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Time for Israel to own up about its nuclear weapons

Israel is believed to be the only Middle East country to possess atomic weapons. Its government neither confirms nor denies their existence

Nuclear Scrutiny to turn to Israel. WSJ.com By JAY SOLOMON, 12 Sept 10, WASHINGTON—Arab states are preparing to press for far greater United Nations controls over Israel’s nuclear program, in a move that could complicate the Obama administration’s broader nonproliferation campaign and Middle East peace drive. Continue reading →

September 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

USA’s empire of weapons sales – world-wide

The recent announcement that the U.S. will supply Saudi Arabia with a staggering $80 billion worth of arms in the next few years is paralleled by its plans to become India’s main arms provider

India: U.S. Completes Global Military Structure, Scoop News, 10 September 2010, Rick Rozoff “……..the U.S. is arming India and Pakistan, regional military rivals possessing nuclear weapons outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime, as it is deepening defense ties with other nations on both sides of local conflicts and disputes: Continue reading →

September 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Secret Manhattan Project caused danger for thousands of years

In 2000, the National Academy of Sciences declared that the Manhattan Project sites would pose risks to humans for tens of thousands of years into the future.

How Little Boy Atom Bomb Grew Up in Company Towns: Bloomberg, By Lewis Lapham – Sep 10, 2010 With Albert Einstein urging President Roosevelt to beat the Nazis to an atom bomb, the government created the Manhattan Project.Top secret research sites included Hanford, Washington, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and uranium-enrichment facilities in Tennessee. Continue reading →

September 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Christina anti-nuclear activists face gaol in UK

these men and women of the faith know something most of the world has forgotten: that nuclear weapons are as menacing as ever to all God’s creatures, great and small.

Aging Plowshares Anti-Nuke Activists Face Years in Prison | TakePart, Adam Trunell, 10 sept 10, – “…….This past week in England, a priest and two activists were arrested after they cut through a perimeter fence at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Berkshire, then knelt and prayed on the restricted grounds. Ranging in age from 43 to 63 years old, the protestors were indicted and charged as the Plowshares Movement observes its 30th year of nonviolent activism against the world’s most dangerous weapon. Continue reading →

September 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Religion and ethics, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Israel estimated to have nuclear material for 150 weapons

While Israel has never acknowledged having atomic weapons, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington- based policy study group, estimates that the Jewish state possesses enough material for between 100 and 170 weapons.

Nuclear Hypocrisy: UN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel’s Nuclear Capability, Veterans Today, September 8, 2010 posted by Michael Leon · World’s worst nuclear offender gets another pass -By Jonathan Tirone, September 06, 2010 (Bloomberg) -Sept, 03, 2010– United Nations investigators, ordered to write a report about Israel’s atomic capabilities, said they couldn’t compile enough information to assess the extent of the country’s nuclear program. Continue reading →

September 9, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

More uranium workers eligible for nuclear compensation

Mallinckrodt refined uranium at its plant in north St. Louis during World War II for the nation’s first atomic bombs, and continued work there and at other locations until 1966. Waste from uranium processing at Mallinckrodt was dumped at the airport site.

Compensation for nuclear-bomb workers expanded to new site, BY TIM O’NEIL , September 8, 2010 St. louis • Special federal compensation for workers who handled material for nuclear weapons has been expanded to include those who worked at a waste-storage site near Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

Former workers or their survivors are eligible for $150,000 and payment of medical expenses Continue reading →

September 9, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, enriched, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

A sober look at policy on Iran’s nuclear programme

IAEA inspections and sanctions may not be a perfect strategy, but given the alternatives, they seem to be the best horse in this race.

Iran: 1, IAEA: Center for Strategic and International Studies, By Kevin Kallmyer, Sep 8, 2010, In a recent IAEA report, the IAEA disclosed that the agency does not have the confidence to declare Iran’s nuclear program exclusively peaceful.The report states that Iran has not provided sufficient cooperation to permit the agency to fulfill its mission and confirm that Iran’s program is peaceful, and is the IAEA’s third report in a row to draw this conclusion. Continue reading →

September 9, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Looming prospect of a failed nuclear state – Pakistan

And the specter of the world’s first failed nuclear state, coupled with the nightmare scenario of younger Islamist officers pushing the three stars aside and taking over in the name of Islam, was no longer idle cocktail chatter.

