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The 'Doomsday Clock' is now at 5 minutes to midnight. Enlarge Image

Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight

The spectre of a nuclear war 60 years ago was what created the "doomsday clock," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'(BAS) cold war chronometer. The closer the clock to midnight, the closer the world was creeping toward disaster.

These days, the superpower polarisation of the world may be gone, but the threat of nuclear conflict remains. And added to that, a new doomsday force is moving the clock hands: global warming.

Attivisti di Greenpeace in azione con 6 riproduzioni di testate atomiche B61 a grandezza naturale, per chiedere una nuova stagione di disarmo, necessaria per fermare la proliferazione atomica. Enlarge Image

Anti-nuclear weapons actions across Europe

Citizens summons and complaints are being filed all over Europe to demand the enforcement of international humanitarian law by dismantling Nuclear Weapons.

Greenpeace's "Most Wanted" nuclear solitaire deck Enlarge Image

North Korea detonates nuke, joins planet's most dangerous club

North Korea became the ninth nuclear power at 10:35 local time (0135 GMT) on Monday when it detonated an undergound nuclear test. Their success is the world's failure.

Greenpeace activists block NATO entrance in protest of 480 US-owned and controlled nuclear weapons stationed in Europe. Enlarge Image

US Nukes in Europe: NATO HQ blocked by protest

Twenty-four Greenpeace activists from Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK were arrested this morning after staging a protest at NATO’s Brussels Headquarters. Their demand: removal of the 480 US-owned and controlled nuclear weapons from Europe. The action occurred as NATO Defence Ministers are preparing for a high-level meeting on the future of NATO.

Greenpeace activists use barrels and symbols outside Cherbourg harbour, to mark their protest of the imminent arrival of two BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels) ships, which are carrying 140kg of radioactive weapons-grade plutonium. Enlarge Image

Blix to US: nukes out of NATO

A new report from the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission to the UN makes some surprising recommendations - among them the removal of US nuclear weapons from NATO countries. It also fundamentally challenges the Bush Administration's nuclear weapons programme and policies of pre-emptive attack.

There are 480 US nuclear weapons currently stationed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Italy, and the UK.

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