Article: US nuclear weapons complex changes approved
AP Worldstream;  December 17, 2008 ;     465 words ......management of the country's nuclear weapons, limiting the most...to scale back the nuclear weapons complex and its activities...of the department's National Nuclear Security Administration...that maintains U.S. nuclear weapons as nuclear material...for the ...

Article: Nuclear weapons and Canada.
Ploughshares Monitor;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...The question of what to do about nuclear weapons is increasingly on the international agenda...the Cold War did not end the threat posed by nuclear weapons. The number of nuclear weapons worldwide has been cut in half during the...

Article: Roundtables call for action (excerpt from Report of Discussions with Community Leaders across Canada on topic of nuclear weapons).
Ploughshares Monitor;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......series of Roundtables on the subject of nuclear weapons for community leaders and interested...Canada formally review its policies on nuclear weapons. This recommendation was accepted...stronger Canadian Government policies for nuclear weapons abolition and deeper public support...

Article: Nuclear Weapons complex changes approved
AP Online;  December 16, 2008 ;     449 words ......the most dangerous nuclear material to five...of the country's nuclear weapons. The proposals to scale back the nuclear weapons complex and its activities...the department's National Nuclear Security Administration...that maintains U.S. nuclear weapons as ...

Article: Bishop: nukes no longer a moral option. (Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond, VA led a group of Pax Christi activists on a peaceful tour of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Oakland, CA)(Brief Article)
National Catholic Reporter;  October 24, 1997 ;     458 words ......continuing role of nuclear weapons in U.S. foreign...the role of nuclear weapons in pursuit of peace. A national delegation...Livermore National Laboratory in Oakland...site for the National Ignition...built to test nuclear weapons. At the ...

Article: Sleepwalking in a nuclear minefield: the United States still worships at the altar of nuclear weapons--yet cries 'heresy' when others want to join the sect.(United States is still advocating nuclear weapon)
Sojourners Magazine;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......truth is gradually being recognized: Nuclear weapons and human security cannot co-exist...the Cold War, there are still 25,000 nuclear weapons in existence, about 95 percent held...half of humanity still lives in a nuclear-weapons state. The total amount of money spent...

Article: Non‐Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons, Treaty on The
The Oxford Companion to American Military History;      680 words ...Non‐Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons, Treaty on The (1968).This...the five countries that had nuclear weapons by 1967—China, France...North Korea, from acquiring nuclear weapons. The treaty has created three...

Article: AP Interview: Nuclear weapons official says Bay Area lab security improved after mock attack
AP Worldstream;  May 21, 2008 ;     301 words ...The top U.S. nuclear weapons official said he was...at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have been...the government conducts nuclear weapons research and maintenance...Superblock facility, where nuclear weapons research is conducted...maintains the ...

Article: Eliminating nuclear weapons.
Ploughshares Monitor;  September 1, 1996 ;     209 words ...Eliminating Nuclear Weapons is a half-hour video making the case for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Originally produced in 1995, the...roundtable session on the Ploughshares nuclear weapons abolition tour, where it generally...

Article: Crossing the nuclear threshhold: just exactly how are nuclear weapons supposed to help us wipe out terrorism? (Mass Destruction).(Brief Article)
Sojourners Magazine;  May 1, 2002 ;     695 words ......few of us expected it to bring back nuclear weapons. The Pentagon's recently leaked Nuclear...Reversing more than two decades when nuclear weapons were seen as a last resort, to be...It clearly plans the first use of nuclear weapons, targets them against nonnuclear states...

Article: nuclear weapons
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      297 words ......rather than chemical, processes. Nuclear weapons produce large explosions and hazardous...nuclear fission or nuclear fusion. Nuclear weapons can be delivered by artillery, plane...also fit inside a suitcase. Tactical nuclear weapons can have the explosive power of a...

Article: Nuclear Weapons complex changes advance
AP Worldstream;  October 10, 2008 ;     499 words ......nation's most dangerous nuclear material, part of a...management of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The department...facilities, including three nuclear weapons research labs, will...administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration...The number of U.S. ...

Article: The World Court and Nuclear Weapons: Who is Listening?
UN Chronicle;  December 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. Citing international laws of war...declared that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be illegal, and all...because the judges did not condemn nuclear weapons absolutely. While stating that the...

Article: Canadian church leaders' 1998 statement on nuclear weapons.
Ploughshares Monitor;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......bear upon efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Our church communities rejoiced with...Canada, to persist in claiming that nuclear weapons are required for their security. Nuclear weapons do not, cannot, deliver security...