On March 11, 2011, 802 days ago, Japan’s northeast coast was struck by a tsunami of unprecedented violence. The tsunami had been triggered by an earthquake so powerful that it shifted the earth’s mass and sped up its rotation about its axis, literally shortening the length of each day. Watch this video, filmed live from…
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Atomic showdown in Japan: how passionate are the peoples?
Public opinion is a sometimes overwhelming and devastating force in public affairs, even in non-democratic countries. The military theorist Karl von Clausewitz, who as a Prussian cadet then officer fought in the epic wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, noted the decisive importance of public opinion when he elucidated his famous trinity of forces that…
Nuclear power in the Japan election: a return to the atom?
In 1997, Japan hosted a conference at Kyoto, in which most of the world’s industrialized countries agreed in principle to reduce their man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to roughly five percent below 1990 levels. Nearly 14 years later, Japan abruptly abandoned that goal after a tsunami of unprecedented power destroyed hundreds of communities along its…
California mini-earthquake causes gas explosion, and more casualties than Fukushima
I only found out about this today, but on August 9 2012 a 4.5 magnitude earthquake in Ontario, California (not to be confused with Ontario, Canada) caused a natural gas explosion that injured an elderly man. To repeat, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake in California caused a gas explosion that sent an elderly man to hospital. That…
Victims of superstition: 638 elderly humans died because of needless evacuation from Fukushima
802 days ago, I told a CBC radio producer that a meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant would involve few if any casualties. That was on Day One of the catastrophe that began with the Great East Japan Earthquake, a monster event that unleashed a tsunami of terrifying size and power against a virtually unprotected…
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