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Nuclear Weapons
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Ban the Bomb! Historian and Activist to Speak April 1
By Liz Woodruff @ 4:25 PM :: 50 Views :: Nuclear Weapons, SRA News Releases
The Idaho Peace Coalition and Snake River Alliance will host a community dinner and program on Thursday, April 1 at 6:00 p.m. at the Center for Spiritual Living, 600 N Curtis, Boise. Lawrence Wittner, author, board member of America’s largest peace organization, Peace Action, and Professor of History at State University of New York/Albany will be the featured speaker.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Snake River Alliance and Idaho Peace Coalition Hold Hiroshima Memorial, August 6th, 2009
By Liz Woodruff @ 2:56 PM :: 528 Views :: Nuclear Weapons, SRA News Releases

Snake River Alliance and Idaho Peace Coalition Hold Hiroshima Memorial
WHAT: “Stewarding Peace Through Memorial: A Walk and Talk for Peace”
WHEN: August 6th, 2009 5:30-8p.m.
WHO: Snake River Alliance, Idaho Peace Coalition and Will Ferraggiaro of the D.C. Based Fund for Peace
COST: Free
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Monday, July 23, 2007
No to nukes
By @ 2:58 PM :: 2022 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Clean and Renewable Energy, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Energy Intelligence News Releases
JAPAN SEES NUCLEAR POWER as a solution to global warming, but it's paying a price. Last week, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake caused dozens of problems at the world's biggest nuclear plant, leading to releases of radioactive elements into the air and ocean and an indefinite shutdown.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
38 Drums of Radioactive Waste Unaccounted-For
By @ 4:27 PM :: 1769 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons
Los Alamos National Laboratory can't account for 38 containers of radioactive waste materials after completion of a four-month inventory conducted at its Area G nuclear dump site.
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Saturday, June 02, 2007
GNEP: Nuclear wolf in sheeps clothing (VIDEO)
By @ 9:52 AM :: 3206 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Bruneau nuclear reactor
WATCH: an interview with experts addressing GNEP through the failed history of reprocessing in the US and abroad.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
INL to begin counter-terrorism tests
By @ 12:17 PM :: 1543 Views :: Nuclear Weapons
Following recent completion of an environmental assessment, the U.S. Department of Energy will begin using a new site at the Idaho National Laboratory to test the effectiveness of protective devices used against explosives attacks by terrorists.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Who Needs Nukes
By @ 2:53 PM :: 1531 Views :: Nuclear Weapons
The problem with nuclear weapons today can be summed up as follows: They are going out of fashion where they are needed most and coming into fashion where they are needed least.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
Feds say declining conditions may put workers, public at risk
By @ 1:16 PM :: 1486 Views :: Nuclear Weapons
OAK RIDGE - A federal safety board is questioning the safety of enriched uranium operations at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, saying workers and the public could be at risk.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
Divine Strake Meeting
By @ 7:49 PM :: 1895 Views :: Downwinders, Nuclear Weapons
Boise, Idaho -- Idaho's downwinders turned out in force Sunday afternoon to share their concerns with the government agencies responsible for Divine Strake. The explosive experiment slated for the Nevada desert has many worried they are once again in the path of radioactive fallout.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Scientists fail to sway residents
By @ 7:25 PM :: 1860 Views :: Downwinders, Nuclear Weapons
With posters, maps and charts on radiation exposure, government scientists tried to assure about 35 residents Tuesday that the Divine Strake non-nuclear blast planned for the Nevada Test Site will not harm their health or the environment.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
NYTimes on Opposition Divine Strake Enivronmental
By @ 6:35 PM :: 1778 Views :: Downwinders, Nuclear Weapons
Las Vegas, Jan. 10 -- A twice-postponed nonnuclear bomb test in the middle of the Nevada desert may face additional legal challenges over its potential to propel dangerous radioactive particles from the soil into the air over four states.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Lawmakers fight Divine Strake bid
By @ 11:10 PM :: 1523 Views :: Nuclear Weapons
The Salt Lake Tribune, December 5, 2006...WASHINGTON - Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Jim Matheson wrote to the Pentagon last month, expressing disappointment with the decision to conduct Divine Strake - a major explosion designed to help develop bunker-buster bombs - in Nevada.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Panel Seeks Consensus On U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
By @ 9:49 PM :: 1095 Views :: Nuclear Weapons
Washington Post, December 16, 2006...A prestigious Defense Department advisory panel has determined there is no national agreement on what the nation needs in the way of nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War period.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Bush Signs Nuclear Deal With India
By @ 9:24 PM :: 1023 Views :: Nuclear Weapons
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 18, 2006...WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush signed legislation on Monday to let America share its nuclear know-how and fuel with India even though New Delhi refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Hearings Begin On Bush's Nuclear Plans
By @ 11:00 PM :: 1086 Views :: Nuclear Weapons
(APN) NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA - "The product is a nuclear bomb. They kill people like you and me," Allison Peeler, a college-age volunteer with Carolina Peace, said, crying during an impassioned speech here at a public hearing on Bush's plans for a new plutonium pits plant.
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