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NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION DAY 2015. June 2, 2015.
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of
Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
What’s at
stake:
If
climate change is the planet's no. 1 danger, nuclear weapons, once no. 1, are
now no. 2. Tuesday, June 2,
2015 was NUCLEAR ABOLITION DAY, when the many anti-nuclear organizations pushed
for action, from the United Nations to the “Golden Rule.” But they are insufficient against the
massive US National Security State. (See
Michael Glennon, National Security and
Double Government, describing the uncontrolled security network.) The people in mass must work and push.
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Contents
2012, 2013 at end
Contents Nuclear Abolition Day, June 2, 2015
Abolition Organizations
United Nations
Disarmament Agency (UNODA)
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
International Day for the Total Elimination
of Nuclear Weapons
Peace and
Planet
International
Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA_)
Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation (NAPF)
Women’s Action
for New Directions (WAND)
Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Ground Zero
(Poulsbo, WA, Triton submarines)
Nevada Desert
Experience
Global Zero
Marshall
Islands Nuclear Zero Lawsuit
The “Golden
Rule” Sails Again
And OMNI
Nuclear
Dangers
Joseph Gerson, Failure
of NPT Conference
Gerson, Obama
Admin. Sabotaged the Conference
Mainstream Media
Uninterested
Accidental Explosions:
Bordeaux, Two Nukes Nearly Detonated 1961
Accidental Explosions:
Bordeaux, Two Nukes Nearly Detonated 1961
Organizations
Monitoring and Opposing Nuclear Weapons
UNITED NATIONS NUCLEAR WEAPONS,
Google Search, June 4, 2015, Page One, First 3 entries
1.
UNODA
- Nuclear Weapons Home - the United Nations
www.un.org/disarmament/WMD/Nuclear/
United
Nations
Nuclear
weapons are the
most dangerous weapons on earth. One can destroy a whole city, potentially
killing millions, and jeopardizing the natural environment ...
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones
The
establishment of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (NWFZ) is ...
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Secretary-General's five point
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Secretary-General's five point proposal on nuclear ...
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NPT
The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose ...
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Demarcation
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2.
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - Main ...
legal.un.org/avl/ha/tnpt/tnpt.html
United
Nations
The issue of the
prevention of the wider dissemination of nuclear weapons was ... The NPT contains out 11 articles that
apply to both nuclear-weapon States ... on disarmament since the early
days of the United
Nations, it was not until 17 ...
3.
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons
www.un.org/en/events/nuclearweaponelimination/
United
Nations
Achieving global nuclear disarmament is one of the oldest goals of the United Nations. It was the subject of
the General Assembly's first resolution in 1946.
Peace and Planet, Google Search, June 3,
2015, Page One First 2 entries
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Peace & Planet | Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free,
Peaceful ...
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Peace & Planet. 1924 likes · 33 talking
about this. @PeaceAndPlanet Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just,
& Sustainable World.
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA),
Google Search, April 25, 2015
IALANA:
Home
en.ialana.de/
For the NPT Review
Conference 2015 IALANA prepared a special newspaper. Among others,
it includes articles on the RMI Nuclear Zero Cases, 70 years after ...
Lawyers
Committee on Nuclear Policy - LCNP.org
lcnp.org/
The elimination of nuclear
weapons through negotiation of an international ... A non-profit educational
association of lawyers and legal scholars. Partners .... UN Office of theInternational
Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA).
John Burroughs - Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
lcnp.org/aboutlcnp/bios.htm
He is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Arms Control Association, ... U.N.: the International
Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), the ...
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
...
www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Organizations/Detail//?id=87057
The International Association of Lawyers Against
Nuclear Arms (IALANA)
aims to reduce the international legitimacy of the use and threat of use of
nuclear ...
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
www.ipb.org/.../index.php?...International%20members...International%...
Member Name: International Association of Lawyers Against
Nuclear ArmsAbreviation: IALANA Web: www.ialana.de. Email:
jenny.becker@ialana.de
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Hubris Versus Wisdom by David Krieger
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Why Are We Planning to Walk across the DMZ? by Mairead Maguire
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How to Avert a Nuclear War by James Cartwright and Vladimir
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Statement of Principle in Support of the Lausanne Agreement
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Zero Lawsuits
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Marshall Islands to U.S.: Keep Your NPT Promises
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Marshall Islands Delivers Strong Message to NPT Review
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· Missile
Defense
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Failed Missile Defense Programs Cost $10 Billion
· Nuclear
Insanity
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Close Call During Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nuclear Weapon Transporter Has Anger Management Issues
· Nuclear
Proliferation
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U.S. Reveals It Has Known About Israel's Nuclear Program for
Over 50 Years
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Pension Fund Blacklists Boeing for Work on Nuclear Weapons
· Peace
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Women's Power to Stop War
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40th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War
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NPT News In Review
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This Month in Nuclear Threat History
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Filling the Legal Gap
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Worldwide Nuclear Modernization Programs
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Ground
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from a perspective of deep spiritual reflection, providing a means for
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nuclear weapons in nine countries. Each one is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
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On April 24th,
The Marshall Islands filed landmark cases in the International Court of Justice and U.S. Federal District Court.
The Marshall Islands filed landmark cases in the International Court of Justice and U.S. Federal District Court.
The Claim:
The nine nuclear-armed nations have failed to comply with their obligations, under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and customary international law, to pursue negotiations for the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons.
The nine nuclear-armed nations have failed to comply with their obligations, under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and customary international law, to pursue negotiations for the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons.
They act for the seven
billion of us who live on this planet to end the nuclear weapons threat hanging
over all humanity.
Take a Stand
World
leaders need to know it's the will of the people to reach Nuclear Zero.
Be a hero for Nuclear Zero and add your voice today.
Be a hero for Nuclear Zero and add your voice today.
Nuclear weapons threaten everything we love and treasure in this
world. To protect humanity’s future, we support the Marshall Islands, a
small island nation that is courageously seeking to enforce the Nuclear
Zero promise - a world free of nuclear weapons.
That is why we call upon the nuclear weapon nations to urgently fulfill their moral duty and legal obligation to begin negotiations for complete nuclear disarmament.
Zero is the only safe number of nuclear weapons on the planet.
That is why we call upon the nuclear weapon nations to urgently fulfill their moral duty and legal obligation to begin negotiations for complete nuclear disarmament.
Zero is the only safe number of nuclear weapons on the planet.
The Nine Nuclear-Armed Nations
Five are parties to the NPT
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United States
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Russia
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United Kingdom
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France
·
China
Four are not parties to the NPT but
violate
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Israel
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India
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Pakistan
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North Korea
The numbers don’t lie
17,000
nuclear
weapons between them.
$100 billion
spent every
year on nuclear forces globally.
Zero
negotiations
for worldwide disarmament.
The Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
The NPT prevents the
proliferation of nuclear weapons and obligates nations to negotiate for global
disarmament.
The treaty entered into
force in 1970 and 190 countries have signed it –
the most signatories of any arms control agreement.
the most signatories of any arms control agreement.
Good faith
Article VI of the NPT
“Each of the Parties to the
treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on
effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at
an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete
disarmament under strict and effective international control.”
Gone bad
The Nuclear-Armed Nations
·
Are actively planning for nuclear weapon deployment at least
through the end of the 21st century.
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Continue to invest in modernizing their nuclear
arsenals.
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Ignore multilateral forums that discuss the need to ban
and eliminate nuclear weapons.
44
years later there are still no negotiations in sight
years later there are still no negotiations in sight
The Unkept Promise
The Nuclear Zero Lawsuits
challenge the nine nuclear-armed nations to keep their legal and moral
obligations.
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Nuclear Zero Privacy
Policy Made with ♥ in Santa Barbara
Golden
Rule to Sail Again - "Splashdown" on June 20th.
From Veterans for Peace, May 22, 2015.
