Antinuclear

U.S. military base in Central Australian to remain (a nuclear target?)

Our bases retain role in US plan, The Age DANIEL FLITTON, April 12, 2010 TOP-SECRET military bases in Australia will remain a key part of America’s nuclear arsenal despite President Barack Obama’s sweeping changes to limit the use of atomic weapons…..Senator Faulkner – ” ..Australia supports that US nuclear deterrence posture by hosting the joint-facilities as well.”

The satellite communication base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs is the largest of the joint US-Australian facilities, believed to monitor possible nuclear missile launches from Russia and China…..

[Obama] stopped short of declaring that America would never again be the first to use nuclear weapons as some arms control activists had hoped….

Senator Faulkner  – ”As a major uranium supplier, Australia has got a particular interest in the security of nuclear materials,’‘ he said. Our bases retain role in US plan

April 12, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, uranium, weapons and war | Australia, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium