Iran
Criticized by the U.S. but backed by other world powers, chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei is walking a fine line in trying to cajole Iran into revealing past nuclear secrets.
AP 30th Sept 2007 more >>
ONE of the founding fathers of neoconservatism has privately urged President George W Bush to bomb Iran rather than allow it to acquire nuclear weapons.
Sunday Times 30th Sept 2007 more >>
Ahmadinejad could be concealing a nuclear weapon or be on the point of realising one. But on the roll-call of leaders who represent a threat to world peace, Bush tops my list every time, while Ahmadinejad trails well behind. Bush’s grasp of foreign policy is always ruthlessly self-serving and must be forever suspect, given his preparedness to use bogus grounds of weapons of mass destruction to justify invading Iraq.
Sunday Herald 30th Sept 2007 more >>
Calder Hall
Fifty years of British industrial history were reduced to rubble within a couple of minutes on Saturday. Four 88-metre (288 feet) high cooling towers at Calder Hall, the world’s oldest industrial scale nuclear power station, were blown up with 192 kgs (420 pounds) of explosive as part of the plant’s decommissioning.
Reuters 29th Sept 2007 more >>
Observer 30th Sept 2007 more >>
Guardian website 30th Sept 2007 more >>
North West Evening Mail Video Clip 29th Sept 2007 more >>
Trident
One of the longest demonstrations against Britain’s nuclear arms policy comes to an end tomorrow, amid divided opinion over its success. Faslane 365 was intended to disrupt the nuclear submarine fleet by blockading the Faslane naval base, on the river Clyde, every day for a year. Thousands of protesters from the UK and abroad took it in turns to block the gates of the maximum-security defence establishment, in protest against the Trident missile programme.
Observer 30th Sept 2007 more >>