The historic Golden Rule
antinuclear protest boat will set sail again, continuing its journey for peace
and nuclear disarmament. In 1958
four Quaker activists attempted to sail the Golden Rule into the seas
around the Marshall Islands, in
order to halt U.S. nuclear atmospheric testing. They were stopped and
arrested in Hawaii and spent time in jail, but news of their quest went around
the world, inspiring others to act. The 1958 voyage of the Golden Rule is
credited with helping to achieve the Partial
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned nuclear testing in the air,
underwater and outer space. <More>
UNITED
STATES AND NUCLEAR DANGERS
FAILURE
OF NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE MAY 2015
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Dick,
Friends,
As I trust many of you know, the Review Conference failed to
agree on a consensus document last Friday night, leading to the failure of the
conference. With the nuclear powers
opposing many of the provisions of the draft declaration, it is an open
question whether or not consensus could have been reached. But it was the U.S. refusal to agree to a conference
to prepare the ground for a Middle East Nuclear Weapons and
WMD-Free Zone that took the conference down. It should be remembered that
in 1995 the NPT was indefinitely extended on the condition that there be
movement toward such a nuclear-free zone, a commitment reiterated in the 2000 and 2010
Review Conferences.
Despite the Review Conference’s failures we can build on the
growing divide between the non-nuclear weapons states and the nuclear powers, and the progress that we made
in building a broader and deeper issue-integrated movement.
Peace & Planet will continue our
movement building on the basis of the proposal adopted during the Abolition 2000 annual general meeting in early
May. Next up is a workshop at the U.S.
Social Forum in Philadelphia and building our movement from 70th
anniversary events to the International
Day of Peace and the International
Day for the Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in
September.
For your information you’ll find an article from Unfold Zero
“The NPT Phoenix – Success from the ashes of failure” below.
THIS WEEK THERE ARE TWO SMALL ACTIONS THAT
YOU CAN TAKE. First, those of you who have yet to respond to our Peae
& Planet evaluation, please take a few moments to do so.
It will help us enormously.
Second, organizing an international conference, interfaith
convocation, rally, march, festival and delivery of 8 million petition
signatures to the Review Conference was an expensive proposition. We have a
$14,000 deficit. You can make a difference by
donating whatever you can afford.
For a nuclear-free, peaceful, just and sustainable world,
Joseph Gerson
Nuclear disarmament initiatives may survive the failure of the 2015 NPT
Review Conference.
United Nations forums could move them forward.
The States Parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty failed spectacularly to reach agreement on a final conference document
on 22 May after four weeks of negotiations at the United Nations in New York.
The failure masks the fact that some real gains were made during the course of
the negotiations. This included a number of proposals in the draft final
document that appeared to have found agreement by the NPT Parties. If acted
upon, these proposals might be able to produce a phoenix from the ashes of the
failed conference.
The conference collapsed on the Middle East issue. The United
States, UK, Canada and possibly some others could not accept a call for
the United Nations to convene a conference in March 2016 on establishing a Middle
East zone free of nuclearweapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Their objection
arose because it has not yet been possible to secure agreement by Israel to
participate in such a conference. According to the UN guidelines on establishing nuclear-weapon-free
zones, they should be arrived at freely by the States in the region.
UN Security Council meets with Phoenix mural behind
On the other hand, the establishment of such a zone was a core
part of the agreement in 1995 to extend the NPT indefinitely, and was a vital
part of the agreements of the 2000 and 2010 NPT Review Conferences. Progress on
this issue is important to all States Parties to the NPT, and especially to the
Arab countries and Iran. They perceive Israel’s undeclarednuclear weapons program as threatening their security
and undermining the nuclear non-proliferation
regime. Indeed, the Arab countries and Iran are required to accept NPT
verification and compliance measures as non-nuclear States, while Israel – a State
believed to be nuclear armed - is exempt from these. This is
seen as a double standard and discriminatory.
