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Commons crane protest at Trident
BBC News
Four Greenpeace activists scale a crane in Westminster to protest against
Trident nuclear plans.
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Why parliament should say no to Trident
Stop the War Coalition - UK
The man who told us he went to war to destroy weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq (there were none), at a cost of over 650,000 lives, now says he
wants to spend around £50 billion on weapons of mass destruction with the
potential to slaughter 40 million people.
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U.S. suspects illegal use of cluster bombs
By George Gedda
ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 30, 2007
Israel likely misused American-made cluster bombs in civilian areas of Lebanon
during the war against Hezbollah last summer, the State Department said
yesterday.
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The Nuclear Threat
Wall Street Journal
January 31, 2007
Pg. 13
By Mikhail Gorbachev
The essay "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," published in this newspaper
on Jan. 4, was signed by a bipartisan group of four influential Americans
-- George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn -- not known
for utopian thinking, and having unique experience in shaping the policies
of previous administrations. It raises an issue of crucial importance for
world affairs: the need for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
As someone who signed the first treaties on real reductions in nuclear weapons,
I feel it is my duty to support their call for urgent action.
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Kissinger, other eminent security experts urge 'world without
nuclear weapons'
The Associated Press
Published: January 4, 2007
WASHINGTON: Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and three other
prominent American security experts urged the United States on Thursday
to lead in the creation of "a world without nuclear weapons."
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U.S. Selecting Hybrid Design for Warheads
By WILLIAM J. BROAD, DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
The New York Times
January 7, 2007
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - The Bush administration is expected to announce next
week a major step forward in the building of the country's first new nuclear
warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing
designs from two weapons laboratories in an approach that some experts argue
is untested and risky.
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