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International airport to get full-body radiation scanners

Newark Liberty Airport to receive full-body scanners January 1, 10: Essex County Conservative Examiner, Terry Hurlbut Newark Liberty International Airport which has always been an early adopter of the latest security equipment and measures, will be among the first to receive the new full-body scanners designed for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Continue reading →

January 1, 2010 Posted by | health, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

illegality of nuclear weapons

After 23 years of suffering, let Mordechai Vanunu become a free man. War should cease to be an admissible social act. Under international law war is still legal, and indiscriminate killing of women, children and non-combatants are illegal. Rather than taking “false” nationalistic pride in nuclear weapons, let us nurture the sense of belonging to the mankind and unequivocally oppose the nuclear weapons of mass destruction which is a threat to the age old human civilization.

Nuclear weapons of mass destruction – an end of everything truth Dive, by Ram Prasad 1 Jan 2010 |The nuclear club consists of nine nations out of which 5 (USA, Russia, UK, France and China) are internationally recognized nuclear weapons states conferred by nuclear non proliferation treaty. India, Pakistan and Israel have declined to sign the treaty and have tested their nuclear weapons. North Korea withdrew from the treaty in 2003. Continue reading →

January 1, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | , , , | Leave a comment

India and Pakistan swap nuclear site lists

Pak, India exchange nuclear sites lists The Nation By: Kaswar Klasra | Published: January 02, 2010 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and India exchanged the lists of their nuclear installations on Friday for the 19th time. Continue reading →

January 1, 2010 Posted by | India, Pakistan, safety | , | Leave a comment

South African protest against nuclear plant

South African protest against nuclear plant   Beyond Nuclear, by Linda Gunter 29 Dec 2009 A rally in South Africa to stop a new nuclear plant Residents opposed to the building of a nuclear power station at Bantamsklip on the southern Cape coast staged a protest march through Hermanus on December 19, 2009 and handed a memorandum to the Overstrand municipality, saying the local authority had failed to represent their interests by supporting the proposed nuclear power plant.

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January 1, 2010 Posted by | politics, South Africa | , | Leave a comment