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Will Hanford ever be cleaned up?

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

seattletimes.com - By Shannon Dininny - Jun. 03 (Special Report) - Hanford’s legacy is less about what was made here than the environmental mess left behind — and the federal government’s inability, for nearly a quarter-century now, to rid Hanford once and for all of its worst hazard: 56 million gallons of toxic waste cached in aging underground tanks.

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Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I.A.E.A. Report

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David E. Sanger, William J. Broad - May. 23 (Opinion) - Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I.A.E.A. Report

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Stuck in a Job at the End of the World

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By John LaForge - May. 22 (Special Report) - Very little sympathy is felt for Air Force personnel assigned to fire nuclear missiles that could end all life on the planet. But their grim, boring and existentially absurd job has eroded staff morale so much that their collapsing competence has added to the world’s risk

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How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Fran Quigley - May. 19 (News Report) - In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism. Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility, their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US.

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Nuclear Weapons Will be Used -- If We Don't Do Something to Get Rid of the Damn Things

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Tom Engelhardt - May. 13 (Opinion) - Has a weapon ever been invented, no matter how terrible, and not used? The crossbow, the dreadnought, poison gas, the tank, the landmine, chemical weapons, napalm, the B-29, the drone: all had their day and for some that day remains now. Even the most terrible weapon of all, the atomic bomb, that city-buster, that potential civilization-destroyer, was used as soon as it was available. Depending on your historical interpretation, it was either responsible for ending World War II in the Pacific or rushed into action before that war could end. In either case, it launched the atomic age.

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Opinion: N. Korea endgame: 3 scenarios

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael J. Green - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - Hyperbolic North Korean threats of war are not new. What is new is the intensity and persistence of those threats this time around. Add to that an untested 29-year-old leader who is suddenly a four-star general with lots to prove. How does this end? Consider these three possibilities:

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Contrasting Views on North Korea Underscore Sensitivities and Lack of Evidence

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt - Apr. 13 (News Analysis) - A sudden round of finger-pointing highlighted the sensitivity surrounding intelligence estimates in the wake of failures leading up to the Iraq war, and some subsequent missteps involving North Korea.

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North Korea May Have Nuclear Missile Capability, U.S. Agency Says

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thom Shanker, David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt - Apr. 12 (News Analysis) - A report by the Pentagon’s intelligence arm concluded North Korea has learned to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be carried by missile. Whether other agencies agree is unclear.

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Iran stance 'puzzles' negotiators after first day of nuclear talks

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 06 (News Analysis) - The threat of deadlock loomed over Iran nuclear talks in Kazakhstan today after Iran presented a revised set of proposals. ...

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Behind the North Korean Crisis

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Dennis J. Bernstein - Apr. 06 (Special Report) - U.S. propagandists and the mainstream media present foreign crises, like the current one with North Korea, as black-and-white morality plays with Official Washington behaving wisely and the adversaries as crazy. But the reality is always more complex

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Map: This is how far those North Korean missiles can actually reach

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Apr. 05 (News) -

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Nuclear Race on the Subcontinent

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MICHAEL KREPON - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - India and Pakistan can defuse their nuclear competition by improving relations and accelerating trade.

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Pakistan’s Precipitous Decline

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By WILLIAM MILAM - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - Nuclear arms, sectarian violence, a too-powerful military and dysfunctional institutions make for a dangerous mix.

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Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Dahr Jamail - Mar. 20 (Special Report) - Al Jazeera reporter Dahr Jamail discusses how the U.S. invasion of Iraq has left behind a legacy of cancer and birth defects suspected of being caused by the U.S. military’s extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus. Noting the birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Jamail says: "They’re extremely hard to bear witness to. But it’s something that we all need to pay attention to ... What this has generated is, from 2004 up to this day, we are seeing a rate of congenital malformations in the city of Fallujah that has surpassed even that in the wake of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that nuclear bombs were dropped on at the end of World War II."

