Publication - April 1, 2006
A sensational leaked document obtained today by Greenpeace reveals that the head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is considering realigning the agency's mission from promoting nuclear power towards renewable energy.DISCLAIMER - This was a joke for April 1st, but it makes a serious point. By promoting the dangerous myth of Atoms for Peace and nuclear power, the IAEA is responsible for spreading the very things it seeks to control: nuclear weapons technology and materials.Greenpeace believes that the only way to stop the spread of nuclear weapons is for the nuclear weapons states to disarm and for the world to reject the technologies and materials used to produce them, by changing to promoting peaceful renewable energy sources the IAEA would be acting to combat the two most pressing threats facing the world today, climate change and nuclear proliferation.