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NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPED H-Bomb IN AFRICA! Nuclear Age H-Bomb NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPED Victims Sue IN AFRICA! I. January, twenty Danes announced they Foance has dumped two shiploads of ra- the town was evacuated and Nigeria was would sue the US Government for up to one | dioactive nuclear waste inthe West African _ seeking foreign help to control contamina- million kroner ($A226,944) each over ill- | nation of Benin. The magazine Africa tlon. nesses they say are caused by the 1968 crash | Analysis sald France has arranged for 30 “This act of dumping toxic and radio- of an H-bomb laden US Air Force B-52 | years’ special financial assistance to the active wastes on our shores clearly violates bomber in the ice floes off Greenland. impoverished nation In return. International laws and conventions and Ni- The 20 former US Government employ- In June the Nigerian military govern- _gerian laws,” Mr Momoh sald. He accused ees from a US base at Thule in north-west | ment alleged that radioactive waste from _an Itallan expatriate of masterminding the Greenland (a Danish protectorate) were or- | Italy had been dumped In an Isolated Ben- Imports with forged documents und sald dered to clean up 57 million iltres of pluto- | del State delta town. It threatened to shoot that a total of 3,884 tonnes of waste was nlum-contaminated ice after the crash those responsible for Importing the waste, Imported in five shiploads betWeen August An inquiry by Danish health authorities | who were gullty of an “inhuman conspir- 1987 and May this year. showed that 98 of the 1,202 Danes working at | acy,” they said. Nigerla recalled its ambassador to the Thule base in 1968 have since died; 40% Nigerian Information Minister Mr Rome over the incident and ordered Italy higher than the expected mortality rate, Tony Momoh announced that 15 people to remove the waste. The Danes’ Washington-based lawyer, | had been arrested after. the discovery of All over Africa, toxic chemicals are Antony Roismaun, said leg! actions had to be | containers In the tiny port town of Koko being dumped by foreign companies in filed before January 21st under the’US statue | which held radioactive material. He sald return for CASH. of limitations. : AAP, Reuter The B-52 crashed on January 21, 1968 4 < Pe, ° after it's pilot, John Haug, told the Thule Cee N k oO control tower he had a cockpit fire and was rote ukes In Z ordered to make an emergency landing. The B Zs blazing bomber smashed into the ice pack s Us and British aircraft carriers brought up near Thule. The warheads of its 4 H-bombs, to 2,200 nuclear weapons into Australian har- each containing 4.2 kg of plutonium, each bours in the last 12 years, according to Green- had 60 times the explosive power of the peace. The environmental group used a new Hiroshima bomb. study of naval nuclear weapons by the Insti- One of the cleanup team, Poul Hansen, 40, tute of Policy Studies in Washington for data. said “we picked up wreckage from the aircraft S h or t M e mor y “We me have information a during the without any protective clothing, simply with period between June 1976 and June 1988, 22 gloves” on the night of January 22. aircraft carriers entered Australian ports,” “Nobody told us there were nuclear Fe were literally dozens of accidents at | says Greenpeace’s Faith Doherty. bombs on board,” he said. “They promised us | jhe Chernobyl plant near Kiev during 1987 - “According to the (study), these vessels 50% more pay and we werehappy.” Today Mr | ajfer the reactor meltdown which irradiated | routinely carry up to 100 nuclear weapons. Hanson is suffering from leukaemia. Europe. The study indicates that 600 of the 678 naval Rubin Erikson, another ‘cleaner’, said According to a report on the plant pub- | ships docking In Australlan ports since 500,000 tonnes of contaminated debris was | lished by the Soviet newspaper Sotsialistich- | June 1976 were carrying nuclear weapons. packed into 600 containers and shipped to the | eskya/ndustria, In“10 months in our organ- Ms Doherty says the US research showed United States on September 17th. isation there have been 36 accidents, In- | that the US policy of refusing to confirm or “In the end the Americans told us that we | cluding three with fatal consequences”. | deny the presence of nukes on warships is were temporarily sterile,” he said. Mr Erikson | The report came from V, Lukyanenko, Party | “pure cosmetics” - and that the Australian has been sterile ever since. head in a new town built for Chernobyl staff | Government accepts this policy so they don't Despite a Pentagon announcement that | and families after the April 1986 accident. have to admit we allow nuclear weapons into parts of the bombs were found onice floes and Soviet authorities repeatedly promised | our ports in peacetime. it was impossible that any of them had broken | that the Chernobyl complex would be strictly through the ice cap, a Danish television report | supervised after the world’s worst reactor | + France’s largést nuclear explosion since recently claimed that the bombs were still | accident. May 1985 was detected at Mururoa Atoll at lying on the seabed. “Despite the measures which have been | the end of last May by New Zealand seis- Agence France Presse | taken, incidents of radiation overdoses have | mologlsts. « According to a People for Nuclear not been excluded to the present time,” The eighty kilotonne bomb brought the Disarmament survey In June only 22% Lukyanenko declared, adding that the plant’s | number of underground nuclear tests car- of Australlans think the 25-year US lease director had been disciplined for workers’ | rled out-by the French at Mururoa to 97, on North-West Cape should be renewed. security breaches during extraction ofnuclear | says New Zealand Government selsmolo- 45% of the 2,500 people surveyed in three | fuel. He said that supervisors and power | gist Mr Warwick Smith. N.Z. also regis- States want the base used only for non- workers did not make nuclearsafety apriority, | tered a twenty kilotonne blast on May 12th, nuclear defence; 17.5% want It closed. Los Angeles Times -RA. NEXUS New Times Six - Spring 1988 H-Bomb NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPED Victims Sue IN AFRICA! I. January, twenty Danes announced they Foance has dumped two shiploads of ra- the town was evacuated and Nigeria was would sue the US Government for up to one | dioactive nuclear waste inthe West African _ seeking foreign help to control contamina- million kroner ($A226,944) each over ill- | nation of Benin. The magazine Africa tlon. nesses they say are caused by the 1968 crash | Analysis sald France has arranged for 30 “This act of dumping toxic and radio- of an H-bomb laden US Air Force B-52 | years’ special financial assistance to the active wastes on our shores clearly violates bomber in the ice floes off Greenland. impoverished nation In return. International laws and conventions and Ni- The 20 former US Government employ- In June the Nigerian military govern- _gerian laws,” Mr Momoh sald. He accused ees from a US base at Thule in north-west | ment alleged that radioactive waste from _an Itallan expatriate of masterminding the Greenland (a Danish protectorate) were or- | Italy had been dumped In an Isolated Ben- Imports with forged documents und sald dered to clean up 57 million iltres of pluto- | del State delta town. It threatened to shoot that a total of 3,884 tonnes of waste was nlum-contaminated ice after the crash those responsible for Importing the waste, Imported in five shiploads betWeen August An inquiry by Danish health authorities | who were gullty of an “inhuman conspir- 1987 and May this year. showed that 98 of the 1,202 Danes working at | acy,” they said. Nigerla recalled its ambassador to the Thule base in 1968 have since died; 40% Nigerian Information Minister Mr Rome over the incident and ordered Italy higher than the expected mortality rate, Tony Momoh announced that 15 people to remove the waste. The Danes’ Washington-based lawyer, | had been arrested after. the discovery of All over Africa, toxic chemicals are Antony Roismaun, said leg! actions had to be | containers In the tiny port town of Koko being dumped by foreign companies in filed before January 21st under the’US statue | which held radioactive material. He sald return for CASH. of limitations. : AAP, Reuter The B-52 crashed on January 21, 1968 4 < Pe, . after it's pilot, John Haug, told the Thule Cee 4 control tower he had a cockpit fire and was rote Nukes in Oz ordered to make an emergency landing. The B Zs blazing bomber smashed into the ice pack s Us and British aircraft carriers brought up near Thule. The warheads of its 4 H-bombs, to 2,200 nuclear weapons into Australian har- each containing 4.2 kg of plutonium, each bours in the last 12 years, according to Green- had 60 times the explosive power of the peace. The environmental group used a new Hiroshima bomb. study of naval nuclear weapons by the Insti- One of the cleanup team, Poul Hansen, 40, tute of Policy Studies in Washington for data. said “we picked up wreckage from the aircraft S h or t M e mor y “We me have information that during the without any protective clothing, simply with period between June 1976 and June 1988, 22 gloves” on the night of January 22. aircraft carriers entered Australian ports,” “Nobody told us there were nuclear Fe were literally dozens of accidents at | says