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SPRING 2008
Cover
Charges Dismissed Following Arbitrary Arrests
Through the Prism of Nonviolence:
"Fracture the Good Order"
By John Heid
continued on page 4
Page 1
NATO and Russian Generals Talking Like Terrorists
Bush Wants Outer Space Free of Law, for Combat
By Karl Grossman
As Secret U.S. Expenditures Soar,
U.S. Admiral Derides China's
Secrecy
Current U.S. Nuclear Weapons Arsena. 2007 (Chart)
Page 2
Nuclear Shorts
Page 3
Spy Catches Spies Selling Secrets
Uranium Fuel Site Residents Say No More
Hot Reactor Fuel Again Found Dumped at Hanford
Nuclear Weapons' Waste Shell Game
Uranium Weapons
Page 4
Lake Superior's Red Cliff Band Produces Barrel Dump Work Plan
Germany Says Childhood Leukemia Increases Near Operating Reactors
By John LaForge
Continued from Cover page
Fracture the Good Order
Enviro' Groups Agree: No Nukes
The Cold War Warmed Over
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Page 5
Nuclear Power: Throwing Gas on the Fire of Global Warming
By Nukewatch Staff
A 4-page special pull-out section:
Nuclear Industry Subsidies Robbing Climate Change Crisis
of Real Solutions
Few Nukes, Better Health
U.S. Can Cut CO2 Emissions 28% & Save Money, Without Nukes
Page 6
Wis. Reactors Unsafe at Any Speed
Operators Repeatedly Failed, Faulted, Fined
What's the Real Cost of Nuclear Power?
By Cassandra Dixon
Page 7
Yucca Mountain: A Scientifically Unsound Nuclear Waste Plan
Nuclear Proponents Ignore Uranium Mine Waste, Devastation
By Al Gedicks
Page 8
Groundwater Contamination from Nuclear Reactors Goes Nationwide
By Bonnie Urfer
Footnotes and Sources
Page 9
Municipal Sustainability Using The Natural Step
Solutions: Biodiesel Vehicles Now Serving San Francisco
Wisconsin Lawmakers Taken in by Nuclear Industry PR Machine
By John LaForge
Presidential Hopefuls on Nuclear Power
Page 10
Atomic Highway
By Michael Hopping
Page 11
Canada Puts U.S. on Torture "Watchlist"
Calendar:
Midwest Renewable Energy Fair
StratCom: The Most Dangerous Place on the Face of the Earth
WINTER 2007-08
Cover
Waste Trains Derail, Lucky This Time
continued on page 1
ByBonnie Urfer
Through the Prism of Nonviolence
By John Heid
Page 1
Armed B-52 Overflight: Accident or Interrupted Raid?
By Paul Vos Benkowski and John LaForge
Train Derailments (Continued from Cover)
Israel Bombs Suspected Syrian Reactor Building Site
By John LaForge
Bush Threatens World War III Over "Knowledge"
Would You Buy a Used Car From the Vice President?
Doonesbury By Garry Trudeau
Page 2
Unplanned Shutdowns Highlight Inefficiency of Nuclear Power
By Paul Vos Benkowski & Bonnie Urfer
Scottish Government: No More Nukes!
Ministers Oppose Nuclear Waste Transport
Fault Lines Rattle Yucca Mountain Project
Georgia, Florida & Alabama Need Water, Reactors Too
Seeking Source of Cooling Water Loss
Page 3
Nuclear Shorts
Centerspread (Page 4 & 5)
Lake Superior's Toxic Waste Barrels: Activists Confront Denials,
Disinformation, Delays
Award Winning Lake Advocate Warns of Barrels
Submarine Investigation Recorded Radiation
In 1985, EPA Named Barrels "Priority Hazard"
Is Minnesota Rewriting Barrel History?
Page 6
Wisconsin Should Look To Clean Energy Sources
By Joseph Mangano
Nuclear Disorder ...?
Book review by Chuck Baynton
Stop the Biggest Taxpayer Giveaway to the
Nuclear Industry in History
Uranium Weapons Updates
Page 7
Say No to Uranium Mining
By Bonnie Urfer
Nuclear Dump Operators Girding For Waste Explosions
UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Opposed by Uranium Mining States
Pine Ridge Reservation Poisoned, Ignored
Nukewatch Staffer Wins Achievement Award
FALL 2007
Cover
Barrell Dump Scandal - Murky As Ever
By John LaForge
Page 1
Japanese Shocked, Reactors Rocked, by Major Earthquake in July
By John LaForge (Continued on Page 8)
Earthquakes and Fault Lines Warn: "No Nukes!"
