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Today in Labor History June 9, 1843: Bertha von Suttner was born (d. 1914). She was an Austrian journalist, author, peace activist and Nobel Prize laureate. She was also a friend of Alfred Nobel, who famously told her that there would not be world peace until a weapon was invented that was so deadly it could annihilate countries in seconds. Some say that it was her activism and advocacy that inspired him to include a peace prize as part of his endowment. Von Suttner wrote “Lay Down Your Arms,” an anti-war novel that made her a leading figure in the Austrian peace movement. However, it was also considered a feminist novel for its characters resistance to accepting traditional gender roles. Tolstoy compared her favorably with Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Read my satirical bio of Nobel here: marshalllawwriter.com/the-merc

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peace #antiwar #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #nobel #nobelprize #BerthaVonsuttner #journalism #author #writer #books #novel @bookstadon

Today in Labor History March 17, 1968: The U.S. Army Chemical Corps killed over 6,000 sheep while illegally testing a nerve gas agent at the Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley, Utah. A 1998 report, the by Air Force Press was the "first documented admission" from the Army that a nerve agent killed the sheep at Skull Valley. The incident inspired Stephen King's novel “The Stand.”

#utah #chemicalweapons #wmd #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #nerveagent #army #airforce #literary #stephenking #historicalfiction #books #author #writer #horror @bookstadon

I've just read a call for the development of more effective #WeaponsOfMassDestruction WMDs.

Thank your lucky stars that #KimJongUn and the rulers of #Iran will not get hold of those weapons!

There was a time when it was feared that unstable countries with war-like leaders would aquire nuclear weapons even.

But #NuclearNonProliferation has been entirely successful and so the USA, Russia, France and the UK remain the only countries with #NuclearArsenal/s.

Happy and sane days are here.

Today in Labor History June 9, 1843: Bertha von Suttner was born (d. 1914). She was an Austrian journalist, author, peace activist and Nobel Prize laureate. She was also a friend of Alfred Nobel, who famously told her that there would not be world peace until a weapon was invented that was so deadly it could annihilate countries in seconds. Some say that it was her activism and advocacy that inspired him to include a peace prize as part of his endowment. Von Suttner wrote “Lay Down Your Arms,” an anti-war novel that made her a leading figure in the Austrian peace movement. However, it was also considered a feminist novel for its characters resistance to accepting traditional gender roles. Tolstoy compared her favorably with Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Read my satirical bio of Nobel here: marshalllawwriter.com/the-merc

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peace #antiwar #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #nobel #nobelprize #BerthaVonsuttner #journalism #author #writer #books #novel @bookstadon

Today in Labor History March 17, 1968: The U.S. Army Chemical Corps killed over 6,000 sheep while illegally testing a nerve gas agent at the Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley, Utah. A 1998 report, the by Air Force Press was the "first documented admission" from the Army that a nerve agent killed the sheep at Skull Valley. The incident inspired Stephen King's novel “The Stand.”

#utah #chemicalweapons #wmd #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #nerveagent #army #airforce #literary #stephenking #historicalfiction #books #author #writer #horror @bookstadon

#Israel continues slaughtering #Noncombatants in #Gaza.

Why?
#WeaponsOfMassDestruction, #NuclearBombs, effective missile systems, runways with bombers lined up, artillery?

What weapons are Israel slaughtering civilians to get to?
Grenades? Assault rifles? Pistols? Suicide bomber vests?

How many Israelis have been killed or injured by Hamas rockets in the last 5 years?
How many since the IDF focussed on Gaza after October 7?

And Hamas was a mystery and these werent a problem before 7th Oct?

“If they can do it I can do it”.
Hørte I interviewet med Hans Blix i P1 Orientering Udsyn?

Det kan godt gøre ondt, når nu vi gerne vil gøre godt. Men jeg kan godt følge Hans Blix. Han trækker paralleller mellem invasionen af Irak og invasionen af Ukraine.

Målet helliger midlet. Invasion uden lovligt folkeretsligt grundlag. Man hæver, man har et grundlag, men har ingen beviser.
#Ukraine #Rusland #Irak #weaponsofmassdestruction #HansBlix dr.dk/lyd/p1/orientering/udsyn

www.dr.dkOrientering Udsyn | 20 år efter: Har verden glemt Irak? | DR LYDDet var natten til d. 20. marts 2003, at en koalition, anført af USA, invaderede Irak. I dagens Udsyn ser vi på hvordan det er gået med drømmen om at sætte det irakiske folk fri og genopbygge et Irak efter vestlig model. Og så ser vi nærmere på hvordan læringerne fra Irak kan bruges i nutidens verdensorden. Den svenske topdiplomat Hans Blix, som dengang var leder af FNs våben-inspektion i Irak, fastholdt stædigt, at der ikke var nogen beviser for masseødelæggelsesvåben i Irak og såede dermed tvivl om hele grundlaget for invasionen. Blix mener, at vi i dag stadig kan se de internationale konsekvenser af, at USA og dets allierede ikke lyttede til FN, bl.a. i Putins invasion af Ukraine. Tilrettelæggelse: Henrik Lerche, Tine Linde og Morten Narvedsen. Vært: Kirstine Dons Christensen. Lyddesign: Malte Winter Bothe og Jonas Johs Andersen. Redaktører: Johanne Hesseldahl og Tine Møller Sørensen.