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  • The Hiroshima cover-up
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amy Goodman and David Goodman
    ASTORY THAT the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors. The discovery of reporter George Weller’s firsthand account of conditions in post-nuclear Nagasaki sheds light on one of the great journalistic betrayals of the last century: the cover-up of the effects of the atomic bombing on Japan.
    On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima; three days (…)

  • Never again? How the war in Iraq spurred a new nuclear arms race
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As the world prepares to mark the anniversary of Hiroshima, Iran is poised to go nuclear amid a new global arms race
    by Anne Penketh
    At 8.15am, a minute’s silence will reverberate around the world. The people of Japan will commemorate the victims of the first atomic bomb, which was dropped by an American B-29 on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
    Half a world away, in Tehran, the new hard man of Iranian politics, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will take the oath of office before the country’s (…)

  • Hiroshima Cover-up Exposed
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    60-year-old footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki — suppressed and nearly destroyed by the U.S. — will finally be shown in America.
    By Greg Mitchell
    In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military crews and Japanese newsreel teams. In addition, for many years all but a handful of (…)

  • Thousands mark Hiroshima A-bomb 60th anniversary
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By George Nishiyama
    HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city and to renew calls for the abolition of nuclear arms.
    The anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing comes as regional powers continue talks in Beijing to urge North Korea to give up its nuclear programme, seen by Tokyo as a threat and one of the reasons behind rising calls in Japan to strengthen its (…)

  • Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the officials’ oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies’ business dealings.
    Just last week a National Security Council report said Iran was a decade away from (…)

  • A Rally and a demontration in front of the nuclear submarine base of l’Ile longue in Bretagne (France)
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hello,
    We inform you that the Mouvement de la Paix, Greenpeace, Sortir du nucléaire, and differents others organisations organize a Rally and a demontration in front of the nuclear submarine base of l’Ile longue in Bretagne, where are 90 % of the french nuclear weapons, on the 7th august.
    We denounce the violation of the NPT by the french governement
    We ask french governement to respect the NPT and to take initiatives for the nuclear disarmament.
    We ask the local councils to (…)

  • Iran 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb-U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.
    The carefully hedged assessments, which represent consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies, contrast with forceful public statements by the White House. Administration officials have asserted, but have not offered proof, (…)

  • Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements
    By Dafna Linzer
    A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.
    The carefully hedged assessments, which represent consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies, (…)

  • Israel, Iran, Mossad and a Nuclear False Flag Attack
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel, Iran, Mossad and a Nuclear False Flag Attack
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    "Iran isn’t going to attack us... Israel will false-flag attack us to blame on Iran. But this Corsi guy and Rumsfeld, et al are setting the stage!!!!! "
    Israel, Iran, Mossad and a Nuclear False Flag Attack [ Post 293796902 ]
    Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: News & Current Events Synopsis: Israel, Iran, Mossad and a Nuclear False Flag Attack Source: progressiveconvergence.com Published: July (…)

  • NK Commits to Dismantling Nukes Verifiably
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Park Song-wu Korea Times Correspondent BEIJING North Korea reportedly promised Wednesday that it could verifiably’’ liquidate all of its nuclear weapons programs should Washington remove itsnuclear threat’’ on the Korean Peninsula and normalize its diplomatic relations with Pyongyang.
    Pyongyang did not say whether it would accept inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
    Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan, Pyongyang’s chief delegate to the six-party talks, (…)