A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

August 21, 2012
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Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear). Each nation gets a blip and a…

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The Trident Nuclear Weapons System

August 21, 2012
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Trident is a submarine-launched inter-continental ballistic nuclear weapons system, which is currently carried by four Royal Navy Vanguard-class submarines. Trident is a US nuclear system. The US provides assistance to Britain with its nuclear programme under the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement. The UK has access to 58 missiles from the US pool of Trident II D5 missiles. British Trident Submarines collect the missiles from the US Trident base at Kings Bay, Georgia in the South-East…

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AWE Burghfield

August 21, 2012
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AWE Burghfield, a former munitions factory, occupies a 225 acre site between Aldermaston and Reading. It is responsible for the complex final assembly and maintenance of the warheads while in service, as well as their decommissioning. Unlike AWE Aldermaston with multiple entrances and exits, AWE Burghfield only has two gates. The main entrance gate is in The Mearings, off Reading Road, Burghfield. The second gate is on Burnthouse Lane. Nuclear Warhead and nuclear materials convoys…

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Aldermaston

August 21, 2012
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AWE Aldermaston is the central facility of the British nuclear weapon establishment. It is officially located at Aldermaston, near Reading, in Berkshire, although the main entrances are in the nearby village of Tadley. This facility not only performs most research activities, it also develops weapon designs, and manufactures the majority of weapon components, including nuclear components. It was officially established 1 April 1950 on the site of a World War II airfield. Weapons development work…

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Direct Action Handbooks

August 20, 2012
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Direct Action Handbooks

Practical Protest Techniques Using your body and a few simple tools to maximise your protest!

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Civil Society and International Law by Angie Zelter

August 20, 2012
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‘We are at a time in human history when many global crises have come together – nuclear proliferation, climate change, economic melt-down, pollution, deforestation, massive extinction of other life-forms, and desertification. The issues are intertwined in many complex ways and no single nation can solve the problems alone. Many millions of our fellow global citizens are already suffering from chronic poverty and violence in degraded and exploited environments. There has never been a time when…

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Nuclear Weapons are Illegal

August 20, 2012
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Nuclear Weapons are Illegal

Angie Zelter 18/8/12 It is pretty obvious to any sane person that threatening mass destruction by relying on a nuclear ‘defence’ policy by either possessing and deploying nuclear weapons or being part of a military alliance relying on nuclear weapons (like NATO) must be illegal as well as being immoral. And, you will be glad to know, that threatening to use a weapon that, even if used precisely against a purely military target, will have…

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The Lily-Pad Strategy

July 31, 2012
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The Lily-Pad Strategy

How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War By David Vine   The first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly of the dark grey C-17 Air Force cargo plane was a void — something missing. A missing left arm, to be exact, severed at the shoulder, temporarily patched and held together. Thick, pale flesh, flecked with bright red at the edges.…

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Please don’t let us forget why Tony Blair is a pariah in his own land

July 31, 2012
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  by Matthew Norman The Independent 18 July 2012 Tony Blair Watch Tony Blair is a pariah because he colluded in an act of abundant wickedness, and untold hundreds of thousands died and millions more suffered monstrously in consequence. ABANDON hope of reading anything remotely original, all ye who enter here. That pre-emptive warning may be implicit in the byline above, but I make it explicit today because what you are about to enter is the tragically…

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The Militarisation of the London 2012 Olympics

July 31, 2012
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The Militarisation of the London 2012 Olympics

Written on July 1, 2012 in Lifestyle & Society Typhoon fighter jets, snipers in RAF helicopters, Royal Navy assault ships, tens of thousands of military personnel, crowd surveillance drones and missile systems on top of apartment blocks. Welcome to London 2012. Welcome to the largest mobilisation of military in this country since the end of WWII. Beyond the white elephant concerns of an Olympic budget that will run into the tens of billions during a period of deep…

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Titanic Banks Hit Libor Iceberg

July 31, 2012
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by ELLEN BROWN At one time, calling the large multinational banks a “cartel” branded you as a conspiracy theorist. Today the banking giants are being called that and worse, not just in the major media but in court documents intended to prove the allegations as facts. Charges include racketeering (organized crime under the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO), antitrust violations, wire fraud, bid-rigging, and price-fixing. Damning charges have already been proven, and major…

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Ken Loach

“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”

– Ken Loach

John Hurt

".....the government has pledged to rebuild a new generation of British nuclear weapons at enormous cost and at a time when social services budgets including those for health and education are being drastically cut. Having nuclear weapons doesn't make us safer, it just brings the possibility of nuclear conflict ever closer. We need to protect this planet not put it at even more risk of destruction. We all have a voice so please use yours and join me in supporting ACTION AWE." John Hurt
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