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Why Iran May Be Ready to Deal

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Vali Nasr - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - Sanctions have brought Tehran to the negotiating table. Now it’s time to move beyond them.

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US to bolster missile defences

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:13:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Mar. 15 (News Report) - Chuck Hagel, the US defence secretary, has unveiled plans to bolster US missile defences to counter a growing threat from nuclear-armed North Korea. Hagel made the announcement "on missile defense" at 3pm local time (1900 GMT). "This is a response to a t

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US deems North Korea nuclear strike unlikely without threat to dynasty

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Chris McGreal - Mar. 13 (News Analysis) - Intelligence report comes as North Korea state press say people ready to 'rain bullets on the enemy' amid increasing tensions North Korea is unlikely to carry out its bellicose threats to unleash a nuclear attack on the US and South Korea unless the Kim dynasty's control of the communist regime is threatened, the White House intelligence chief said on Tuesday. But James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, cautioned that Pyongyang remains an unpredictable and serious threat because it is difficult to gauge at what point North Korea's leadership would feel its existence to be in jeopardy. Clapper's assessment to a Senate committee on Tuesday came as the North Korean state press said people are ready to "rain bullets on the enemy" amid increasing tensions since Pyongyang announced the 1953 armistice with Seoul was at an end. State-run television reported mass rallies across North Korea against the US and said Kim Jong-un had told troops to be on "maximum alert" for a ...

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Editorial: Congress Gets in the Way on Iran

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - Lawmakers need to work with President Obama on a diplomatic solution to the nuclear dispute.

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Seepage from an Aging Nuclear Site

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Gina Mason - Mar. 03 (News Report) - Living with radiation sickness is not on my bucket list, and I would hazard that it isn’t on yours either. Nor is it what I have in mind for my children’s future. Yet our government continues to manufacture nuclear materials and unsafely store radioactive waste in clear violation of the public trust.

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Hanford Nuclear Reservation Tanks Leaking Radioactive Waste Underground, Governor Inslee Says

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Feb. 22 (News Report) - Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday. Inslee made the announcement after meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. Last week it was revea

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Iranian nuke chief was in N. Korea for atomic test

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Times of Israel - By Times of Israel Staff - Feb. 19 (News Report) - The man whom Western intelligence agencies say may very well be the head of Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program was present as an observer last week when North Korea carried out a critical nuclear test, The British Sunday Times reported.

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Tank leaking high-level radioactive waste at Hanford

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

komonews.com - Feb. 18 (News Report) - A tank that holds radioactive liquids is leaking at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday, raising concerns about the integrity of other storage facilities at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

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Former Target Store Manager to Oversee Nation's Nuclear Security

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Dana Liebelson - Feb. 06 (News Report) - Ever since last summer, when a 82-year-old nun broke into the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the National Nuclear Security Administration has scrambled to improve its leadership and beef up security at America's nuke facilities. Now it appears the agency has found the man for the job: The weekly trade publication Nuclear Weapons & Materials Monitor reported last week that the NNSA has named as its acting head of nuclear security Steve Asher, a retired Air Force colonel who less than four years ago was working as a "team leader" at a Target store in Spokane, Washington. Prior to that, he commanded a missile base in Montana that flunked a nuclear security test within five months of his departure. This November 2009 video, dug up by the Project on Government Oversight (where I used to be a fellow), shows Asher hawking Black Friday bargains : "A lot of folks were being thrifty in their shopping this year, and so we sold more of our $1.99 towels than we expected!" (Click ...

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Another Face-Off for Nuclear-Armed Rivals

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - Simmering disputes between India and Pakistan have taken a turn for the worse.

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The Gravest Threat to World Peace

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Noam Chomsky - Jan. 05 (News Analysis) - numerous polls have shown, although citizens of Arab countries generally dislike Iran, they do not regard it as a very serious threat. Rather, they perceive the threat to be Israel and the United States; and many, sometimes considerable majorities, regard Iranian nuclear weapons as a counter to these threats.

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