World’s first failed nuclear state?. “friday-lunch-club”:De Borchgrave:, September 8, 2010 “…Pakistan is reeling under the most devastating national catastrophe since independence 63 years ago. Continue reading →

September 9, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Pakistan, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Retirement time for Germany’s old nuclear reactors

Nearly two thirds of German citizens oppose nuclear power, and 150,000 people participated in the recent big demonstration against it. It remains to be seen whether the government has the power or the mandate to force through its wishes.

Time for Germany’s nuclear reactors to retire | Greenpeace International, by jmckeati – September 7, 2010 So, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced at the weekend that her government will seek extension to the country’s nuclear reactors’ lifetimes of between 8 and 14 years. Germany’s reactors are the nuclear old men of Europe, more than ready for retirement. All nuclear reactors are dangerous and the older they are the more dangerous they become. Frau Merkel is making a grave mistake by seeking to extend the operating life of Germany´s nuclear reactors. Continue reading →

September 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Germany, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

UK govt’s secret research into dead nuclear test veterans

The UK Government is battling a High Court compensation bid by 1,000 veterans and widows for health problems.

The Ministry of Defense insists almost none was exposed to dangerous levels of radiation and the high rates of cancer, death and birth defects are a coincidence.

Nuke test veterans health files to be probed after they die, mirror.co.uk, By Susie Boniface 5/09/2010 Scientists keep tabs in secret A nuclear test veteran has discovered the Government has ordered secret research into his health – after he dies. Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | 1 Comment

Nuclear weapons are no deterrent to war

A new study, The Changing Political Utility of Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Threats from 1970 to 2010, by Samuel Black at the Washington-based Stimson Center, challenges this myth head-on

The myth that has gone nuclear, livemint.com, 5 Sept 10, Nuclear weapons have increased the potential of both conventional war and asymmetrical attacksW Pal SidhuAmong modern myths, perhaps none is more fantastic than the notion that nuclear weapons are solely responsible for the absence of war between nuclear-armed antagonists…… Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | resources - print | antinuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Secrecy, even to Kansas City residents, about huge weapons production

Kansas City produces parts for nuclear weapons. We craft huge proportions — 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for these weapons of mass destruction……, Kansas City for the most part has settled into benign ignorance that the plant even exists.

Consider KC’s dark nuclear secret, MARY SANCHEZ, The Kansas City Star , 6 Sept 10, For more than six decades, Kansas City has kept a volatile shrouded secret, even from itself. Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Kansas city – farmland to be given over to nuclear weapons making

“There’s no justification … to the local economy that justifies putting the whole planet at risk,”

Farmland readied for a nuclear crop, By KEVIN COLLISON, The Kansas City Star, 6 Sept 10, Bulldozers are rolling on a billion-dollar project that will transform a former soybean field in south Kansas City into America’s only privately developed plant making parts for nuclear weapons……. Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

USA – nuclear radiation meltdown area to be cleaned up

One of the reactors, which had no containment dome to prevent radiation from leaking into the environment, experienced a partial meltdown in 1959. There were other problems over the years, including two more accidents, burn pits with radioactive contaminants and a rocket fuel explosion that killed two scientists and resulted in a $650 million fine after Rocketdyne illegally disposed of the hazardous waste

Deal to clean up LA-area nuclear accident site, Google hosted news, By NOAKI SCHWARTZ (AP) – 4 Sept 10 LOS ANGELES — State and federal officials announced Friday a potentially historic agreement to remove all radioactive contamination from a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959 at a rocket testing site just outside Los Angeles. Continue reading →

September 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

USA’s dangerous and useless addiction to nuclear weapons

In his book “Dangerous Ground: America’s Failed Arms Control Policy, from FDR to Obama,” Ritter pinpoints the major challenges facing the international community in the post-Bush era and presents a blueprint for confronting them.

‘US addicted to nuclear weapons’, PressTV -Sep 2, 2010, Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter says the US is addicted to nuclear weapons to use them as deterrence against its imaginary enemies. Continue reading →

September 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment