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"Today, Americans do themselves few favours by choosing to believe that "they hate us" and "hate our freedoms". On the contrary, these are people who like Americans and admire much about the US, including its freedoms. What they hate is official policies that deny them the freedoms to which they, too, aspire."
What Americans have learnt - and not learnt - since 9/11
Noam Chomsky, The Age, September 7 2002"America has been scourged by terrorist attacks because of its often heavy-handed interventions abroad, not because Muslims hate democracy or McDonald's."
Columnist Eric Margolis, Toronto SunUS 'has nuclear hit list'
BBC, 9 March, 2002
The Bush administration has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to prepare contingency plans for attacking seven countries with nuclear weapons. MoreA Two Part Warning to the Citizens for the World: "Do Not Use Depleted Uranium Munitions Again"
Stop war on Iraq before it starts!
National March on Washington
October 26
- Joint Action in San Francisco -
BREAKING NEWS! Lawmakers debate new nuclear bomb that burrows
GOP WANTS TO STUDY `EARTH PENETRATOR' IDEA
By Dan Stober, Mercury News, September 6, 2002
US adviser warns of Armageddon
Brent Scowcroft, one of the Republican party's most respected foreign policy gurus yesterday appealed for President Bush to halt his plans to invade Iraq, warning of "an Armageddon in the Middle East".
Julian Borger and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, August 16, 2002
Defense official: Nuke tests at NTS are likely
By Jace Radke, Las Vegas Sun, August 14, 2002Conflict could soon be nuclear
Roland Watson in Washington,Times of London, August 7, 2002
The US Congress has been warned that President Bush’s proposed attack on Iraq could escalate into a nuclear conflict.
From Paranoia to Arrogance:
Our New Nuclear Policy
by Ryan McMaken, LewRockwell.com, August 2002The new nukes
The US is developing a range of handy, 'low-yield' bombs - and it's prepared to use them.
Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, August 6, 2002Bush set to flout test ban treaty
Global treaty sidelined as scientists gear up to develop next generation of weapons
Peter Beaumont,The Observer, July 28, 2002
Bush Wants Better Warheads
by Jonathan S. Landay, Salt lake Tribune, June 19, 2002
NEW! Internet Glossary of Nuclear Terminology
by Russell HoffmanWorldwide Effects of Nuclear War
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
After 50 Years of Nuclear Genocide:
Nuclear Plates In Nevada Breed Fallout
Salt Lake Tribune, May 2, 2002
Update: Nevada Reverses Plan for License Plate
to Honor 'Nuclear Heritage'
Salt Lake Tribune, June 8, 2002
Letter: Mushroom cloud is a symbol of death to many
Stefani Evans, Las Vegas Sun, May 2, 2002
"Last fall, the Pentagon presented a report to Congress that included the possibility of developing a low-yield nuclear weapon that would be able to destroy deeply buried stockpiles of biological or chemical weapons. That would require Congress to lift a ban on designing new nuclear weapons. If that's what the administration wants, Congress should comply with that request." Deseret News Editorial, March 14, 2002
Bush and Putin likely to discuss
spent fuel import to Russia
Charles Digges, Bellona, April 22, 2002Nuclear Posture Review [Excerpts]
From globalsecurity.org
NEW! CDC: A Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population From Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by the United States and Other Nations
April 2002
"Taking into account realistic limits on material strengths, 50 feet is about the maximum depth a warhead can dig and maintain its integrity in dry, hard soil, the likely locations for buried targets. Even a 1 kiloton warhead--1/20th the yield that destroyed Hiroshima--detonated at a depth of 20 feet would eject about 1 million cubic feet of radioactive debris from a crater about the size of ground zero at the World Trade Center." - See story Bunkers, Bombs, Radiation below.
