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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

Page 2:
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)

Page 3:
Nuclear Shorts
Resources

Page 4:
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
Page 5:

Toxic, Radioactive Uranium Weapons: Did You Know?
Food Irradiation Update
War, the Halftime Show
          By John LaForge

Page 6:
Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares II
Among 'Nuclear Free Future Award' Winners
          By Nukewatch Staff
Legal Quagmire for Radioactive Waste
          By Bonnie Urfer

Page 7:
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

Page 1:
Radioactive Waste Moves to WIPP (continued from cover page)
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
          By Bonnie Urfer

Page 2:
Disarmament Specialists Sentenced
          By Susan Crane
Sara Thomsen: Keepin' the Peace
Page 3:
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

Page 4:
'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

Page 5:
'Depleted' Uranium: War's Special Effect
          By Larry Johnson
Some U.S. Government Documentation of DU's Harmful Effects

Page 6:
Wars of Mass Deception: What the Pentagon Doesn't Want Us to Know About 'Depleted' Uranium
          By Frida Berrigan
Page 7:
Wars of Mass Deception: What the Pentagon Doesn't Want Us to Know About 'Depleted' Uranium (continued from page 6)

Page 8:
Pu in the DU
          By John LaForge

Page 9:
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

Page 11:
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)
Page 2:
Planting Seeds of Peace
ELF Resisters Sentenced, One Finishes Prison Term
Page 3:
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
Page 4:
Nuclear Reactors -- Dirty, Dangerous & Deceitful
          By Bonnie Urfer
Page 5:
Map of Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors in the U.S.
Page 6:
Recent Reactor Fractures
Nuclear Reactors, If We Build Them, They Will Break
Page 7:
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
Page 2:
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

Page 3:
Nuclear Shorts
Resources

Page 4:
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
Page 5:
Before Starting Another War
        By John LaForge
The Human Cost of War
        By Robert Fisk
Page 6:
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
Page 7:
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