Read in Japanese, French, Spanish , Portuguese, or German. Dear Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: You no doubt observed the Fukushima disaster on March 11, 2011, with terror and worry: what would another nuclear disaster mean for state relations, especially in your home region of East Asia? Fortunately, it seemed, the effects were largely kept to …
Read this article in Japanese, French, and German. By Helen Caldicott, M.D. When I visited Cuba in 1979, I was struck by the number of roadside billboards that declared ”Our children are our national treasure.” Dr. Helen Caldicott is a pediatrician… Continue reading
by Toshio Nishi. Originally published in the Hoover Digest. Read in Japanese and German. Japanese feel angry and ignored, prisoners of both radiation and bureaucracy. For more than a year, I have been hoping that the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company would find the courage to bear the unbearable and repair …
This interview is now available in Japanese. We are pleased to share an updated, redacted version of an interview with Mr. Arnie Gundersen assessing the current situation of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Gundersen, a former vice president in the nuclear industry and chief engineer at Fairewinds Associates, believes the multiple risks are …
By Akio Matsumura “Well George, we knocked the bastard off.” These were Sir Edmund Hillary’s first words to a friend after descending from the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. Time Magazine named him and his companion Tenzing Norgay, the first two to summit Mount Everest, two of the most influential people of the 20th …
From remotely flown Predator drones to deepwater oil drills and from financial derivatives to Twitter, America’s engineers and scientists continue to bring imagination to life. Each invention allows us to get more: security, oil, wealth, information. We are also able to achieve our goals from a distance, with more automation and less personal connectivity. Often, …
Dear friends, I am pleased to inform you that we received the article, “The Desire to Improve Ourselves,” from our old friend, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. She greatly contributed to the Global Forum as an International Advisory Council member. Her life has shared a path with the history of a nation—it has been extraordinary. I …
Read in Japanese. By Akio Matsumura Less than two weeks ago, on May 16, I wrote “Plunging a Hole into the Ship’s Bottom,” to share my despair for the environmental and economic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Last month, scientists estimated that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Continue reading
Read in Japanese. by Akio Matsumura The disaster from Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, is still vivid in our memory. In the city of New Orleans, the storm surge caused more than 50 breaches in drainage canal levees and precipitated the worst engineering disaster in the history of the United States. 80 percent of …
By Chris Cote In 1648, with the Peace of Westphalia, a system of sovereign states was established. Sovereignty gave these states’ complete self control over internal affairs, and since World War II, has evolved to include external sovereignty, a term defining the legality of inter-state interventions. European growth has contributed to an expanding evolution of …
