the very outbreak of nuclear war can be prevented and also the international legal instruments have been created in an effort to combat and control the behavior of the control of nuclear…
invasion. The key assumption driving those who favored the war was that there was the ‘imminent threat’ of weapons of mass destruction. Additionally, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organizations conducted mass searches for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in Iraq. These searches came up…
The dense radiation contaminated significant agricultural products. Five years after the accident in 1991, the accident evaluation committee issued a report and accredited the accident to flaws in the RBMK reactor design. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) also agreed that the nuclear station had design flaws.…
Fukushima event, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) pointed to inadequate levels of defense in depth, specifically the impact of flooding. The means of protection intended to provide prevention of the progression of severe accidents and mitigation of their consequences, were not able to restore reactor cooling and to maintain integrity of the containment. Functioning of all of the disaster containment components was predicated on available electrical power, an energy source almost…
Just thirty years ago, April 26th, 1986, one of the world’s largest nuclear meltdowns occurred in Pripyat, Ukraine. The workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were running a system test on reactor four and there was a sudden, unexpected power surge. When the workers attempted to conduct an emergency shut off even more power was produced. This caused the reactor vessel to crack and allow air into the core. The core ignited and the fire sent a large plume of highly radioactive smoke. For the…
the country Iranian students stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took 52 diplomats hostage though none of the hostages were harmed, however that incident left a bitter taste in Americas mouth as they believe Iran violated the principle of international law which grants diplomats immunity. Tensions between the two countries were further exasperated when in 1988 a commercial Iranian airbus was shot down by the USS Vincennes killing all 290 passengers and crew members. The united stated…
On Saturday, January 16th, “implementation day,” Iran's nuclear program was declared peaceful and international sanctions against Iran were lifted. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement between Iran, the US, and six other world powers, was and is the subject of what is currently America's most divisive foreign policy debate. Some see Iran as a threat to America’s dominance over the Middle East, while others see decades of ineffectual enmity with Iran and believe that compromise…
no bomb going off, shots are not being fired, but they say they are fighting a war, daily. Anonymous, their battleground is the internet, they support human rights and freedom. Their attacks have taken down, a website like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Corporations, foreign governments, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). What happens behind the curtains, for governments that want information to be on the top of the chain of command, to stop a movie release that showed…
the U.S. and North Korea were in conflict due to North Korea’s money laundering bank, Banco Delta Asia (BDA), and then the talks had been delayed. In 2005, in the middle of delaying, North Korea conducted their 1st nuclear test which brought international condemnation. When a ‘2.13 agreement’ was made in 2007, it seemed that they got a clue to the solution of the problem. The agreement was composed of shutting down and disabling nuclear facilities in North Korea. In return, other nations…
With such a push for cleaner energy, the creation of solar-powered desalination plants should be at the foreground of focus. The idea of solar powered desalination plants is already under development. One company, WaterFX, has already created a system that, “uses solar thermal energy to avoid the use of fossil fuel-powered electricity” (Phillips). The creation of such solar powered desalination plants allows…