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Bush's Curious Timing:
Nuclear Posture Review Reanimates Nuclear Testing Specter

First appeared in Defense News Jan. 22, 2002
 
  While stopping short of overturning his father's moratorium on nuclear testing, U.S. President George W. Bush has catapulted the testing issue back into the political foreground with the Pentagon's new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). Following the NPR's release, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was at pains to point out that Bush "has not ruled out testing in the future."

Radioactive America
June 18, 2000
 
  What effect has America's nuclear bomb-making legacy had on our communities nationwide? A half-hour television program produced by America's Defense Monitor.

 
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Brookings Institute
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India Thumbs Nose at International Community with More Nuclear Tests
CDI Press Release
May 14, 1998

Stockpile Stewardship
Craig Johnson, CDI
Dec. 20,1996

Nuclear Testing Fact Sheet
James Williams, CDI
Sept. 20, 1996

The National Ignition Facility and the Issue of Nonproliferation
Aug. 23, 1995
 
  Draft study prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation (NN-40).

 
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Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers' CTBT site

National Ignition Facility
Official page of this controversial "stockpile stewardship" program.

Events and Campaigns: Nuclear Testing
Current information from numerous print and on-line sourecs relating to nuclear testing.

 

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