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  • Uraniums Effect On DNA Established
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The use of depleted uranium in munitions and weaponry is likely to come under intense scrutiny now that new research that found that uranium can bind to human DNA. The finding will likely have far-reaching implications for returned soldiers, civilians living in what were once war-zones and people who might live near uranium mines or processing facilities.
    Uranium - when manifested as a radioactive metal - has profound and debilitating effects on human DNA. These radioactive effects have (…)

  • Scientists Say Planned Blast a Part of Nuclear Testing
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006 by the Las Vegas Sun http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ Scientists Say Planned Blast a Part of Nuclear Testing by Launce Rake The Defense Department’s plan to detonate 700 tons of explosives at the Nevada Test Site is intended to simulate a nuclear blast as part of Pentagon research into development of low-yield nuclear weapons, a science advisory group charged Tuesday.
    The Pentagon refused to confirm or deny the claim, made by the Federation of (…)

  • Bush Administration Unveils Nuclear Weapons Complex Blueprint
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ralph Vartabedian The Los Angeles Times
    Thursday 06 April 2006
    The administration’s proposal would modernize the nation’s complex of laboratories and factories as well as produce new bombs.
    The Bush administration on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the United States’ decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.
    The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation’s massive system (…)

  • Divine Strake,The Pentagon to set off bunker buster bomb in Nevada (The Guardian )
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Julian Borger
    April 2, 2006
    Pentagon plans in Washington Saturday April 1, 2006
    Guardian
    The Pentagon is preparing to set off a record-breaking bang, detonating 635 tonnes of high explosives and sending a mushroom cloud into the sky over the Nevada desert. The blast, on June 2, codenamed Divine Strake, is likely to be the biggest controlled conventional explosion in military history, experts said, and is designed to test the impact of bunker-busting bombs aimed at underground (…)

  • U.S. Rolls Out Nuclear Plan (LATimes)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The administration’s proposal would modernize the nation’s complex of laboratories and factories as well as produce new bombs. By Ralph Vartabedian, Times Staff Writer April 6, 2006
    The Bush administration Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the nation’s decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.
    The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation’s massive system of laboratories and (…)

  • US will Find Another Excuse to Target Iran
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ahmet Dinc http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12615.htm
    04/02/06 "Zaman" — — The United States is firm in its plans to launch a military operation against Iran, said Kazim Jalali, a spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s Commission of Foreign Affairs, adding the United States would find another reason for its military operation even if the nuclear plants were immediately shut down.
    There are peaceful motives behind the nuclear projects in Iran, said Jalali, when he (…)

  • Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb
    By The Associated Press http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12626.htm
    04/03/06 "AP" — — OSLO, Norway ? Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday that Iran is a least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, leaving time to peacefully negotiate a settlement.
    Blix, attending an energy conference in western Norway, said he doubted the U.S. would resort to invading Iran.
    "But there is a chance that the U.S. will (…)

  • CASMII Press Release: Will the US Nuke Iran?
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    29 March 2006
    New video highlights the threat
    In a newly released video, titled "Will America use nuclear weapons in a military showdown with Iran?", Dr Jeorge Hirsch, Professor of Physics at University of California San Diego, compellingly draws the attention of the international community to the threats and dangers of a US nuclear attack on Iran.
    In an August 2005 issue of The American Conservative, former CIA officer Philip Girarldi raised the alarm over in-process Pentagon (…)

  • THE POST GOES ` POSTAL’ : TARGET `ATOMIC IRAN ’
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While it is not unusual for the warmongers at the Washington Post, that historic foul nest for Operation Mockingbird , to be hyping yet another "crisis" , even THEY went overboard in their editorial published yesterday.... Entitled "A Faltering Coalition " , the editors exposed their manic desire for American involvement in yet another disastrous Mideast showdown - with Atomic Iran’ ... They lied without shame : " Iran continues to build a bombmaking capacity .... Iran’s (…)

  • IAEA finds no evidence of Iranian nuclear-weapons plan
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    After Iraq, US Tries to Dupe the World Community again
    March 25, 2006
    CASMII Statement: IAEA finds no evidence of Iranian nuclear-weapons plan
    On March 2, an Associated Press report made it clear that the IAEA’s multi-year investigation has not shown "any diversion of nuclear material to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices." This verdict sharply contradicts the February 4th resolution of the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which reports Iran to (…)