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Bush's Nuclear Doctrine: From MAD to NUTS?
www.fpif.org/commentary/0012nuclear_body.html
William Hartung takes a damning look at the US's dangerous new doctrine on unilateralism and the weapons manufacturing profiteers.
The Nuclear Posture Review – Reading between the lines
www.commondreams.org/views02/0117-10.htm
Excellent article that looks at the Bush administration's current policies on nuclear weapons and nuclear testing. The author is Michelle Ciarrocca, Research Associate at the World Policy Institute.
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Site
www.clw.org/archive/coalition/ctbindex.htm
A permanent archive of Test Ban Treaty documents with facts and figures on testing and further information on this subject.
Common Dreams News Centre
www.commondreams.org/
Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute news and articles on a wide range of subjects, notably the war in Iraq.
This looming war isn't about chemical warheads or human rights: it's about oil
www.commondreams.org/views03/0118-03.htm
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Robert Fisk puts forward a strong case for this war having been concocted five years ago by oilmen such as Dick Cheney.
Science, Social Responsibility and the Atom Bomb
Scientists were mobilised like soldiers in the US campaign to build the atom bomb. This is the story of one of those recruited scientists, Joseph Rotblat, and his endeavours to be an ethical scientist.
Einstein's Forgotten Legacy – The Pugwash Conferences
Pugwash is an organisation devoted to bringing ethics to science. It has been a major player in encouraging world peace. It has even been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Pugwash remain relatively anonymous.
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal (Claireview Books, 2002)
The renowned critic of modern US policy looks at American military operations and the 200-plus instances of United States 'pre-emptive strike' military incursions that have taken place since the end of the Second World War. As corporate America increasingly attempts to stifle democracy and pursue war, Vidal provides a point of resistance.
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War on Iraq by Scott Ritter and William Rivers Pitt (Profile Books, 2002)
An explosive little book detailing the recent history of Iraq and Western intervention in the country followed by a 50-page interview with ex-weapons inspector Scott Ritter (carried out by William Rivers Pitt). Ritter knows more about the recent history of Iraq than most having for seven years been part of the UN weapons inspectorate team that was charged with finding and destroying weapons of mass destruction inside Saddam's Iraq. This team was kicked out of Iraq when it became clear the US were indeed using the UN teams to gather intelligence.
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War Plan Iraq by Milan Rai (Verso Books, 2002)
Argues that there is no evidence that the Iraqis have chemical weapons or that they are involved in terrorism. Instead offers evidence that the US refused a Taliban offer to extradite bin Laden and that the work of the weapons inspectors was deliberately undermined by the US government. There's an introduction by Noam Chomsky.
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Paradise and Power: America versus Europe in the twenty-first century by Robert Kagan (Atlantic Books, 2003)
From the beginning of George W Bush's presidency there has been a profound unease in relations between Europe and the US. Kagan offers a diagnosis and prognosis of the current malaise, which recent events such as Bush's 'axis of evil' speech and UN divisions over Iraq have made even worse.
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Dreaming War: Blood for oil and the Cheney-Bush junta by Gore Vidal (Clairview Books, 2003)
Vidal calls for a more thorough investigation into the response from the 'Cheney-Bush junta' on 11 September and purports that corporate greed and US imperialism have been the driving themes behind this new war on terror. He explores the oil connections that Osama bin Laden's family established with Bush during his tenure as an oil magnate in Texas.
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Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (Penguin, 2002)
Moore takes an irreverent look at the men who are currently running America, and reveals that a group set up by Cheney and Rumsfeld in 1997 were already busy lobbying Clinton to effect regime change in Iraq to protect 'US interests' (being oil).
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