Archive for International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
never again
Posted in Kids with tags 06 August 1945, arms race, CND, hibakusha, Hiroshima, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Nagasaki, nuclear disarmament, nuclear weapons, rearmament, Second World War, unilateral nuclear disarmament, WW II on August 7, 2026 by xi'an
Nature squeakbits [26 February 2026]
Posted in Books, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Antarctica, basketball shoes, book review, China Initiative, Chinese Government, climate change, climate science, COVID-19, EPA, ERC Advanced Grant, ERC Consolidator Grant, ERC Starting Grant, France, French politics, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeffrey Epstein, large language models, London, London calling, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, measles, Nature, nuclear weapons elimination day, perspective, rock art, SARS-CoV-2, snippet, START treaty, Sulawesi Island, The Clash, Trump administration, UKRI, unilateral nuclear disarmament, US Government, US politics, West Antarctica Ice Sheet, WHO on April 16, 2026 by xi'an
And another coverage of the deplorable Trump administration dismantling the biodefense and pandemic preparedness branches of the US NIAID, presumably a late under-the-belt jab at the national institute Anthony Fauci directed for 38 years. Meaning one of the forefronts for pandemic research and vaccine development has been dismantled. Plus the US EPA revoking the 2009 statement that climate change is endangering the US population and removing greenhouse-gas emission rules. In tune with the Drill, baby, drill! motto of the Trump supporters more interested in their short-term profits than in the long-term (no-)future of the country. Paradoxically sitting in the same issue as a comment calling for a policy-making assessment of avoidable climate-change risks. Illustrated by London’s drownin’ below
And a summary of their conclusions from 23 of the 27 members (from 27 countries) of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origin of Novel Pathogens for the WHO. After 3.5 years of debate on the origin of COVID-19! Four hypotheses are examined and other hoaxes and conspiracies are debunked.
Another political entry about the EU and its Horizon Europe programme (that is funding my ERC Synergy grant) baring (researchers from) Chinese research organisations from applying for its grants in sensitive methodologies, in order to prevent “the undesired transfer of IP”. Following similar and earlier actions in the US with the (newspeak!) China Initiative launched by Trump 1.0 that turned into a witch hunt.
An exciting 228 metres of rock and mud providing a window on the past 23 million year weather. Obtained from the West Antarctica Ice Sheet.
non, pour être libre, il ne faut être ni craint, ni puissant…
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags Cesare Borgia, Emmanuel Macron, Federico Faruffini, Firenze, French politics, French State, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Musei Civici di Pavia, Nicolas Machiavel, Pavia, philosophy, rearmament, Russian invasion, unilateral nuclear disarmament on August 14, 2025 by xi'an
The French president Emmanuel Macron gave a talk on 14 July to the French armies (discours aux Armées) calling for an increased military budget, with the fundamentally flawed argument that, to be free, one must be feared, and that to be feared, one must be powerful. Which sounds at best as a sophism and at worst as a contradiction of terms, as it leads to the conclusion that only tyrants can be free… I wonder where the president got the inspiration for this terrible sequence, in Machiavelli maybe since he wrote his master thesis on the Florentine political philosopher. As for the relevance of rearmament, I also deem the argument similarly flawed. (Nuclear disarmament alone would scrimp €5 billion to €6 billion of the French State yearly budget.)
nuclear disarmament now!
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags 06 August 1945, atomic bombing, CTBT, hibakusha, Hiroshima, IAEA, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Korea, Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Association, Nagasaki, NPT, nuclear disarmament, war crimes, WW II on August 6, 2025 by xi'an
brave new worlds
Posted in Statistics with tags Brave New World, cover, elections, French Guiana, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Kent, Nature, Nigeria, Russian invasion, Science for Ukraine, Solidarity with Ukraine, twitter, unilateral nuclear disarmament on March 28, 2023 by xi'an
