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Nukes and Local Security
Two lovely items on this topic. I'm feeling in good company at the moment.
Lukashenka: All Those Who Are Against Nuclear Power Station are "Enemies of the People" - Charter'97 - Belarusian News - 27 Apr 08
"Alyaksandr Lukashenka has expresses an intention to clamp down on political speculations concerning the project to build Belarusian nuclear power station harshly. Speaking about the opponents of the idea to construct a nuclear power station, A. Lukashenka stated that 'they are not simply political intriguers, but enemies of our nation'."
And this just in from the plants in India that gave us the "Peaceful Atomic Bomb".
No-Fly Zones Over Nuclear Power Stations - The Hindu - 26 Apr 08
"Security at country’s nuclear power stations is all set to beefed up with all of them being declared no-fly zones to avoid any possibility of aircraft crashing into them. Confirming reports in this regard, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar said the Civil Aviation Ministry was coordinating with other government agencies to put such a system in place."
Shades of "Baghdad Bob" and Donald Rumsfeld with the Indian Ambassador to the U.N., Samar Sen, interviewed. Absolutely amazing doublespeak. The ambassador is interviewed in the second half of the piece.
Candu: The Canadian Nuclear Reactor - CBC Archives
India's 'Peaceful' Bomb - Broadcast Date: May 20, 1974 [7:49 minutes]- An uninvited guest has joined the nuclear club, and fingers are pointing at Canada. On May 18, 1974, India detonates a 12-kiloton nuclear explosive in the Rajasthan desert. It was built using plutonium from a research reactor donated by Canada in 1956. The explosion prompts fierce criticism of Canada's nuclear exports, and a wall of excuses from officials in both Canada and India. Canadian officials say they couldn't stop it. India denies it was even a bomb.
The Nukes of Hazard: Canada’s CANDU Snafu, Bush’s Nuke-You-Lure, and South Asian Nuclear Proliferation - Briarpatch Magazine - 03 May 06
"India is a rogue state. It has defied all global non-proliferation efforts, and it is in this context that Pakistan developed its own nuclear weapons program. George W. Bush is now recklessly seeking to exempt India from all protocols of the Non-Proliferation Treaty that preclude them from receiving nuclear fuels and technology from treaty signatories. And with Pakistan left out of the equation and feeling insulted, the chances of resolving this dreadful hair-trigger doomsday scenario have diminished markedly."
Lukashenka: All Those Who Are Against Nuclear Power Station are "Enemies of the People" - Charter'97 - Belarusian News - 27 Apr 08
"Alyaksandr Lukashenka has expresses an intention to clamp down on political speculations concerning the project to build Belarusian nuclear power station harshly. Speaking about the opponents of the idea to construct a nuclear power station, A. Lukashenka stated that 'they are not simply political intriguers, but enemies of our nation'."
And this just in from the plants in India that gave us the "Peaceful Atomic Bomb".
No-Fly Zones Over Nuclear Power Stations - The Hindu - 26 Apr 08
"Security at country’s nuclear power stations is all set to beefed up with all of them being declared no-fly zones to avoid any possibility of aircraft crashing into them. Confirming reports in this regard, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar said the Civil Aviation Ministry was coordinating with other government agencies to put such a system in place."
Shades of "Baghdad Bob" and Donald Rumsfeld with the Indian Ambassador to the U.N., Samar Sen, interviewed. Absolutely amazing doublespeak. The ambassador is interviewed in the second half of the piece.
Candu: The Canadian Nuclear Reactor - CBC Archives
India's 'Peaceful' Bomb - Broadcast Date: May 20, 1974 [7:49 minutes]- An uninvited guest has joined the nuclear club, and fingers are pointing at Canada. On May 18, 1974, India detonates a 12-kiloton nuclear explosive in the Rajasthan desert. It was built using plutonium from a research reactor donated by Canada in 1956. The explosion prompts fierce criticism of Canada's nuclear exports, and a wall of excuses from officials in both Canada and India. Canadian officials say they couldn't stop it. India denies it was even a bomb.
The Nukes of Hazard: Canada’s CANDU Snafu, Bush’s Nuke-You-Lure, and South Asian Nuclear Proliferation - Briarpatch Magazine - 03 May 06
"India is a rogue state. It has defied all global non-proliferation efforts, and it is in this context that Pakistan developed its own nuclear weapons program. George W. Bush is now recklessly seeking to exempt India from all protocols of the Non-Proliferation Treaty that preclude them from receiving nuclear fuels and technology from treaty signatories. And with Pakistan left out of the equation and feeling insulted, the chances of resolving this dreadful hair-trigger doomsday scenario have diminished markedly."