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Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared  new

Nuclear proliferation experts say they are concerned that a new global arms race may be building as at least 40 developing countries in recent years have expresssed interest to the International Atomic Energy Agency about starting a nuclear power program. IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei said recently that most of those countries are not pursuing nuclear weapons but desire to have an atomic capability as "insurance, a deterrence." Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/11/AR2008051102212.html

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$3 million towards global disarmament

New Zealand Government, 19/05/2005. Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Marian Hobbs is delighted that New Zealand has committed more than $3 million over the next four years to the G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (WMD).

http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=23129

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Ban Depleted Uranium

Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (CADU) was launched in 1999 to focus specifically on trying to achieve a global ban on the manufacture, testing, and use of depleted uranium weapons. Thjey have launched a petition that can be signed online in support of this aim.

http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/

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Conference on Disarmament

The Conference on Disarmament (CD), established in 1979 as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, was a result of the first Special Session on Disarmament of the United Nations General Assembly held in 1978. It succeeded other Geneva-based negotiating fora, which include the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament (1960), the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament (1962-68), and the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (1969-78)

http://disarmament2.un.org/cd/

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Excerpts from UN report on Iran nuclear program

These are readable excerpts from a report by Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency to the U.N. Security Council and the Vienna-based IAEA Board of Governors on Iran's nuclear programs. (Reuters AlertNet, 28 April 2006)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4956882.stm

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Humanitarian Response to the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction

By The Humanitarian Times. 20 November 2002. Focuses on the problems in preparedness and capability by humanitarian relief agencies to assist in the event of very large attacks on civilian populations with any of several, increasingly-available weapons of mass destruction (PDF File, 30KB)

http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/global/armedconflict/WMD.pdf

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International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons

This petition demands: an immediate end to the use of uranium weapons; disclosure of all locations where uranium weapons have been used and immediate removal of the remnants and contaminated materials from the sites under strict control; health surveys of the 'depleted' uranium victims and environmental investigations at the affected sites; medical treatment and compensation for the 'depleted' uranium victims; an end to the development, production, stockpiling, testing, trade of uranium weapons; and a Convention for a Total Ban on Uranium Weapons. Go to the website for more information and to sign-on.

http://web.bandepleteduranium.org/campaign/person.php?id=1&id_topic=1

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President Bush's Nuclear Weapons Policy: Illogical, Ineffective and Dangerous

Union of Concerned Scientists, January 22, 2003. By Kurt Gottfried. The Bush administration is keenly aware that nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists or desperate states pose the gravest potential danger facing the United States. But the policies the administration has adopted to cope with these threats flow from a set of illogical priorities. The administration's policies regarding America's own nuclear weapons have systematically undercut the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which has for 33 years defined the only internationally accepted barrier to nuclear proliferation. In addition, the richest and most likely source of nuclear materials and weapons for terrorists and would-be proliferators is the enormous and poorly secured Russian stockpile. Yet the administration has placed far lower priority on this ticking time-bomb than on nuclear threats that do not yet exist. (Kurt Gottfried is an emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University, and is a cofounder and the chair of the board of directors of UCS).

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/commentary/president-bushs-nuclear-policy-illogical-ineffective-and-dangerous.html

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The Bravo H-Bomb Test - One WMD They Couldn't Hide

A report from Counterpunch delving into the prolonged impact on Marshall Islanders of the United States' biggest ever bomb.

http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/03/02_wypijewski_bravo.htm

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Understanding the Nuclear Weapons Debate & How You Can Get Involved

OneWorld Perspectives gives greater depth to global issues that you care about, provides an overview of the work of the non-profit community on selected topics, and shares ways that you can make a difference. The current edition focuses on the topic of nuclear weapons, examining the hopes for global disarmament amidst a debate tainted by what some countries feel are clear double standards. As governments meet in New York this month to take stock of nuclear risks, civil society groups argue that the complacency that has beset this vital issue needs to be overcome. Subscribe to Perspectives today so you never miss an issue (it's free!): http://us.oneworld.net/bulkmail/singlelist/subscribe/107

http://us.oneworld.net/section/us/perspectives/2/nuclearweaponsdebate

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Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms (pdf)

After two years' work, the independent international Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, chaired by Hans Blix, has put forward a number of concrete proposals on how the world could be freed of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. (United Nations, June 2006)

http://www.wmdcommission.org/files/Weapons_of_Terror.pdf

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