By Harvey Wasserman
Thirty-Five-Year-Old Cooling Tower Collapses
Page 2
Nuclear Mob Enjoys Cover-Ups, Lax Oversight
By Bonnie Urfer
Rad Waste Secrecy in Tennessee
By Bonnie Urfer
Australia Joins GNEP, Outpack Eyes Dump
Knoxville's Secret Spill
Page 3
Nuclear Shorts
Page 4
Submarine Accidents: Understated, Under-Reported, Undersea
By John LaForge
Candu Reactors Can't
By Bonnie Urfer
Barrels Are Part of Vast Oceanic Misconduct
By Jennifer Hauf
Page 5
Disarm to Re-Arm
By Paul Vos Benkowski
India Flexes Nuclear Muscle, Flaunts Rogue Status
By Paul Vos Benkowski
"One of the Worst" Spills at Hanford
Iran Opens Nuclear Sites to UN Inspectors, India Refuses
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Honored
Uranium-Contaminated Soil Being Removed
Page 6
Afghanistan Chronicle: U.S. Military
"Causing Most Civilian Deaths and Injuries
By John LaForge
Wrong Military Waste Sent to WIPP
Cold War Still Being Funded as Veterans Face Cuts
Failed Concrete Chernobyl Cover to be Recovered in Steel
Contamination of West Chicago by Kerr-McGee Disclosed
Page 7
Ground Zero Celebrates 30 Years of Resistance
Two Democrats Take Nuclear Attack Threat Off the Table - For a Minute
Dump Yucca Update
Page 8
Japanese Reactors (Continued from Page 1)
SUMMER 2007
Cover
Train Watch Alerts Nation to Radioactive Transport
By Bonnie Urfer
The Way Out
Page 1
Report Finds Nuclear Weapons Materials Released to Landfills
Market Opened for Reuse and Recycling
Nuclear Information and Resource Service/
U. Calif. Hunger Strike Against the Bomb
News Group Says U.S. Nuclear Sub Collision With Tanker Caused
Radiation Leak
Plutonium Reprocessing Plan to Waste Billions
A Few Recent Nuclear-Powered Accidents at Sea
Page 2
Bush Opens Outer Space to Combat
By Karl Grossman
Abandoned Missile Launch Site Named for the Gipper?
Uranium Weapons Update
Train Watch Alerts Nation (continued from cover)
Page 3
Nuclear Shorts
Page 4
Resuscitated Browns Ferry Shuttered Again
By John LaForge
New Reactor Construction Eyed in Wisconsin
California Rejects Move to Lift Reactor Building Ban
New Study Charts Reactor Accidents Since Chernobyl
Indian Point 1, 2 & 3's Explosion and Leaks
Kewaunee Emergency Backup Power Failure
Smoked by Grass
Braidwood's Unregulated Spills
On the Up Side: New Reactor on Hold
Page 5
The Sham of Nuclear Power & Patrick Moore
By Harvey Wasserman
Major Security Breach at Palisades Reactor
Critics Urge Congressional Investigation
By Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Current and Proposed State Renewable Energy Standard Policies
Page 6
"Divine Strake" Sunk by Skeptics
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Additional Radiation Warning Placard Unveiled by IAEA
Troubled International Nuclear Reactors
Second of Three WMD Here! Minuteman III Missile Disarmers Released
Page 7
Irradiation is Not "Pasturization" - Contact the FDA
By Bonnie Urfer
Jury Unanimous: British B-52 Disarmers Not Guilty of Sabotage
2007 War Funding Facts
Who Gets the Money?
Civilians killed, "more or less"
Estimates of Iraqi Dead
SPRING 2007
Frontpage
Thousands in UK Demand: "No Son of Trident"
Nukewatch Staff
Help Stop the Hawaiian Food Irradiator
Page 1
'59 Reactor Meltdown in California Kept Secret: Study of Contamination at Rocket Lab Reveals Evidence of Cancer Link
By Avi Rutschman, Simi Valley Acorn
U.S. Sub and Oil Tanker Collide in Persian Gulf
Minnesota Reactor Aging Badly
By Bonnie Urfer & John LaForge
Israel's Open (H-bomb) Secret Confirmed
Page 2
2030 Complex: Resuming the Arms Race
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Nuclear Missile Testing Galore
By Hans Kristensen, Strategic Security Blog
Page 3
Nonviolent Reinforcement
By John Heid
Nuclear Waste Shipment Meets Massive Resistance in Germany
By Skyler Simmons, Earth First!
What's with the cover?
Page 4
Nuclear Shorts
Page 5
Greenhouse Hype
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Disarmament Activist Released from Prison
Iraq Contractors Steal Billions, Bush Wants Additional $100 Billion for War,
Cuts for Poor
Page 6
Uranium Mining=Racism
By Bonnie Urfer & John Heid
Australian Nuclear Waste Shipped to U.S.
Germany Sends Uranium to Russia
New Nuclear Sub for U.S.
