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New Poll: Nuclear weapons for some encourage nuclear weapons for all
The Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World commissioned a Harris Interactive poll in August, and released the results August 28. Among 2,345 American adults surveyed, a full 68 percent believe possession of nuclear weapons by the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea encourages countries without nuclear weapons to develop them. Twenty-two percent of adults said it had no impact, and 11 percent said it discouraged development. In other words, "Americans understand that 'Do as I say, not as I do' is advice that is falling on deaf ears," said Susan Gordon, director of Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
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| | | published Thursday, August 28, 2008 | 0 Views |
Kansas City, MO
August 21, 2008
By Ann Suellentrop
Peaceworks Kansas City
The Kansas City Plant is located in the Bannister Federal Complex near Holmes and
Bannister Road and is run by Honeywell under NNSA, the National Nuclear Security Administration. It makes over 85% of the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons, averages over 5000 shipments a month of nuclear weapons parts and is having its busiest workload in 20 years even in this post-Cold War era!
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Albuquerque Journal
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
By Frida Berrigan and Susan GordonSixty-three years ago this week, the United States was the first (and last — so far) nation to use nuclear weapons in war, detonating two warheads in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Tens of thousands were killed instantly, and by the end of 1945 another 200,000 had died from radiation-related ailments
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America’s nuclear arsenal and the policies that govern its size and contents are at a critical crossroads as the Bush Administration reaches its final months. The U.S. Energy Department and its semi-autonomous weapons division, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), have pushed hard in recent years for
the go-ahead to produce new kinds of nuclear weapons, and for expensive new facilities in which to manufacture them.
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Plutonium pits— carefully fabricated spheres of metal— and high explosives are the "triggers" for thermonuclear weapons weapons.
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In the mid-1990's the Department of Energy (DOE) embarked upon "Life Extension Programs (LEP) to refurbish and extend the "shelf life" of existing nuclear weapons.
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WANTED: U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY THAT SUPPORTS NON-PROLIFERATION & GLOBAL DISARMAMENT OBLIGATIONS
The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) “entered into force” and became law in 1970.
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By Kevin Welch
Amarillo Globe-News
Publication Date: 02/29/08
About 40 people, including Pantex and National Nuclear Security Administration staff attended a Thursday night public hearing on the proposal at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.
One part of the plan calling for increased manufacture of new nuclear pits, the core of nuclear warheads, drew the most criticism.
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| | | published Friday, February 29, 2008 | 2155 Views |
Comments given by ANA Director Susan Gordon at the Pantex hearing in Texas.
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By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER - Associated Press Writer
http://www.thestate.com/312/story/323827.html
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. --
Protesters bearing posters of nuclear bomb-blasted Hiroshima and Nagasaki greeted Department of Energy officials who came to South Carolina on Thursday to get public comments on the agency's plans to revamp the nation's nuclear weapons facilities.
"Stop the insanity! Slow down our nuclear weapons production!" said Henry Gurr, a retired physics professor from nearby Aiken.
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