British
military prepare for nuclear war aftermath
Times Online, May 24, 2002
The
alternative to my nuclear Ark
by Sonia Jabbar, Times of India, May 31, 2002
The
Role of the Arms Lobby In the Bush Administration's
Radical Reversal of Two Decades of U.S. Nuclear Policy
A World
Policy Institute Special Report, by William D. Hartung, with Jonathan Reingold,
May 2002
Building
a Better Bomb
Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to
develop for conventional wars.
by Michael Scherer, Mother Jones, May/June 2002
Congress
Authorizes Study of Nuclear Bunker Buster
By Lawrence Morahan,CNSNews.com, May 10, 2002
America's
nuclear hit-list
By P.
S. Suryanarayana, The Hindu, April 30, 2002
Bombs
Away Again?
Augusta
Chronicle, April 29, 2002
Street
Fighting Man!: Tariq Ali
New York
Press, "Publishing", John Strausbaugh, April 2002
US
revives cold war nuclear strategy
Julian
Borger in Washington, Friday April 12, 2002, The Guardian
Nuclear-Tipped
Interceptors Studied:
Rumsfeld Revives Rejected Missile Defense Concept
By
Bradley Graham, Washington Post, Thursday, April 11, 2002
READINESS
REPORT:
Nuclear testing speculation rises
Las
Vegas Review-Journal, April 07, 2002
Peace
And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action
by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), March 2002
The
Wimps of War
By Frank Rich, NY Times, March 30, 2002 (Requires Registration)
Bush
seeks nuclear rebuild
By Nicholas
M. Horrock, Senior White House Correspondent, UPI, 3/25/2002
Labs
told to design burrowing bombs
By Dan Stober, Mercury
News, March 24, 2002
U.S.
Nuclear Arms Stance Modified by Policy Study
Preemptive Strike Becomes an Option
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer,Saturday, March 23, 2002
Panel
recommends US to prepare for nuclear testing
Times
of India, March 23, 2002
Bunkers,
Bombs, Radiation
by Sidney
Drell, Raymond Jeanloz and Bob Peurifoy - LATimes, March 18,2002
House
Discusses Nuclear Testing
Las Vegas Sun, March 22, 2002
Nuclear
arsenal upgrade planned 'Bunker buster'
marks a shift in U.S. strategy
By Jonathan Weisman, USA TODAY, March 18, 2002
Bunker
bomb will bust test ban
by Julian Borger, Monday March 11, 2002, The Guardian
Call
for New Breed of Nuclear Arms Faces Hurdles
By William J. Broad, New York Times, March 11, 2002
The
Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence
A new book by Prof. of International Law Francis
A. Boyle
Bush
Nuclear Policy Violates International Law, Again
By Prof. of International Law Francis
A. Boyle, Counterpunch, March 14, 2002
Relearning
to Love the Bomb
by
Raffi Khatchadourian, The Nation, April 1, 2002 Issue
Nuts
About Nukes
By Mary McGrory, Thursday, March 14, 2002, Washington Post
America
Withdraws From ABM treaty
March 13, 2002,BBC News
America
As Nuclear Rogue
New York Times Editorial, March 12, 2002
Bush's Nuclear 'Lunacy'
The Mirror (UK) March 11, 2002 - By Alexandra Williams
and Bob Roberts
Their
Own Worst Enemy
Gulf News, March 12, 2002
U.S.
Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms
Military: Administration, in a secret report, calls
for a strategy against at least seven nations:China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, North
Korea, Libya and Syria - by Paul Richter, LA Times, March 9, 2002
Secret Plan Outlines the Unthinkable
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Bush administration
has told the Defense Department
to prepare contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries.
By William M. Arkin, LA Times, March 9, 2002
U.S.
Nuclear Plan Sees New Weapons and New Targets
By Muchael R. Gordon, New York Times,
March 10, 2002
US
Threatens Russia With Nuclear Attack!