Page 7
Rotten Reactors
Page 8
Nuclear Reactors: Building Blocks for H-bombs
By Jeremy M. Maxand
Troubling Safety Concerns at Pantex Weapons Plant
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Enough Money Wasted on Nuclear Power
By Michele Boyd, Public Citizen's Energy Program
Truck Carrying Fuel-Grade Uranium Crashes
Page 9
Conviction, Commitment & Conscience: "GZ3" Found Guilty, Sentenced
By Brian Watson
Mammograms Offer No Health Benefits Whatsoever, Doctors Conclude
By Brian Gutierrez, NewsTarget.com
Breast Cancer Screening Harms 10 Women for Every One it Helps
By Jessica Fraser, NewsTarget.com
Page 10
Scotland & England, an Anti-Nuclear "Jolly"
By John LaForge
Greenpeace Ship Seized at "No Trident Replacement!" Action
Uranium Weapons Updates
By John LaForge
Aerojet's DU Weapons Production Targeted by CPT
By Bob Nichols
Page 11
Plutonium in DU Weapons, a Chronology
Nukewatch Has a Word in the House of Commons
WINTER 2006
Frontpage
Experts, Putin Warn of Accidental Nuclear War
By Eric Rosenberg, The San Francisco Chronicle
Radiation Assassination
By Paul Vos Benkowski & John LaForge
Missile Fields Still Armed & Dangerous
By John LaForge
Page 1
Disarmament “Clowns” Sent to Prison
By Bill Quigley
Nuclear Callousness Still Running STRATCOM
Page 2
Falsely Assured: Public at Risk from Low-dose Radiation
By Abid Aslam
Officials Agree: Any and All Radiation Exposure is Dangerous
“Bomplex” A Permanent H-Bomb Industry?
From the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Nuclear Stocking Stuffers
Recommended reading from Hattie Nestel
Page 3
When Subsidies End Nuclear Power Flops
By Alan Zibel
Canadian Radioactive Waste Dump Proposed for Lake Huron
By Kevin Kamps and Nukewatch
Nuclear Power Can’t Save the Climate
Friends of the Earth
Toshiba’s Nuclear Cash Cow
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Page 4
Depleted Uranium Update
By John LaForge
78 Busted at DU Profiteer After War Resisters Conference
Britain Spent Over $727.5 Million Developing DU
BBC: The Government “Ignores” Depleted Uranium’s Cancer Risk
Are These Alliant Techsystems Protest Sites Near You?
Peacemaker Teams Target DU Production At Two Sites
By Bob Nichols, The San Francisco Bay View
Page 5
Nuclear Shorts
Page 6
North Korean Hullabaloo
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Nukewatch Staffer & Volunteer Released from Federal Prison
Page 7
High Level Waste Reaches German Site Amid Protests
By Diet Simon
Faslane 365 Takes on Trident
Media Broadcasts Former Greenpeace Activist Lies
By John Adams
People’s Energy Works to Close Vermont Yankee
By Bonnie Urfer
FALL 2006
Frontpage
Wisconsin's Kewaunee Reactor Contaminates Groundwater
By John LaForge
Crimes of State and Resistant Staph Infections
By John LaForge, FPC Duluth
Page 1
"The Most Serious Nuclear Incidnet Since Chernobyl"
By Bonnie Urfer
Japan Plagued by Violations, Malfunctions, Accidents
By John LaForge
BLM Denies PFS a Right-of-way and the BIA "Disapproves the Proposed Lease" No Nuclear Waste for Skull Valley
By Bonnie Urfer
Palo Verde Shutdown
Vermont Yankee
In Reagan Era-Like Move, the DOE to "Strengthen" Radiation Health and Safety Regulation by Eliminating it Altogether
By John LaForge
Page 2
President Bush Pushes for Global Nuclear Expansion
By Peter Montague
Nuclear Pipe Dream
By John LaForge
Page 3
Waste Not Want Not
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Heat Affects Reactors Causing Shutdowns and Environmental Damage
By Bonnie Urfer
Drop It Like It's Hot
Daily Grist, July 31, 2006
Congress Moves to Okay "Temporary" Nuclear Dumps
By John LaForge
Nuclear Pipe Dreams (Continued)
Page 4
Weapons of Mass Destruction Discovered Here: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and North Dakota
By Bill Quigley
PitStop Ploughshares Acquitted
By Bonnie Urfer
MEN'S HEALTH
Page 5
Depleted Uranium Update
Belgian Parliament May Ban DU Weapons
Britain: DU Safer Than Home Smoke Detector
International Coalition Drafts UN General Assembly Resolution on DU
By John LaForge
Pakistan: Friend or Foe? Nuclear Menace
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Page 6
Nuclear Shorts
Page 7
Treasure Island, Navy's Plunder
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Crimes of State and Resistant Staph Infections (Continued from Frontpage)
SUMMER 2006
Frontpage
U.S. and Russian Nuclear Plans Threaten New Arms Race
Page 1
U.S. Threatens to Nuke Iran: Because Nuclear Threats are Inexcusable
By John LaForge
Iran: A Nuclear History
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Page 2
Chernobyl Forum Report: A False History
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Trivializing Chernobyl
By John LaForge
Millions at Risk (sidebar)
Page 3
Nuclear Shorts
Page 4
U.S. Nuclear Reactors in the News
Tritium Leaks Debunk Myth of "Safe, Clean" Nukes
No Chernobyls on Lake Michigan
By Kevin Kamps and Alice Hirt
France's Radioactive Groundwater
Page 5
Reactors Nor Repository Welcome in Wisconsin
By Steve Pearson
AB 1053 Stopped for Now (sidebar)
Lying About Radiation at Prairie Island
By John LaForge
Page 6
Depleted Uranium Shuffle in the U.S.
Nothing Divine About It
Hanford's $11 Billion Clean Up
By Bonnie Urfer
Page 7
Calendar
Nuclear Fuel Management and Disposal Act
Backpage
Where is the Protest Music?
