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
Australians don’t believe Martin Ferguson’s claims on safety of uranium to Russia
Australia exports uranium with no requirement for IAEA inspections to take place.
Can Russia be trusted with our uranium? Sydney Morning Herald, JIM GREEN, March 22, 2010 A 2005 survey of 1200 Australians found that 56% of us believe that the International Atomic Energy Agency’s nuclear ‘safeguards’ system is ineffective. Barely half as many believe the system is effective. Continue reading
Rudd prepares to open the uranium floodgates to Russia
Scott Ludlam 18th March 2010, On the eve of the most important international disarmament negotiations in a generation, the Rudd Government has foreshadowed uranium sales to Russia, which holds the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. Continue reading
All types of nuclear reactors can be used for nuclear weapons
Dr Hansen is keen on the “integral fast reactor” concept. Continue reading
A reminder of uranium mining’s connection with nuclear weapons
Secretive Arms Tycoon Behind New Uranium Mine | The Media Freedom Foundation, 9 March 2010, James
Neal Blue, who helped devise the Predator unmanned aircraft that are in use in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is the director of a company that bought the Four Mile uranium mine in Australia. Blue is the chairman of Quasar Resources, which is affiliated with General Atomics, a major United States weapons and nuclear energy corporation. Continue reading
Australia’s shame – the treatment of atomic test veterans
They were given little protection against the radiation and were simply told to turn their backs on the explosions
Treatment of atom bomb veterans a ‘national disgrace’, Sydney Morning Herald JENNIE CURTIN, February 28, 2010 ONE of Australia’s most respected military figures has joined veterans’ groups in calling for war benefits to be paid to Australian servicemen who were exposed to British atom bomb tests in the 1950s. Continue reading
Australian soldiers used as guinea pigs in Maralinga nuclear tests
The veterans say they were used as guinea pigs to gauge the impact of radiation on humans.
Nothing stops Australian uranium exports ending up in nuclear weapons
A credible safeguards regime for Australian uranium exports depends on having a credible safeguards agency. Sadly, the federal government’s Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (ASNO) is anything but.
Nuclear Safeguards and Australian Uranium Export Policy — Friends of the Earth Australia, by Jim Green 25 Jan 2010 There is a long history of nuclear power facilitating nuclear weapons programs …….The larger part of the problem is real or feigned interest in nuclear power providing a rationale for the acquisition of enrichment plants, reprocessing plants and research reactors and a rationale for the development of cadres of nuclear scientists and engineers whose skills can be put to use in weapons programs………… Continue reading
Australia’s Pine Gap part of nuclear Star Wars?
Green s fear Pine Gap part of Star Wars. ABC News By Adrienne Francis Dec 18, 2009
The Australian Greens are concerned there may be moves to link Central Australia’s spy base at Pine Gap to the United States proposed ballistic missile defence shield known as “Star Wars”. Continue reading
A positive view of the Nuclear Disarmament Commission
A real chance for a world free of nuclear weapons Sydney Morning Herald MARK DAVIS December 17, 2009 “…………………The original “grand bargain” of the NPT was that the nuclear-armed states signing up agreed to negotiate disarmament while the states without nukes agreed not to develop or obtain weapons. Continue reading
A negative view of the Disarmament Commission
Report on nuke threat is a dud Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor : The Australian December 17, 2009 “……………The world has more than 20,000 nuclear weapons and it would be a good thing if this number were substantially reduced. Continue reading
Get a nuke weapon so that you won’t use a nuke weapon
International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament offers this change to a “no first use” policy – encouraging countries to make an initial statement to this effect – “the sole purpose of the possession of nuclear weapons is to deter the use of such weapons – “
Rather like giving your little kid a gun, and saying – “Well, I’m giving you this gun so that you will never use a gun..”
Seems to me that the real purpose of this commission is to further the sales of uranium and of “peaceful” nuclear technology.
Push for Australian nuclear bomb is revived
Nation given N-bomb warning * Christian Kerr The Australian * December 14, 2009 AUSTRALIA may be forced to acquire nuclear weapons to tackle deteriorating Asian security, a government-funded defence think tank has warned. Continue reading
Mapping 7 major nuclear test sites in Australia
British nuclear test sites in Australia Virtual Globetrotting Maps 9 Dec 09 British nuclear tests at Maralinga occurred between 1955 and 1963 at the Maralinga site, part of the Woomera Prohibited Area, in South Australia. Continue reading
Australia’s hypocrisy over nuclear disarmament
The Forgotten Nightmare: Global Cooling
By Robin Davis
21 October, 2009
Countercurrents.orgHere in Australia, advocates of uranium mining and export claim that this gives us a more credible voice in the world arena than we would otherwise have. They say our position as the largest source of uranium and the second largest exporter after Canada makes us more effective in preventing nuclear proliferation than we would otherwise be. In other words, by selling the stuff from which nuclear weapons are made, we are helping to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Continue reading
1 This month
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/235274195556
20 May – Webinar – The dangerous world of AUKUS, US, military occupation and suppression of dissent
National Webinar, 20th May, 2026, 6.30pm AEST. Confronting laws restricting/suppressing protest speech and action
Speakers: Former Sen. Rex Patrick, Lawyer Nick Hanna ,Arthur Rorris ,Jorgen Doyle, Sen David Shoebbridge,
Facilitator Kelley Tranter.
of the week – Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR)
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