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		<title>So what is it? Global abolition or &#8220;new and improved&#8221; nuclear weapons all around?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/03/new-and-improved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear modernization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report on nuclear weapons modernization from the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) is part summary of current arsenal sizes and configurations in each of the nuclear-weapon states and part projection of budgeted and scheduled new deployments. The report also assesses the priorities and rationales that are driving the expansion of nuclear forces into the middle of this century and beyond.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1776&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Reykjavic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American and a Russian president almost made good on a serious proposal to abolish nuclear weapons 25 years ago this month. The leaders were Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev (who was actually the president of the now-defunct Soviet Union) and the occasion was the 1986 Reykjavic Summit....There's a new surge in demand for global nuclear disarmament among non-nuclear-weapon states—including some with a lot of influence on their nuclear-armed allies. Civil society campaigns for nuclear abolition are giving public voice to the idea that completing this unfinished business has never been more urgent, and that the time is right.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1760&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Conference of Mayors calls for Nuclear Weapons Convention, troop withdrawals</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/06/23/us-mayors-resolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Conference of Mayors has called for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has urged the Obama administration to lead the way in ridding the world of nuclear weapons, and has said that the hundreds of billions of dollars now being lost to these misplaced national spending priorities should be redirected "to meet vital human needs" at home.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1610&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to save $100 billion per year</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/06/20/nuclear-weapons-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Zero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Bruce Blair's new estimates, the nine nuclear-weapon states—China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States—plan to spend $1 trillion over the next 10 years to acquire new weapons and to update their systems. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1594&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reality in about 430 words (you can put the headline on twitter, anyway)</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/06/10/elevator-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/06/10/elevator-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan nuclear crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One simple fact joins nuclear energy and nuclear weapons at the hip: the consequences of the failure of either technology are so horrible that neither can be allowed to fail. Which, of course, is impossible. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1577&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fukushima Fallout&#8221; is a wakeup call about &#8220;nuclear safety&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/06/09/fukushima-fallout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan nuclear crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fukushima Fallout: Regulatory loopholes at U.S. nuclear plants, produced by the staff of  US Representative Edward J. Markey, documents the ways in which nuclear safety regulations—inadequate to begin with—have been based on flawed assumptions, outdated seismic data, and underestimated risks.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1574&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An antinuclear &#8220;rock symphony&#8221; from Canada</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/04/14/antinuclear-rock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new band has embraced the cause of nuclear abolition, has composed an antinuclear “rock symphony,” and has come to IPPNW with offers of support. The band is called Diatessaron, they hail from Canada, their album is called “Monument,” and you can learn more about it and listen to part of it here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1488&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IPPNW has been a constant voice against nuclear energy</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/03/17/reject-nuclear/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/03/17/reject-nuclear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IPPNW News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPPNW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan nuclear crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What IPPNW is saying in the midst of crisis, sadly, is no different from what we have been warning for many years. The reasons for rejecting nuclear energy touch every one of our major concerns: the link with nuclear weapons proliferation; the unsolved (to this day) problem of nuclear waste; health and environmental dangers, whether from accidents, terrorist attacks, or “normal” operations; economic costs; and the availability of wiser alternatives.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1397&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What could be worse?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/03/17/what-could-be-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are the Japanese people — or any of us, for that matter — supposed to be reassured that the damage from this incident, if it ends here, will be “limited?” Limited to what? The displacement of and trauma to thousands of people whose lives will never be the same? The creation of an uninhabitable sacrifice zone many kilometers out from the hopelessly contaminated reactor site? Tens of billions of dollars of direct and indirect costs? The devastation of an entire national psyche?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1395&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Australian senator questions uranium policies; cites IPPNW resolution</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/02/25/ludlam-ippnw-resolution-uranium/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/02/25/ludlam-ippnw-resolution-uranium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Scott Ludlam, a member of the Australian Parliament from the Green party, has been asking the government some pointed questions about the health and environmental effects of uranium mining. Sen. Ludlam has emerged as an outspoken critic of Australian uranium exports to other countries, including India and the United States. In a speech on the Senate floor on February 20, he noted the importance of IPPNW's resolution on the subject.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1255&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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