The collapse
of the NPT Review Conference over the Middle East nuclear weapon free zone (NWFZ) issue is,
therefore, very serious. However, it has not appeared to derail the warming relationship
between Iran and the six power countries (Chiba, France, Germany, Russia, UK
and the US) which have succeeded in an interim agreement on the control and
verification of Iran’s nuclear energy
program. Indeed, when the US and UK announced on May 22 their unwillingness to
support a 2016 conference on a Middle East NWFZ, Iran did not immediately
condemn these countries for their double standards. Instead, Iran called for a
suspension of the NPT Review conference to allow further negotiations to try to
reach a compromise. Although unsuccessful, this sign of good faith from Iran
bodes well for the continued negotiations with the six powers, who aim to reach
a final deal with Iran.
The proposal to hold a UN conference on
a Middle East NWFZ in 2016 regardless of whether Israel will join is not
necessarily dead. It could be taken up by the UN General
Assembly, a forum which unlike the NPT, does not always operate by consensus.
However, to move ahead without agreement of Israel and without the support of
all NPT Parties could weaken the conference, turning it into a grandstanding
event, and possibly reducing further the likelihood of Israel joining any
process to establish such a zone.
There were a number of other developments at the NPT Review
Conference that could make a breakthrough in multilateral negotiations for
global nuclear disarmament. Such negotiations have
been blocked in the Conference on Disarmament (CD) for nearly 20 years. The
developments include the increased support for the Austria Pledge (now re-named
the Humanitarian Pledge), a shift in focus from the CD to the United Nations as
a whole to advance nucleardisarmament initiatives, and a general agreement
(paragraph 154 (19) of the NPT draft outcome document) to establish aUN Open Ended
Working Group on nuclear disarmament.
The Humanitarian Pledge, announced by Austria at the end of the
Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of NuclearWeapons in December 2014, includes a
commitment to ‘close the legal gap’ to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. During
the course of the NPT review Conference the number of countries endorsing the
pledge increased from 65 to over 100. This elevates the political
commitment to nuclear disarmament by those States signing.
It also provides flexibility on the options for the legal gap to be filled, in
order to ensure a critical mass and maximum effectiveness on which-ever legal
instrument or instruments are negotiated.
Austria, along with members of the New Agenda Coalition (Brazil,
Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand and South Africa), emphasised that the
pledge is not a specific call for a ban treaty (that could be negotiated
without waiting for the nuclear-armed States). Rather, the NAC submitted aworking paper
outlining a range of options. These include a nuclear weapons convention
(i.e. a treaty which includes all nuclear-armed States), a framework agreement, a ban treaty (as
an interim measure), or a hybrid arrangement including a range of measures.
Another group of countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada,
Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and
Ukraine) submitted a proposal for the pursuit of a range of ‘building blocks’ toward
a nuclear weapon free world. UNIDIR and the
International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) advanced ideas in this proposal
further in a research paper on Effective Measures: Builders and Blockers. A key
point in the paper is that 'States have different roles to play to complete the nucleardisarmament
puzzle' and can therefore focus on different 'building blocks' in a
complementary fashion.
Previous NPT Review Conferences have tasked the Conference on
Disarmament to negotiate nuclear disarmament
steps and/or a comprehensive agreement on nucleardisarmament. However, the CD which operates by consensus
has been blocked from undertaking any such negotiations for nearly 20 years. At
the 2015 NPT review Conference there was a shift towards advancing nuclear disarmament in the full range of UN disarmament bodies. This was promoted
by a number of groups including the Nordic Five (see recommendation 15 of the
working paper of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), and was
included in the draft final outcome document.
Indeed, there was a call in the document for the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to
re-establish an Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) to develop effective measures
(legal and other) for the achievement and maintenance of a nuclear-weapon-free
world. Civil society groups including theInternational Association of Lawyers
Against Nuclear Arms and UNFOLD ZERO, promoted the
re-establishment of an OEWG at the NPT Conference, and will now focus on
getting this agreed at the UNGA in October. If such a body is established by
the UNGA, it could provide a forum to discuss the options outlined by the NAC
and Building Blocks groups, find common ground between them and pave the way
for actual negotiations.
