Blog posts tagged "Nuclear"

November 28, 2011 8:17 am 17 Comments

Jon ponders the future of Britain's centuries-old relationship with Iran.

April 12, 2011 7:36 am 28 Comments

As the Japanese authorities rate the Fukushima crisis at the highest level, on a par with Chernobyl, Jon Snow looks at how they have dealt with the accident and the public reaction.

March 28, 2011 7:31 am 40 Comments

Jon Snow struggles to extrapolate the truth about the state of Japan's nuclear situation from the mire of conflicting reports. Does anyone really know what's going on?

March 16, 2011 7:58 am 59 Comments

Five days on from the earthquake which shook Japan, Jon Snow looks back at the unimaginable human loss and the unbelievable invisible threat.

March 15, 2011 7:55 am 47 Comments

What are the implications for nuclear power from the crisis in Japan? Jon Snow looks at the future.

October 8, 2010 7:33 am 21 Comments

For the last years of Labour’s time in power, bilateral summits between France and Britain became a commonplace. At the last one between Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French offered a deal to share aspects of their nuclear deterrent – submarine patrols that would reduce the need to have so many Trident Subs, and [...]

June 3, 2010 1:41 pm 39 Comments

For the last two years French President Nicolas Sarkozy as been trying to persuade Britain to look again at the idea of combining nuclear deterrence with France.

May 19, 2010 9:41 am 38 Comments

Amid the thrill of the "new politics", is there the slightest possibility of any UK "new thinking" about Iran? asks Jon Snow.

February 9, 2010 10:03 am 19 Comments

Jon Snow argues that drenching Iran with supply will terrify agents of repression far more than sanctions.

September 23, 2009 10:39 am No Comments

We were all spooked by it – the idea of a nuclear holocaust that would obliterate the world. As boys we talked about it a lot, at no time more so than after reading Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach’. Set in Australia this was apocalyptic and desperately human account of the end of the planet. [...]