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Tiny nukes: big problem

George Bush leads the US toward a policy of unilateral, pre-emptive counterproliferation warfighting strategy. Enlarge Image

Bunker busters and the future of war

As if George Bush's monumental miscalculation in Iraq wasn't bad enough for the people of Iraq and global security, the Bush regime has now moved one big step closer toward use of nuclear weapons in similar US misadventures.

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.

25 activists climbed onto the famous Brandenburg Gate with banners saying 'no war' and 'old Europe says no war' . Enlarge Image

Year one of war

Last February, 30 million people took to the streets to oppose the invasion of Iraq. "Let the Inspections Work!" and "No War for Oil!" the banners read. Twelve months ago, the bombing started, the troops landed and the tragic story of the Iraqi people's suffering continues to this day.

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.

192,000 people died from the bombing of Hiroshima. 'As long as nuclear weapons exist, it is inevitable that some country, at some point, will experience the horror that Hiroshima and Nagasaki already know.' --Former Hiroshima mayor Takashi Hiraoka Enlarge Image

Is your Mayor for Peace

Until we can rid the world of nuclear weapons nation by nation, we'll start town by town. That's the strategy behind the Mayors for Peace project - an international effort which began with the mayor of one city, Hiroshima, Japan, who in 1982 said "never again" to the suffering his own town endured.

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