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Radioactive America --
June 18, 2000 |
| Historically, nuclear weapons production has generated massive amounts of radioactive waste.
Poor disposal and containment practices have allowed radioactive waste to contaminate the soil and
ground water surrounding nuclear laboratories. A case in point: the nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
What effect has America's nuclear bomb-making legacy had on our communities nationwide? |
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An Environmental-
Industrial Complex?
-- Aug. 29, 1999
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| The United States continues to spend vast sums developing new weapons and maintaining
old ones. These weapons include Ballistic Missile Defense, 3,800 new fighter planes, and the New Attack
Submarine. Behind the rhetoric, many of these Cold War era weapons are jobs programs for high-tech
industries in key congressional districts... |
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The Environmental Impact of War --
Feb. 20, 2000
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| From the defoliation of the forests in Vietnam, to the oil fires of Kuwait, all major wars of the
20th century, and current conflicts like Kosovo, have had a hidden casualty: the environment. Unexploded
weapons, polluted rivers, contaminated soil, and damaged landscapes have all harmed human health, local
economies, and ecosystems... |
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War for Oil in the Former Soviet Union
-- Jan. 17, 1999
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| The U.S. maintains troops in the Middle East in order to preserve easy access to oil. Today,
control of vast energy resources in the Caspian Sea region pits former republics of the Soviet Union against
Russia. In the middle are American energy companies and government agencies... |
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Military Nuclear Mess: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? --
Nov. 21, 1998
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| For the past fifty years, the United States government has produced hundreds of
thousands of cubic meters of nuclear waste... |
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Water, Land, People, Conflict
-- July 5, 1998
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| Today, the greatest threats facing any nation's security may not be military threat.
Increasingly, they are complex issues related to the environment such as: population growth, water scarcity,
pollution, and economic stability... |
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A "Chernobyl" in Cuba?
-- Feb. 15, 1998
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| A report by the General Accounting Office noted that the construction of a nuclear
powerplant in Cuba could pose a grave environmental risk to.... |
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Managing America's Nuclear Complex
-- March 12, 1995
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| What does the future hold for America's nuclear weapons complex? What will
become of the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories? |
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Air Wars --
Sept. 18, 1994
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| The U.S. military uses nearly 50% of American airspace and wants to use more. A war is
being waged between citizens and the Pentagon over the impact of military overflights on quality of life and
the environment... |
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The Nuclear Threat at Home --
June 12, 1994
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| Unknown to the general public, the Department of Energy spends over $10 Billion
each year building, testing and cleaning up our nuclear arsenal. The radioactive and chemical
legacy of DoE's bombmaking has become an enormous challenge to our national... |
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The Hidden Costs of the Military --
May 23, 1993
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| In 1993 alone the military costs each American household over $3000, but that's not all
we're paying. Along with direct military outlays of $291 billion for 1993, the military establishment imposes
other burdens on the country that are largely overlooked... ? |
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Protectors or Polluters? --
Nov. 22, 1992
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| The United States military. Guardians of the Republic. Protectors of the people. But in
providing us with the most powerful fighting force in the history, has the Pentagon placed at risk the very
citizens it has sworn to defend? |
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The Military and the Environment --
March 11, 1990
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| The military's handling of toxic waste at its facilities has led to environmental
disasters... |
