Owner says no huge bomb test at southern Indiana quarry

Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel Posted on Wed, Aug. 30, 2006 Associated Press Owner says no huge bomb test at southern Indiana quarry MITCHELL, Ind. – A southern Indiana limestone quarry will not be used by the U.S. military as the testing site for a powerful new bomb intended to penetrate solid rock formations, a congressman [...]

Fireworks Deferred: Divine Strake, Hellish Repercussions

Fireworks Deferred: Divine Strake, Hellish Repercussions By Chip Ward TomDispatch.com Thursday 29 June 2006 Shock and awe is coming home. The Bush administration is planning to conduct future preemptive wars with “mini-nukes” and, to that end, wants to set off a nuclear-sized explosion at the government’s Nevada Test Site, sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas. [...]

Cold War Relic in Pieces, but Next Generation Looms

Cold War Relic in Pieces, but Next Generation Looms Washington Post June 29, 2006 By Walter Pincus The Bush administration is expected to announce today that it has dismantled the last of the most powerful nuclear missile warheads left over from the Cold War. At the same time, however, a Senate subcommittee has added $10 [...]

‘Downwinders’ deserve their due

‘Downwinders’ deserve their due Idaho Mountain Express June 16, 2006 Our Opinion The news out of Washington is a baffling set of contradictions. The Federal Emergency Management Agency freely and hurriedly ladled out $1.4 billion in aid to hundreds of ineligible Katrina hurricane claimants—call it fraud—and just as quickly peeled off $60,000 in compensation to [...]