Weapons and disarmament

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Charter of the United Nations, Chapter 1, Article 2, Point 4.

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1. Nuclear weapons
2. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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 " Fact Sheet 1: Arms race
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 " Fact Sheet 4: Action
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" Fact Sheet 6: Security
Council resolutions being
violated other than Iraq
by Dr Sue Wareham (Thurs 11 Dec 2003, Canberra Times)
 Howard's latest cosying up to Bush is madness by Kenneth Davidson (Age, December 11, 2003)
 The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War (October 21, 2003)
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
Remembering Hiroshima by Dr Sue Wareham
Aussie Dirty Bombs by Dr Bill Williams (June 2003)
 Unless we curtail the arms trade, we face another violent century By Carmen Lawrence (July 23, 2003)
 War Profiteering Starts at the Top By Chris Hartman and David Martin (June 24, 2003)
 Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki By David Krieger (August 1, 2003)
Depleted uranium
Hamburg DU Conference
(Nov. 2003)
Blowing the N-whistle By Gay Alcorn (The Age, 28 June 2003)
The War Against Ourselves: An Interview with Major Doug Rokke
- lots of articles
US Colonel Admits 500 Tons of DU Were Used In Iraq by Jay Shaft (8 May 2003)
The Real US Casualty Rate from America's Iraq Wars By Chalmers Johnson
Radioactive weapons may have been used in Afghanistan by Alex Kirby (BBC News, 23 May 2003)
Doug Rokke audio links
Depleted Uranium: A Killer Disaster By Travis Dunn (Disaster News.net, 29 Dec 2002)
Weapons of Silent Mass Destruction by Joanne Baker
[September 19, 2002]
'People Are Sick Over There Already' by Steven Rosenfeld
Extreme birth deformities: A FAQ on Depleted Uranium
The full Royal Society reports on DU
Depleted uranium casts shadow over peace in Iraq Duncan Graham-Rowe, with Rob Edwards (New Scientist, 15 April 03)
US forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is 'illegal' by Neil Mackay (UK Sunday Herald, March 30, 2003)
Iraq war could be a toxic nightmare Katherine Stapp (7 November 2002)
 Depleted Uranium Toxicity in Afghanistan by Richard S. Ehrlich
Turkey says seized substance not uranium By Reuters (Haaretz 01/10/2002)
 (11 August 2002)
by Dr Rosalie Bertell
by Dennis Bernstein (http://mediafilter.org/caq/Caq53.gws.html)
by Felicity Arbuthnot [Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, 15-21 March 2001]
 Uranium Wars: The Pentagon Steps Up its Use of Radioactive Munitions
  
Nuclear weapons and mini-nukes
The Effects of Nuclear War by Russell D. Hoffman
U.S. Marks Hiroshima Anniversary By Holding Top Secret Summit to Discuss Expanding Nation's Nuclear Arsenal (August 5, 2003)
The Pentagon's Dr. Strangelove
 Is half a Hiroshima OK?
President Bushs Nuclear Weapons Policy: Illogical, Ineffective and Dangerous by Kurt Gottfried (January 22, 2003)
Faking Nuclear Restraint: The Bush Administration's Secret Plan For Strengthening U.S. Nuclear Forces
Canberra Commission (June 2002)
Pentagon weighs up nuclear option By Richard Cooper (Sydney Morning Herald, February 4 2003)
US prepares nuclear option in Iraq By William M. Arkin (LA Times, January 26 2003)
 Global Nuclear stockpiles 2002 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (November/December 2002)
 Nuclear weapons information and analysis
 Butler accuses US of nuclear hypocrisy By Gerard Noonan (18 November, 2002)
 NGO recommendations to the NPT
 Nuclear notebooks 2002 (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists)
U.S prepared to use nuclear strike against Iraq By Randall Mikkelsen (Reuters, Dec 10, 2002)
 El Baradei Report on Iraq
Arms Control Today (September 2002)
Nuclear weapons information and analysis
Weapons industry
Arming for Armageddon: Boomtime for the Military-Industrial Complex by John Stanton (December 30, 2002)
 
Land mines and unexploded munitions
Anti-vehicle mines Action sheet (Word)

Draft on Unexploded Munitions Could Prove Controversial by Wade Boese
Mine Ban Campaign Calls on US to Reject Mine Use in Iraq (11 December 2002)
 
Cluster bombs
Pentagon Rethinks Use of Cluster Bombs
International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Australian Network (Word)
Cluster bombs fall on Babylon by Anton Antonowicz And Mike Moore (Mirror, April 3 2003)
Allied use of cluster bombs illegal, minister admits By Paul Waugh (Independent, 30 May 2003)
Human Rights Watch says cluster bombs need to be banned by Rafael Epstein (ABC Radio National AM, 28 April 2003)
 Above the Law and Below Morality: Data on 11 Weeks of U.S. Cluster-Bombing of Afghanistan
Chemical weapons
Officials confirm dropping firebombs (napalm) on Iraqi troops
 The Pentagon's Secret Chemical Weapons Program by Edward Hammond (CounterPunch, September 25, 2002)
Our weapons of mass destruction By Gretel Green
US prepares to use toxic gases in Iraq By Geoffrey Lean and Severin Carrell (Independent, 02 March 2003
 U.S. Had Key Role in Chemical Arms Iraq Buildup By Michael Dobbs (Washington Post, December 30, 2002)
 
Biological weapons
Actions threaten Biological Weapons Convention By Titus Peachey (Mennonite Central Committee)
 By Peter Slevin (Washington Post, 19 September, 2002)
Biological Weapons System Violates Convention (The Sunshine Project, 8 May 2003)
 by Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law, University of Illinois School of Law
by Capt Andrew Robertson (Army News, August 29, 2002)
 
Iraq's 'Weapons of mass destruction' and inspections
Newsweek's Iraq Report Falls on Deaf Ears by Norman Solomon (AlterNet February 27, 2003)
 Allies hushed up weapons' destruction By Tim Cornwell (Scotsman, 24 February 2003)Iraq and chemical weapons by Stephen C. Pelletiere (New York Times, January 31, 2003)
 Mainstream media distorts The "Blix Report" by Nick Menchise (Jan 29 2003)
 America tore out 8000 pages of Iraq dossier By James Cusick and Felicity Arbuthnot (Sunday Herald, 22 December 2002)
 Why Bush Remains Silent on poison gas by Robert Fisk (The Independent, December 16, 2002)
 Poisoning the air: US reports of Iraqi stockpiles of nerve gas antidote should be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism. By Brian Whitaker (Guardian, 9 December 2002)
German and US Firms Supplied Arms to Saddam By Tony Paterson (Independent, 18 December, 2002)
U.S prepared to use nuclear strike against Iraq By Randall Mikkelsen (Reuters, Dec 10, 2002)
Landmines in Iraq: Questions and Answers
America tore out 8000 pages of Iraq dossier By James Cusick and Felicity Arbuthnot (Sunday Herald, 22 December 2002)
 Why Bush Remains Silent on poison gas by Robert Fisk (The Independent, December 16, 2002)
U.S. Had Key Role in Chemical Arms Iraq Buildup By Michael Dobbs (Washington Post, December 30, 2002)
 Bush administration sabotages inspections By Jeremy Brecher (Baltimore Sun, December 3, 2002)
Weapons Inspectors Denied Access Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by Tara Dorabji (November 14, 2002)
 How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them By Neil Mackay and Felicity Arbuthnot (Sunday Herald, Scotland, September 17, 2002)
 By Eric Margolis (September 15, 2002)
'Iraq is not a threat ... to neighbors'. By Sameer N. Yacoub (AP, September 9, 2002)
. A paper by Kate Leeson for MEDACT (MAPW SA) Adelaide 2000
By Martin Kelley ["NVWeb Upfront" Featured Essay, January 15, 1999]
A Conversation With Scott Ritter by William Pitt (July 26, 2002)
by William Blum (ZNet Commentary, August 20, 2002)
by Patrick E. Tyler (17 August 2002, New York Times)
by Dilip Hiro (The Nation)
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