After a long silence no-nukes.org is getting an updated front page.
Silence at the webpage hasn’t been the same as inaction; we still advocate a lifetime of action dedicated to a nuclear free world.

Without which, what is the point?

So, to remind you of the salient points:

Just before World War II, the only source of concentrated radioactivity was radium.

The entire amount in the world came to a total of 1000 curies.

Today a single nuclear power reactor can contain radioactive materials equal to 20 billion curies of radium. That's right: 20,000,000,000.

And there are hundreds of nuclear reactors, and there are thousands and thousands of weapons, and there are thousands of tons of radioactive waste with nowhere to go.

All this in about 60 years' time.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said that our choice was between nonviolence and nonexistence. That's as true as it ever was; but it now the choice is also between no nukes and no existence.

What happens from here on out depends as much on you and me as on anyone in the world.

Some serious victories!

ELF was shut down!
The Private Fuel Storage proposed nuke dump in Utah was scratched!
We still haven’t blown the whole planet sky-high.

Not that there aren’t some still working on that.

The struggle to prevent the re-licensing of Prairie Island hasn’t been successful yet.

Remember, we have a little instructional video about Prairie Island, showing you the how’s of nuclear reactor operation, at Good Nukes: Almost Good Enough.

Many of our friends are still working hard on the resistance front.
The 62nd anniversary of the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima is coming right up;
here in town we are commemorating that, as usual; at Stratcom, Frank and Jerry are helping to commemorate that, as usual.

Both Frank and Jerry have had websites born here, since last we updated;
we welcome the Omaha Catholic Worker here, having made its debut on the web not very long ago.
The Des Moines Catholic Worker also got its start here, but has since moved on to a new updated website, complete with domain name. We are happy to have been able to give them a ‘leg-up.’

Nukewatch and the Nuclear Resister are both keeping up with their very fine antinuclear and antiwar reporting jobs; the big web enhancement for both of these truth telling rags has been the .pdf format. Now it is so easy to publish their newsletters as intended, with almost no extra web work. Bonnie has taken over the maintenance at Nukewatch, and has even created her own website for her art, at bonnieurfer.net.

In 2004, Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was finally released from Ashkelon Prison in Israel, but not to freedom. He still remains under virtual house arrest in Palestinian East Jerusalem. His old U.S. Campaign website folded, since he is now ‘free’, sort of, and can fend for himself; we continue to support his web work at vanunu.com. He has recently been sentenced to six more months in prison, for the crime of ‘talking to foreigners.’ It is unclear when his sentence will have to begin.
I was able to go visit Jerusalem in November 2004, and wrote down these notes about the trip.

On the antiwar front, we continue to vigil in La Crosse regularly. This is the website piece that needs updating next. Stay tuned.
Vigil for Peace, in Madison, is flourishing, and has moved to the website care and management of Gene Schubert. We are so happy to see them do so well!

There are now two more new nostalgia antiwar websites here:
one for the Missouri Peace Planting of 1988, which ended, successfully, in the removal of the nuclear missiles from Missouri; and
a whole antiwar book – about resistance life in Germany during World War II – just for the fun of it. We call it Little Fireworks.

These in addition to our other archived sites, the ones for Nukewatch and the Des Moines Catholic Worker, in memoriam for Sam Day, and for the defunct publication Nonviolent Incites.