By Paul Vos Benkowski
SPRING 2006
Cover
Nukewatch Staffer & Volunteer Get Prison & Fine for Anti-Torture Action
* Abusive G.I.'s Not Pursued, Survey Finds (sidebar)
Page 1
U.S. Reactors Tainting Drinking Water with Tritium
What is Tritium?
The Millstone Around Katie's Neck
By Paul Vos Benkowski
Page 2
Acting Against Torture
By John LaForge
McCaine Torture Bill a Bust
By Jennifer Harbury
Prison Sentences for Trespass at SOA (sidebar)
Page 3
Nuclear Shorts
Page 4
Success Impossible in "War on Terror"
By John LaForge
Bush Wants $439.3 Billion for Pentagon/Yr...
Nukewatch Wants Your Contribution & Your Email Address
Page 5
Iranian Bomb Ten Years Out: Euro-based Oil Exchange the Real Threat
By Mike Miles
Food Irradiation Update:
Former Surebeam Reopens in Sioux City
Food Irradiation Facility Proposed In Honolulu
Calendar
Nonproliferation Treaty Tossed by Bush --
Nuclear Hypocrisy & Double Standards
Page 6
New Reactors Threaten Children's Health
By Joseph J. Mangano
Four-hour Emergency at LaSalle
More DOE Dollars for Deadly Reactors
Worldwide Opinion: No New Reactors
Nuclear Medicine and Reactor Leaks in Japan
Radioactive Steam Leak Trips French Reactor
Koeberg Shuts Down, May Be Sabotage
Danger, No Exit
Page 7
Save Skull Valley, Stop PFS
PSR Minimizes Depleted Uranium's Health Hazards
British Radiation Jump Blamed on DU
Alliant Wins $38 Million DU Contract
Backpage
Bush Push for Reactors and Reprocessing
By Bonnie Urfer
WINTER 2005-06
Cover
42 Arrested at DU Weapons Co. Headquarters in Nonviolent Direct Action
Page 1
'Depleted' Uranium Around the World
Rocky Flats: Cleanup or Coverup?
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
New Warheads Still Being Conjured
Page 2
Japanese Rad Waste Reclassified as 'Ore' in U.S.
Nobel Prize Awarded to International Atomic Energy Agency
South African Nuclear Workers Sickened
DOE Tells Nevada: No Liner, No Problem
Irish Councilors Say End Dumping at Drigg
Iraqi Children's Tooth Project
Page 3
Nuclear Shorts
Page 4
(Pages 4 & 5 feature stories about the
Chernobyl catastrophe of April 26, 1986.)
The section is entitled:
Whitewashing Chernobyl at the United Nations
Introduction
By John LaForge
Slighting the World's Worst Industrial Catastrophe Rebutted
By Dr. Rosalie Bertell
Page 5
IAEA Blind to Cancer Pandemic
By Dr. Angelika Claussen
Internal Rad Exposure Risk Underestimated
Source: Low Level Radiation Campaign, England
Page 6
Reactor Roulette
Updates and Incidents:
Vermont Yankee
Arkansas 2
Connecticut Yankee
Indian Point
Palisades
Mihama, Japan
Palo Verde
Plum Brook
Browns Ferry
Louisiana, Texas, Florida
Reactors affected by recent hurricanes
Georgia and Florida Fires
Page 7
Nuclear Reactors Safe? Claim is Unsound
By U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney
Plutonium Fuel a Step Closer in Japan
Poland Reveals Old Warsaw Pact Nuclear War Plan
Rumsfeld Rebuffs China's "No First Strike" Pledge
Nonviolent Action at StratCom, Omaha
Backpage
Radiation Found to be Harmful in Any Amount
Lullaby vs. Reality
FALL 2005
Cover
Bombings Recalled with Nonviolent Resistance
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Page 1
Nuclear War Planners "Never understood, didn't care"
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Myths Unraveling
By John LaForge
Page 2
Missile Fields of the U.S.
By John LaForge
Trim Radioactive Pork, Save $2 Billion
Page 3
Hanford Waste Contaminates Columbia River Watershed
Hanford's Rad' Sludge May Be 'Glassified'
Hanford Sludge Pipe Whistle Blowers Win $4.7M Food Irradiation:
Exposue Up, Acceptance Down
Page 4
Nuclear Shorts
Page 5
Nuclear Shorts
Page 6
By Bonnie Urfer
Nuclear Relapse by Bush & Co.
The 2005 Energy Bill
Reactors Plagued With Problems
A Nuclear Future?