Cuba has proposed that such negotiations should aim to draft a
comprehensive nuclear abolition treaty (nuclear weaponsconvention)
ready for adoption at the UN High Level
Conference which will be held no later than 2018. Ireland, in its concluding
statement at the NPT Review Conference, indicated that, regardless of the NPT
Conference outcome, the New Agenda Coalition would continue developing the
options outlined in their working papers.
Nuclear disarmament initiatives are also moving ahead in otherUN bodies. The
Marshall Islands has launched a case against the nuclear armed States in the International
Court of Justice on implementation of their nuclear disarmament
obligation. Marshall Islands, which was very active in the 2015 NPT Review
Conference, is calling on the Court to instruct the nuclear weapon States to initiate multilateral
negotiations for anuclear weapons convention within one year of the
court’s judgement.
UNFOLD ZERO was also promoting other UN-based nuclear disarmament
initiatives at the NPT Review Conference, including a proposal for the UN Security Council and UNGA to affirm
the illegality of the targeting of populated areas with nuclear weapons.
The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26 will
provide a good opportunity to build public awareness, elevate the nuclear disarmament issue up the political
ladder and publicise these initiatives at the United Nations.
Other civil society coalitions involved in the NPT Review
Conference are joining UNFOLD ZERO to focus on September 26 and the United Nations as a key opportunity
to take forward nuclear abolition proposals.
These include Peace and Planet and Global Wave, which presented a nuclear abolition petition signed by over 7 million
people to the Conference, organised a huge rally and march in New York and
inspiring actions in more than 50 other countries.
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Article: Obama
Administration Sabotages Nuclear Nonproliferation
Conference
Dick,
Obama
Administration Sabotages Nuclear Nonproliferation
Conference
Wednesday, 27 May 2015 00:00By Joseph Gerson,
Truthout | Op-Ed
I mean you must take living so
seriously that,
even when you are seventy, you must plant olive trees, not because you think they will be left to your children, because you don't believe in death although you are afraid of it because, I mean, life weighs heavier. - Nazim Hikmet, "On Living"
So much
for President Obama's commitment to a nuclear-weapons-free world.
With its decision on May 22 to block the
adoption of the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Review Conference's consensus statement, the Obama administration gave the
human species another hefty push toward nuclear catastrophe,
shaking the foundations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty (NPT).
Why the
sabotage? Well, for one thing, the draft text had the temerity to call for
the convening of a conference within six months to prepare the way for a
Middle Eastnuclear-weapons-and-weapons-of-mass-destruction-free
zone. It called for all parties to the NPT Review - read especially the
United States - to fulfill previous Review Conferences' promises to begin the
process of creating the zone.
Footnote
1. The P5 are the five permanent members of the UNSecurity Council, each of which is
a nuclear weapons state: the United States,
Russia, Britain, France and China.
Joseph
Gerson is director of the American Friends Service Committee's peace and
economic justice program and co-convener of Peace and Planet.
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MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISINTEREST IN
NPT (focus on “enemy” Iran)
This week
on CounterSpin: Nuclear
weapons generate a lot of media interest when it comes to the question of
whether Iran is trying to get them, but when the topic is eliminating nuclear weapons
altogether, as at the now concluding UN meetings on the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, media could hardly care less. We’ll talk about the
NPT with Alice Slater from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Abolition 2000. http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin052215.mp3
Declassified report: Two nuclear bombs nearly detonated in North
Carolina
By Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, CNN
updated 7:58 PM EDT, Thu June 12, 2014
(CNN) -- On a January night
in 1961, a U.S. Air Force bomber broke in half while flying over eastern North Carolina Goldsboro
A disaster worse than the devastation wrought in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki could have befallen the United States
Declassified documents that the National Security Archive released this week offered new details about
the incident. The blaring headline read:
"Multi-Megaton Bomb Was Virtually 'Armed' When It Crashed to Earth."
Or, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it in back then,
"By the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to
cross, a nuclear explosion was averted." ........
(there was the fictional account of an accidental bombing 3 yrs
later, called Fail-Safe
END NUCLEAR ABOLITION DAY, JUNE 2, 2015
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