road community

From the cradle to the grave

Today there are over 12,400 nuclear weapons.

SIPRI & FAS warn a dangerous new nuclear arms race is energing. Arms control regimes are severely weakened. Nearly all of the nine nuclear-armed states are continuing intensive nuclear modernization, upgrading existing weapons, adding new versions.

My stepfather was a teen when nuclear bombs first dropped. He would recall people celebrating initially - it had been a long and brutal war...on the back of another war a gen before. They were told this stopped the war...but they soon learned it was the start of a different war, one affecting us all

As we mark the anniversary of the very first use of nuclear weapons in New Mexico, we stand with the People there and around the world impacted by nuclear violence.

It was never acceptable harm.
We will never forget.
We will abolish these weapons.

Follow @nucleartruthproject for more.

Nuclear war is an ever present threat while ever there remains nuclear weapons.

Those who have experienced nuclear violence - from the deserts of New Mexico to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond - can tell us that the harm goes on. In contamination of bodies and environment, in our minds and politic

I have been quietly contemplating the 80th anniversary of Trinity - the first nuclear bomb test

All my people who knew that day, or knew the days to come in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have now passed. I begged them to them tell me what they felt and thought when they first learned of nuclear weapons..

A black and white, high-speed photograph of the Trinity explosion at 0.025 seconds, showing what looks like a very large, slightly irregular bubble with a curtain of dust all around its bottom edge against a pitch dark sky. A scale indicating “100 meters” shows that the fireball was already approximately three times that size.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion a few milliseconds later, showing an almost ghostly mushroom cloud with glowing tendrils rising from the ground above the very bright fireball.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion with the same 100-meter scale, this time at 60 seconds post-detonation, showing a very large and billowy mushroom cloud rising into the sky.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion taken some minutes after the previous photograph and showing the ominous looking mushroom cloud at a distance, its top spreading out and merging with regular clouds.

80 years ago this morning—at 5:29 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to widespread assumptions, the area surrounding the remote Trinity test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.