Page 7
Strontium in Baby Teeth Raises Alarm
By Kathryn Casa, Vermont Guardian
Suit Blames Childrens' Cancer on Rad Waste
Fishermen Block Reactor Site Survey
Efficiency 7-Times as Effective as Nuclear in Cutting Emissions
Page 8
Nuclear France
By Bonnie Urfer
Navajos Ban Uranium Mining
By Winona LaDuke
U.S. Pressured Japan Not to Study Bomb Test Fallout
Page 9
"Depleted" Uranium Weapons Update
By John LaForge
Radioactive Danger in Drinking Water
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Page 10
French President Okayed Bombing of Greenpeace Ship
Yucca Mt. Dump Plan on the Skids
The Dirt on Contaminated Soil
DOE to Resume Production of Plutonium-238
Plutonium-238 Battery Failures go Global
Famine & U.S. Still Stalking N. Korea
Page 11
United Nations Day Action
Rejoining the World Community
"Unthinkablists" Still Planning Nuclear War
Editorial By John LaForge
Back Page
U.S. Panel Called Racist for Backing Res. Waste Dump
SUMMER 2005
Cover
U.S. Nuclear Submarine Crashes into Undersea Mountain 500 Feet Down
(continued on page 5)
By John LaForge
Page 1
Radioactive Environmental Racism
48 Years and Counting
Reckless British Gov’t Spews Waste on Beaches
By Arianne Peterson
Rad Waste Illegally Dumped Off Somalia, Strewn by Tsunami
By Arianne Peterson
Federal Safety Board:
Risk of Waste-Spewing Jet Crash on Indian Reservation “Acceptable”
Lies My nuclear Engineer Told Me
By John LaForge
Page 2
Downwinders Win Some, Lose Some
Bomb Testing Museum Excludes Downwinders
National Academy of Sciences Recommends Changes to Compensation Act
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Food Irradiation Updates
Food Irradiation Facility Closes Its Doors
Bills Seek to Notify Parents of Irradiated Meat in Schools
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Did U.S. Navy “Torpedo” Kursk?
By Arianne Peterson and John LaForge
Page 3
Nuclear Shorts
Page 4
Fear and Lying in Las Vegas
Faked data contaminates nuclear dumpsite project
E-mails Hint at Fraud (sidebar)
By John LaForge
Peace Activists Hold Their Ground
By Greg Skog
Some British Nuclear Waste May be Burned
New Scientist
Page 5
NASA’s Nuclear Option
By Bonnie Urfer and John LaForge
“Rods from God”
Air Force Seeks Green Light from Bush for Weapons in Outer Space
By John LaForge
Submarine Crashes into Mountain (continued from page 1)
Page 6
Nuclear Power Is the Problem, Not a Solution
By Dr. Helen Caldicott
Reprocessing Revisited:
U.S. Update
Huge Leak at British Reprocessing Facility
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Page 7
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemorations
Confronting 60 Years of Nuclear Myth-Making
Navy Veteran Who Saw Nagasaki Calls A-Bombing “Crime” (sidebar)
By John LaForge
Page 8
Depleted Uranium Update
Lawmakers Consider DU Tests for Vets
Iraqi Doctors See Increased Numbers of Deformities in Newborns
By John LaForge
Goodbye to Project ELF
SPRING 2005
Cover:
‘ Not Guilty’
Page 1:
Health & Human Services Dept.: Medical X-rays Cause Cancer
By John LaForge
U.S Nukes Deployed Across Europe
Send Help
“ Not Guilty”
Continued from cover
Contaminated DU site Evaluated for Cleanup
Page 2:
Rep. Markey: New Study Suggests Infant Mortality Associated With Radiation
From Reactors
Tsunami Hit Reactor Site 61 Dead, 300 Missing
NRC Tightens Security Rules for Frequently Stolen Portable Radioactive Gauges
Page 3:
Menacing Reactors
Reactor Accidents and Shutdowns
Fact Sheet Available:
Deadly Deceit: The Myths and Truths of Nuclear Power
Page 4:
Missile Defense Fails Again
Michelle Ciarrocca, Arms Trade Resource Center, Updated by Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Pentagon Budget Requests for 2006
Department of Energy Budget Requests for FY ‘06
StratCom Told to Foil WMD Using WMD
By Jerry Berrigan
Redesigning the Bomb
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Page 5:
Nuclear Shorts
Page 6:
Yucca Dumping Delayed
By Bonnie Urfer
“ Temporary” Waste Site Permanently Threatens Goshute Reservation in Utah
By Bonnie Urfer
Irradiated Food Update
By Bonnie Urfer
Page 7:
Implausible North Korean Threat No Basis for BMD
U.S. & Japan Said To Have Used “Food As a Weapon”
Page 8:
ELF SHUTDOWN CELEBRATION Poster
WINTER 2004 - 2005
Cover:
Coalition Kept Focus on ELF
Page 1:
Questions, Rage and Mourning Across Germany After Waste Train Kills French Blockader
By John LaForge
‘ Bunker Buster’ Blasted by Budget
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Sham ‘Bunker-Buster’ Just Psy-Op Weapon
Vanunu Hounded
Deregulation of Nuclear Waste Challenged in Federal Court
Page 2:
Nuclear Shorts
Page 3:
Coalition Declares “Mission Accomplished”, ELF Closure Puts Nukewatch in Spotlight
Three Decades of Creative Nonviolence
Same Judge & Charge, Various Penalties
Page 4:
Creative Nonviolence
continued from page 3
Page 5:
Let’s Celebrate, Then Get Back to Work
By Joel Kilgour
Drops of Water Turn a Mill, A Coalition to Stop Project ELF
Page 6:
Testimony of Resistance
Page 7:
Japanese Quakes Risk Disaster
Trident’s Flexible Destructiveness
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
War is Bloody Good for Lockheed
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Page 8:
Alliant Techsystems Profits Increase with War
Alliant’s Uranium Pollution Exposed
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Iraq’s Provisional Government Seeks DU Cleanup; U.S. Denies Risks
Fall 2004
Cover:
'Die-in' at Project ELF, Aug 8 2004
Photo by John LaForge
Page 1:
Four Killed in Japanese Reactor Rupture
By John LaForge
A Few of Japan's Accidents and Coverups
Increased Cancer Risk from Plutonium
Sick Weapons, Sickened Workers
Uranium Weapons Update
Page 2:
Water Flowing Underground: Groundwater Contamination from Nuclear Bomb-Building
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Page 3:
Anger Over Britain's Secret Nuclear Waste Dumping
Door Opens for New U.S. Nuclear Weapons
By John G. Duesler, Jr.
