nuclear weapons proliferation
FACT SHEETS (PDFs)
• 1. Nuclear weapons
• 2. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
• 3. Missile defence
• 4. Depleted uranium
IN FACTS AND FIGURES
• Nuclear weapons data
• WMD programs & possession
ARTICLES & COMMENTARY
• Two lab teams deliver new designs for US nukes by Ian Hoffman / 25 April 2006.
• The US and Iran threaten nuclear arms control by Mark Baker / The Age, May 13, 2006
• UN rebuke over West's arsenal By Carol Giacomo / May 27, 2006
• Iran and the international nuclear menace Medical Association for Prevention of War
• A Self-Vindicating Policy by George Monbiot / 24 January 2006
• Proliferation Treaty by George Monbiot / Guardian 21 September 2004
• US rolls out nuclear plan by Ralph Vartabedian / LA Times 6 April 2006
• Strange How This Generation Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Ron Fullwood
• Depleted uranium links
nuclear weapons against iran
• Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs against Iran: This Way Lies Madness by Stephen M. Osborn / Global Research 16 March 2006
• About bunker busters
• Penetrator N-bombs threaten third world Los Alamos Study Group
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resources
• Talk to Iran, President Bush Der Spiegel / 27 April 2006
• Strike Iran, Watch Pakistan and Turkey Fall by John Stanton / 22 April 2006
• Physicists Letter to President Bush on "nuclear option"
• Been there, done that: Talk of a U.S. strike on Iran is eerily reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq war by Zbigniew Brzezinski / LA Times 23 April 2006.
• Knowing Why Not To Bomb Iran Is Half the Battle
By Martin van Creveld / Forward 29 April 2006
• Analysts Say a Nuclear Iran Is Years Away by William J. Broad, Nazila Fathi and Joel Brinkley / Spiegel Online 13 April 2006
• Bush's October surprise - it's coming / Asia Times On-line 11 April 2006
• To nuke or not to nuke: Bush decides by Andrew Stephen / New Stateman 17 April 2006
• The Iran plans by Seymour Hersh / The New Yorker 17 April 2006
• Gunning for Iran by Sarah Baxter / The Sunday Times 9 April 2006
• Not Just A Last Resort? A Global Strike Plan, With a Nuclear Option by William Arkin / Washington Post 15 May 2005
war is not the answer
• Pressure on Iran bound to fail. Again by Amin Saikal / The Age 10 March 2006
• Deterrence best policy for nuclear states by Neil Clark / Australian 23 January 2006
• Iran’s Nuclear Posture and the Scars of War by Joost R. Hiltermann 18 January 2005
• Cooling The Iran Crisis by Dilip Hiro / 6 April 2006
• Defusing Iran with democracy by Shirin Ebadi and Muhammad Sahimi / LA Times 19 January 2006
plans for war
• Operation silence mullahs by Arnaud De Borchgrave / UPI 3 April 2006
• US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran AFP / 4 April 2006
• Iran and the Irrationality Factor by Tom Engelhardt / 21 March 2006
• Bush Sees Iran As Possibly Greatest Threat by Deb Riechmann/ AP 16 March 2006
• Nato may help US airstrikes on Iran by Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv / The Sunday Times 5 March 2006
• Iran: the next war by John Pilger / 13 February 2006
• The Iran Crisis - "Diplomacy" as a Launch Pad for Missiles by Norman Solomon
• The Real Reason for Nuking Iran by Jorge Hirsch / 1 November 2005
the plans are not new
• Veteran neo-con advisor moves on Iran By Jim Lobe/ AP/Asia Times 25 June 2003)
• Pentagon Eyes Massive Covert Attack on Iran By Vince Cannistraro / ABCnews, 29 May 2003
• After Iraq, Bush will attack his real target By Eric Margolis / November 10, 2002
• Iran, Syria, Libya For Regime Change Next Says Richard Perle / World Tribune.com, February 25, 2003
weapons in the middle east
Ex-inspector: Iran 5 years away from bomb
Between Iran and Israel, try a bomb for a bomb by David Hirst / Daily Star 21 March 2006
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the arms trade
IN FACTS AND FIGURES
• Movers and shakers who’s buying and selling arms
• The Arms Trade is Big Business
ARTICLES & COMMENTARY
• One death a minute: toll of the booming arms trade By Cahal Milmo (Independent, 10 October 2003)
• U.S. Remains Leader in Global Arms Sales, Report Says By Thom Shanker (New York Times, Sept. 24, 2003)
• Mirror mirror on the wall, whose the biggest rogue of all? Richard Du Boff
• Unless we curtail the arms trade, we face another violent century By Carmen Lawrence (July 23, 2003)
• Arming for Armageddon: Boomtime for the Military-Industrial Complex by John Stanton / December 30, 2002
• War Profiteering Starts at the Top By Chris Hartman and David Martin (June 24, 2003)
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