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Bunker busters and the future of war

Greenpeace activists anchored a large banner to a boat today, reading 'When Will the U.S. Disarm? No War' and sailed it in front of the United Nations headquarters. Enlarge Image

US to UN: Butt out

An extraordinary communication from the United States to UN representatives around the world has been leaked to Greenpeace.(Full text of the leaked document here). In it, the United States warns that the simple act of support for a General Assembly meeting to discuss the war will be considered "unhelpful and directed against the United States." They further threaten that invoking the Uniting for Peace resolution will be "harmful to the UN."

Ooops. This 'underground' nuclear test in 1970 went badly. A ten-kiloton weapon, buried 900 feet in the ground, accidentally vented radiation 10,000 feet in the air, exposing test site employees and downwind communities to radioactive fallout. Enlarge Image

Tiny nukes: big problem

The US Senate has bowed to the Dr. Strangelove dream of Donald Rumsfeld, and lifted a ten-year-old ban on research and development of smaller battlefield nuclear weapons. The action paves the way for the creation of a whole new range of numerous small, "usable" nuclear weapons.

Greenpeace activists deliver 15 barrels of fake radioactive waste to the doors of the European Parliament Enlarge Image

Euratom: nuking Europe's future

Greenpeace activists delivered 15 barrels of fake radioactive waste to the doors of the European Parliament. Nuclear power is being promoted at the heart of Europe's new Constitution. Rolling an outdated and undemocratic treaty into future EU law is not just inappropriate - it's dangerous.

Greenpeace scientist Dr. Rianne Teule measures radioactive levels of a device from the nearby Tuwaitha nuclear facility. The device, abandoned on a roadside, contains yellow powder that is 1000 times background levels of radiation. Enlarge Image

WMD report buried

Weapons inspector David Kay - the head of the "Iraq Survey Group" and hawkish pro-war cheerleader prior to the US attack - reports that the US has failed to find evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. A version of Kay's interim report had been expected to be publicly released. But the negative findings have driven the report behind a cloak of secrecy, with only a sanitized presentation to Congress made public. And efforts to evade public scrutiny have included evading the scrutiny by UN-mandated inspectors, still excluded from Iraq.

Greenpeace Nuclear Free Seas Campaign: HMS Talent arrives in Hamburg Enlarge Image

Nukes in Falklands

When the destroyer HMS Sheffield was sunk during the war between the UK and Argentina over the Falklands-Malvinas islands, the UK Ministry of Defence refused to admit there were nuclear weapons aboard any of the ships in the conflict. As a part of the nukewatch network, we knew otherwise.

Despite unprecedented security measures, Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner off the Bosphorous Bridge to protest against NATO's irrational nuclear policy. Enlarge Image

Nukes out of NATO

The NATO summit and its attendant world leaders rolled into Istanbul this week. While the rhetoric is of peace, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) version includes a constant nuclear threat. We are highlighting the military alliance's hypocrisy in trying to 'make peace' using the threat of nuclear weapons.

Puzzlin Evidence: who is this man, and how many nuclear weapons does he have? Enlarge Image

Nuclear proliferation starts at home

While the glare of the world's media is focused upon the release of Mordechai Vanunu after 18 years in prison for revealing the world's most open secret - that Israel has the bomb - diplomats from all over the world are preparing for an important, little reported, international nuclear weapons control conference deep in the bowels of the UN in New York. And while the conference may not be secret, a whistleblower could certainly reveal much about the treaty's dark underside that most people don't know, and which may someday hurt them.

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