Compiled by leaders of groups from communities located in the shadows of U.S. nuclear weapons sites. The report card grades looks to the future and lays out an agenda for the next administration.
2008 Radioactive Report Card Grade Book
Press Release
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5/4/10
NEW YORK -- Japanese survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki joined anti-nuclear rallies and demonstrations in New York on Sunday, ahead of the opening of the review conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Some 25,000 people, including members of peace organizations and A-bomb survivors, joined the march on Sunday, which went for about two kilometers from downtown New York to a square in front of United Nations headquarters, calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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| | | published Thursday, April 29, 2010 | 1791 Views |
Published on Thursday, April 29, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
by Judith LeBlanc and Kevin Martin
Barack Obama is
undoubtedly the U.S. president most committed to nuclear disarmament
since Kennedy. People all over the world have cheered President Obama's
commitment to move toward nuclear disarmament.
Yet the stark
reality is U.S. and Russia maintain over 20,000 nuclear weapons, many of
them on hair-trigger alert, ready to launch on a few minutes' notice.
Many are tens or hundreds of times more powerful than the Hiroshima
bomb, which leveled that city and killed over 140,000 people.
The
New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) agreement, while welcome,
is a modest reduction, leaving the U.S. and Russia with over 1,500
deployed, long-range "strategic", nukes, and thousands more "tactical",
short-range weapons and "reserve" nukes in storage. U.S. Senate
ratification of New START, where 67 votes are required by the
Constitution to approve treaties, may prove difficult, especially
without conditions supporting modernization of the U.S. nuclear weapons
complex that would undercut the treaty's thrust and appear hypocritical
to the rest of the world.
Criticism by some analysts that this
treaty and other recent initiatives (the Congressionally-mandated
Nuclear Posture Review and Nuclear Security Summit) are too modest or
narrow does not diminish the president's stature as a leader on nuclear
weapons issues. It reflects the reality that he is a politician,
pressured by many constituencies, many of whom do not share his vision
of a world made more secure by scrapping nuclear weapons. The Dr.
Strangeloves in the nuclear weapons establishment certainly have the
president's ear. Their influence needs to be countered by an engaged
public in the U.S. and around the world.
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Source URL:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-04-27/nuclear-study-will-assess-cancer-risk
By
Rob Pavey
Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Plant
Vogtle and Savannah River Site should be included in a new national
study of cancer risks for people living near nuclear facilities,
according to environmental groups.
"It's exactly what we've been
asking for -- for years," said Bobbie Paul, the executive director of
Georgia Women's Action for New Direction, which has lobbied for more
radiological monitoring in the area.
On Tuesday, the National
Academy of Sciences affirmed an April 7 request from the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission to update the 1990 National Institutes of Health
and National Cancer Institute report, Cancer in Populations Living Near
Nuclear Facilities .
The 20-year-old study, which examined deaths
from 16 types of cancer, found no increased risk of death among people
living in 107 counties containing or adjacent to 62 nuclear facilities.
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By KAREN DILLON
The Kansas City Star
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it may put the Bannister Federal Complex on a priority list for cleanup. Two decades ago, the agency left the site off that special Superfund list, but now it will reassess that decision.
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for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-473-1670
for immediate release: April 7, 2010
ANA APPLAUDS START TREATY SIGNING; WARNS INCREASED WEAPONS SPENDING WON'T WIN RATIFICATION
Today’s signing of new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) by President Barack Obama and Russian President Medvedev is a significant achievement in reducing threats posed by nuclear weapons and should be followed by timely U.S. Senate ratification, according to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA).
“Senate Democrats should not, however, be lured into thinking that large investments in nuclear weapons will get them the Republican votes needed to ratify this treaty,” said ANA Program Director Nick Roth. “This treaty should be ratified on its own merits, not on a deal that involves more money for nuclear weapons.”
Last December, 40 Republicans Senators, enough to defeat any resolution to ratify a treaty, sent a letter to the President demanding large increases in nuclear weapons spending before they would support the New START agreement. Among the list of demands were replacing the entire arsenal with new nuclear weapons and a series of new warhead production facilities.
Since the Republicans sent their letter, the Obama administration has proposed the largest-ever budget for nuclear weapons. It includes money for expanding nuclear weapons production capacity in the form of new weapons facilities and a study that explores significant modifications to current warheads. There is still no indication that Republican Senators will support the Administration’s arms control agenda. Earlier this week, Senators Kyl and McCain released a statement saying that current funding levels for nuclear weapons were still “woefully inadequate.”
