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A total of 170 seismic stations will monitor for the distinctive tremors produced by a nuclear test explosion, 60 infrasound stations will be able to detect sound waves typical for atmospheric tests, and 11 hydroacoustic stations will monitor the oceans. No more than 72 hours after arrival at the point of entry in the inspected state, inspection activities must begin.\n He also pointed out that most nuclear-weapon states still maintain their nuclear test sites and that inspectors might come across artifacts similar to the one at the heart of the exercise even though these are not indicative of an imminent test.
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We really have an opportunity to create a whole new future for the region by moving to renewable energy. One of the things that the nuclear enterprise depends on is the feeling of dependence that communities have on them," [Tim Judson] said. He also hopes to spark interest in the Oswego community about the abundant renewable resource of wind power, for example. "We want to address the future of our communities and see what it would look like if we abandoned nuclear power.
Bolstering community and government resistance toward opening new nuclear test sites is a goal of the march. "The government classified the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as tests," said Diane Swords, a member of Peace Action of Central New York. "Annihilating hundreds of thousands of people were classified as te...
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Private security has once again been called upon to help conquer new frontiers for capitalist exploitation, assisting with primitive accumulation in a transnational neoliberal project that proceeds largely through "accumulation by dispossession" (Harvey, 2003:67).2 The neoliberal3 economic policies of global privatization and economic deregulation currently championed by the U.K. and the U.S.-coupled with the "war on terrorism" (which is substantially an imperialist exercise)-are creating a hothouse for private security entrepreneurs, largely U.S. and British, who offer for sale a panoply of services to governmental, nongovernmental, and transnational corporate clients. Tens of thousands of security contractors and private soldiers supplement regular military forces of the coalition (S...
..." were busy guarding prisons, airports, nuclear test sites, U.S. embassies, and other federal faci...
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan, August 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
August 29, 2011, marks the 20th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site which witnessed more than 450 nuclear explosions. In December 2009, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution, put forward by Kazakhstan, to proclaim August 29 as the . This became a vivid evidence of the recognition by the international community of Kazakhstan's contribution to the global nuclear disarmament process.
... one of the world's largest nuclear test sites was shut down by the Decree of President Nursultan...
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Israeli defense officials on Wednesday announced the successful test-firing of a new ballistic missile and a recent air force exercise that included refueling for long-range flights, amid growing talk about an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Officials said Wednesday's missile test and last week's air force exercise in Sardinia were planned long ago and had nothing to do with recent media speculation about an attack on the Islamic republic's atomic sites.
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...These standard sites of kowhaiwhai signification are symbolically impor... impermanent works fail a copyright test of material form. For indigenous peoples, however,... of potential tourist dollars than the nuclear test sites that characterize a crucial aspect of t...
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The most significant critique came from Iran, which derided the final document for drawing "a rosy picture" of recent nuclear disarmament efforts by nuclear-weapon states and for failing to condemn efforts to modernize nuclear arsenals or call for the withdrawal of nuclear arms stationed on the territories of non-nuclear-weapon states. According to the Western diplomatic source, France opposed this language, while the U.S. delegation insisted that the word "existing" should be deleted; otherwise, the language would have applied to nuclear cooperation with India, which the United States argued was a "unique" case.
... to efforts to bring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) into force, calling for nuclear-... as soon as feasible" their nuclear test sites was ultimately removed from the final document due...
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...Trichoscan image analysis of HSC-treated sites at 12 and 52 weeks showed significant improvements... of HSC was confirmed by demonstrating nuclear translocation of p-catenin in human epidermal kera... (repeated-measures), two-tailed Student's t-tests. All other differences between group means were ev...
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...Greenpeace members sailed ships into nuclear test sites in France to stop nuclear bombs during ...
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... and correct declaration of all their nuclear weapons programs, their nuclear proliferation acti...-ore enrichment all the way to the nuclear test sites. And that is a declaration; that is what we...