The Eight Horsemen

2018 ◽  
pp. 155-199
Author(s):  
Chaitanya Ravi
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nuclear Tests

This chapter examines the period from March 2006–August 2007 and describes the debate over waiver legislation in the US Congress, the Hyde Act that emerged and the debate in India among serving and retired nuclear scientists over the Act’s implications for India’s nuclear programme and its ability to conduct future nuclear tests. The core of the chapter is a description of how the perceived strictures in the Hyde Act on nuclear testing such as the termination clause reignited the simmering debate over the success/failure of India’s lone 1998 thermonuclear test and exposed rifts between the serving scientist (Dr R. Chidambaram) who publicly vouched for its success and a group of retired nuclear weapons scientists who believed otherwise. The chapter ends by detailing how this domestic debate influenced the Indian negotiating position on nuclear testing.

Will Iran's nuclear agreement change the geopolitics of the Middle East?

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Marwan Awni Kamel
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media

With the date of September 17, 2015, the deadline set by the US Congress to work under the Iranian Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA), known as the Joint and Comprehensive Action Plan, the media has been flooded with editorials, comments and blogs making the case with or against the agreement. Those who supported the agreement, despite the fact that it was a flawed agreement, argued that it was the best deal that could have been reached through intrusive inspections, which would ensure that Iran's nuclear program would remain peaceful and would not achieve the goal of acquiring nuclear weapons. Those who oppose him have argued that Iran is the enemy of Israel. "The agreement will only last for 15 years." "Iran has no nuclear capability." It seems that both parties in this debate agree that this agreement will radically change the reality of the geopolitical Middle East. But is this really true?

The Nuclear Sensorium: Cold War Nuclear Imperialism and Sensory Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shiga
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Testing Program ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractThis paper traces the sensory dimensions of nuclear imperialism focusing on the Cold War nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States military in the Marshall Islands during the 1950s. Key to the formation of the “nuclear sensorium” were the interfaces between vibration, sound, and radioactive contamination, which were mobilized by scientists such as oceanographer Walter Munk as part of the US Nuclear Testing Program. While scientists occupied privileged points in technoscientific networks to sense the effects of nuclear weapons, a series of lawsuits filed by communities affected by the tests drew attention to military-scientific use of inhabitants’ bodies as repositories of data concerning the ecological impact of the bomb and the manner in which sensing practices used to extract this data extended the violence and trauma of nuclear weapons. Nuclear imperialism projected its power not only through weapons tests, the vaporization of land and the erosion of the rights of people who lived there, but also through the production of a “nuclear sensorium”—the differentiation of modes of sensing the bomb through legal, military, and scientific discourses and the attribution of varying degrees of epistemological value and legal weight to these sensory modes.

A Voice of Conscience: How Eleanor Roosevelt Helped to Popularize the Debate on Nuclear Fallout, 1950–1954

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
DARIO FAZZI
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
The Real ◽  
Nuclear Fallout ◽  
The Us ◽  
Intense Debate

This article looks at Eleanor Roosevelt's role within the intense debate on nuclear fallout as it developed in the US in the early 1950s. In particular, the article analyzes Mrs. Roosevelt's position on nuclear weapons, deterrence, and disarmament; her condemnation of nuclear testing; and her role as both a public intellectual and a mass educator who helped people to understand the real consequences of nuclear fallout. Here, Mrs. Roosevelt emerges as an active voice that, by defending freedom of speech, also contributed to popularizing the issue of nuclear fallout and making American citizens aware of the urgency of a ban on nuclear testing.

A Precarious Confluence: Neoliberalism, Race, and Water Insecurity

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mascarenhas
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
First Century ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Water Insecurity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Racial Projects ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Cities

Three very different field sites—First Nations communities in Canada, water charities in the Global South, and the US cities of Flint and Detroit, Michigan—point to the increasing precariousness of water access for historically marginalized groups, including Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and people of color around the globe. This multi-sited ethnography underscores a common theme: power and racism lie deep in the core of today’s global water crisis. These cases reveal the concrete mechanisms, strategies, and interconnections that are galvanized by the economic, political, and racial projects of neoliberalism. In this sense neoliberalism is not only downsizing democracy but also creating both the material and ideological forces for a new form of discrimination in the provision of drinking water around the globe. These cases suggest that contemporary notions of environmental and social justice will largely hinge on how we come to think about water in the twenty-first century.

Interaction of Ukrainian Diaspora and the USA Government Regarding Celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day on January 22

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (47) ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Halyna Shchyhelska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
The United States ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
The Public ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The Us ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Usa

2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of Ukrainian independence. OnJanuary 22, 1918, the Ukrainian People’s Republic proclaimed its independence by adopting the IV Universal of the Ukrainian Central Rada, although this significant event was «wiped out» from the public consciousness on the territory of Ukraine during the years of the Soviet totalitarian regime. At the same time, January 22 was a crucial event for the Ukrainian diaspora in the USA. This article examines how American Ukrainians interacted with the USA Government institutions regarding the celebration and recognition of the Ukrainian Independence day on January 22. The attention is focused on the activities of ethnic Ukrainians in the United States, directed at the organization of the special celebration of the Ukrainian Independence anniversaries in the US Congress and cities. Drawing from the diaspora press and Congressional Records, this article argues that many members of Congress participated in the observed celebration and expressed kind feelings to the Ukrainian people, recognised their fight for freedom, during the House of Representatives and Senate sessions. Several Congressmen submitted the resolutions in the US Congress urging the President of United States to designate January 22 as «Ukrainian lndependence Day». January 22 was proclaimed Ukrainian Day by the governors of fifteen States and mayors of many cities. Keywords: January 22, Ukrainian independence day, Ukrainian diaspora, USA, interaction, Congress

John Philip Sousa’s Historic Resistance to Technology in Music Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 153660062110339
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Thibeault
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The Us

In this article, I explore John Philip Sousa’s historic resistance to music technology and his belief that sound recordings would negatively impact music education and musical amateurism. I review Sousa’s primary arguments from two 1906 essays and his testimony to the US Congress from the same year, based on the fundamental premise that machines themselves sing or perform, severing the connection between live listener and performer and thus rendering recordings a poor substitute for real music. Sousa coined the phrase “canned music,” and I track engagement with this phrase among the hundreds of newspapers and magazines focused on Sousa’s resistance. To better understand the construction of Sousa’s beliefs, I then review how his rich musical upbringing around the US Marine Band and the theaters of Washington DC lead to his conception of music as a dramatic ritual. And I examine the curious coda of Sousa’s life, during which he recanted his beliefs and conducted his band for radio, finding that in fact these experiences reinforced Sousa’s worries. The discussion considers how Sousa’s ideas can help us better to examine the contemporary shift to digital music by combining Sousa’s ideas with those of Sherry Turkle.

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