A German anti-nuclear group says the world’s biggest supplier of enriched uranium, URENCO, is frantically seeking German and Dutch transport licenses to send waste to an open-air dump in Russia before Russia stops the dumping at the latest in 2009.
Among its worldwide activities, the Anglo-Dutch-German corporation runs enrichment plants at Gronau, near Münster, in Germany and not far away across the border in Holland at Almelo.
The SOFA Münster group writes at (…)
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URENCO’s rush to dump uranium waste in Russia
9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Obama to Urge Elimination of World’s Nuclear Weapons
5 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say.
In a speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Mr. Obama will add his voice to a plan endorsed earlier this year by a bipartisan group of former government officials from the cold war era who say the United States must begin building a global consensus to reverse a (…) -
NUCLEAR WEAPONS : Poll: Most Israelis Support Using Nukes
2 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentPublished on Monday, October 1, 2007 by The Jerusalem Post/Israel
Poll: Most Israelis Support Using Nukes
Staff Writers
Approximately 72 percent of Israelis support the use of nuclear weapons in certain circumstances, according to a Canadian survey released recently.The survey - conducted jointly at the end of July by the Simons Foundation and Angus Reid Strategies - was answered by adults in six countries and showed that 37% of Israelis believed the use of nuclear weapons to prevent a (…) -
American Spy Satellite Downed In Peru ? (video)
21 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentRussian Military Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that one of the United States most secretive spy satellites, the KH-13, targeting Iran was ‘destroyed in its orbit’ with its main power generator powered by the radioactive isotope Pu-238 surviving re-entry and crashing in a remote region of the South American Nation of Peru, and where hundreds are reported to be ill from radiation poisoning.
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
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There is no such thing as Oops with Nuclear Weapons
6 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
There are certain aspects of the Bush administration that have made themselves glaringly obvious after six and a half years.
Rule number 1, They never ever ever, ever tell the truth about anything, no matter how small or how inconsequential. The truth must always be dragged out of them like a dentist pulling wisdom teeth. Only after the lies and cover stories have all been exposed will the administration begin to admit the truth. Then only the truth that they are (…) -
B-52 Mistakenly Flies with Nukes Aboard by Michael Hoffman
5 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentPublished on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 by Army Times B-52 Mistakenly Flies with Nukes Aboard by Michael Hoffman
A B-52 bomber mistakenly loaded with five nuclear warheads flew from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30, resulting in an Air Force-wide investigation, according to three officers who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss the incident.
The B-52 was loaded with Advanced Cruise Missiles, part of a Defense (…) -
TOPOFF 4 Full-Scale Exercise October 15-24, 2007: Portland, Phoenix, and Guam
1 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The T4 FSE is based on National Planning Scenario 11 (NPS-11). The scenario begins as terrorists, who have been planning attacks in Oregon, Arizona, and the U.S. Territory of Guam, successfully bring radioactive material into the United States. The first of three coordinated attacks occurs in Guam, with the simulated detonation of a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD), or “dirty bomb,” causing casualties and wide-spread contamination in a populous area near a power plant. Similar attacks (…)
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Atomic Weapons Tested in Hawai’i: Army Bombing Continues on Sacred Lands
23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentArmy Survey Confirms Use of Nuclear Weapon System in Hawaii: Formerly Classified "Davy Crockett" Cannon at Pohakuloa
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 Associated Press Radioactive depleted uranium has been found at the U.S. Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area, the Army announced Monday.
Military contractor Cabrera Services has also determined that a formerly classified weapon capable of firing atomic rounds, the "Davy Crockett", was used at the Big Island military base, the Army said in a two-page (…) -
Truckloads of seismic data relevant to nuclear waste dumping destroyed in Germany
20 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
By Diet Simon
Anti-nuclear activists fighting waste dumping in north Germany claim to have information from inside the industry that “truckloads” of safety-relevant information have been destroyed.
The group opposes the ‘interim’ storage of highly radioactive waste in a light-construction hall and the later ‘final’ storage in a specially dug salt mine next door at the village of Gorleben, between Hanover and Hamburg.
The media spokesman of the Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow (…) -
NOBLE RESOLVE drill in Oregon starts Aug 20th - 10kt Nuke simulation! Same on 9/11 in NY and 7/7 in London
19 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentPortland to Host Terrorism Drill “NOBLE RESOLVE 07-2” Aug. 20 to 24 Citizens Warn of Established Pattern for Such Drills to go “live” Contact: Info [at] OregonTruthAlliance dot org Click here for a printable version of this release (PDF)
This is an urgent advisory notice from concerned citizens of Oregon and Washington about an upcoming U.S. Joint Forces Command emergency management exercise known as NOBLE RESOLVE 07-2 that will simulate terrorism or disaster scenarios in the Lower (…)