Appeals Court Dumps EPA's Lax 10,000-Year Containment Plan for Fuel Rods
By John LaForge
Nukewatch Staffer Wins Social Courage Award
Page 4:
Days of Infamy: August 6 & 9 Commemorated
Hiroshima Remembered: Breaking the Silence
By Howard Zinn
Page 5:
Radioactive Waste Shipments Shunned
By Bonnie Urfer
Food Irradiation Increasingly Unpopular
Page 6:
Nuclear Shorts
Page 7:
Nuclear Shorts (continued)
Resources
Page 8:
Nuclear Power: Not Clean, Green, or Safe
SUMMER 2004
Cover:
CELEBRATE
Nukewatch – and 25 Years of nonviolent resistance, education and action.
Page 1:
ELF Resistance from the Street to Courtroom
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
“ Don’t Get Weary” – 17th Annual May Action at Project ELF
These remarks were delivered by Liz McAlister at the ELF gathering May 16, 2004
By Elizabeth McAlister
Page 2:
Radioactive warfare: DU update
By John LaForge
NRC Rule Change:
Another Industry Bailout
British Gulf War Vets’ Babies 50 Percent More Likely to Have Birth Defects
Goshutes, Utah’s Governor Fight Private Nuclear Dump
Page 3:
Nuclear Shorts
Page 4 and Page 5:
NUKEWATCH -
25 Years of Tenacity
Page 6:
More Uranium Mining on the Horizon?
By Bonnie Urfer
Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump Delayed
By Patrick Corey
Irradiated Meat Fails in School
Page 7:
How Many were Killed by Chernobyl?
By John LaForge
Radiation Roulette
Palo Verde reactor plagued by leaks
NRC downplayed Davis-Besse risk
British Air Force illegally buzzed reactors
Indian Point slammed for shutdowns
Resources
Page 8:
Vanunu, Anti-Nuclear Warrior
By Daniel Ellsberg
Insurance Industry: “We don’t cover nukes”
Spring 2004
Cover:
Invitation to 'Abolish Nuclear Weapons' at Project ELF, May 15-16 2004
(.pdf format)
Which Path to a Safer World?
Page 1:
Deadly Meltdown: 25 Years Since TMI
By John LaForge
'Surprising' Jump in U.S. Breast Cancers
Page 2:
Yucca's Day in Court
By Kevin Kamps
Utah Loses Nuclear Dump Suit
By Bonnie Urfer
Reactors on the Launch Pad: Project Prometheus
By Jerry Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Page 3:
Nuclear Shorts
Resources
Page 4:
Deadly Deceit: Debunking the Myths of Nuclear Power
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Page 5:
Nuclear Spin Control
By John LaForge
Daily Radioactive Emissions
Not Safe, Just Allowable
Page 6:
Project ELF Peace Activists Found Guilty in Federal Court
Depleted Uranium Weapons Update
By John LaForge
Page 7:
Help End Irradiation of Ground Beef
Giant Irradiation Firm Bankrupt
By Bonnie Urfer
'Freedom' for Vanunu
Wisc. Poised to Stop Nuclear Power Revival
Winter 2003-2004
Cover:
Nukewatch - 25 Years of Nonviolent Action
By Bonnie Urfer
Citizen Inspectors Found Not Guilty of Trespass
By John LaForge
Page 1:
DU Weapons Shipments: Explosive, Radioactive, Secret
By Glen Milner
New Nuclear Weapons Still Being Concocted
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Uranium Weapons Poisoning Iraq
By John LaForge
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ELF Resisters, In Their Own Words
Compiled by John LaForge
Trident/ELF 'Inspectors' Set For Trial
Citizen Inspectors Found Not Guilty of Trespass (continued from page 8)
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Nuclear Shorts
Resources
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Trident: The Many War-Headed Monster
By Robert Aldridge
World Uranium Weapons Conference: 'Abolish Radiation Weapons'
By John LaForge
Israel Arms Subs with Nuclear Warheads
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
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Toxic, Radioactive Uranium Weapons: Did You Know?
