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  • CHERNOBYL : Hell on Earth, the world’s worst environmental disaster in 1986
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Guardian / UK Hell on Earth Chernobyl was the world’s worst environmental disaster. Twenty years on, John Vidal reports on the clean-up, the false medical records, the communities that refused to leave and the continuing cost to people and planet
    by John Vidal
    Twenty years ago today, Konstantin Tatuyan, a Ukrainian radio engineer, was horrified when Reactor No 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power complex exploded, caught fire, and for the next 10 (…)

  • Congress Clueless About Iran’s Nuclear Threat
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States doesn’t have enough good intelligence to know whether or not Iran will be capable of producing nuclear weapons in the near future, top congressional intelligence committee members said on Sunday.
    Iran said earlier on Sunday it would not abandon its work on nuclear enrichment, which the United Nations has demanded it halt, and was prepared to face sanctions from abroad.
    Asked on Fox News Sunday when Iran might be capable of producing nuclear (…)

  • Why USrael Won’t Fight Brazil’s Nuke Program
    22 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brazil follows Iran’s nuclear path, but without the fuss
    Associated Press, RESENDE, April 21
    As Iran faces international pressure over its nuclear programme, Brazil is quietly preparing to open its own uranium-enrichment centre, capable of producing exactly the same fuel.
    Brazil, like Iran, has signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Brazil’s constitution bans the military use of nuclear energy.
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    http://www.indianexpress.com/story/2890.html

  • The Nuclear Bunker Buster Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (animation)
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    See the animation :
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  • $500K Seized; Strange Situation Reported At Nuclear Plant
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. — Two workers looking for tools set off a security situation at a Beaver County nuclear power plant that drew a response from police and federal investigators, WTAE Channel 4’s Paul Van Osdol reported.
    State police said the men drove up to the Beaver Valley Power Station in a tractor-trailer on Tuesday night to pick up two large containers of tools for a contractor for whom they worked.
    Security guards stopped the men for a routine inspection, but they drove away, (…)

  • Bush won’t exclude Iran nuke strike
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Saul Hudson
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday failed to secure international support for targeted sanctions against Iran and President George W. Bush refused to rule out nuclear strikes if diplomacy failed to curb the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions.
    Bush said he would discuss Iran’s nuclear activities with China’s President Hu Jintao, who has been cool toward sanctions, during his U.S. visit this week.
    Asked if his options included planning for a nuclear (…)

  • Bush’s Latest Nuclear Gambit
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Nuclear
    Bush’s Latest Nuclear Gambit
    by Lawrence S. Wittner; History News Network; April 18, 2006
    http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10114&sectionID=201
    In 2005, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, recognizing that the Bush administration’s favorite new nuclear weapon—the "Bunker Buster"—was on the road to defeat in Congress, told its leading antagonist, U.S. Representative David Hobson (R-Ohio): "You may win this year, but we’ll be back."
    And, (…)

  • IRAN : Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Warning Letter to President Bush
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Warning Letter to President Bush
    By Newswise
    04/18/06 "Newswise" - Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”
    The physicists include five Nobel laureates, a recipient of the National Medal of Science (…)

  • Washington Post Gives Nuclear Propaganda Red Carpet Treatment
    18 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Patrick Moore’s article in the Washington Post, “Going Nuclear,” [April 16] provides the kind of misleading and inaccurate information that one often hears from nuclear industry propagandists. In a Post-sponsored online forum held Monday, Moore acknowledged that his organization, Greenspirit, works for the industry’s promotional firm, the Nuclear Energy Institute. But, the Washington Post, having selected Moore’s flawed article in preference to hundreds of other submissions it receives (…)

  • Stop Bush before he attacks Iran
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jesse Jackson
    Here we go again. The administration says ’’regime change’’ is needed. Warnings are issued about the threat posed by the ’’madman’’ who leads the oil-rich country. Alarming intelligence estimates are leaked about nuclear weapons programs. The vice president warns ’’monumental consequences’’ if the alleged efforts to develop nuclear weapons are continued. Neoconservatives call for military action. Administration operatives express scorn for international monitoring. The (…)