Articles by Hugh Gusterson

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The Lessons of Fukushima
Hugh Gusterson – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 4 Apr 2011

This leaves us with a choice between walking back from a technology that we decide is too dangerous or normalizing the risks of nuclear energy and accepting that an occasional Fukushima is the price we have to pay for a world with less carbon dioxide. It is wishful thinking to believe there is a third choice of nuclear energy without nuclear accidents.

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EMPIRE OF BASES
Hugh Gusterson, 12 Mar 2009

Before reading this article, try to answer this question: How many military bases does the United States have in other countries: a) 100; b) 300; c) 700; or d) 1,000. According to the Pentagon’s own list PDF,   the answer is around 865, but if you include the new bases in Iraq and Afghanistan it is […]

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