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French Naval Base Opens Today

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French Naval Base Opens Today

Khaleej Times T. Ramavarman26 May 2009 “……………….The base to be manned by about 500 personnel, drawn mainly from the French Navy, will be inaugurated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy……………………….The minister said the UAE is pursuing a transparent and peaceful nuclear power programmes, and has emerged as a model to many other countries in this regard…………………….

US nuclear reactor builders GE and Westinghouse Electric Co, a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp, are also trying to get a big share of the expected $40 billion market.

French firms plan to compete for the business. France’s Total, Suez and state nuclear reactor maker Areva said last year they planned to develop two third-generation nuclear reactors in the UAE.

Khaleej Times Online – French Naval Base Opens Today

May 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, MIDDLE EAST | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

President Sarkozy in UAE

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The French president has touched down in Abu Dhabi for a state visit Time Out Dubai 27 may 09 “…………….The UAE and France are due to sign a memorandum of understanding that provides for appointing Emirati diplomats at French missions in countries in which the UAE has no diplomatic missions………………………….Under the agreement, the UAE and France set up a high-level joint committee to supervise cooperation in the areas of nuclear power generation, water desalination,

President Sarkozy in UAE – The Knowledge News – TimeOutDubai.com

May 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, politics | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Arab nuclear ambitions embolden spurs nuclear renaissance

Arab nuclear ambitions spur nuclear renaissdance

The Huffington Post Ahmed Shihab Eldin 25 May

The nuclear deal with the UAE would allow joint ventures with US firms to assist the UAE in building several civilian nuclear power plants and has been signed despite the UAE’s record as a transshipment port for weapons-related materials to Iran.The “123 agreement”, as it is known, includes an “exchange of scientific and technical information and documentation…an exchange and training of personnel…technical assistance and the transfer of material, equipment and components.”……………..

………………..Israel is the only country in the Middle East that currently has nuclear weapons, estimated at between 100-200 warheads. Unlike its Arab neighbours, Israel has yet to sign the NPT………………. The Middle East is filled with various elements of unresolved conflict. Israel possesses formidable nuclear weapons capabilities and Iran has latent potential and appears to be set on advancing its enrichment capabilities.

The Arab world sits anxiously between the two foes, making plans for its own nuclear ambitions and energy programmes inextricably linked to the reality of being wedged between Iran and Israel.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Arab nuclear ambitions embolden spurs nuclear renaissance

May 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

US nuclear accord with a Persian Gulf state raises concerns about proliferation

US nuclear accord with a Persian Gulf state raises concerns about proliferationBackers says the agreement with the United Arab Emirates is a model for other countries in the region. But critics worry about the UAE’s ties with Iran.

By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the May 23, 2009 edition

Washington – The Obama administration, anxious to demonstrate America’s willingness to deepen relations with reliable partners in the Muslim world before the president’s much-heralded speech to that community early next month, has signed a controversial nuclear cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates.

The nuclear accord, negotiated by the Bush administration but left for President Obama’s sign-off, is touted by the new administration – as it was by the former – as a model for future civilian nuclear cooperation with Arab countries……………………..opponents of the accord blast it as a short-sighted plan designed to secure lucrative contracts for US corporations that build nuclear reactors, yet one which may result in a string of plants producing nuclear fuel across a very volatile region.

“The US does not have a strategy to deal with this very real issue of proliferation, all they have is a sale,” says Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, an organization that promotes a nuclear-weapons-free world. “We shouldn’t be sprinkling the Middle East with nuclear power reactors until we figure out how to stop them from turning out nuclear bombs.”……………………………………Ploughshares’ Mr. Cirincione says….”What got these countries scrambling for nuclear technology was the summer of 2006, the war in Lebanon and Iran’s support for Hizbullah in that conflict.

US nuclear accord with a Persian Gulf state raises concerns about proliferation | csmonitor.com

May 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Clean green nuclear war machine

Examiner.com, by Ann Garrison 12 May 09

Most world class planet and people trashers, including Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Peabody Coal, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Coca Cola, Barrick Gold, Monsanto, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Eison, and, even Halliburton, have given their corporate images the new Green Brand.

And, most belong to the globally sociopathic World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the Wildlife Habitat Council, a non-profit conglomerate devoted to “stewarding” large tracts of land for the corporations, after getting rid of the people in the name of the critters.

Even the Pentagon has developed a Green Brand, and its own Green Brand press clips, as has Lockheed Martin., on its Going Green web page. Lockheed-Martin manufactures nearly all the U.S. military’s jet fighter bombers, including the trillion $ fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, wired to deliver a larger “payload,” meaning more bombs, conventional or nuclear, than the F-22 or other combat planes sent out to clear the air space ahead of it………………………

…………….. Wikipedia’s list of nuclear submarines at the bottom of the ocean, and other nuclear sub accidents, including one, in my hometown of origin, Bremerton, Washington, home of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, in 1983, and, another in my current hometown, San Francisco, where the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Guitarro sank to the bottom of San Francisco Bay, off Mare Island, in 1969.

http://www.examiner.com/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m5d12-Clean-green-war-machines

May 21, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Russia Especially Concerned About Threat of Nuclear War in Asia

Russia Especially Concerned About Threat of Nuclear War in Asia DIGITAL JOURNAL By Carol Forsloff.Published yesterday by ■ Carol Forsloff 19 May 09

Russian newspapers, like those in the West, are concerned about the ratcheting up of violence in Asia. They see the Russian – American nuclear armament race and potential outcome as a stalemate. Pakistan and India, however, play by different rules.

Front page news in Russia declares the concern that country has about the possibility of nuclear war between two powers that don’t play by the same rules as other nations have done. This is seen as having serious catastrophic consequences for the entire world, given the threats involved and the extreme political views held by certain factions, especially within Pakistan……………….

………..India already has enormous potential since it expanded its capabilities in 2001 given the fact that the country never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The government of India believes it is entitled to have the same privileges as Russia, the USA, China, Great Britain and France with nuclear weapons.
Here’s the terrible problem. It is recognized that Pakistan and India are enemies and have been so for decades. China and India have had border clashes that could easily manifest into war. Whereas Pakistan could attack India, it doesn’t have the capability of destroying most of India’s nuclear arms. Pakistan is smaller in size, and India has a greater nuclear capability. Add to that the Aghanistan War and the problems on the border with Pakistan. The chief, however, is China that has enormous capacity compared to either India or Pakistan; and if that sleeping giant enters the fray, the facts are this: war indeed will be hell, as newspapers in Russia detail.

Russia Especially Concerned About Threat of Nuclear War in Asia – Digital Journal: Your News Network

May 20, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Pakistan, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment