Dynamite (AKA Nobel) "peace" prize winner Obombma just conducted nuke test in U.S. last month--SHAME on hypocrite Nobel Committee and Obama, and corporate media total self-censorship on this story! Lee Siu Hin National Coordinator National Immigrant Solidarity Network _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) Action LA Network _http://www.ActionLA.org_ (http://www.actionla.org/) Peace NO War Network _http://www.PeaceNOWar.net_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/) Activist Video Service _http://www.ActivistVideo.org_ (http://www.activistvideo.org/)
U.S. conducts 1st subcritical nuclear test under Obama Wednesday, October 13, 2010 _http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4577668_ (http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4577668) WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2010 (Kyodo News International) -- (Editors: ADDING INFO) The _United States_ (http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4577668#) conducted a subcritical nuclear test Sept. 15 in a Nevada underground test site, marking the first such experiment since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the U.S. Energy Department said Tuesday. The experiment, which did not entail a chain reaction that would create a nuclear explosion, was the 24th subcritical test the country has conducted since 1997, and the first one since August 2006 under the administration of _President George W. Bush_ (http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4577668#) . Anti-nuke groups have blasted subcritical tests for going against the spirit of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear arms. Washington has not ratified it and says it does not prohibit nuclear experiments that do not accompany nuclear explosions. The United States suspended underground nuclear explosion tests in 1992. The National Nuclear Security Administration under the Energy Department defended the latest test as necessary to obtain data to maintain the reliability of the U.S nuclear arsenal and ensure its safety from the standpoint of safe _storage_ (http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4577668#) . The test, dubbed Bacchus, was conducted at a vault some 300 meters below the earth's surface by scientists from the New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory, known for coordinating the wartime Manhattan Project to develop the first nuclear weapon, the NNSA said. The scientists bombarded plutonium with conventional explosives to see how the substance reacted without hiking the quantity of the substance to critical mass, the point at which a self-sustaining nuclear chain fission reaction occurs, and the test was a success, it said. Bacchus is the first of three planned subcritical tests, with the remaining two to take place in the first and second quarters of the U.S. fiscal year from October 2010 through September 2011. Washington has argued that subcritical tests are not banned under the CTBT on the grounds that they do not create a nuclear explosion. The Obama administration has adopted a _policy_ (http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4577668#) of maintaining its nuclear arsenal as long as nuclear weapons exist in the world while calling for nuclear disarmament. Obama proposed ''a world without nuclear weapons'' in his speech in Prague in 2009. _ (Source: Quotemedia) A-bomb survivors outraged at Obama over subcritical nuclear test Mainichi Japan October 13, 2010 http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20101013p2a00m0na019000c.html_ (http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20101013p2a00m0na019000c.html) Victims of atomic bombings expressed their disappointment at U.S. President Barack Obama after his administration carried out its first subcritical nuclear test last month. "In a word, we feel betrayed. We strongly object to any kind of nuclear testing by any government for any cause, and it was unacceptable," said Sunao Tsuboi, 85, chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations. Haruko Moritaki, 71, co-director of the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (HANWA), also criticized Obama, saying, "It was a sign that the U.S. government is poised to maintain its nuclear development and capability while advocating a world without nuclear weapons. Such a contradiction is unforgivable. Furthermore, his approach can give countries like India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea an excuse to hold onto their nuclear arsenals." Sumiteru Taniguchi, the 81-year-old chairman of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, did not hide his anger with Obama, saying, "He was even awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What was that all about? How will the U.S. government apologize to A-bomb survivors?" Taniguchi visited New York earlier in May and called for the abolition of nuclear weapons during the review conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Sakue Shimohira, 75, who visited New York along with Taniguchi, is also disappointed. "Victims of nuclear weapons will continue to suffer until their dying breath. We must tell the grim truth about the bombings to the next generation," she said. Meanwhile, Taeko Hirano, an organizing committee member for the Nagasaki Global Citizens' Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, is keeping her hopes up. "It is difficult for the president to lead the military and the defense industry immediately, and he is in a tough situation, too. Still, his remarks about seeking a world without nuclear weapons have great significance. Despite this inconsistency, the U.S. government is certainly getting closer to its ideal," Hirano said. ============================================================================ == Peace NO War Network (http://www.peacenowar.net/) _http://www.PeaceNOWar.net_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/) War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate Not in our Name! And another world is possible! 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