Food Irradiation Update
War, the Halftime Show
By John LaForge
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Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares II
Among 'Nuclear Free Future Award' Winners
By Nukewatch Staff
Legal Quagmire for Radioactive Waste
By Bonnie Urfer
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Spotlight on Covert Transport of Deadly Reactor Core
By Kevin Kamps
Energy Bill to Bail Out Nuclear Industry
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Fall 2003
Cover:
Radioactive Waste Moves to WIPP
By Nukewatch Staff
Calendar
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Radioactive Waste Moves to WIPP (continued from cover page)
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
By Bonnie Urfer
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Disarmament Specialists Sentenced
By Susan Crane
Sara Thomsen: Keepin' the Peace
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Peace Declaration, August 6, 2003
By Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima
Citizen Weapons Inspectors Refused Access to Project ELF
Current U.S. Nuclear Weapons Arsenal
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'Closed for War Crime Inspections'
By John LaForge
Sellafield Nuclear Dream Dashed
Another Nuclear Submarine Sinks in the Barents Sea
Hypocrisy in Action - U.S. vs. N. Korea
By Bonnie Urfer
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'Depleted' Uranium: War's Special Effect
By Larry Johnson
Some U.S. Government Documentation of DU's Harmful Effects
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Wars of Mass Deception: What the Pentagon Doesn't Want Us to Know About 'Depleted' Uranium
By Frida Berrigan
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Wars of Mass Deception: What the Pentagon Doesn't Want Us to Know About 'Depleted' Uranium (continued from page 6)
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Pu in the DU
By John LaForge
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Nuclear Shorts
Resources
Page 10:
DOE Seeks to Expand Plutonium Pit Production
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Radioactive Waste Stored in Trashy Cans - Whistleblower Sacked
By Bonnie Urfer
Food Irradiation Update
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
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Power Outage Closes 9 Nuclear Reactors
By Bonnie Urfer
To Bush: UK Energy Exec. Calls Nuclear Power Dead
Two Workers Inhale Plutonium at Los Alamos
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
U.S. Kills Nuclear Weapons 'Watchdog'
Summer 2003
Cover:
The Second Nuclear Age
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Calendar
Page 1:
Depleted Uranium Weapons Hit by Scientists
By John LaForge
The Second Nuclear Age (continued from cover)
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Planting Seeds of Peace
ELF Resisters Sentenced, One Finishes Prison Term
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Strontium-90 Levels High in Children Near Nuclear Reactors
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Nuclear Power 2010: The Money & Myth
Price-Anderson -- Not Health Insurance
By Steve Pearson
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Nuclear Reactors -- Dirty, Dangerous & Deceitful
By Bonnie Urfer
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Map of Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors in the U.S.
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Recent Reactor Fractures
Nuclear Reactors, If We Build Them, They Will Break
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Nuclear Shorts
Resources
Spring 2003
Cover:
Teaching Terrorism
By John LaForge
Phil Berrigan: October 5, 1923 - Dec. 6 2002
Page 1:
U.S. Nuclear Threats and the Future of 'Mini-Nukes'
By Jerry Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Medical X-Rays May Join Carcinogen List
From USA Today
Fallout and Radiation Linked to 65 Million Deaths
From The Independent
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Missile Defense Fraud and Cover-Up Alleged
By John LaForge
Military Budget May Top $14,000-a-second
By John LaForge
Does Love Conquer All, Even a Judge's Heart?
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
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Nuclear Shorts
Resources
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Inspection Regime Working, Evidence of Disarmament Confirmed
Is Navy's Project ELF Aimed at Iraq?
By John LaForge
Subs to Have Big Role
By Lisa Burgess
U.S. Officials Have Threatened Mass Destruction
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Before Starting Another War
By John LaForge
The Human Cost of War
By Robert Fisk
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Nuclear Waste Could Be Deregulated, Sold Retail
Attack on Reactor Site 'Could Kill 3.6 Million'
Failed Chernobyl Lid To Be Re-covered
Food Irradiation Update: Victories and Setbacks
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ELF Trespass Convictions
Disarming Nuns Hoping for Dismissal of Charges
The Personal is Political
By Barb Katt
Europeans Hammer Government Complicity With U.S. War Plans
Calendar
(Articles in the following, older, issues are not in .pdf format.)
Fall 2002
NASA's Lunacy, Reactor Powered Rockets Full of Nuclear Waste?
