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		<title>Building a security framework for a nuclear weapon-free world</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/08/building-framework/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xanthe Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to arrive at a nuclear weapon-free world, we have to give some thought to how we can achieve the right security conditions necessary for it to happen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=2014&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IPPNW at the NPT PrepCom: Risks and consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/02/risks-and-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/05/02/risks-and-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, NGOs presented a series of papers to the 2012 NPT PrepCom. IPPNW Regional Vice President and the Chair of the ICAN core group, Dr. Tilman Ruff, delivered the following paper on the risks and consequences of nuclear weapons, which was prepared by IPPNW in collaboration with the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and People for Nuclear Disarmament.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1999&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 nuclear explosions—a billion people starve to death</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/04/24/billion-people-starve/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/04/24/billion-people-starve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Loretz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new IPPNW study released today at the annual Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in Chicago offers compelling scientific evidence that most of the nuclear arsenals in the world today—whether large or small—threaten everyone on Earth. The report -- Nuclear Famine: A Billion People at Risk—Global Impacts of Limited Nuclear War on Agriculture, Food Supplies, and Human Nutrition -- examines likely percentage declines in specific crops, such as corn and rice, in specific agricultural regions, along with the effects on food availability and prices and the resultant nutritional impact on at-risk populations, and concludes that the number of people threatened by nuclear-war induced famine would be well over one billion.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1980&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">John Loretz</media:title>
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		<title>Assuring destruction forever: Important new report on nuclear modernization programs from Reaching Critical Will</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/04/10/assuring-destruction/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/04/10/assuring-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reaching Critical Will has coordinated and edited a new study on the modernization plans and programs of the nuclear-armed states, as well as the costs of nuclear weapons in the context of the economic crisis.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1964&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Try a little nuclear sanity</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/03/19/nuclear-sanity/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/03/19/nuclear-sanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Wittner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the vast and very costly nuclear weapons enterprise operated by the U.S. government, cutting the nuclear weapons budget makes a lot of sense. ...The real nuclear threat to the United States does not lie in the fact that it does not (or will not) possess enough nuclear weapons to deter a nuclear attack. Rather, it is that there is no guarantee that nuclear deterrence works. That is why the U.S. government is so worried about North Korea possessing a few nuclear weapons or Iran possibly obtaining a few.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1925&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear divestment: the medical case</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/03/07/nuclear-weapons-divestment/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/03/07/nuclear-weapons-divestment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons launched a major study on the global financing of nuclear weapons producers. The 180-page report argues that banks, pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers should divest from companies involved in the manufacture, maintenance and modernization of nuclear forces.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1907&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/29/is-nuclear-war-with-china-possible/#comments</comments>
		<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&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1813&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;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>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/28/red-cross-nuclear-abolition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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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&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1810&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;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>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/03/new-and-improved/#comments</comments>
		<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&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1776&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">John Loretz</media:title>
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		<title>Is Mitt Romney ready for the world?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/12/mitt-romney/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/10/12/mitt-romney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Wittner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
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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&#038;blog=2530833&#038;post=1756&#038;subd=ippnweupdate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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