The scientists of the "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists" are sounding the knell. Will they at last be heard? They keep resetting the "Doomsday Clock" by noting the events of the previous year. In 1991, after the Cold War ended, they placed the long hand of the clock at 17 minutes to midnight. Since then, it has moved only forward. In 2015 it stood at 3 minutes to midnight; in 2017 at 2 minutes; in 2020 100 seconds (as announced in January, a month before the invasion of Ukraine!). And now it (...)

Published in French on 4 October 2024
The firmest commitment, perhaps the only one that our new Prime Minister clearly made at the National Assembly - applauded by the far-right and the right - was to carry out the wishes of President Macron in nuclear matters. So, despite a period of financial weakness, France will perpetuate the nuclear arsenal, permanently "modernising" it at a cost that keeps on growing, and relaunch the nuclear power programme with 6 new EPR reactors. It seems (...)

Dear All of You,
Our family, not being a mafia one, comprises in general people with diverse opinions, free to think, to act, to abstain or to vote according to their understanding. Besides, I know that my age - recently reaching 80 - confers on me no particular right to give instructions, for voting or other things. Nevertheless, allow me to express a grave concern that I have in the current situation where the National Assembly has been dissolved for a new election.
It is possible that (...)