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Utah to suffer again the fallout from nuclear weapons testing?

there simply is no military requirement for new nuclear weapons capabilities that might require the resumption of U.S. nuclear testing.

Nuclear Weapons Testing is Back on the Table in Utah, Blog for Iowa, Editor’s Note, 6 Aug 2010, Nuclear weapons testing is back on the election agenda in Utah, the reddest of red states, home of many “downwinders” who suffered cancer from the fallout of our previous regime of nuclear weapons testing in Nevada. Continue reading →

August 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | 1 Comment

In Pictures: Hiroshima atomic bombing anniversary

IN PICTURES: Hiroshima bombing 65th anniversary
Hiroshima bombing 65th anniversary – The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com

August 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | AUSTRALIA, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Worldwide nuclear disarmament – call from U.N.

UN calls for for worldwide nuclear disarmament, Radio New Zealand News 2010 : 08 : 07 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has called for worldwide nuclear disarmament during a ceremony marking 65 years since the bombing of Hiroshima.Representatives from the United States, France and Britain attended the annual memorial service in Hiroshima, for the first time.Mr Ban said the anniversary is a timely reminder to world leaders to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Radio New Zealand News : Stories : 2010 : 08 : 07 : UN calls for for worldwide nuclear disarmament

August 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | disarmament, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Republican Senator against Vietnam being allowed to enrich uranium

Senior Republican Criticizes State on Vietnam Nuclear Deal – Washington Wire – WSJ, By Jay Solomon, 7 Aug 2010, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today criticized an Obama administration plan to forge a nuclear-cooperation agreement with Vietnam.U.S. officials have told the Wall Street Journal in recent days that the State Department is in advanced discussions with Vietnam to share nuclear fuels and technologies in a deal that would preserve Hanoi’s right to enrich uranium indigenously. Continue reading →

August 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear weapons, uranium | Leave a comment

Burma’s military trained by Russia in nuclear sciences

‘Russia trained 4,000 Myanmar nuclear officers’ – Hindustan Times, Bangkok, August 06, 2010 Russia has trained 4,185 Myanmar military officers in nuclear sciences over the past decade but only a “sprinkling” of scholars have pursued the positive uses of the energy source, a Myanmar academic said on Friday. Continue reading →

August 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Burma, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Nuclear weapons do not make a country safer

Most European countries do not have nuclear weapons, and nor does Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Are these therefore in greater danger? On the contrary, the London bombings of 7th July 2005 were attacks on a country with nuclear weapons, while the attacks of 11th September 2001 were against the country with by far the largest nuclear arsenal in the world…..

The English Church is, actually, against the replacement of Trident | CatholicHerald.co.uk David Lindsay, 6 August 2010, ” ……….Like radiological, chemical and biological weapons, nuclear weapons are morally repugnant simply in themselves. They offer not the slightest defence against a range of loosely knit, if at all connected, terrorist organisations pursuing a range of loosely knit, if at all connected, aims in relation to a range of countries while actually governing no state. Continue reading →

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

Plea for disarmament – Japan’s children speak

VIDEO MillionPleas A reminder of the real significance of today: 65 years since Hiroshima August 6, 2010 , by Croakey Today is an important day. Thanks to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons for reminding us of the day’s significance.
The first pleas come from Japanese children at the Hiroshima Peace Park together with one of the survivors of the original nuclear attack. Join them at http://www.millionpleas.com.” MillionPleas

A reminder of the real significance of today: 65 years since Hiroshima – Croakey

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

University of California designs technologies for nuclear holocaust

should the University of California be managing laboratories that design the latest technologies for nuclear holocaust?

Higher Learning: How to Blow Up the World, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Norman Solomon:, 6 August 2010, On my way to the Los Alamos National Laboratory a few years ago, I found it listed in a New Mexico phone book–under “University of California.”

Since the early 1940s, UC has managed the nation’s top laboratories for designing nuclear bombs. Today, California’s public university system is still immersed in the nuclear weapons business. Continue reading →

August 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Religion and ethics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

USA Dept of Energy wants to offload weapons plutonium onto commercial reactors

The Department of Energy is looking for ways to dispose of plutonium from nuclear weapons….Ed Lyman, senior staff scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the mixed-oxide fuel is “too dirty, dangerous and expensive.”

