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thoughts from podunk (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
We wish to add our voices to the global campaign for an end to nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We believe that the world needs to take urgent action to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to make the world free of nuclear weapons, as part of the overall drive for worldwide peace and the transfer of military spending to socially-useful ends. The international treaties concerning...
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The NY Times reports that the Jason panel, an independent group of scientists advising the federal government on issues of science and technology, has concluded that the program to refurbish aging nuclear arms is sufficient to guarantee their destructiveness for decades to come, obviating a need for a costly new generation of more reliable warheads, as proposed by former President Bush. Senator Jon...
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Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Thursday, November 19, 2009 Verbatim, as delivered Americans have the right to travel to Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, which seeks a nuclear weapons capability in violation of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. We can go to North Korea, which threatens to destabilize East Asia with its nuclear weapons program....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Do I detect a certain regret that Tony Blair failed in his bid to become president of the European council ( Comment , Leaders , 20 November)? Is there a single person left in this country who does not share in the shame of the deceit over Iraq? Anthony Marrian London • It is a major missed opportunity for the future prosperity, and indeed safety, of Europe that Tony Blair has been deemed too...
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Pen and Sword (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
“It really boils down to one of two decisions, getting out or getting in.” --President Lyndon Johnson, speaking about Vietnam. “Soldiers came to school today,” announced the Kindergarten kid. "They only kill bad people. They don't kill good people." This is story comes to us by way of Jon Letman of Truthout. The Kindergarten kid was his son, who is five. Letman relates...
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Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Arnold Bhebhe Pakistan is reported to have amassed 70 to 90 nuclear weapons and India 60 to 80 as both countries alongside China race for more arsenals deploying them at different sites to escape detection. Eminent American atomic experts Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen in an article “Nuclear Notebook: Worldwide Deployment of Nuclear [...]
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Blog for Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Nuclear Disarmament for Iowa by Paul Deaton When Dr. Helen Caldicott moved from Australia to the United States, she became what Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy called, “the First Lady of the Nuclear Freeze Movement in the 1980s.” Less well known is that Dr. Caldicott traveled around Iowa with Tom Harkin during his first campaign for election to the United States Senate in 1984,...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
WASHINGTON - The International Atomic Energy Agency and Syria are walking a tightrope and appear to be headed toward a collision over two nuclear sites where undeclared uranium was recently found. The agency found traces of uranium at the Dair Alzour nuclear site that are not included in Syria's declared inventory, according to a just released report. The Syrians said the uranium came from the Israeli...
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UnLaoised (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
We all know that the French can be a right shower of bastards when they want to be. Just ask the New Zealanders. Back in 1985, they sank a Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland Harbour, drowning a photographer in the process. Ten years later, they started testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific, blowing the shit out of a number of atolls in the region. Judging by the hysteria in the...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OSAKA — Decades since Washington and Tokyo reportedly crafted secret agreements to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in Japanese territory, declassified documents from the U.S. detailing its nuclear presence in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan during the postwar period are slowly coming to light. The move is creating headaches for both countries as they grapple over military bases in Okinawa and the future...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao held a summit in Beijing earlier this week and agreed to push cooperation on such issues as the fight against global warming, denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and efforts to realize a world without nuclear weapons. The two leaders refrained from locking horns on such issues as Taiwan and human rights. Their joint statement not only...
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Dick Destiny (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
CYBER-RAID ON THE TAXPAYER CONTINUED Through the week, the school of cyberwar vampire squid continued its preparations for feasting. Spurred by 60 Minutes (see here ), the big newsmedia followed with articles through the Wall Street Journal , US News & World Report , TIME and additional pieces from a host of information technology and business publications which exist only to regurgitate whatever...
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
IBM's new cat brain simulation is both more -- and less -- than it seems. A real-time computer-simulated cat brain? Could IBM have come up with a project more likely to trigger Internet excitement ? For the handful of you who missed the news, IBM's Almaden Research Center announced this week that it had produced a "cortical simulation" of the scale and complexity of a cat brain . This simulation...
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ArmsControlWonk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Warhead replacement is dead. Or it should be. Several of us have been eagerly awaiting the release of the JASON report on Life Extension Programs, which reportedly concluded that Life Extension was preferred to warhead replacement. It’s here. Arms Control Wonk.com has an early copy of the full text of the unclassified executive summary of Lifetime Extension Program ( LEP ), JSR -09-334E . JASON...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
On Wednesday, Iran spurned a U.N.-brokered deal that would have sent its stockpile of low-enriched uranium out of the country. Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells NRO that if the Obama administration continues with its “near religious faith in negotiations,” then Iran’s nuclear program will continue to be a threat. “This is a graphic lesson for what...
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abdulruff | 05/07/2009
Obama- Medvedev Summit in Russia -By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ***** I. In international affairs relations between the strongest UNSC veto powers USA and Russia occupy the center slot and perhaps rightly so. Both jointly and divided they decide...
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abdulruff | 04/07/2009
Obama's Russia Visit -By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ***** I. In international affairs relations between the strongest UNSC veto powers USA and Russia occupy the center slot and perhaps rightly so. Both jointly and divided they decide the fate of...