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Radioactive accidents Nuclear accidents Apr 12th 2011, 16:51 by The Economist online How serious is the Fukushima nuclear leak? JAPAN'S authorities have said that the ongoing problems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant now justify a rating of 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), the highest possible. But INES can be confusing: it takes into account many different fac..

A force for good France and Britain are leading the intervention in Libya. Rightly so Mar 24th 2011 | from the print edition WHETHER it was out of rashness or conviction, Nicolas Sarkozy has certainly acted boldly. The French president was first to recognise the “national council” in Benghazi, first to talk of the need for air strikes and first to send planes to repel Muammar Qaddafi’s ma..

Barack Obama's energy policy Reheated proposals Mar 30th 2011, 16:27 by E.M. | WASHINGTON, DC FOR 40-odd years now, Barack Obama lamented earlier this month, American politicians have banged on endlessly about the evils of America’s dependence on imported oil, without doing very much about it. It was time, he declared, to change that. Today he unveiled a package of initiatives that would cut ..

Economics focus The cost of calamity The economic impact of natural disasters is often short-lived. Will this be the case in Japan? Mar 17th 2011 | from the print edition THE full extent of the damage from the tsunami that hit Japan’s north-eastern coast on March 11th is not yet known, but early estimates of the cost are big. Rebuilding homes, factories, roads and bridges could cost as much a..

Bombs on Libya The barrage begins Mar 20th 2011, 11:42 by M.S. THE FIRST stage of the “multiphase” Operation Odyssey Dawn may already be over. At 19.00 GMT on Saturday evening, American and British naval vessels launched a co-ordinated Tomahawk cruise missile attack on Libyan air-defence systems. At least 110 missiles struck at 20 command and control sites that had been targeted earlier in ..

The post-earthquake nuclear crisis The Japan syndrome Mar 15th 2011, 17:05 by The Economist online THE precise details of what has gone wrong at the nuclear power plants in north-eastern Japan following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck the area on March 11th remain hazy. But a picture is beginning to emerge as events unfold and information is made available by the plants' operators and ..

After the earthquake The tension mounts Mar 13th 2011, 13:36 by H.T. and K.N.C. | TOKYO THE risk of a nuclear accident at a huge power plant in disaster-strewn north-eastern Japan has risen for a second day on March 13th. This time it involves a type of fuel known as Mox (mixed-oxide) that is considered highly experimental. The government, which is under huge pressure to deal with the tragedy c..

Tablet computers The iPad's (and Steve Jobs's) second coming Mar 2nd 2011, 21:01 by The Economist online | SAN FRANCISCO WHEN the iPad was launched last year, it was dubbed “the Jesus tablet” because of the quasi-religious fervour with which it was greeted by consumers worldwide, who have since snapped up more than 15m of them. Now Apple wants to create even more converts. On March 2nd Stev..

The ties that bind America’s armed forces may sometimes succeed where its diplomats cannot Military-to-military relationships Feb 24th 2011 | from the print edition NOBODY knows whether Egypt’s army will steer the country to free and fair elections. But there is less doubt about its role in minimising conflict during the demonstrations that eventually toppled Hosni Mubarak, the country’s p..

LESS than two years ago, at the G8 summit in L’Aquila in Italy, prime ministers and presidents sat down to talk about world trade and food security with Muammar Qaddafi. Today Libya’s tyrant is paying mercenaries to shoot his people in the streets like “rats” and “cockroaches”. Gangs of soldiers have roamed Tripoli, the capital, in open-backed trucks searching for people to machineg..