“These new investments in nuclear weapons are expensive and unnecessary. More importantly they undermine the intent of the New START treaty, which is to demonstrate U.S. leadership in moving towards a nuclear weapons free world,” said Susan Gordon, Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is a national network of three-dozen grassroots and national groups representing the concerns of communities near U.S. nuclear weapons sites that are directly affected by 65 years of nuclear weapons production and waste contamination.
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fact sheets and other materials about current nuclear weapons issues are available online at http://www.ananuclear.org
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| | | published Tuesday, April 06, 2010 | 3109 Views |
for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan
Gordon 505-473-1670
for immediate release: April 6, 2010
GROUPS
IN COMMUNITIES WITH U.S. WEAPONS FACILITIES
RAISE CONCERNS OVER
OBAMA NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW
The Obama Administration’s nuclear
weapons strategy, made public today in the new Nuclear Posture Review
(NPR), is “a mixed bag of inconsistent policies,” according to the
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA).
“ANA applauds the NPR
for opposing development of new nuclear weapons, endorsing further
reductions in the stockpile, and limiting the role of nuclear weapons.
These policies will help reduce the global threat,” said, ANA director
Susan Gordon. “But, several parts of the NPR appear to contradict
President Obama’s pledge to pursue a world without nuclear weapons.”
ANA member group Press Releases
Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
Peace Works, Kansas City
Peace Action
Tri Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA
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Albuquerque Journal
Saturday March 27th, 2010
By John Fleck
Copyright © 2010 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer
A reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons must be accompanied by an
increase in spending to maintain those that remain, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates said Friday in announcing terms of a major arms reduction
deal with Russia.
President Barack Obama's administration's push for the Russian
arms deal is accompanied by a request for a major funding increase for
nuclear weapons research, development and manufacturing, including
Sandia and Los Alamos labs in New Mexico.
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for further information, contact: Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666 Ralph Hutchison 865-776-5050 for immediate release: March 26, 2010
On March 25, 2010, the White House announced that the United States and Russia have agreed to a new treaty to further reduce their nuclear weapons arsenals. In April, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) will be signed by President Obama and President Medvedev in Prague, the site of President Obama’s historic speech endorsing a world free of nuclear weapons. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability supports deeper reductions in the nuclear stockpile and applauds this momentous accomplishment. It is a positive step for U.S. nuclear policy and reinvigorates the international effort to eliminate the threat posed by nuclear weapons.
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| | | published Sunday, March 14, 2010 | 1049 Views |
for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773
cell (239) 699-0468
March 15 – 19, 2010 (202) 544-0217 x2502
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to
address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
for release at 10:00am, Monday March 15, 2010, 2322
Rayburn News Conference NUCLEAR WEAPONS WATCHDOGS GIVE PRES. OBAMA MIXED GRADES
ON NEW WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT, WASTE CLEANUP, & REACTOR FUNDING
President Barack Obama today received a mixed report card for his
Administration’s first-year policies relating to nuclear weapons
production, waste cleanup and reactor funding. Grades presented by the
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) at a Capitol Hill news
conference ranged from an “A” for keeping his campaign promise to
terminate the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump to an “F” for
proposing to increase taxpayer subsidies for construction of new nuclear
reactors. ANA is a national network of nearly three dozen groups
representing the concerns of communities downwind and downstream from
U.S. nuclear weapons sites.
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for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 cell
(239) 699-0468
March 15 – 19, 2010 (202) 544-0217 x2502
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
A national network of organizations working to
address issues of
nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
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WHAT: News briefing to release 1st Year Radioactive Report Card on
President Obama and his Administration to grade their performance on
policies on nuclear weapons production, waste cleanup and reactor
funding.
WHEN: Monday, March 15, 2010 - - 10:00am
WHERE: Room 2322 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
WHO: Leaders of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) a
national network of organizations representing the concerns of people
living downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear research, testing,
production and waste disposal facilities
- Michele Boyd, Director, Safe Energy Program, Physicians for Social
Responsibility -- taxpayer subsidies for new reactors, radioactive waste
disposal, and nuclear contamination cleanup
- Ralph Hutchison, Coordinator, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
-- new Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear production plants, the next
generation of weapons they may help support, and the implications for
U.S. treaty obligations
- Nick Roth, Program Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability --
performance of President Obama and his Administration during its first
year in office and changes that must be made to improve its grades.
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