Scientists for Global Responsibility
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Last updated 29^th January 29, 2006

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An article earlier this year in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses the real effects of a nuclear explosion and fire. You can reach it by clicking here .

Articles on Depleted Uranium weapons

1. A disturbing article on the consequences of the use of depleted Uranium as a casing for shell and bombs. This one comes from the New Scientist.

2. An article from the September 1999 issue of New Internationalist detailing the frightening consequences of the use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War. Felicity Arbuthnot argues that there are many victims suffering from Gulf War Syndrome amongst both the returned veterans and the peoples of Iraq.

3. An interview with Major Doug Rokke PhD, the leading authority on the effects of depleted uranium.

Talk by General Lee Butler (Member of the Canberra Commission)

Unofficial transcript of a very important talk by General Lee Butler to a Canadian Anti Nuclear Weapons group, recorded in March 1999 but still highly relevant. Butler describes how his efforts to reduce the US nuclear arsenal are now being dramatically eroded and we are moving back to the old Cold War escalation process.

Articles of Special Interest

1. An address by Rear Admiral Eugene J. Carroll Jnr, USN (Retd.) to the Olaf Palme Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on 12 May 1998. Carroll was at one time Director of US Military Operations in Europe and so was responsible for 7000 nuclear weapons aimed at Warsaw Pact forces in Europe and Russia. Here he describes why these weapons should be abolished. (From the Center for Defense Information. Downloaded on 25 April 1999.)

2. A passionate response by Arundhati Roy to the testing of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan. Roy won the Booker prize for the novel "The God of Small Things". For an historical evaluation of the significance of the nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan click here.

"Crude Nukes on the Loose? Preventing Nuclear Terrorism."

International Network of Engineers and Scientists member Morten Bremer Maerli, researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (an INES member organisation), has made available his PhD thesis on "Crude Nukes on the Loose? Preventing Nuclear Terrorism by Means of Optimum Nuclear Husbandry, Transparency, and Non-Intrusive Fissile Material Verification."

They may be downloaded in full-text (pdf, 378 pages) by clicking here.

An executive summary, trial lectures for the doctoral defence etc., may be found here.

The BBC Reith Lecture

"POVERTY AND GLOBALIZATION" by DR. VANDANA SHIVA This is a fascinating analysis of the effect of globalisation on the reality of food production in developing countries.

Important local item

A submission on the Environmental Impact Statement concerning the Replacement reactor at Lucas Heights, prepared by Murray and Joy Scott. Murray is a former ANSTO employee and a member of SGR.

The Noam Chomsky Site always has interesting comments from the arch stirrer.

Sources of articles of special interest

The Reuters agency environmental information site has a search option which will lead you to interesting articles if you enter something like 'nuclear'.

To get the Aussie perspective try also the ABC Radio National page and the transcripts of their material on the Science Show, Health report, and Okham's Razor.

Then check the daily news from the Sydney Morning Herald .

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