Boston Glove November 9 2009 Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear weapon, nicknamed "First Lightning", at a test facility on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan (formerly the Kazakh SSR). The test site, named the Semipalatinsk Polygon, would go on to host 456 atomic explosions over its 40-year existence. Residents in the surrounding area became unwitting guinea pigs, exposed to the aftereffects of the bombs both intentionally and unintentionally. The radiation has […]
Countercurrents.org 21 October, 2009 By Robin Davis While global warming dominates the headlines a more urgent danger threatens life on earth. Global warming could make the planet uninhabitable by the end of the century. Global cooling - the "Nuclear Winter" that would follow nuclear war - could achieve the same result in days or weeks. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union a disturbing complacency has set in. It is as if the threat imposed on us all by the hair-trigger readiness of […]
CounterPunch September 17, 2009 By BRENDA NORRELL Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr -Source: www.reznetnews.org/article/navajos-observe-30... When Paul Zimmerman writes in his new book about the Rio Puerco and the Four Corners, he calls out the names of the cancers and gives voice to the poisoned places and streams. Zimmerman is not just writing empty words. Zimmerman writes of the national sacrifice area that the mainstream media and the spin doctors would have everyone forget, where the […]
CounterPunch September 10, 2009 By JOSHUA FRANK Hanford's 2-B Reactor. Photo by Chelsea Mosher. Sitting inside an old nuclear reactor, gazing up at a wall that holds over 2,000 cylinder rods that once produced plutonium for our nation’s atom bombs. That’s how I spent my Labor Day weekend. Located just outside of Richland, in Eastern Washington State, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation spans 586 square miles on high desert plains. The mighty Columbia River marks the site’s eastern boundary […]
On August 6th and 9th, 1945, two atomic bombs vaporized 210,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those who survived are called "hibakusha"--people exposed to the bomb--and there are an estimated 200,000 living today. Today, with the threat of nuclear weapons of mass destruction frighteningly real- the world's arsenal capable of repeating the destruction at Hiroshima 400,000 times over, Oscar® award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki revisits the bombings and shares the stories of the only […]
A l'occasion du 64e anniversaire de la première attaque atomique de l'histoire, le maire de la ville martyre d'Hiroshima, a appelé à l'abolition totale des armes nucléaires d'ici 2020. Extrait d’D’Hiroshima à Bagdad par Joëlle PENOCHET: « La civilisation mécanique vient de parvenir à son dernier degré de sauvagerie. Il va falloir choisir, dans un avenir plus ou moins proche, entre le suicide collectif ou l’utilisation intelligente des conquêtes de l’homme. » (Albert Camus, au lendemain […]
CounterPunch Echoes of Amchitka By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Amchitka Island sits at the midway point on the great arc of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, less than 900 miles across the Bering Sea from the coast of Russia. Amchitka, a spongy landscape of maritime tundra, is one of the most southerly of the Aleutians. The island's relatively temperate climate has made it one of the Arctic's most valuable bird sanctuaries, a critical staging ground for more than 100 migratory species, as well as home to […]
ENFIN ! La France reconnaît sa responsabilité envers les victimes militaires et civiles de ses essais nucléaires Source: .lpi.ac-poitiers.fr ACDN 24 mars 2009 Après des années de vaines démarches auprès de l’administration militaire et d’actions devant les tribunaux, systématiquement déboutées ou renvoyées en appel par le ministère lorsqu’elles étaient gagnantes, les vétérans des essais nucléaires français viennent de remporter une victoire apparemment décisive. Pour la première fois, un […]
Mondialisation.caLe 5 mars 2009 Lettre de Mordechaï Vanunu au Comité du Prix Nobel de la Paix Shimon Peres discrédite le Prix Nobel Silvia Cattori Je garde un souvenir émouvant de ce jour de juin 2006 où, dans un couvent de Jérusalem Est, en catimini, j’ai rencontré Mordechaï Vanunu. J’ai admiré le mélange d’audace et de générosité qui émanait du regard bleu intense de ce résistant d’exception, kidnappé par des agents du Mossad à Rome, le 30 septembre 1986, et qui, après avoir passé […]
Is Israel Using Banned and Experimental Munitions in Gaza? Democracy Now 1/14/09 14 janvier 2009 Israel is coming under increasing criticism for its possible use of banned and experimental munitions. Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of illegally firing white phosphorousthat causes horrific burns if it comes in contact with the skinover crowded refugee camps in Gaza. Medics and human rights groups are also reporting that they are seeing injuries distinctive of another controversial […]
CBS Archives20 juin 2008U.S. intelligence analysts say that nearly 100 Israeli warplanes staged a rehearsal air strike against nuclear facilities in Iran David Martin reports from the Pentagon. All Articles and videos: Iran
planetenonviolence.org Archives : article déjà publié par IN le 6 août 2008 et qui reste plus que jamais d'actualité. L'extermination nucléaire rendue respectable par le New York Times par James Petras * Source: worldofliz.files.wordpress.com Le 18 juillet 2008, le New York Times a publié un article de l'historien juif israélien, le Professeur Benny Morris, recommandant une attaque israélienne nucléaire génocidaire contre l'Iran avec la possibilité de tuer 70 millions d'Iraniens – 12 fois […]
Live Video Coverage Of Israel’s Attack On Gaza http://www.presstv.ir/watch_live.aspx ________________________________________________________ Commondreams.org Israel Rains Fire on Gaza With Phosphorus Shells by Sheera Frenkel and Michael Evans JERUSALEM - Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not illegal if […]
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