Sizewell
Five local activists calling themselves the Sizewell Blockaders are appearing in Lowestoft court next week (w/c 28 Sept 09) charged with aggravated trespass at Sizewell Nuclear Power Stations.
Stop Nuclear Power 25th Sept 2009 more >>
Proliferation
THE West’s message to the developing world on nuclear weapons has always been shot through with moral ambiguity. Yes, we have a vast nuclear arsenal, say Britain, France and the United States, but nuclear weapons are a very bad idea and so other countries should be prevented from developing them. Oh, and in the meantime we are going to carry on upgrading our own nukes so we can continue, for many decades to come, having the capability of destroying the world many times over.
Scotland on Sunday 27th Sept 2009 more >>
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has condemned the use of nuclear weapons in international conflict. His remarks came on a visit to Japan, coinciding with global discussions on tackling nuclear proliferation.
Ekklesia 26th Sept 2009 more >>
Iran
Military experts in Washington and Tel Aviv acknowledge that a surprise airstrike would be likely to succeed only in delaying Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. It would also present daunting logistical and political challenges with no guarantee that even a sustained assault on known facilities would eradicate Tehran’s nuclear threat.
Sunday Times 27th Sept 2009 more >>
If nothing else, the disclosure that Iran is building yet another underground nuclear facility has had the welcome effect of wiping the smile off the face of the country’s highly idiosyncratic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Irish Independent 27th Sept 2009 more >>
It sounds like a scene from a James Bond movie. Western intelligence agents scouring Iran for a secret nuclear site, big enough to make a bomb but small enough to hide, identified some suspicious tunnels in a mountain complex outside the holy city of Qom.
Sunday Times 27th Sept 2009 more >>
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted he had not broken any international rules after the dramatic disclosure that Tehran is building another secret nuclear facility.
Sunday Times 27th Sept 2009 more >>
Independent on Sunday 27th Sept 2009 more >>
Q&A on Iran’s Nuclear programme.
Sunday Times 27th Sept 2009 more >>
Iran must take “concrete steps” to calm fears over its nuclear ambitions, David Miliband said, as he refused to rule out the prospect of military action against the country. The Foreign Secretary insisted the focus remained on a diplomatic solution after revelations that Iran is building another nuclear facility.
Ananova 26th Sept 2009 more >>
Iran has signalled its intent to have the capability to make nuclear weapons, a Bradford University expert has warned. Professor Paul Rogers, of the Peace Studies Department, said a recently-discovered facility in Iran was significant because it was underground.
Bradford Telegraph & Argus 26th Sept 2009 more >>
A new Iranian nuclear enrichment facility which was revealed to the world this week will soon start work, a Tehran official said on Saturday.
Sunday Telegraph 27th Sept 2009 more >>
The US and Iran raised the stakes yesterday ahead of this week’s nuclear showdown in Geneva, with threats of global strife if no resolution is found. The sharpened rhetoric followed Friday’s revelation that Iran had been building a secret uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom, and it points towards a new wave of sanctions that go far beyond the targeted financial measures imposed on Iran so far.
Observer 27th Sept 2009 more >>
As a veto-holding permanent member of the UN Security Council, China’s position will be crucial to international efforts to deal with Iran’s secret nuclear facility.
Observer 27th Sept 2009 more >>
INTELLIGENCE chief Sir John Scarlett has been told that Saudi Arabia is ready to allow Israel to bomb Iran’s new nuclear site.
Sunday Express 27th Sept 2009 more >>
Climate
The mobile phone giant O2, Manchester city council and In the Loop actor Peter Capaldi have become the latest big names to sign up to the 10:10 campaign.
Observer 27th Sept 2009 more >>
A HIGH-profile campaign at the heart of the Scottish Government’s campaign to bring down damaging carbon emissions is in meltdown just six months after it begun, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. Questions about the Home Insulation Scheme have shown that government officials believe that it will now take 66 years to bring all Scotland’s homes up to a minimum standard – 25 years after it is supposed to have reduced CO2 emissions by 80%
Scotland on Sunday 27th Sept 2009 more >>
Submarines
Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet suffers a serious fire once a year and small fires almost every month, according to new figures released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Nearly half of the 22 serious fires which have broken out since 1987 blazed on submarines which could have been carrying nuclear weapons. And at least seven have occurred when the boats were in Scottish ports. Details of the fires, which have not been revealed before, have surprised critics, who say incidents were much more frequent than they realised. Deaths have already been caused, and a major blaze could trigger an environmental catastrophe, they say.
Sunday Herald 27th Sept 2009 more >>
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