France’s pro-nuke President dismisses human rights concerns
France, Kazakhs ink military transit, energy deals By PETER LEONARD (AP) –Associated Press Writer Angela Charlton contributed to this report from Paris., Kazakhstan 6 Oct 09 French President Nicolas Sarkozy scored a diplomatic coup Tuesday during a visit to energy-rich Kazakhstan, overseeing an agreement to allow military hardware for French forces fighting in Afghanistan to pass through Kazakh territory and clinching a raft of lucrative energy deals.Facing criticism over its human rights record, Kazakhstan won a measure of support from Sarkozy…………. Continue reading
North Korea: no bomb soon – but uranium enrichment continues
A look at North Korea’s nuclear arms ambitions
“…………….NUCLEAR WEAPONS Even though it has exploded nuclear devices, North Korea has not shown that it has a working nuclear bomb.Experts said they do not believe the North has the ability to miniaturise an atomic weapon to place on a missile, but the secretive state has been trying to develop such a warhead. Continue reading
Complex web of Iran and nuclear problems
Untangling Iran’s Nuclear Web Carnegie Endowment Dmitri Trenin The Moscow Times, October 5, 2009 – “……………..Any strategy needs to proceed with a few basic truths about nuclear weapons and countries that seek them. Nations seeking to join the “nuclear weapons club” are in quest for security and status. In this sense, Iran is no different from India, Pakistan, China or France. Continue reading
China suppresses anti-nuclear activists
Uranium policy a hypocrisy The Age David Noonan 5 Oct 09 “……..In July, a well-known environmental activist and recipient in 2006 of the prestigious Nuclear-Free Future Award, Sun Xiaodi, and his daughter Sun Dunbai were jailed and sent to a ”re-education through labour” camp for their efforts to expose corruption and contamination in China’s nuclear industry. Continue reading
Wind, dust, carry depleted uranium far and wide
Australia ‘uranium’ dust concerns
muzzylogic Oct 3, 2009 ‘Environmentalists have raised concerns that another giant dust storm blowing its way across eastern Australia may contain radioactive particles.
It is argued that sediment whipped up from Australia’s centre may be laced with material from a uranium mine.
Scientists have played down concerns, saying there is little to worry about.’ Full story here
Well, now this is interesting. The argument against the spread is the fact that uranium ore dust is going to be too dense to be carried by the wind. However, if that turns out not to be the case then it will have serious implications for the clap trap nonsense the US military likes to spout as regard the use of depleted uranium munitions.
Clap trap because whether or not the dust from the mine tailings is too dense, the dust from DU is much finer grain and was deposited much closer to inhabited areas to start with. Of course, reports of the presence of abnormally high levels of uranium in the urine of people in Iraq and Afghanistan is a total coincidence to start with…
If uranium is found in the Australian dust, then the military argument will have no credibility at all.
Australia ‘uranium’ dust concerns – MPACUK :: Muslim Discussion Forum
“atoms for peace” – nuke industry leading to war
The “peaceful” atom leading to war with Iran
Beyond Nuclear 2 Oct 09 The discovery of a second uranium enrichment facility in Qum, Iran prompted the government of Saudi Arabia to open its air space for potential Israeli air attacks on a growing number of nuclear infrastructure targets in Iran. Continue reading
Iran allows inspectors, but says no country should have nuke weapons
Iran Agrees to Nuclear Plant Inspections, Enrichment
Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) Ladane Nasseri and Gregory Viscusi–– Iran agreed to allow international inspectors to visit its new nuclear fuel plant within the next two weeks and will meet with negotiators for the U.S. and other leading United Nations powers later this month, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said. Continue reading
Complexity of the Iranian nuclear problem
A bird’s-eye view of the Iranian nuclear problem AJC September 30, 2009, by Jay Bookman “………………Long term, the best hope for stopping Iran short of a nuclear weapon would be a change of government in Tehran. Continue reading
Russia has power to influence Iran on nuclear issue
Russia has powerful levers to pull in persuading Iran to open up
Russia has the most powerful set of levers of all the countries cajoling Iran to become more open about its nuclear programme. By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Telegraph.co.uk 27 Sep 2009 Continue reading
Imbalance of nuclear states maintaining arsenals, while condemning Iran
Obama and Nukes, talking the Talk, Awaiting the Walk
Thursday 24 September 2009
by: David Krieger | Miller-McCune
Of course it’s appropriate and accurate, I think, to welcome the kind of rhetorical leadership that President Obama has so far exhibited, particularly in his Prague speech of April 5. One has to hope that this is more than a rhetorical posture, but represents, as he said in the speech it did, a serious commitment to take concrete steps toward the objective of a world free from nuclear weapons. But one has to look at two other factors here that make me, at any rate, somewhat less optimistic about the real tangible results. Continue reading
Iran’s previously secret nuclear plant a concern to the West
Iran confirms new nuke plant, Obama sees it as not peaceful
SINDH TODAY September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH/VIENNA – Hours after it was confirmed that Iran has a second, previously unknown, nuclear enrichment plant, US President Barack Obama Friday said the size of the new plant was “inconsistent” with Iranian claims that it was being used to produce civilian nuclear power. Continue reading
China suggests:finance nuclear for poor countries, to beat global warming
Nuclear issues on the table in New York
World Nuclear News 23 September 2009
China wants to use nuclear power vigorously to fight climate change – with financial support from wealthier nations, according to a speech delivered to the UN yesterday. Continue reading
Gordon Brown touts “atoms for peace” in New York
In Quotes: UN General Assembly
BBC News 23 September 2009
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN
“……………Britain will insist that the onus on non-nuclear states is that, in future, it is for them to prove they are not developing nuclear weapons.Second, Britain will offer civil nuclear power to non nuclear states ready to renounce any plans for nuclear weapons: helping non-nuclear states acquire what President Eisenhower so memorably called “atoms for peace.”
‘Peaceful’ Nuclear Tests – legacy of disease and birth defects
Effects Of ‘Peaceful’ Nuclear Tests Felt Decades Later
Radio Free Europe ByDuring the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union each explored the possibility of using nuclear explosions for “peaceful” purposes.
Their programs yielded little real benefit, but left behind radioactive footprints and trails of contamination from the nearly 150 tests from the projects — “Plowshare” in the United States and, more cryptically, “Program No. 7” in the Soviet Union. Continue reading
New Zealand committed to remain nuclear free
Key to stress nuclear-free commitment in UN speech
stuff.co.nz By TRACY WATKINS – The Dominion Post 21/09/2009 Prime Minister John Key will use his first speech to the United Nations to underscore his Government’s commitment to a nuclear-free New Zealand.In the first speech by a National prime minister to the United Nations General Assembly in nearly 15 years.Mr Key will reaffirm New Zealand’s anti-nuclear credentials and emphasise its determination to keep an independent foreign policy.
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