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...recent diplomatic overtures to Beijing and Seoul. While Abe has repeatedly declared that Japan has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, a rising chorus of influential voices inside and outside the government has begun raising the possibility. As unlikely as a nuclear Japan might seem, given the legacy of Hiroshima, all bets could be off if the U.S. is seen as cutting out its ally on the way to making a separate peace with North Korea...
...Cohen: Businesses have tremendous power in this country, and our voice is our best tool. It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons. Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container. If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to improve kids' health care and schooling...
...found in any physics library. Going about the scientist's business of mating known facts to breed new facts, Dr. Thirring made and published calculations leading to the conclusion that out of lithium hydride could be constructed a bomb many times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. At the end of his austere equations, Dr. Thirring's scientific article flamed up into a prayer: "God protect the country over which a six-ton bomb of lithium hydride will ever explode...
...lawsuit, filed last week, demands that the Defense Department publish its plans in the Federal Register, provide the opportunity for public comment and conduct a full environmental impact statement on the effect of the explosion. "The Department of Defense appears to have learned nothing from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl and the devastating deaths caused to nuclear veterans and downwinders by atmospheric nuclear testing," the suit contends. The June 2 explosion, it added, would contaminate Native American land, "making it unfit for millions of years for an use by the Western Shoshone people or any other human beings." A Defense Department statement...
...United States is certainly right to condemn Iran for its progress in enriching uranium. Undeniably, nuclear proliferation, regardless of which country promotes it, destabilizes the world and increases the likelihood of mass destruction and death of the kind witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, it is difficult to conceive how the U.S. government can justifiably berate Iran without any qualifications. Not only does the perennial complaint that the nuclear-armed US should lower its own nuclear stockpiles remain valid, but the Bush Administration has provided Iran with even more reasons to acquire nuclear weapons capability in the short term...