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		<title>Is nuclear war with China possible?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/29/is-nuclear-war-with-china-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Wittner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To avert the enormous disaster of a U.S.-China nuclear war, there are two obvious actions that can be taken.  The first is to get rid of nuclear weapons, as the nuclear powers have agreed to do but thus far have resisted doing.  The second, conducted while the nuclear disarmament process is occurring, is to improve U.S.-China relations. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1813&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Cross/Red Crescent movement calls for abolition of nuclear weapons</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/28/red-cross-nuclear-abolition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an historic decision, the Council of Delegates of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, on November 26, adopted by acclamation a resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons and calling on all national societies to conduct educational campaigns about the unique, catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1810&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
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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>Is Mitt Romney ready for the world?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/12/mitt-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Wittner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If current polls are correct, Mitt Romney seems likely to become the 2012 Republican presidential candidate and the next president of the United States.  Therefore, we should carefully examine his first major foreign and military policy address...Romney began his speech with a heavy dose of fear.  Iran, he warned, could well become “a fully activated nuclear weapons state, threatening its neighbors, [and] dominating the world’s oil supply.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1756&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiroshima doctors leave for North Korea to examine A-bomb victims</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/12/a-bomb-victims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of six doctors from the Hiroshima Prefectural Medical Association departed for North Korea on Monday to conduct medical checkups for North Koreans who were in Hiroshima at the time of 1945 atomic attack on the city and exposed to radiation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1754&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas City Here It Comes: A New Nuclear Weapons Plant!</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/09/06/new-nuclear-weapons-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Wittner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the U.S. government be building more nuclear weapons?  Residents of Kansas City, Missouri don’t appear to think so, for they are engaged in a bitter fight against the construction of a new nuclear weapons plant in their community.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1736&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nagasaki Peace Declaration 2011</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/08/09/nagasaki-peace-declaration-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the people of a nation that has experienced nuclear devastation, we continued the plea of “No More Hibakusha!” How has it come that we are threatened once again by the fear of radiation?...No matter how long it will take, it is necessary to promote the development of renewable energies in place of nuclear power in a bid to transform ourselves into a society with a safer energy base. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1687&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima: Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the nuclear age?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/08/06/hiroshima-nagasaki-fukushima/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/08/06/hiroshima-nagasaki-fukushima/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year before my retirement from Nagasaki University Medical School in 2009, I saw an elderly lady with acute myeloid leukemia. She has been one of the most active peace protesters among Nagasaki survivors. She had been 17 years old in 1945, and was heavily irradiated during the atomic bombing, as shown by total hair loss and a fracture of her hip joint. At the age of 79, she suddenly developed leukemia after a half century of healthy life. I treated her with new drugs for leukemia and she got into complete remission and was able to return to the peace movement. This is one recent example of what I have seen time and again as a physician and researcher: the life-long effect of nuclear weapon on human beings.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1653&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiroshima Peace Declaration — August 6, 2011</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/08/06/hiroshima-declaration-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on their own experiences and carrying in their hearts the voices and feelings of those sacrificed to the bomb, the hibakusha called for a world without nuclear weapons as they struggled day by day to survive. In time, along with other Hiroshima residents, and with generous assistance from Japan and around the world, they managed to bring their city back to life. Their average age is now over 77. Calling forth what remains of the strength that revived their city, they continue to pursue the lasting peace of a world free from nuclear weapons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1656&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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