An Iranian envoy said Monday his government will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons.

Tehran says stringent IAEA inspections unfair as Israel not partner to non-proliferation treaty, claims western countries practice 'nuclear apartheid'

Israeli President: Nuclear Iran would be 'nightmare'; Israel must remain sole Mideast nuclear power...

New Photos Reveal Horror Of Hiroshima (Warning: graphic)...

Russia begins the construction of a new missile base in the Southern Caucus region amid a row with the US over its missile shield....

Doctors in Afghanistan say rates of some health problems affecting children have doubled in the last two years.

Some scientists say the rise is linked to use of weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) by the US-led coalition that invaded the country in 2001.

Longshoremen are unloading 6,700 tons of sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead today, said Chad Hyslop, spokesman for the disposal company American Ecology. The BBC Alabama arrived at the Port of Longview (WA) Saturday afternoon with the 306 containers carrying the contaminated sand from Camp Doha, a US Army base in Kuwait.

She's finally gone nuts. She's the first presidential candidate we know of, who actually threatens another country with obliteration in a major nuclear American attack!

Despite Israel's refusal to acknowledge its nuclear weapons status, its secret arsenal is an open secret that Israeli policy makers don't go out of their way to deny. From its beginnings in the mid-1960s, Israel's program has developed into one that rivals those of larger powers like France and Britain. Here, based on interviews with U.S. intelligence officials and nuclear experts, is a portrait of Israel's strategic weapons programs.

Responding with understatement to a question in the British House of Lords, the foreign minister responsible for Asia, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, said of Clinton's implication of a mushroom cloud over Iran: "While it is reasonable to warn Iran of the consequences of it continuing to develop nuclear weapons and what those real consequences bring to its security, it is probably not prudent in today's world to threaten to obliterate any other country and in many cases civilians resident in such a country."

According to roger howard, the reason the jews-only state in palestine is opposed to iran getting nuclear weapons isn't the military threat posed by such weapons but their political consequences for mutual disarmament. "It seems likely, then, that there are other, more convincing, reasons why Israel is concerned about an Iranian bomb. One possibility, for example, is that Tel Aviv is deeply concerned that such a development could potentially create deep splits in the U.S.-Israel alliance. Consider, for example, what would happen if Tehran, having developed a warhead and withdrawn from the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, offered to reduce the size of or even eliminate its own nuclear arsenal in return for similar moves - all UN-monitored - by Tel Aviv." (Roger Howard 'Why Israel Really Fears Iranian Nukes' http://www.antiwar.com/orig/howard.php?articleid=4065);

FBI Claims a Confession in Israel Spy Case...

Could Israel use submarines against Iran?...

Scientists and critics say projected US missile defense system cannot work

An Israeli government minister warned on Monday that Israel would respond to any Iranian attack by destroying that country, public radio reported.

Saudi Arabia has called for international pressure to compel Israel to accept the international monitoring over its nuclear activities.

The US military has been using depleted uranium in Hawaii.

VIDEO - Israel's Nuclear Weapons Programme...

After the publication of information by the BBC regarding the role Britain played in Israel's development of Nuclear weapons Tony Benn is interviewed on the topic by Democracy Now. They also discuss Nuclear Power and the power of protest amongst other interesting pieces of history.

Five states are locked in fierce competition over a proposed bioterror lab host to the world's most feared human and animal pathogens.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has formally ordered the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency to conduct an inventory of all U.S. nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon-related materials to make sure all items are accounted for, according to a Pentagon memo released Thursday.

Initially the Bush Administration articulated missile defense plans that included a significant commitement to a Space Based Interceptor [SBI] program. These plans provoked technical criticism and political controversy. The Administration apparently dropped these plans for space weapons, and the controversy faded. Critics of space based weapons were left with nothing to criticize. In reality, the Administration continued the Space-Based Interceptor program under a classified program, PE 0603891C Special Programs MDA, that first appeared in the 2005 budget request, around the time that overt funding for space based weapons was fading away. The program continues, without the political contoversy that had attended the overtly funded program of previous years.

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Easter Monday pix...

Last Friday, Dick Cheney was in Saudi Arabia for high-level meetings with the Saudi king and his ministers. On Saturday, it was revealed that the Saudi Shura Council -- the elite group that implements the decisions of the autocratic inner circle -- is preparing "national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactors," one of the kingdom's leading newspapers, Okaz, reports. The German-based dpa news service relayed the paper's story.

Simple prudence -- or ominous timing?

U.S. investigative researchers have discovered an official U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs official, but not well publicized count, of 73,846 U.S. soldiers who have perished as an apparent result of Depleted Uranium based bio-chemical warfare exposure. This exceeds an estimate of 58,000 U.S. soldiers who had been killed in relation to the Vietnam War.

Thousands of campaigners will gather at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston this Monday, on the 50th anniversary of the historic first march from London, on Easter weekend 1958. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament expects up to 5,000 activists from across the country to 'surround the base' and join MPs, veteran campaigners and celebrities in the biggest protest at the Berkshire site in 20 years.

Experts on Iran and nuclear proliferation said the president's statement was wrong. "That's as uninformed as [Sen. John] McCain's statement that Iran is training al-Qaeda. Iran has never said it wanted a nuclear weapon for any reason. It's just not true. It's a little troubling that the president and the leading Republican candidate are both so wrong about Iran," said Joseph Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation.

Others said it is unclear whether the president believes what he said or was deliberately distorting Iran's position.

Iraq WMD Lies: The Words of Mass Deception...

Russia had a short answer Tuesday for President Bush's top national security advisers who came to ask for detente in the simmering argument over a planned U.S. missile shield at Russia's doorstep. "Nyet." Or maybe, "Not yet."

A new study by an international team of researchers from Cardiff University and University of Maryland has revealed how the humble cup of tea could well be an antidote to Bacillus anthracis --more commonly know as anthrax.

On 18 February 2008, the British Government was forced to release a draft dossier on Iraq's so-called "weapons of mass destruction" under the Freedom of Information Act. But it succeeded in persuading a Freedom of Information Tribunal to allow a handwritten reference to Israel in the margin of the document to be suppressed.

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"On page 3 of the document, I refer to the marginal references in the first paragraph to Israel. The reference to Israel is linked (by a hyphen) to a sentence which reads: 'No other country has flouted the United Nations' authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction'. I interpret this note to indicate that the person who wrote it believes that Israel has flouted the United Nations authority in a manner similar to that of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein."

"Bank Melli goes to extraordinary lengths to assist Iran's pursuit of a nuclear capability and ballistic missiles, while also helping other designated entities to dodge sanctions," said Stuart Levey, under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim has accused the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog of acting as an agent for Iran and of allowing the Islamic Republic to proceed with its uranium enrichment without international intervention.

Cheney says US needs missile defense...

Russia and the United States should reduce their nuclear arsenals and lead the way toward a world free of atomic weapons, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said Tuesday.

The full extent of government anxiety about the state of British-Israel relations can be exposed for the first time today in a secret document seen by the Guardian.

The document reveals how the Foreign Office successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial, now discredited Iraq weapons dossier. At the heart of it was nervousness at the top of government about any mention of Israel's nuclear arsenal in an official paper accusing Iraq of flouting the UN's authority on weapons of mass destruction.

The dossier was made public this week, but the Foreign Office succeeded before a tribunal in having the handwritten mention of Israel kept secret.

THE United States has rejected the Indonesian Health Minister's claims that it is using bird flu samples to produce biological weapons and World Health Organisation officials have condemned allegations of conspiring to profit from bird flu vaccines.

The controversial NATO sponsored report entitled �Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership�. calls for a first strike use of nuclear weapons. The preemptive use of nukes would also be used to undermine an �increasingly brutal World� as a means to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction:

A high-security laboratory where deadly microbes are being grown by scientists seeking defenses against terrorist attacks began operating in Livermore last week without public announcement, and opponents said Friday that they will go to federal court in an effort to close the facility down.

The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists.

Quality of nuclear devices questioned...

Russia's military chief of staff said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes in case of a major threat, the latest aggressive remarks from increasingly assertive Russian authorities.

Israel's Nuclear Weapons, including Fission, Hydrogen and Neutron Bombs...

The DoD is flirting with the idea of medicating soldiers to desensitize them to combat trauma -- will an army of unfeeling monsters result?

Atomic body set for US control...

The most popular theory, at least among federal investigators: that then-NUMEC President Zalman M. Shapiro, a staunch supporter of Israel, secretly diverted special nuclear material (uranium) to Israel so that nation could have "the bomb."

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, finding herself in an unexpectedly close race with freshman Sen. Barack Obama, flexed her national security muscles in Saturday night's Democratic debate, raising the possibility of loosing nuclear weapons on countries that harbor terrorists who plot a nuclear attack on the US.

In spite of the complete American support for the Israeli policy, the Americans have expressed their concern over the reactor, as news revealed an American attempt to send some of its nuclear-program officials to inspect Dimona reactor apart from those working in the IAEA, but Israel refused to allow them in, continuing the reactor's legacy of being "visitation-proof", as only Israelis are allowed in.

"This year a lot of people are retiring at once and the demand for engineers and physics experts is very high," she said, "and so we decided to show the film to compete with the other companies."

Russia Successfully Tests New ICBM...

Oops American Missile To Replace Trident Is Too Big For Britains Nuclear Submarines...

Bush orders cuts in nuclear stockpile...

Russia on Monday test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, part of a system that can outperform any anti-missile system likely to be deployed, according to the officer in charge of missile forces.

If the inhibition against killing is one of the strongest human impulses (just ask a returning veteran), the ethical revulsion and international prohibitions against using nuclear weapons seem strong enough to rule out their first aggressive use since America's atomic attack on Nagasaki.

But what if the post-WWII nuclear Rubicon has already been crossed?

Cast out of the element uranium, this Golem is�as Israel�s founding father, David Ben-Gurion, described it�Israel�s �sacred� nuclear weapon, the primary source of trouble in the precarious realm of atomic proliferation.

The nuclear �golem� is the bizarre and dangerous cornerstone of Israel�s national security policy. Development of a nuclear arsenal was the foundation of Israeli policy from the beginning.

Pentagon Appears Poised To Resume Open-Air Testing Of Biological Weapons But Says It Has Received No Presidential Directive To Break Moratorium

Should Washington insist that Israel rein in its development of nuclear weapons? What would the United States do if Israel refused? Perhaps the solution lay in deliberate ambiguity, or simply pretending that America did not know what Israel was up to.

When will the US and the UK tell the truth about Israeli weapons? Iran isn't starting an atomic arms race, it's joining one

By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.

So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, �The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed.�

Poland having second thoughts about participating in U.S. missile defence...

They were told depleted uranium was not hazardous. Now, 23 years after a US arms plant closed, workers and residents have cancer - and experts say their suffering shows the use of such weapons may be a war crime

As for Israel saying that the nukes used would be only 1/15th of the power of the Nagasaki nukes, to that i say BS. Israel plans on using much larger nukes than the ones in this article. When they are used and blow to hell a portion of the ME, Israel will say "We told you so!!! Iran was making nukes. That's what triggered this much more massive devastation. It was Iran's fault, not ours!!!" "Put the blame on Iran, they made us do it."

The U.S. has been caught with at least 2,386 chemical weapons deployed in Iraq....

TWO years ago, when Gen. Pervez Musharraf still seemed secure in his rule over Pakistan, he was asked a question that is now urgently coursing through Washington: Are his country�s nuclear weapons safe from Islamic radicals?

Members of Congress have warned about the dangers of suitcase nuclear weapons. Hollywood has made television shows and movies about them. Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency has alerted Americans to a threat -- information the White House includes on its Web site. more stories like this

But government experts and intelligence officials say such a threat gets vastly more attention than it deserves. These officials said a true suitcase nuke would be highly complex to produce, require significant upkeep and cost a small fortune.

�The Strykers and the legacy they would leave are not welcome on Hawai�i.�

Krisztine Samu is an outraged Hawai�i resident and tells the Army so during public testimony at the U.S. Army Stryker Brigade Public Hearings in Waimea, on September 26, 2007. She is outraged by the military�s shameless and continued contamination of her home, Hawai�i Island�

Citizen groups trying to stop the U.S. Army from shipping waste from deadly VX nerve agent from Indiana across eight states to Port Arthur, Texas say sources who wish to remain anonymous told the groups that the Army had withheld crucial information from the public and a federal judge during a hearing on the shipments last July.

The Air Force�s Friday report on the August 29-30 nuclear weapons incident which saw six armed cruise missiles flown across the continental US in launch position on a B-52H bomber leaves all the big questions unanswered, attempting to shuck the whole thing off as an �unacceptable mistake.�

Egypt angry at EU block to nuclear free zone

DID SOMEONE TEST A NUKE IN AUSTRALIA?...

American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work.

1986: The existence of Israel's secret nuclear weapons program is revealed by a former nuclear-plant technician, whose story is published by The Sunday Times of London.

Israel has never acknowledged possessing nuclear weapons, although most defense experts believe the Jewish state has been developing nuclear warheads since the 1960s at its Dimona Nuclear Research Center in the Negev Desert. Official Israeli policy is to be deliberately vague on the subject.

American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work.

The mishaps include workers bitten or scratched by infected animals, skin cuts, needle sticks and more, according to a review by The Associated Press of confidential reports submitted to federal regulators. They describe accidents involving anthrax, bird flu virus, monkeypox and plague-causing bacteria at 44 labs in 24 states. More than two-dozen incidents were still under investigation.

Alabama City Reopening Fallout Shelters...

US, NATO and Israel Deploy Nukes directed against Iran...

WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition within the Air Force and U.S. Intelligence Community.

The man who saved millions of lives...

Islamic nations, targeting Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal, pushed through a U.N. atomic watchdog resolution on Thursday urging all Middle East nations to renounce atomic weapons.

The vote was 53-2 but with 47 abstentions by Western and developing states, highlighting reservations that the resolution politicized the International Atomic Energy Agency's work.

The decision was non-binding but symbolized international tensions over Israel's presumed nuclear might and shunning of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and it frayed the traditional consensus culture of the Vienna-based IAEA.

The excess plutonium will be taken out of retired nuclear weapons in coming decades and turned into mixed-oxide fuel burnable in commercial nuclear reactors providing electricity, Samuel Bodman said during a U.N. nuclear watchdog meeting.

USA and Europe react to Russian vacuum bomb with a polite yawn...

B52 Weapons Carriage Capacity | Current Force Structure...

The Air Combat Command has ordered a complete stand down on September 14 to review procedures, officials confirmed yesterday.

Hillary Clinton Willing to Nuke Iran...

Military contractor Cabrera Services has also determined that a formerly classified weapon capable of firing atomic rounds, the "Davy Crockett", was used at the Big Island military base, the Army said in a two-page news release.

The Army Media Release is attached. It speaks for itself. The Army has contaminated the Hawaiian Paradise forever.

Pentagon's New Drug Weapons...

We know who's gone NUCLEAR, but who's the THREAT?...

America, stop waving the nuclear threat at potential adversaries...

One alleged radiation hot spot on Manhattan's east side has the potential for becoming a political hot spot: A strong radiation spike from the area of the Israeli Embassy. Officials would not comment on why they thought that particular area allegedly showed such a stunning peak in radiation.

Nuclear Blast Damage...

PEACE AND THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION~~ A TWOFOLD MYTH FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION...

Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki...

AUGUST 6th,1945...NEVER TO FORGET..NEVER TO FORGIVE...

When Dr Debby Reynolds, the chief veterinary officer, said that the foot and mouth virus found on the Surrey farm may have come from a laboratory, she could only have meant one of the two organisations in the UK licensed to work with the live virus. The Institute for Animal Health Pirbright laboratory and the Merial Animal Health Company's vaccine manufacturing laboratory lie adjacent to, but separate from, each other three-and-a-half miles from the infected farm.

FLASHBACK: Crash of Cargo Plane in Holland Revealed Existence of Israeli Chemical and Biological Weapons Plant...

In his 2005 book, Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat, Leitenberg writes that the risk of terrorists and nonstate actors using biological agents "has been systematically and deliberately exaggerated," particularly after the 2001 anthrax attacks on Congress and media outlets. He contends that U.S. officials undertook a concerted effort to promote their view on the international stage and that an "edifice of institutes, programs, conferences, and publicists" continues to spread what he calls exaggeration and scare-mongering.

What's more, while floating extravagant tales of terrorists planning to launch deadly germ attacks on the United States, the Bush administration has been diverting dollars from urgent medical research against real threats, such as avian influenza, to the creation of new strains of extinct killer diseases like Spanish flu.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has delivered the first plutonium core certified for use in nuclear warheads in 18 years.

How to dissolve Apathy the inertia of the herd....

Depleted Uranium is WMD...

US says nothing to fear from new nuclear warheads...

Cheney is reportedly the main force behind the push to nuke Iran. In the last Republican candidate debate, 8/9 candidates favored nuking Iran. It's become the Republican party line.

Iran's top security official on Monday called U.S. plans for an Eastern Europe missile defense shield that Washington says would protect U.S. allies from Iran a "joke," saying Tehran's missiles do not have the capability to reach Europe.

Trying to re-start the Cold War?...

Gogiashvili and other scientists at the institute have resumed their [Anthrax] research thanks to funding from the Pentagon, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and several U.S. groups, which stepped into the void created by the collapse of the Soviet Union and Georgian independence in 1991.

The U.S. government has sanctioned the exposure of its own population to various, allegedly benign, bacterial agents including serratia marcens, and bacillus subtilus. In the end these agents weren�t entirely benign, and caused the deaths of American citizens submitted involuntarily to experiments conducted without their consent or knowledge.

Depleted Uranium Hawaii...

Formerly clean and beautiful, Hawaii is now CONTAMINATED with radiation from nuclear bombs on Kahoolawe, DU/ depleted uranium used by the military.

The U.S. might be keeping low-yield nuclear weapons at its airbase in Kyrgyzstan's Manas for possible use against Iran's nuclear facilities, a Kyrgyz special service expert told Interfax on condition of anonymity.

Depleted uranium munitions cause concern near Oahu military base...

Development of the new warhead, the first in two decades, could have "international impacts" if critics view it as a new weapon rather than a replacement for the ageing stockpile, said the scientists, headed by Bruce Tarter, a former director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and including two other former directors of the US government's nuclear weapons research laboratories.

The state approved importing the avian flu virus for training and research in January, and the controversial decision was widely reported in the media.

What hasn't been publicized, until now, is that the dengue virus, West Nile virus and several hantavirus strains also have been brought into the Islands for research. The SARS virus has been approved, but not yet imported.

President George W. Bush said Thursday he is "very worried about a nuclear arms race in the Middle East."

Nuclear Bunker Buster (RNEP) Animation...

Texas A&M University failed to report in a timely manner to Federal authorities that a biology student was stricken with the dangerous brucella pathogen in its College Station laboratory for bioweapons agent research on February 9th of 2006. The university made its disclosure this April 10th, 14 months later, and only after insistent prodding by the Sunshine Project, an Austin, Tex.-based arms control watchdog organization.

A Tour Through Chernobyl...

The U.S. intention to locate advanced elements of its missile-defense system in Eastern Europe is alarming Russian experts. Claims that 10 anti-missiles are a small number and pose no threat to Russia, which they say boasts thousands of nuclear warheads, and that "these missiles will protect Europe from rogue nations" -- meaning Iran and North Korea -- are tongue-in-cheek and directed at ignorant people.

A bright flash in the south Indian Ocean, observed by an American satellite on 22 September 1979, is widely believed to be a South Africa-Israel joint nuclear test. It was, according to some, the third test of a neutron bomb. The first two were hidden in clouds to fool the satellite and the third was an accident�the weather cleared.84 Experts differ on these possible tests. Several writers report that the scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory believed it to have been a nuclear explosion while a presidential panel decided otherwise.85 President Carter was just entering the Iran hostage nightmare and may have easily decided not to alter 30 years of looking the other way.86 The explosion was almost certainly an Israeli bomb, tested at the invitation of the South Africans. It was more advanced than the �gun type� bombs developed by the South Africans.87 One report claims it was a test of a nuclear artillery shell.88 A 1997 Israeli newspaper quoted South African deputy foreign minister, Aziz Pahad, as confirming it was an Israeli test with South African logistical support.89

Poison gas, used on the German population in order to speed up the war, was not the only toxic agent taken into consideration either. Today we know that a bio-weapon facility named Vigo existed north of Terre Haute, Indiana. If Mathew Meselson, a professor of molecular biology at Harvard and American notable in the area of chemical and biological warfare, can be believed, the American government constructed the Vigo plant in order to begin developing 500,000 four-pound anthrax bombs monthly. The destination of these bombs was Germany, presumably German cities.

Saifeddin Fulayh Hassan Taha al-Rawi told Al Jazeera that US forces used neutron and phosphorus bombs during their assault on Baghdad airport before the April 9 capture of the Iraqi capital.

"The enemy used neutron and phosphorus weapons against Baghdad airport... there were bodies burnt to their bones," he said.

The bombs annihilated soldiers but left the buildings and infrastructure at the airport intact, he added.

Army's Hallucinogenic Weapons Unveiled...

The US military shot down a Scud-type missile off a Hawaiian island in a missile defense test, the Missile Defense Agency said.

EXPERTS in Germany and Scandinavia are warning of an environmental catastrophe in the Baltic, as thousands of tons of ammunition dumped after the Second World War begin to wash up on shorelines.

"A significant portion of the U.S. missile defense capability was wiped out during the summer of 2006 because torrential rains caused ground-based interceptor silos to be damaged by flood waters," POGO said in a statement.

Despite all the attention given to Iran's nuclear program, the underside of that discourse is Israel's nuclear weapons.

The Pentagon claims that the low levels of radiation emitted from DU weaponry pose no health risks. Many scientists disagree with the way this conclusion is drawn. The military looks only at how the trillions of healthy cells that comprise the human body are affected by exposure to low dosages when handling the munitions. They ignore the fact that as DU munitions are exploded, they burst into flames and vaporize.

According to Caldicott, up to 70% of the uranium released when DU munitions are exploded is converted into microscopic particles that can be inhaled or ingested immediately or when air, soil and water get contaminated. Once inside the human body, these particles kill or mutate the cells they come in contact with. Photographs of DU particles in living lung tissues show them as tiny sun-like, radiating objects. The half-life of this radioactive substance is 4.5 billion years.

The United States vowed on Thursday to press ahead with a plan for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe to guard against attack from Iran, with or without the approval of NATO allies.

Electrical failures have shut down the plant. The roof has leaked. Decrepit machinery dates back more than 40 years. Safety lapses led inspectors to levy fines twice within two years. And employees, under deadline pressure, complain they are often worked past the point of exhaustion.

If this factory were producing medical devices or refining gasoline, the conditions would be serious enough. But this is where they work on nuclear bombs.

Both British newspapers failed to mention that Iran�s nuclear power program is as legitimate as those enjoyed by Israel and the United States, who between them possess enough fusion warheads to wreck this planet.

Despite repeated reassurances to the International Atomic Energy Agency that the Islamic Republic sought only to develop legitimate nuclear energy, and would remain committed to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Israeli intelligence sources were reporting that Iran had recently tested a Shehab-3 missile capable of reaching Israel with a dummy nuclear warhead. Fearful of Iran unleashing a �second Holocaust� on Israel, deputy defence minister Ephraim Sneh concluded, �At the end of the day it is always down to the Jews to deal with the problem.�

CNN is reporting today that New York City has a plan to ring the city with some sort of radiation detectors to thwart/detect anyone entering the city by land. Apparently this doesn�t detect, or the sensors aren�t going to be anywhere near existing radiation hot spots like the Israeli Embassy. Huh? Yup, according to a story released on my birthday last year in the Cleveland Indy Media, the city itself is a source for �a strong radiation spike from the area of the Israeli Embassy.

New York City will be protected by a ring of devices to detect nuclear or dirty bombs before the end of the year, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.

Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see...

As it turns out, Hitler early on ordered that ``there was to be no offensive biological weapons research.'' His benevolence may have been the result of having been gassed in World War I, the show suggests.

Israeli and US representatives have more than once discussed the possibility of such an attack using bunker-buster bombs with nuclear warheads. True, it was said that Israel might only use tactical nuclear weapons in this operation if the US refused to participate, so that Israel would have to face Iran on its own.

The other way of saying this is that Israel is the only nuclear nation in the world today that is not employing M.A.D. as the rationale for possessing its nuclear arsenal. Israel is doing something else.

Is Israel, supported by the Bush Administration, preparing to launch an atomic war against Iran?

In addition to the nuclear devices themselves, Israel has a formidable arsenal of delivery systems. Israel�s Shavit rocket has been used to launch satellites into orbit, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported that the Shavit could be converted to an ICBM with a range of 7,000 miles allowing an Israeli nuclear strike anywhere in the Middle East as well as eastern and western Europe and Central Asia. Additionally, Israel now has a fleet of Dolphin class submarines armed with cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported that Israel may have developed nuclear artillery shells as well as nuclear land-mines that could be deployed in the Golan Heights to discourage Syrian designs on the region.

Even though the existence of Israel�s nuclear arsenal is now a well-established fact, the state of Israel has consistently refused to confirm its nuclear status. Furthermore, Israel refuses to become a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel�s adamant nuclear insularity and denials have created tensions � not only in the Middle East � but globally.

"DOOMSDAY CLOCK" HAND TO BE MOVED, REFLECTING WORSENING NUCLEAR, CLIMATE THREATS TO WORLD...

The Bush administration is expected to announce next week a major step forward in the building of the country�s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing designs from two weapons laboratories in an approach that some experts argue is untested and risky.