industry all sorts of nuclear options. On another occasion it was Gough Whitlam and his wife, Margaret, who were shown the very spot where Teller wanted to detonate a nuclear charge some 200 metres below the ground to quarry iron ore. Such was Lang’s prime ministerial pulling power that he even secured Sir John ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

India tests nuclear-capable missile ... the assertiveness and rising military power of China has rattled the region. By launching a ballistic missile capable of reaching Beijing and Shanghai, India joined a small club of nations with long-range nuclear ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-20 15:05 - 0 comments

Iran is ready to talk " Iran is more isolated than ever. The regional balance of power is shifting against Tehran, in no small part because ... (Iran, Iran nuclear program, Iran politics, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-16 13:51 - 0 comments

scrambled to embrace the new power structure. I visited a number of ministers. Some were shocked, some were ... heading back to the Lodge to stockpile all of the food and cans of Coke for the inevitable nuclear ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

a generation. No other great power’s rise has seen so many well-wishers as India’s. To Beijing’s great irritation, India is spoken of as a coming power in the same terms as China, despite having an economy just ... the first time in history that a dominant power has provided another with such a boost to the top table. ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

that disaster can be averted only by granting governments powers to alter virtually every aspect of the way we ... or geo-engineering. A source of energy that emits no greenhouse gases, is less hazardous than the nuclear industry, ... could well put within the power of a law-abiding nation state – and evidently the USA is the likely ...

The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

China's nuclear power chief: A spy? "He is accused of selling secrets about China's nuclear power industry to foreign countries. ... (China, China nuclear program, Nuclear, Nuclear power, Nuclear safety, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-31 14:34 - 0 comments

The Australian Greens wield more power than ever, but face amplified divisions within the party – leadership ... with the balance of power; 24 state and territory MPs; two Cabinet posts and partnership in a coalition government in Tasmania; balance of power status in the ACT; and more than 100 local councillors around the country (the ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

rocket as part of an action of anti-nuclear activists. No one claimed responsibility for this attack, ... Mark Dorset, went to live in Sydney. He likened it to a “low cost power-to-the-people enabling ... prison colony of aliens from outer space then so be it. However, money brings power and attracts ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

(India, Julia Gillard, Nuclear power, Business Spectator) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-15 13:56 - 0 comments

The dirt on nuclear power "At least 99 nuclear accidents, totaling more than $20.5 billion in damages, occurred worldwide from 1952 to 2009 – ... General item (Nuclear, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear power ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments

about how we should manage rising tensions between the two dominant Pacific powers. Certainly ... is raising the power and ambition of a set of countries outside the traditional powers, symbolised ... security in different ways to military build-ups or nuclear proliferation. It is this loose ...

Blog - Dennis Altman - 2011-11-29 13:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

for incremental steps. “Conventional nuclear thermal rockets are just not good enough, and they cannot be made good enough [for feasible interstellar space travel]. But the nuclear thermal rocket is the pick-up ... something of both the recent history and current thinking of interstellar space travel methods. Nuclear ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

policy issues that properly furrowed the brow were lofty and complex, like nuclear non-proliferation … ... remainder either left it to a higher power or had no preference). As in China, the desire for sons in India ... us with the most powerful of all antinomies – the existence of a caste system based on the superior ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-06-10 14:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

stillness and silence, suggesting a nuclear winter or a new ice age, the lines etched in the rime took ... and an alarmingly large number of American citizens obese. Those lines etched in the ice were the sinews of power ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-12-01 15:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the Fukushima nuclear reactor into meltdown; the sovereign debt crisis in Europe; and the riots without apparent ... for granted and sought power by persuading the first group that it was a safer alternative to the Coalition. ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and archival footage of space missions and nuclear tests are brought into play … Sen creates an atmosphere ... the powerful effects of sequence. Images in motion. There was no stopping him now. He moved on to film ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-15 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

consider nuclear power as a response to climate change?" The speakers include: Professor Barry ... "Prescription for the Planet", and David Noonan, Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Aust Conservation ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

debate the controversial question, "Should we consider nuclear power as a response to climate ... Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Aust Conservation Foundation. They are joined by Dr Mark Diesendorf (UNSW) ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

debate the controversial question, "Should we consider nuclear power as a response to climate ... Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Aust Conservation Foundation. They are joined by Dr Mark Diesendorf (UNSW) ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of nuclear energy. Polling in Australia shows a return to a solid majority opposing nuclear power ... of bounds. At this Lowy event, three expert industry panellists discuss the future of nuclear energy ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of useful things like nuclear power and genetically engineered crops”. Bolt asserted that the ALP quotas ... as he started to harness the power of the internet to promote his conservative views, he began his quest ... replicate the Fox News model Down Under. “He saw the political power that comes from right-wing ranting,” ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to blog about the evils of coal-fired plants, hydro-electricity and nuclear power. We ... in the US, three solar-power companies declared bankruptcy in the last two weeks. Biofuels such as ethanol ... to be exact. “More importantly,” he points out, “it’s power that can be brought onto the grid quickly ...

The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-10-07 13:05 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

of generating and using energy must change. But if our coal-fired power plants are a thing of the past, what does the future look like? Wind turbines or solar panels, nuclear power plants or ‘clean coal’ ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Electric Power, announced in a curt memo. The matter 'was under investigation,' it added." ... (Japan nuclear, Japan politics, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear fallout, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments