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In the News (13 to 20 August 2013)

Nuclear Energy A U.S . appeals court affirmed a prior ruling that the Vermont Legislature overstepped its authority by passing a law calling for the early closure of the Yankee NPP in Vernon, Bob Audette at the Brattleboro Reformer reported. The court wrote that the federal Atomic Energy Act was improperly preempted in the 54-page decision found here.… Read More In the News (13 to 20 August 2013)

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AR & Youth

This article is part of an effort by Atomic Reporters to help young women and men bring citizen journalism skills to the nuclear file, and add well sourced information to a broader conversation with their peers. As nuclear arms control unravels, the 24 year freeze on nuclear testing is being challenged, the issue is as distant as another galaxy for many young people who will inherit it. Atomic Reporters was founded to help journalists open the nuclear file and make a subject shrouded in secrecy and unaccountable more accessible.

About this series

Atomic Reporters supported this two part series by Sylvia Mishra and Hamzah Rifaat about the impact of social media in last year’s standoff between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan by John Dale Grover. The article has been published in The National Interest, a US national security publication.

Mishra and Rifaat were selected by an independent jury for a reporting fellowship as part of the ‘This is not a drill’ project that introduced international journalists to a range of issues from civil defense preparedness to heightened nuclear weapons dangers that have emerged in the revolution in digital technologies.

The project was organized by Atomic Reporters with the Stanley Center for Peace and Security and support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York with a workshop on the first anniversary of a false missile alert in Hawaii at the height of tensions between North Korea and the US. The project took its name ‘this is not a drill’ from the warning telegraphed to the citizens of the state of Hawaii on January 13, 2018.

About the author

Sylvia Mishra is a Washington D.C. based researcher working on nuclear policy, Asian security and disruptive technologies. She is the Co-Chair of the Women of Colour Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) Working Group and a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) mid-cadre fellow. Follow her on Twitter @MishraSylvia

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