Nuclear 2010

The Atomic Rulebook: Iran and IAEA Safeguard Violations

22 November 2009

The Daily Kos gives an effective overview of the IAEA, safeguards rules, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and developments in Iran:

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) states, in part, that:

“Each Non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes to accept safeguards… for the exclusive purpose of verification of the fulfilment of its obligations assumed under this Treaty with a view to preventing diversion of nuclear energy from peaceful uses to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices… The safeguards required by this Article shall be applied on all source or special fissionable material in all peaceful nuclear activities within the territory of such State, under its jurisdiction, or carried out under its control anywhere.”

Read the full article here:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/22/806842/-The-Atomic-Rulebook:-Iran-and-IAEA-Safeguard-Violations

Plutonium Page, Daily Kos, 22 November

Petition for nuclear disarmament

21 November 2009

In May 2010 the United Nations will meet to review the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Trade unionists from around the world are urging that meeting to make a clear path towards abolition of nuclear weapons in the shortest possible time. Call to sign the petition for nuclear disarmament:

http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/sign-petition-for-nuclear-disarmament.html

Remembering the day "The Day After" aired

20 November 2009

Most of us don’t worry about nuclear war the way we did when there was a cold war to go along with it. Today, thanks to terrorists and chemical weapons, war is smaller, but deadlier, says the Populist Examiner.

But it was on this day in 1983 that ABC premiered the TV movie, “The Day After.” Billed as a “starkly realistic drama of nuclear confrontation and its devastating effect on a group of average American citizens. Read the full article here:

http://www.examiner.com/x-15870-Populist-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Much-has-changed-since-The-Day-After-aired-26-years-ago-today