Greenpeace’s Faith Doherty. bombs on board,” he said. “They promisedus | jhe Chernobyl plant near Kiev during 1987 - “According to the (study), these vessels 50% more pay and we werehappy.” Today Mr | ajfer the reactor meltdown which irradiated | routinely carry up to 100 nuclear weapons. Hanson is suffering from leukaemia. Europe. The study indicates that 600 of the 678 naval Rubin Erikson, another ‘cleaner’, said According to a report on the plant pub- | ships docking In Australlan ports since 500,000 tonnes of contaminated debris was | lished by the Soviet newspaper Sotsialistich- | June 1976 were carrying nuclear weapons. packed into 600 containers and shipped to the | eskya/ndustria, In“10 months in our organ- Ms Doherty says the US research showed United States on September 17th. isation there have been 36 accidents, In- | that the US policy of refusing to confirm or “In the end the Americans told us that we | cluding three with fatal consequences”. | deny the presence of nukes on warships is were temporarily sterile,” he said. Mr Erikson | The report came from V, Lukyanenko, Party | “pure cosmetics” - and that the Australian has been sterile ever since. head in a new town built for Chernobyl staff | Government accepts this policy so they don't Despite a Pentagon announcement that | and families after the April 1986 accident. have to admit we allow nuclear weapons into parts of the bombs were found onice floes and Soviet authorities repeatedly promised | our ports in peacetime. it was impossible that any of them had broken | that the Chernobyl complex would be strictly through the ice cap, a Danish television report | supervised after the world’s worst reactor | + France’s largést nuclear explosion since recently claimed that the bombs were still | accident. May 1985 was detected at Mururoa Atoll at lying on the seabed. “Despite the measures which have been | the end of last May by New Zealand seis- Agence France Presse | taken, incidents of radiation overdoses have | mologlsts. « According to a People for Nuclear not been excluded to the present time,” The eighty kilotonne bomb brought the Disarmament survey In June only 22% Lukyanenko declared, adding that the plant’s | number of underground nuclear tests car- of Australlans think the 25-year US lease director had been disciplined for workers’ | rled out-by the French at Mururoa to 97, on North-West Cape should be renewed. security breaches during extraction ofnuclear | says New Zealand Government selsmolo- 45% of the 2,500 people surveyed in three | fuel. He said that supervisors and power | gist Mr Warwick Smith. N.Z. also regis- States want the base used only for non- workers did not make nuclearsafety apriority, | tered a twenty kilotonne blast on May 12th, nuclear defence; 17.5% want It closed. Los Angeles Times - RA. “US New Times Six - Spring 1988 lL. January, twenty Danes announced they Fiance has dumped two shiploads ofra- the town was evacuated and Nigeria was would sue the US Government for up to one | dioactive nuclear wasteinthe West African seeking foreign help to control contamina- million kroner ($A226,944) each over ill- | nation of Benin. The magazine Africa tlon. nesses they say are caused by the 1968 crash | Analysis sald France has arranged for 30 “This act of dumping toxic and radio- of an H-bomb laden US Air Force B-52 | years’ special financial assistance to the active wastes on our shores clearly violates bomber in the ice floes off Greenland. impoverished nation In return. International laws and conventions and Ni- The 20 former US Government employ- In June the Nigerian military govern- _gerian laws,” Mr Momoh sald. He accused ees from a US base at Thule in north-west | ment alleged that radioactive waste from _ an Itallan expatriate of masterminding the Greenland (a Danish protectorate) were or- | Italy had been dumped In an Isolated Ben- Imports wlth forged documents and said dered to clean up 57 mlilion iltres of pluto- | del State delta town. It threatened to shoot that a total of 3,884 tonnes of waste was nlum-contaminated ice after the crash those responsible for Importing the waste, Imported in five shiploads betWeen August An inquiry by Danish health authorities | who were gullty of an “inhuman conspir- 1987 and May this year. showed that 98 of the 1,202 Danes working at | acy,” they said. Nigerla recalled its ambassador to the Thule base in 1968 have since died; 40% Nigerian Information Minister Mr Rome over the incident and ordered Italy higher than the expected mortality rate, Tony Momoh announced that 15 people to remove the waste. The Danes’ Washington-based lawyer, | had been arrested after. the discovery of All over Africa, toxic chemicals are Antony Roismaun, said leg! actions had to be | containers In the tiny port town of Koko being dumped by foreign companies in filed before January 21st under the’US statue | which held radioactive material. He sald return for CASH. of limitations. AAP, Reuter The B-52 crashed on January 21, 1968 ¢ § Pe, ° after it's pilot, John Haug, told the Thule Ce k oO control tower he had a cockpit fire and was rote N ukes In Z ordered to make an emergency landing. The B 2 blazing bomber smashed into the ice pack s Us and British aircraft carriers brought up near Thule. The warheads of its 4 H-bombs, to 2,200 nuclear weapons into Australian har- each containing 4.2 kg of plutonium, each bours in the last 12 years, according to Green- had 60 times the explosive power of the peace. The environmental group used a new Hiroshima bomb. study of naval nuclear weapons by the Insti- One of the cleanup team, Poul Hansen, 40, tute of Policy Studies in Washington for data. said “we picked up wreckage from the aircraft S h or t M e mor y “We oe have information a during the without any protective clothing, simply with period between June 1976 and June 1988, 22 gloves” on the night of January 22. aircraft carriers entered Australian ports,” “Nobody told us there were nuclear Fe were literally dozens of accidents at | says Greenpeace’s Faith Doherty. bombs on board,” he said. “They promisedus | jhe Chernobyl plant near Kiev during 1987 - “According to the (study), these vessels 50% more pay and we werehappy.” Today Mr | ajfer the reactor meltdown which irradiated | routinely carry up to 100 nuclear weapons. Hanson is suffering from leukaemia. Europe. The study indicates that 600 of the 678 naval Rubin Erikson, another ‘cleaner’, said According to a report on the plant pub- | ships docking In Australlan ports since 500,000 tonnes of contaminated debris was | Jished by the Soviet newspaper Sotsialistich- | June 1976 were carrying nuclear weapons. packed into 600 containers and shipped to the | eskya/ndustria, In“10 months in our organ- Ms Doherty says the US research showed United States on September 17th. isation there have been 36 accidents, In- | that the US policy of refusing to confirm or “In the end the Americans told us that we | cluding three with fatal consequences”. | deny the presence of nukes on warships is were temporarily sterile," he said, Mr Erikson | The report came from V. Lukyanenko, Party | “pure cosmetics” - and that the Australian has been sterile ever since. head in a new town built for Chernobyl staff | Government accepts this policy so they don't Despite a Pentagon announcement that | and families after the April 1986 accident. have to admit we allow nuclear weapons into parts of the bombs were found onice floes and Soviet authorities repeatedly promised | our ports in peacetime. it was impossible that any of them had broken | that the Chernobyl complex would be strictly through the ice cap, a Danish television report supervised after the world’s worst reactor | ¢ France’s largest nuclear explosion since recently claimed that the bombs were still | accident. May 1985 was detected at Mururoa Atoll at lying on the seabed. “Despite the measures which have been | the end of last May by New Zealand seis- Agence France Presse | taken, incidents of radiation overdoses have | mologlsts. « According to a People for Nuclear not been excluded to the present time,” The eighty kilotonne bomb brought the Disarmament survey In June only 22% Lukyanenko declared, adding that the plant’s | number of underground nuclear tests car- of Australians think the 25-year US lease | director had been disciplined for workers’ | rled out-by the French at Mururoa to 97, on North-West Cape should be renewed. security breaches during extraction ofnuclear | says New Zealand Government selsmolo- 45% of the 2,500 people surveyed in three | fucl. He said that supervisors and power | gist Mr Warwick Smith. N.Z. also regis- States want the base used only for non- workers did not make nuclearsafety apriority, | tered a twenty kilotonne blast on May 12th, nuclear defence; 17.5% want It closed. Los Angeles Times -RA. the town was evacuated and Nigeria was seeking foreign help to control contamina- tlon. “This act of dumping toxic and radio- active wastes on our shores clearly violates International laws and conventions and Ni- gerian laws,” Mr Momoh sald. He accused an [tallan expatriate of masterminding the Imports with forged documents and said that a total of 3,884 tonnes of waste wus Imported in five shiploads between August 1987 and May this year. Nigerla recalled its ambassador to Rome over the incident and ordered Italy to remove the waste. All over Africa, toxic chemicals are being dumped by foreign companies in return for CASH. AAP, Reuter Nukes in Oz Short Memory Victims Sue