Sputnik – Putin: Russia Creates Advanced Weapons Responding to US Scrapping Missile Treaty
Reuters – Putin, before vote, unveils new ‘invincible’ nuclear weapons to counter West
US walks away from missile treaty – Russia debuts new nukes
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USAF Nuke Crews Left THE BOMB Unsecured . . . TWICE THIS YEAR!!
22 10 2013oh, oh! Terrurists under the bed! Terrurists under the bed! We cede the whole USA over to police goons for dread of manufactured bogey-man and all the while . . .
Nuke officers left blast door open
By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Twice this year alone, Air Force officers entrusted with the launch keys to nuclear-tipped missiles have been caught leaving open a blast door that is intended to help prevent a terrorist or other intruder from entering their underground command post, Air Force officials have told The Associated Press.
The blast doors are never to be left open if one of the crew members inside is asleep – as was the case in both these instances – out of concern for the damage an intruder could cause, including the compromising of secret launch codes.
Transgressions such as this are rarely revealed publicly. But officials with direct knowledge of Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile operations told the AP that such violations have happened, undetected, many more times than in the cases of the two launch crew commanders and two deputy commanders who were given administrative punishments this year.
The blast door violations are another sign of serious trouble in the handling of the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The AP has discovered a series of problems within the ICBM force, including a failed safety inspection, the temporary sidelining of launch officers deemed unfit for duty and the abrupt firing last week of the two-star general in charge. The problems, including low morale, underscore the challenges of keeping safe such a deadly force that is constantly on alert but is unlikely ever to be used.
The crews who operate the missiles are trained to follow rules without fail, including the prohibition against having the blast door open when only one crew member is awake, because the costs of a mistake are so high.
The officers, known as missileers, are custodians of keys that could launch nuclear hell. The warheads on the business ends of their missiles are capable of a nuclear yield many times that of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. . . . (more)
http://www.wafb.com/story/23758608/ap-exclusive-nuke-officers-left-blast-door-open
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Tags: intercontinental ballistic missile, launch keys to nuclear-tipped missiles, nuclear arsenal, nuclear weapons, nuke bomb blast door violations, nuke war, US nukes not secure
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England Sends Nukes to Falklands
11 02 2012Argentina said Friday it has information that Britain sent a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic near the disputed Falkland Islands in the latest verbal salvo in a dispute over the territory.
Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Timerman told reporters at the United Nations that a submarine called the Vanguard with nuclear weapons was recently sent as part of Britain’s deployment in the Falklands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas. HMS Vanguard is one of four British submarines armed with nuclear missiles. . . . (more)
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/international/news/20120211p2g00m0in073000c.html
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Tags: Argentina, Falklands, HMS Vanguard, Malvinas, nuclear missiles, nuclear weapons, nuke sub
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Atomic Audit puts cost of nuke weapons at 5 TRILLION $
19 10 2011from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
The cost of developing nuclear weapons in the past fifty plus years is over five trillion dollars[!!!]. These costs were never known as they were not tracked.
A book, Atomic Audit, which examines the nuclear weapons policy of the US is excerpted.
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Tons of Weapons-Grade Plutonium and Uranium Missing Shipped
16 09 2011From Radioactive Chat
. . . Obama announced a new international effort to “secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” Since then, the Department of Energy has dispatched scientists around the globe to collect hundreds of pounds of the stuff.
But according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), issued late last Friday afternoon to little fanfare, thousands of pounds of highly-enriched uranium and separated plutonium remain. American officials may never get a chance to ensure its security.
That’s because the U.S. can’t track or fully account for 5,900 pounds of “weapons usable” nuclear material that it once shipped overseas. . . . (more)
http://radioactivechat.blogspot.com/2011/09/tons-of-weapons-grade-plutonium-and.html
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Tags: Department of Energy, loose nukes, nuclear material, nuclear weapons, nukes, weapons grade plutonium
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Is Japan Hiding Nuke WEAPONS LAB Inside Fukushima Plant??
8 04 2011This is a repost found at New America Media …. it was picked up by FOX and we repost it here because it’s so wacky it might be TRUE(!!!).
Is Japan’s Elite Hiding a Weapons Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.
The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady purpose, an iron will and a grim task unknown to outsiders. The most logical explanation: The nuclear industry and government agencies are scrambling to prevent the discovery of atomic-bomb research facilities hidden inside Japan’s civilian nuclear power plants.
A secret nuclear weapons program is a ghost in the machine, detectable only when the system of information control momentarily lapses or breaks down. A close look must be taken at the gap between the official account and unexpected events. . . (more)
Well, hell. – F.C.
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Tags: A-bomb, atom bomb, atomic-bomb, China Syndrome, contamination, fission, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima nuke plant, Japan nuke plant, nuclear crisis, nuclear weapons, nuke secrets, plutonium, radiation, radioactive, radioactive iodine, radioactive water, secret nuclear weapons, TOPEC
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Israel’s human experiments with nuke poison
17 08 2009Ex-nuclear reactor employee: We were forced to drink uranium
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
Workers at the nuclear reactor facility in Dimona were made to volunteer to drink uranium in 1998 as part of an experiment, according to a lawsuit filed four months ago in the Be’er Sheva Labor Tribunal by a former worker at the facility.
The experiment was allegedly carried out without obtaining written consent from the workers or warning them of risks or side effects, as required by the Declaration of Helsinki on human experimentation.
The Israel Atomic Energy Commission said in a statement that the Dimona facility “has the safety and health of its workers as its highest priority.”
The commission statement added that the amount of uranium the Dimona staffers drank in the experiment (100 mirograms) was less than the amount Be’er Sheva residents drink from their taps in one month.
The worker who submitted the lawsuit, Julius Malick, recently retired after he said he was threatened by the former director of the facility, Yitzhak Gurevich, and the director of human resources, Gary Amal, that if he did not retire he would be fired….(more)
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