TVA hears public worries over Ala. plant plutonium – BusinessWeek, 4 Aug 2010, TANNER, Ala. A public hearing on the Tennessee Valley Authority possibly using reprocessed weapons plutonium to power some reactors in north Alabama and Tennessee attracted about 70 people, many with questions about safety. Continue reading →

August 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | technology, USA | AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, plutonium, reactors, reprocessing | Leave a comment

Plan to ship radioactive bus-sized nuclear generators across Greatr Lakes

Opponents of the plan argue that the school-bus sized generators are too dangerous to ship across waterways that millions of people in Canada and the U.S. rely on for drinking water. Some worry that it will also open up the lakes as a main thoroughfare for other nuclear shipments.

Public hearing delays planned nuclear shipment, Montreal Gazette, 4 Aug 2010, TORONTO — A controversial plan to ship 16 aging radioactive steam generators across Ontario’s Great Lakes has been delayed so a public hearing can take place. Continue reading →

August 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, opposition to nuclear | antinuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

Time for a positive step with Iran nuclear deal?

The perhaps best indicator would be Iran’s willingness to allow full, open, and unrestricted IAEA inspections of its confirmed and suspected nuclear facilities. That would be the first step toward what could be a watershed deal in engaging Iran with the outside world and scaling back the nuclear program threatening Middle Eastern and global security.

Why Iran Might Finally Be Ready for a Nuclear Deal – International – The Atlantic, Max Fisher, 28 July, 2010, It’s difficult to know how seriously to take Iran’s offer to halt its program of enriching medical-grade uranium in exchange for a nuclear fuel swap. Continue reading →

August 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, reactor, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear disarmament movement revving up

The nuclear disarmament movement has taken on new momentum, especially in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only two cities to ever suffer a nuclear attack.

Ban, Okada confirm effort to eradicate nukes,The Japan Times Online, Aug. 4, 2010, By MASAMI ITOS U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon confirmed Tuesday with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada that Japan and the world body will aim for the abolition of nuclear weapons…… Continue reading →

August 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, disarmament, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Israel a wild card on possible strike on Iran’s nuclear sites

Israel more likely to strike Iran than U.S., analysts say, Washington Examiner, By: Sara A. Carter, August 3, 2010While the U.S. military has developed a first-strike plan to take out Iranian nuclear facilities, the political and security consequences of taking that step make it an unlikely option, analysts said.
But the wild card in the deck remains Israel, and there is a growing sense among experts that the Jewish state make act first, and explain later, if the threat of a nuclear strike from Tehran continues to grow……..

Israel more likely to strike Iran than U.S., analysts say | Washington Examiner

August 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

USA wants UN inspections for Syria’s possible nuclear sites

IAEA should look at mandatory Syria inspection: U.S. By Adrian Croft, LONDON Aug 3, 2010 LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. envoy to the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday it should consider pressing for a mandatory special inspection in Syria to resolve allegations of covert atomic activity.A confidential International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, obtained by Reuters in May, said Syria had revealed some details of past nuclear experiments to U.N. inspectors. But it was still blocking access to a desert site where secret atomic activity may have taken place.

U.S. intelligence reports said the desert site, bombed to rubble by Israel in 2007, had been a North Korean-designed nuclear reactor under construction, geared for atomic bomb fuel.

Syria allowed the IAEA to inspect the site, known as either al-Kibar or Dair Alzour, in June 2008 but has not allowed the agency to revisit it since then…….The IAEA lacks legal means to get Syria to open up because the country’s basic safeguards treaty covers only its one declared atomic facility, an old research reactor IAEA should look at mandatory Syria inspection: U.S. | Reuters

August 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Syria, weapons and war | nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Lingering legacy of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing

“I wanted to pass on the fact that the atomic bombing does not end only with the sufferings of the generation of people who were directly exposed.”

Hibakusha writes to his dead child, BY HAJIMU TAKEDA THE ASAHI SHIMBUN, 3 Aug 2010, An 81-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has written a letter addressed to his stillborn daughter, expressing his anguish at the possibility that his exposure to radiation was responsible for her fate. Continue reading →

August 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment