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		<title>You choose: $105 billion a year for health care or nuclear weapons?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/28/health-care-or-nuclear-weapons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011 the nine nuclear-armed nations will spend an estimated US$105 billion maintaining and modernizing their nuclear weapons, despite the International Court of Justice having declared it illegal to use and threaten to use such weapons. This expenditure—up from $91 billion in 2010—casts serious doubt on the sincerity of leaders’ pledges to work for a world free from nuclear arms, suggesting instead a commitment to retain such weapons indefinitely. Beyond the pro-disarmament rhetoric of the nuclear-armed states is the disturbing reality of a massive effort to bolster the world’s nuclear forces, the consequences of which are potentially catastrophic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1796&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free the World from the Nuclear Chain</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/31/free-the-world-from-the-nuclear-chain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xanthe Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuclear Power and the Bomb &#8211; inextricably linked We talk about abandoning nuclear energy or abolishing nuclear weapons. But this is not enough. They are only the visible products of a whole chain of production that binds us – the nuclear chain. This chain does much more damage than we are aware of. At the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1771&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Reykjavic</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/20/remembering-reykjavic/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/20/remembering-reykjavic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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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>11 September and 11 March – what’s the connection?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/09/12/11-september-11-march-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/09/12/11-september-11-march-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting twist that 11 September 2011 is both the 10th anniversary of the extraordinary multiple terrorist attacks in the US that spawned a worldwide “war on terror,” and also six months since the devastating combination of earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan. These apparently disparate events do share some important implications.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1748&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICAN-Africa launched in Livingstone</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/07/11/ican-africa-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICAN-Africa was launched at the 6th African Regional Safe Communities Conference in Livingstone, Zambia, during the week of July 4. Although threats from nuclear weapons can appear somewhat remote to many Africans, given these other very immediate health and security concerns, participants at the conference proved eager to work for a nuclear-weapons-free world.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1614&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>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/06/23/us-mayors-resolutions/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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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>Taking an opportunity to speak in Tehran</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/06/13/westberg-in-tehran-1/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/06/13/westberg-in-tehran-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Second International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in Tehran, June 12-13, the most difficult question was as usual: Why do the superpowers want to keep their nuclear weapons?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1583&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Boat promotes Middle East NWFZ</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/05/07/peace-boat-03-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/05/07/peace-boat-03-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, members of IPPNW’s Mediterranean Commission joined peace activists from Egypt, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, India, Japan, Switzerland, and the US aboard the Peace Boat. The cruise, called “Horizon 2012,” was in part a strategy meeting on ways civil society groups can support progress toward a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1516&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Target Tallin</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/05/06/target-tallin/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/05/06/target-tallin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 24, at the conclusion of the European Student Congress, IPPNW medical students held another Target X installation in Tallinn, Estonia.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1512&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Placebo Effect &#8211; US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/05/05/the-placebo-effect-us-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/05/05/the-placebo-effect-us-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 10:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xanthe Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is not about the Royal Wedding, nor is it about the killing of Osama Bin Laden (or a photo of such). Having said that, you may wonder what else there is in the world to talk about. Certainly you might have got the impression lately that one issue fell neatly off the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1506&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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