United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium

April 9th, 2012 | National Security News Service | | 20 comments

Monju Nuclear Power Plant

The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of American tax paid research that has allowed Japan to amass 70 tons of weapons grade plutonium since the 1980s, a National Security News Service investigation reveals. These activities repeatedly violated U.S. laws regarding controls of sensitive nuclear materials that could be diverted to weapons programs in Japan. The NSNS investigation found that the United States has known about a secret nuclear weapons program in Japan since the 1960s, according to CIA reports. Continue reading United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium

NYT: Obama’s New Nuclear Pact with Russia

December 10th, 2010 | National Security | | Leave a comment

The Obama administration has secretly negotiated a new pact with Russia to share civilian nuclear technology. It resembles similar agreements the United States has with other countries including China and India. This treaty is in addition to New START which is pending Senate ratification.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/us/politics/10nuclear.html?hp

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TIME: U.S. Missiles Deployed Near China Send a Message

July 9th, 2010 | National Security | | Leave a comment

A new class of U.S. superweapon suddenly surfaced near China last week. It was an Ohio-class submarine. Another popped up in the Philippines’ Subic Bay and a third in Pusan, South Korea, on the same day.

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Guardian: Drop in rich countries’ emissions caused by recession in 2009 was nullified by steep increases from China and India

July 2nd, 2010 | Environment | | Leave a comment
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Photo: High Contrast / wikicommons
Greenhouse gas emissions from rich countries fell a record 7% in 2009 because of the recession, but the cut was entirely nullified by steep increases from fast-growing China and India. Overall, this meant annual global climate emissions remained steady for the first time since 1992, says the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

But the Dutch government-funded agency, which in 2007 was the first to correctly identify that China had overtaken the US as the world’s greatest greenhouse gas polluter, warned that the figures did not mean that rich countries had cleaned up their act.

“A large part of production capacity has been suspended, but this could be re-employed as soon as the economy improves. It is likely that a recovering economy would cause emission levels in industrialized countries to go up. Nevertheless, the economic downturn has meant that these countries can meet their reduction obligations with more ease,” said NEAA spokeswoman Anneke Oosterhuis

READ THIS STORY AT GUARDIAN.CO.UK

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