Hiroshima and Nagasaki condemn UK nuclear bomb test
ananova | 23.02.2002 19:27
The mayors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima have condemned Britain over a joint nuclear bomb test with the US.
Nagasaki's mayor says it was an "outrageous act" which ignored the feelings of people of the city.
The test on the Trident nuclear missile system was carried out in Nevada.
Mayor Iccho Ito says the participation of Britain for the first time in a sub-critical test might trigger a series of nuclear tests in other countries, the Mainichi Daily News reports.
Sub-critical means no critical mass is formed so the explosion doesn't result in a nuclear chain-reaction. The UK has shared test results before but not taken part in US tests in the past.
"It was an outrageous act that is totally against the tide of international movement. They ignored the feelings of people who had been atom-bombed," Mayor Ito said.
The test was conducted underground inside a metal container using a small amount of plutonium and explosives, according to the US Department of Energy.
Mayor Ito added: "Other nuclear nations may think about conducting tests of their own, which will lead to the end of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and, ultimately, the resumption of full-scale tests."
Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba also criticised the US and Britain: "They betrayed people all over the world who are working hard to eliminate nuclear weapons. I feel like I time-warped 60 years back when everyone was trying to develop an atom bomb."
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence told Ananova the test was to ensure the safety and reliability of the Trident nuclear missile system.
Story filed: 10:05 Friday 15th February 2002
The test on the Trident nuclear missile system was carried out in Nevada.
Mayor Iccho Ito says the participation of Britain for the first time in a sub-critical test might trigger a series of nuclear tests in other countries, the Mainichi Daily News reports.
Sub-critical means no critical mass is formed so the explosion doesn't result in a nuclear chain-reaction. The UK has shared test results before but not taken part in US tests in the past.
"It was an outrageous act that is totally against the tide of international movement. They ignored the feelings of people who had been atom-bombed," Mayor Ito said.
The test was conducted underground inside a metal container using a small amount of plutonium and explosives, according to the US Department of Energy.
Mayor Ito added: "Other nuclear nations may think about conducting tests of their own, which will lead to the end of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and, ultimately, the resumption of full-scale tests."
Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba also criticised the US and Britain: "They betrayed people all over the world who are working hard to eliminate nuclear weapons. I feel like I time-warped 60 years back when everyone was trying to develop an atom bomb."
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence told Ananova the test was to ensure the safety and reliability of the Trident nuclear missile system.
Story filed: 10:05 Friday 15th February 2002
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Mass Destruction...
23.02.2002 22:04
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Just as US and UK 'security' agencies colluded in the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, so the governments of the USA and UK collude illegally in developing new weapons of mass destruction.
The towns of Reading and Newbury in the UK, are now helping develop the capacity for British Weapons to kill 500 Million people through a 24 hour window ('best' case scenario) of launching weapons of mass destruction.
Vapourisation
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The next generation of atom bomb technologies has been on the drawing board for years. The phases of actual and simulation testing of weapons of mass destruction are now in progress. These include simulating the destruction of more than half a billion people including many millions of vapourisations of humans in under 24 hours by UK military or 'security' forces.
Coalition
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Marches of opposition to war or war against terrorism will not stop the developments described above. Only direct action by the people can stop these developments.
It is mass direct action that the 'authorities' fear more than anything else. Mass direct action threatens more than anything else to transfer control away from 'authority'. This is as true in the UK as in Mexico, the US, Italy or Israel and Palestine.
So let's give it a go, particularly on issues of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
What do ya reckon?
Chris A.
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