Part of the problem is that the emergency planners themselves, personally, are overwhelmed psychologically by the thought of nuclear catastrophe.

Most of us were groomed not only on images of nuclear catastrophe, but also on images and knowledge of the Holocaust.

Yet the international community had not sufficiently recognized that danger, even though the devastating effects of a nuclear catastrophe were well known.

BERLIN The Fukushima disaster in March reminded the world, 25 years after Chernobyl, that nuclear energy is anything but clean, secure, and affordable. Unfortunately, another nuclear catastrophe was needed to trigger a fresh debate on the use of nuclear power.

The Catastrophe!

The Catastrophe!

29. The Court recognizes that the environment is under daily threat and that the use of nuclear weapons could constitute a catastrophe for the environment.

It's a catastrophe.

Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, which had a serious political impact and changed attitudes to nuclear energy all over the world.

What is the Catastrophe?

What is the Catastrophe?

So this is a catastrophe.

... and then a catastrophe happened.

The Politics of Cosmic Catastrophe

When the Greatest Catastrophe befalls

When the Greatest Catastrophe befalls

Sixty Years of the Palestinian Catastrophe

Then, when the Great Catastrophe comes

Then, when the Great Catastrophe comes

Thamood and Aad denied the Catastrophe.

Thamood and Aad denied the Catastrophe.

But when the Great Catastrophe comes,

But when the Great Catastrophe comes,

Ukraine, which experienced the worst technological catastrophe in history the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear facility is prepared to participate actively in the establishment of such a global mechanism at all levels.

Convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to all humanity and that their use would have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that they will never be produced again,

Iran s emergence as a nuclear weapons state would almost certainly tempt several of the main Sunni Muslim countries (Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia all come to mind) to embark on a crash program to acquire or develop nuclear arms of their own. A Middle East comprising several nuclear weapons states is a recipe for catastrophe.

Although nuclear power ranks as a clean source of energy, it is accompanied by the terrible shadow of nuclear war, which emerged from Japan s last reckoning with nuclear catastrophe, 65 years ago at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and which lends it an automatic association with mass destruction and death. Moreover, the secrecy that attends all things nuclear has left people not knowing enough to feel confident.

This is a catastrophe waiting to happen again.

What will show you what is the Catastrophe?

What will show you what is the Catastrophe?

During the tragic catastrophe in Japan last March, CTBTO data helped local authorities to issue timely alerts. The CTBTO continued to help by monitoring the global dispersion of radioactivity from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

CAMBRIDGE Financial commentators have likened Japan s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe to derivatives role in the 2008 financial meltdown. The resemblance is clear enough each activity yields big benefits and carries a tiny but explosive risk.

During this chapter one, there was a high level of public awareness about the potential of nuclear catastrophe, and an indelible image was implanted in our collective minds that, in fact, a nuclear holocaust would be absolutely globally destructive and could, in some ways, mean the end of civilization as we know it.

The dangerous Cold War era that had followed might have ended, but nuclear threats remained he firmly believed that the current generation could build a world of ever expanding development, security and human rights, but such a world could be put irrevocably out of reach by a nuclear catastrophe in a major city.

The twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe reminds us that we should not forget the horrible lesson taught to the world in 1986. We should do everything in our power to make all nuclear facilities safe and secure.

And she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a catastrophe.

Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure error rather than terror.

My roommate had a single story of Africa a single story of catastrophe.

But when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense, etc.),

But when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense, etc.),

Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, and they remained prostrate in their dwellings.

Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, and they remained prostrate in their dwellings.

The magnitude of the catastrophe requires a commensurate response from the global community.

Conscious of the long term nature of the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was a major technological catastrophe in terms of its scope and created humanitarian, environmental, social, economic and health consequences in the affected countries,

Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, so that they lay prostrate in their dwellings.