Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) led 24 Democrats who introduced a bill Wednesday that supports the continued value of arms control and condemns Russia for suspending the bilateral New START nuclear arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington.
The bill, which was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, calls for the administration of President Joe Biden (D) to ask Russia to resume participation in New START and for the White House to “pursue new multilateral arms control efforts involving the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council,” including China, among other things.
Bonnie Jenkins, the under secretary of state for arms control and international security, was booed off a stage last week at Victoria University in Wellington, N.Z., by protesters who supported Palestians and opposed the trilateral AUKUS partnership under which the U.S. and the United Kingdom will help Australia acquire nuclear-powered, conventionally armed attack submarines, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Jenkins had been scheduled to give a speech titled “meeting 21st Century Security Challenges Together” to an audience of about 100 people, the Herald reported.
The Aiken, S.C.-based Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness elected several new board members, the local nuclear interest group wrote in a press release.
The new members are: Kenny Lee is a mechanical equipment engineer with Merrick & Co.’s nuclear service and technology business unit; and Scott McKay dean of the College of Science and Engineering and the assistant vice chancellor of research at the University of South Carolina – Aiken.
Forest Mahan from Aiken Technical College is the group’s new board chair and Jesus Mancilla from Savannah River Nuclear Solutions is the new vice chair. Charlie Hansen will serve another term as treasurer, according to the group’s press release.
George Kramer, a former theoretical physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Died on Feb. 29 at the age of 89, according to an obituary posted online this week.
Kramer worked at Livermore from 1962 until 1996, according to the obituary.