By John LaForge
Food Irradiation: Labeling Deception Becomes Law
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan & Bonnie Urfer
Yucca, WIPP and Radiation Commerce
By Bonnie Urfer
Depleted Uranium: Weapons Tied to Genetic Damage and Leukemia
By John LaForge
ELF Resisters in the Street, in Court, in Prison
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Nuclear Shorts, Fall 2002
For a Nonviolent Revolution
By John LaForge
Arms Dealers, Think Tanks and Star Wars
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Nuclear Power: No Solution to Global Warming
By Arjun Makhijani
Faslane Peace Camp, 20 Years of Resistance to the Bomb
By Amanda McDonald & Alex Cochrane
Militancy
By Steve Chase
Summer 2002
Making a Federal Case, Resisting Project ELF
Nukewatch
A Regrettable Replay of Mass Internment
By John LaForge
Mobile Chernobyl and Yucca Mountain
By Doug Hissom
Follow the Money, Nuclear Weapons Budget Negates Disarmament Talks
By Dr. Robert Civiak
Lakes and Prairies Gives Sam Day Peacemaker Award
By Gail Vaughn
Davis-Besse Does Frankenstein
By Bonnie Urfer
What Nuclear Bombs Do
By Arundhati Roy
Rule of Bombs or Rule of Law
Report Excerpted from Citizen's Watch
Spring 2002
Bush Embraces First Use Against Non-Nuclear States
By Jerry Berrigan and John LaForge
More Bomb Building & Testing Posed by White House
Nukewatch
Star Wars - Billions for Industry, Fairy Tales for the Public
By Jerry Mechtenberg-Berrigan
80,000 US Cancers Caused by Bomb Test Fallout - 15,000 of Them Fatal
By John LaForge
Battle Lines Drawn Over Nuclear Waste Shell Game
Nukewatch
Stop 'Radiation Roulette' - Risky Renewal of the Price-Anderson Act Nukewatch
Breast X-Rays: Do Benefits Outweigh Risks?
By Molly Mechtenberg-Berrigan
Fighting "Evil Doers": Is Depleted Uranium Being Used in Afghanistan? By John LaForge
Civilian Casualties: Theirs and Ours
By William Blum
The Propaganda Office is Closed, Honest, Says the Pentagon Nukewatch
Food Irradiation Deregulated; Unlabeled Irradiated School Lunches
By John LaForge
Workers Sickened by Irradiated Mail
Nukewatch
Urfer Sentenced to 2nd Prison Term for Refusing Restitution Order Nukewatch
Bonnie Writes From Prison
By Bonnie Urfer
ELF/Trident Resisters Convicted in Federal Court; More Arraigned
Nukewatch
Judge Sides with Navy and Trident, Dismisses Ground Zero Lawsuit A Report from Ground Zero
Nuclear Shorts
Resources
Calendar
Winter 2001-2002
DOE's Nuclear Waste Dispersal Plans By John LaForge
German Environmentalism Under Siege By John LaForge
DU Weapons Spreading Death and Disease By John LaForge
Irradiating Mail: Spreading Radiation and Risk By John LaForge
Nuclear Reactors Never Safe By David A. Kraft
ELF Confronted by Tribes, Congress, Editors and Community
Water on the Rock: Resistance Wears Away ELF Prosecution By John LaForge
A War Against the Poor By John LaForge
Why We Are Suing the US Navy By Glen Milner
A Praxis of Pacifism By Beth Preheim
Senior Staffer Bonnie Urfer Wins Wisconsin Award By Steve Pearson
Five Years with No License to Drive By Steve Clark
Nuclear Shorts
Tooth Fairy Project By John LaForge
Trident Commander Puts 'Smiley Face' on Bomb By John LaForge
Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes
Resources
Gandhi's Birthday Celebration at Anathoth and Project ELF By Barb Katt
Fall 2001
International Crime, Not War By Tom Barry and Martha Honey
U.S. Human Rights Record Snubbed at United Nations By John LaForge
South Carolina Governor Threatens Blockade of Plutonium By Bonnie Urfer & John LaForge
Workers, Troops and Targeted Countries Hit With Plutonium By John LaForge
One Trident Sub Can Kill 49 Million By Brian Watson
Irradiated Meats Flop in Fla. and Wis. By John LaForge
Spring 2001
Nuclear Weapons Opponents Found Guilty - Feb 21, 2001 By John LaForge
Trial begins for ELF Pole Cutters - Feb 19, 2001 Nukewatch Press Release
Federal Gag Order in Silence Trident Case - Feb 15, 2001 Nukewatch Press Release
SAM DAY, Peace Activist October 5, 1926 - January 26, 2001 - Jan 29, 2001
Winter 2000-2001
A License to Kill?
Her Majesty's Tireless threatens Mediterranean
Nuclear Shorts
ICBM's Still in Our Backyards By Bonnie Urfer
Plutonium Waste, Faulty Military Reactors and "The World's Most Dangerous State"
Embassy Rally Brings 9 Arrests By Sam Day
Fall 2000
"Silence Trident" Disarmament Action Puts Trigger Lock on
Nuclear First Strike
Missile Defense Fraud Goes Ballistic
"this damnable place of death"
Utilities Aim Waste at Goshute Nation
Nuclear Shorts
Early Pole Cutters Comment on Citizen's Disarmament
Hanford "Burns a Hole in Forever"
Liquid Fire: Los Alamos' Radioactive Runoff
Scientists Warn Pentagon of Radiation Disasters
Opposing "MOX" Plans -- Reckless Plutonium 'Fuel' Experiment
By Mary Olson
Summer 2000
Trident, ELF Opponents Reclaim Mother's Day for Peace
Los Alamos, City of Fire
Winter 1999 - 2000
Bluddlefilth By Sam Day
Tokaimura Is Here By John LaForge
Update on Elf Consequences Nukewatch
Going Critical USA: A First-hand Account By Jack Truher
National Trident Resistance By Stephen Kobasa
Still Nixing MOX: By Bonnie Urfer
Radioactive Recycling: Outcry Needed Nukewatch
Nuclear Shorts

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