Pravda, March 10, 2002
Nuclear Posture Review Fact Sheet
"Because of the large amount of radioactive dirt thrown out in the explosion, the hypothetical 5-kiloton weapon discussed in the accompanying article would produce a large area of lethal fallout." (See article below)
Low-Yield Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons
By Robert W. Nelson, The Journal of the Federation of American Scientists
Jan.-Feb. 2001
FALLOUT KILLS THOUSANDS
TIP OF THE ICEBERG: NOW THEY TELL US!
02/28/2002
- Nuclear test health risk probed, BBC, May 14, 2002
- USA Today - Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths - By Peter Eisler
- Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths - Study links nuclear tests to cancer cases - By Peter Eisler
- Despite clamor, fallout study still unreleased - By Peter Eisler
- Nuclear fallout likely took a deadly toll on America
- IEER - About Eighty Thousand Cancers in the United States, More Than 15,000 of Them Fatal, Attributable to Fallout from Worldwide Atmospheric Nuclear Testing
- Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps
- Official Fallout Maps (pdf-2.35MB)
- Progress Report (pdf-646KB)
- SEN. TOM HARKIN - NUCLEAR FALLOUT STUDY
- PROGRESS REPORT - 10 Pages, Acrobat PDF
- MAP SECTION - 6 Pages, Acrobat PDF
President Clinton's chief adviser on South Asia publishes a behind-the-scenes account of U.S. efforts to stop Pakistan from firing nuclear weapons during a 1999 border conflict with India. American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House, Bruce Riedel
Musharraf ready to use nuclear arms
- Rory McCarthy in Islamabad and John Hooper in Berlin, The Guardian, April 6, 2002
U.S. should keep moratorium to avert new nuclear arms race - Editorial, Asahii Shimbun
India, Pakistan Rattle Their Nukes - by Eric Margolis
- Published on Sunday, December 30, 2001 in the Toronto Sun
Kashmir is part of the mess that
Britain left behind
- Guardian - Dec. 30, 2001
Last Train For Pakistan Leaves India
-Guardian - Dec. 30, 2001More News Updated Daily:
www.Antiwar.comListen: Downwinders Director Preston J. Truman is an acknowledged expert on nuclear issues and international policy. Listen to his latest interview on the It's About You! program with France Senecal on KDVS 90.3 FM Davis, CA. 12/29/2001
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- N-tests: why the fallout could be murder - The Age, Sunday 30 December 2001
- Nuclear Tests: HISTORY OF COVER-UP CLAIMS - The Scotsman, Sat 29 Dec 2001
ALERT!:
BUSH LIKELY TO RESUME ATOMIC TESTING!
- U.S. to Seek Options On New Nuclear Tests - By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, January 8, 2002
- Report Finds Shortcomings In Energy Dept. Arms Testing - Ability to Ensure Weapons' Reliability at Issue, IG Says - By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, January 3, 2002
- White House Wants to Bury Pact Banning Tests of Nuclear Arms, New York Times, July 7, 2001, by Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger
- Bush Hints Nuclear Test Moratorium May End, U.S. president asks weapons scientists for `readiness review' of the Nevada desert site.
- Is the Bush Administration preparing to break out of the nuclear weapons testing moratorium? by Preston J. Truman and Steve Erickson
Toxic Utah: Paying the price
Deseret News, February 2001
- Feb. 17: Toxic Utah: Firms take pains to avoid polluter list
- Feb. 18: Toxic Utah: Mending toxic Utah
Related Stories:
- Defects, distrust left in wake of military testing, by Joe Bauman, Deseret News, February 12, 2001
- Compensation elusive for most Navajo radiation victims, Lung diseases blamed on work in uranium mines, by Jerry Spangler, Deseret News, February 13, 2001
- Cancer gave Utahn a healthy mistrust, by Elaine Jarvik, Deseret News, February 15, 2001
- Atomic tests went on despite criticism, Deseret News, February 15, 2001
- Learning from a toxic legacy, Deseret News editorial, February 18, 2001
- Many downwinders will never be paid, by Lee Davidson, Deseret News, February 21, 2001
SPECIAL REPORT ON THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF ATMOSPHERIC TESTING IN NEVADA:
Mushroom clouds over Nevada
50 years later, the tragedy of nuclear tests.
