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Iran plans to lodge a complaint with the United Nations about what it sees as President Obama's threat to attack it with nuclear weapons.Iran plans to lodge a complaint with the United Nations about what it sees as... more
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to abruptly cancel a trip to a nuclear conference in Washington has spotlighted a key sore point in international nonproliferation efforts: Israel's own atomic weapons.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to abruptly cancel a trip to... more
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Due to our seemingly increasing anti-awareness of events past, this very old bomb testing footage is meant to bring to your attention, with the help of a song that I have written, the atrocity of violence by humans toward other humans.
Just remember, every single person shown in this film is dead, having died from the effects of the bomb blast. Some of them died quickly while others suffered for years. Also, many of them passed horrible genetics on to their children due to the radiation exposure.
...and you thought Erin Brokivich exposed some gritty details of "exposure".Due to our seemingly increasing anti-awareness of events past, this very old bomb... more
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The latest round in a series of long-running lawsuits will be heard on Thursday at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The former residents of Bikini Atoll agreed to be removed from their homes in the 1940s so the United States could test atomic weapons there. The tests at Bikini took place from 1946 to 1958, when the atoll, part of the Marshall Islands, was an American trust territory. The residents, fewer than 200 at the time, were placed on nearby Pacific islands.
Although it has been 50 years since the testing ended, Bikini Atoll will be radioactive for years. Many of the islanders have developed illnesses resulting from the fallout of the testing, and from an attempt to resettle the atoll in the 1970s after the government mistakenly told them it was safe to go home.
The United States granted sovereignty to the Marshall Islands, including Bikini, in the 1980s. Part of the diplomatic compact included a $150 million payment that Congress, in ratifying the compact, called a “full and final settlement” of claims across the Marshall Islands.
The tribunal, after hearing years of evidence, said in 2001 that the islanders deserved $563 million. The figure includes money for soil remediation.
At the time, however, the tribunal only had about $2 million to pay out to the islanders, so the Bikinians and their lead lawyer for 33 years, Jonathan Weisgall, went to federal court to ask for the rest of the money.
“They want to go home,” said Mr. Weisgall, who wrote a book on their fight, “Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll,” and produced a documentary in 1998, “Radio Bikini.”
Last August, the United States Court of Federal Claims dismissed the suit seeking the rest of the $563 million. In her decision, Judge Christine Odell Cook Miller said that the islanders had brought their lawsuit past the six-year statute of limitations for filing claims under the Tucker Act, a law pertaining to suits against the United States, and that they had jumped the gun by filing a suit in a case that Congress might still act upon. The latest round in a series of long-running lawsuits will be heard on Thursday at the... more
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The cornerstone of international peace, the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty, is 40 years old today. On the fist day, some 61 countries signed it and now, all but four nations in the world follow its rules which describe a framework to limit nuclear weapons and allow the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
The cornerstone of international peace, the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty, is 40... more
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What puts the "mass" in Weapons of Mass Destruction? Nuclear Weapons. Adam Yamaguchi visits the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, the world's nuclear detective agency, and learns about the state of nuclear proliferation today, and what the UN's nuclear watchdogs are doing to keep tabs on it.What puts the "mass" in Weapons of Mass Destruction? Nuclear Weapons. Adam... more
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The World Today
• Fall-out from the release in Washington of pictures and other information U.S. Intelligence officials say prove Syria was developing a nuclear reactor in order to produce atomic weapons
• Israel apparently informed Washington about its intention to bomb the Syrian facility before it did so.
•International Atomic Energy Agency is outraged that the U.S.
apparently approved the Israeli raid on Syria.
The World Today
• Fall-out from the release in Washington of pictures and other... more
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