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Presentation on My Receiving the Horace Mann Award at Antioch College
This is a condensed version of my presentation upon receiving the Horace Mann Award in April 2024 from the Antioch College Alumni Association. The award recognizes the contribution of alumni of the college in Yellow Springs, Ohio who have "won some victory for humanity" following the advice to the graduating class of 1859 by Mann,…ADVANCE Act Pushing Nuclear Power Passes U.S. Congress by Lopsided Margins
By Karl Grossman The “ADVANCE Act,” a bill to promote nuclear power, was passed 88-to-2 in the U.S. Senate last week. The ADVANCE stands for “Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy.” The only senators voting against it were Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. It was approved in the…“Doomsday Clock” Kept at 90 Seconds to Midnight for 2024
By Karl Grossman The “Doomsday Clock” of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was kept at 90 seconds to midnight this week—the closest to midnight that the clock has been set since it was created in 1947. Midnight is defined by The Bulletin as “nuclear annihilation.” The hands of the clock were initially…PUSHING NUKES AT COP28 CLIMATE CONFERENCE
By Karl Grossman “U.S. leads coalition to triple nuclear power by 2050 in effort to address climate change,” was the headline of a December 4th CNBC article on activity at the UN conference called COP28 being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on the climate crisis. COP stands for Conference of the Parties, annual gatherings…Oppenheimer, the film, and the Manhattan Project
By Karl Grossman Oppenheimer, the movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, is a great film, extraordinary, as most movie reviews are accurately saying, and so, so important. Causing the formation of the Manhattan Project was a letter from Long Island, New York to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was signed by Albert…TRITIUM
By Karl Grossman On Long Island, New York, where I live, in the late 1990s the two nuclear reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory were shut down because they had been leaking tritium into the water table below, part of the island’s aquifer system on which more than 3 million people depend on as their sole…Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle
By Karl Grossman With the film Oppenheimer opening in theatres on Friday and being widely heralded by media, and this past Sunday, the 78th anniversary noted of the first explosion of a nuclear device, and, so importantly, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons becoming international law, the time for putting the nuclear genie…The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story
By Karl Grossman “The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story” is a just-released film documentary, a powerful, moving, information-full film that is superbly made. Directed and edited by Philippe Carillo, it is among the strongest ever made on the deadly dangers of nuclear technology. It begins with the words in 1961 of U.S.…An Extraordinary Educational Institution
By Karl Grossman It’s an extraordinary educational institution: Empire State University. Originally called Empire State College, it was elevated to being Empire State University in March.