Nuclear

Small quakes, origins of happiness and cognitive deficits + this day in history w/Sandy Hook and our song of the day by Japandroids on your Morning Monarchy for December 14, 2016.

21st Century Wire says…
This week’s documentary film curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE.
“By August 1945, the Allied Manhattan Project had successfully detonated an atomic device in the New Mexico desert and subsequently produced atomic weapons based on two alternate designs. The 509th Composite Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces was equipped with a Silverplate Boeing B-29 Superfortress that could deliver them from Tinian in the Mariana Islands.”

21st Century Wire says…
Amid great mainstream media and Democratic Party fanfare, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has been based on a claim she is “most experienced” candidate in history, and highlighting her foreign policy record in particular. What would a Clinton foreign policy really look like? 

One of Norway’s nuclear reactors was discovered to be leaking radioactive iodine Monday morning, according to the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA). [1]

In a statement released today, the NRPA said:

“The radioactive leak was due to a technical failure during treatment of the fuel in the reactor hall. Emissions are low.”

21st Century Wire says…
The following is an alternative discourse on contemporary geopolitics and what some refer to as ‘the end of history’ – from an Islamic eschatology perspective. All roads lead to Damascus, but also to Crimea and Jerusalem.

The point within the circle, one world films and neat things + this day in history w/breaking the sound barrier and our song of the day by Bon Iver on your Morning Monarchy for October 14, 2016.

Faking the fights, muting the message and dropping dummy nukes + this day in history w/Agnew resigns and our song of the day by Geowulf on your Morning Monarchy for October 10, 2016.

Here's what they should have been talking about instead.

Worries of 'New Cold War' intensify as United States cuts diplomatic ties with Moscow over war in Syria.

Russia also calls on US to reduce military presence in Eastern Europe.