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India soon to get nuclear submarine

India step closer to getting N-sub
THE TIMES OF INDIA 28 Dec 09 NEW DELHI: India got closer to deploying a nuclear-powered submarine by mid-2010 after the Russian Navy formally inducted the Akula-II class attack submarine `K-152 Nerpa’ on Monday. The over 12,000-tonne Nerpa is to be leased to Indian Navy for a 10-year period under a secret contract inked between India and Russia,………….. Acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines armed with nuclear-tipped missiles is critical for India to fulfil its long-standing quest to have a viable nuclear weapon triad — the capability to fire nukes from the air, land and sea.

India step closer to getting N-sub – India – The Times of India

December 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Pakistan’s secret help to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program

Khan adds to nuclear intrigue Sydney Morning Herald JEFFREY SMITH AND JOBY WARRICK December 29, 2009 NORTH KOREA has built a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment, according to a previously unpublicised account by the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb program, Abdul Qadeer Khan.It is a development that indicates Pyongyang opened a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s.Dr Khan also said North Korea might have been enriching uranium on a small scale by 2002, with ”maybe 3000 or even more” centrifuges, and that Pakistan helped the country with vital machinery, drawings and technical advice for at least six years. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Pakistan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Nuclear Pakistan at risk from sectarian strife

Threat of sectarian strife adds to nuclear-armed Pakistan’s woes World AP 28 Dec 09 “…………..The fourth attack on Pakistan’s Shiite minority in recent days fueled fears that a sectarian conflict alongside the nuclear-armed country’s battle with the Pakistani Taliban and other Sunni Muslim extremist groups could topple Zardari’s fragile civilian government, which was elected last year after eight years of military-led rule……………..”

Threat of sectarian strife adds to nuclear-armed Pakistan’s woes – World AP – MiamiHerald.com

December 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Pakistan, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Israel pondering about nuking Iran’s nuke sites?

Israel says regular bomb cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear facility http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-28 JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Iran’s newly-disclosed nuclear facility near Qom can withstand regular bombs. “The facility in Qom is in a bunker and therefore resistant to regular bombs,” local daily Haaretz quoted Barak as speaking to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee………………. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Aging nuclear power plant too costly to clean up

Potential for another meltdown? Nuclear Reaction 29 Dec 09 Debate over the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has developed into a complex game of chicken between executives with Entergy Nuclear Vermont and Democratic leaders of the state Legislature. Entergy, which has owned the Vernon facility since 2002, says if it does not win approval for its plan to sell Vermont Yankee and five other nuclear power plants to a spin-off company called Enexus, it will likely close the Vermont nuclear plant as scheduled in 2012. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Nuclear deception by South Korea – ignored by the West

Iran never enriched uranium at a level that could only represent an interest in nuclear weapons – but South Korea did.

South Korea let off for nuclear deceptions Wasatch Economics by Gareth Porter posted by rosethorn on December 26, 2009 In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades. Continue reading →

December 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, South Korea | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Russi keeping right of pre-emptive nuclear strike

Russia’s right for a preventive nuclear strike the key provision of the new doctrine.

Weak Russian Military Suggestive of Nuclear First Strike Doctrine The Market Oracle by Pravda, 27 Dec 09 In October 2009, Nicolai Patrushev, Russia’s Security Council Secretary, announced that the new military doctrine was on its way. The old one was dated back in 2000 and written even earlier, under Yeltsin. Patrushev named the announcement of Russia’s right for a preventive nuclear strike the key provision of the new doctrine. He kept his word, and this provision does exist in the text of the doctrine approved by the Security Council. Continue reading →

December 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Arrested American men may have plotted nuclear terrorist attack

Detained Americans had nuclear power site map, say Pakistan police Guardian.co.uk 27 Dec 09
Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities.

The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington DC area, were arrested in Pakistan earlier this month. Pakistani police and government officials have made a series of escalating and, at times, seemingly contradictory claims about the men’s intentions. US officials have been far more cautious, but they, too, are looking at charging the men. Continue reading →

December 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Pakistan, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Russia planning lucrative uranium deals with USA

Russia sees 2010 uranium deals with U.S. utilities
MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Reuters) by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Mike Nesbit– Russia’s state uranium trader Techsnabexport (Tenex) will sign next year at least three deals worth around $1 billion to supply uranium directly to U.S. utilities, Russia’s state nuclear firm Rosatom said on Friday. Continue reading →

December 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, uranium | Leave a comment

Russia’s secret history of nuclear radiation testing

Thousands died. These people were used as guinea pigs, tested, and then left to die slowly of cancer

Soviet Human Nuclear Experiments Reported Global changes ruining the world, September 25, 2009 According to recently released reports, some 45,000 people, mainly Soviet soldiers, were deliberately exposed in 1954 to radiation from a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima just nine years before. Continue reading →

December 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

USA researching (?preparing for ) radiological attacks

Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures OHS Occupational Health and Safety 25 Dec 09 “…… Nine contracts worth up to $400 million have been awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop more effective tests and devices to measure how much radiation people absorb after a nuclear or radiological incident. The contracts’ first phase will be worth $35 million; the $400 million covers five years.

Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures — Occupational Health & Safety

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Allegations of atrocities in UK, USA nuclear radiation tests

Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action

Babies and Stillborns Used in Nuclear Experiments British newspapers reported that some 6,000 stillborn babies and dead infants were sent from hospitals in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South America, the UK and the US between the 1950s and 1970s without the permission of parents for use in nuclear experiments. According to the reports, the US Department of Energy used the bodies and some body parts for tests to monitor radioactivity levels of the element Strotium 90 in humans. Continue reading →

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radioactive | 2 Comments

India secretive about its poor nuclear safety record

the United States which singed a nuclear deal with New Delhi last year has been praising India as a responsible atomic actor

INDIA’S NUCLEAR SAFETY A GRAVE THREAT Pakistan Daily Dec 25, 2009 WHY WORLD IS OBLIVIOUS OF INDIAN NUCLEAR DANGERS Although responsible nuclear states have adopted strict measures at their nuclear plants so as to save the lives of their employees and the nearby population, yet India’s record of poor nuclear safety has surprised the international community in the era of ongoing nuclear age. Continue reading →

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium tested on soldiers in Australia

An Australian royal commission first discovered the use of depleted uranium in atomic tests at Maralinga

Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action

UK Admits Soldiers Used in Radiation Experiments The UK Ministry of Defense admitted on 12 May that it exposed British, Australian and New Zealand servicemen to radiation in tests during the 1950s and 1960s. Continue reading →

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

USA’s nuclear deal rejected by Iran

Iran rejects nuclear swap deadline set by U.S.http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-24 Iran rejected the December deadline for Iran to accept uranium swap deal.

·Iran is still waiting for response to its nuclear fuel swap proposal.

·U.S. has threatened another UN sanctions if Iran does not abide by the year-end deadline.

TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Wednesday rejected a nuclear swap deadline set by the United States, the state-run IRNA news agency reported……….. Continue reading →