By Norman Solomon
January 5, 2000
Deseret News Editorial - Feb. 1, 2001
COMMEMORATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATOMIC TESTING IN NEVADA
JANUARY 27, 1951 - JANUARY 27, 2001
UTAH'S GOVERNOR LEAVITT AND SALT LAKE CITY MAYOR ROSS "ROCKY" ANDERSON PROCLAIM "DAY OF REMEMBRANCE"
RADIATION COMPENSATION INFORMATION:
On July 31, 2001, the Department of Labor will begin processing claims filed under a new compensation program created by the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA). This new program will pay workers who were approved for compensation under Section 5 of RECA, or their eligible survivors, up to an additional $50,000 and future medical benefits related to the condition for which they were approved for compensation under RECA. You need not have actually received your payment from RECA in order to be found eligible for the additional compensation and benefits under EEOICPA. Information here.
NEW! Download Claims Forms here.
Contact information for the U.S Dept. of Justice program below:
Write:U.S. Department of Justice
Radiation Exposure Compensation Program
P.O. Box 146
Ben Franklin Station
Washington, D.C. 20044-0146Download
NEW! Download Claim Forms Here
Call:
1-800-729-RECP
(1-800-729-7327)Email:
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THE BOMB THAT FELL ON NIAGARA
by Geoff Kelly and Louis Ricciuti
FACTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK
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- by Steve Erickson, Downwinders, June 30, 2000
Tooele County Utah may become the nation's dump
for low and high-level nuclear waste!
Info. on the proposed PFS Facility, International Uranium Corp. and Envirocare
Please Click Above
CITIZENS, VETERANS, VICTIMS, AND THE DEAD:
- NEW! Downwinders: An Atomic Tale - A New Novel by Curtis and Dianne Oberhansly
- NEW! A Poem For "Nevada Downwinders" and Others
- by Philip White, Nagasaki, 7 August 2000- NEW! Oct. 15, 2000: Hibakusha Wins in Nagasaki A-Bomb Matsuya Lawsuit:
Claims of Thousands of Nuclear Victims of the World Justified!- Litany of remembrance for the nuclear age - July 16, 2000
- Wait Till The Wind Blows Toward Utah - By Edward L. Hart
ABOUT DOWNWINDERSDownwinders is a research and educational foundation established in 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Downwinders takes its name from the residents living in the prevailing wind pattern surrounding the Nevada Test Site, and who have been constantly exposed to radioactive fallout from America's nuclear testing activities conducted there. Downwinders was founded with two primary goals:
- To expose the plight of downwind residents whose fallout exposures have caused cancers, leukemia, and other illnesses, and to obtain justice for their injuries.
- To fight for an immediate end to all nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere.
Since its founding Downwinders has expanded its efforts to other nuclear, military, and environmental projects and issues where the health and safety of residents surrounding them have been placed at risk. Over the years these have included such problems as chemical and biological weapons research and testing at the Dugway Proving Ground. Other issues of concern are high and low-level nuclear waste, uranium mining, milling and tailings disposal, phosphate mining and wastes, groundwater issues, land and air space grabs by the military, and military toxics. Downwinders has also expanded its scope of operations from regional work confined to the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada to one of global outreach.
Contact Information Preston Truman hermit@downwinders.org Steve Erickson slceric@concentric.net Winston Weeks wweeks22@msn.com
URGENT NOTICE:Since 1978 Downwinders has been at the very forefront of the battle to protect the rights of radiation victims. With the prospect of massive nuclear dumping in the West, the release of the new reports of harm done to citizens and workers by the DOE, and the confirmation that millions of us were irradiated (National Cancer Institute) funds are urgently needed!
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