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GE... — NEW NUKE PULSE BOMB —— The Pentagon is studying a new aerial bomb which would unleash an electro- magnetic pulse that would disable an enemy’s ground-based electronic gear. The bomb, called the High-Power microwave Weapon, would produce a pulse vastly stronger than a conventional nuclear weapon which would operate over amuch wider area. Itrepresents the second attempt to tailor the effects of a nuclear explosion; the first was theneutron bomb, designed to produce more radiation, to kill people, and a smaller blast, to preserve buildings and equipment. The US Energy Dept. is seeking $US481.22 million for its proposed weapons developmentplan anda further $1.43 billion next year tocontinue building eight types of nuclear warheads. — POWER LINES & CANCER — New research has shown another link between high-voltage transmission- a : —_— lines and cancer. A recent study of | — CHERNOBYL EVACUATION —- , ~ MINERS WARNED - NO BABIES! - 50,000 telephone company workers in | Moscow: Demands fromthe Republics | Miners working in high radiation areas New York has found that... near Chernobyl are demanding the | were warned recently not to father » The cancer rate was twice as high | evacuation of bundreds of thousands children. A recent British doctor’s journal among line workers - those exposed to | of people still living near the reactor. has shown thatchildren of workersexposed the most intense electromagnetic fields - After much debate Parliament finally | toeight yearsofradiationatanuclear waste as among other telephone workers. passed a revised plan under which up to | reprocessing plant, were six to eight times > The leukemia rate among line worker | 200,000 people will be evacuated from | more likely to contract leukemia. was seven times higher thanamongother | the Ukraine, Russiaand Byelorussia over Australian Democrat Senator John telephone workers the next2 years, costing 16 billionroubles. | Coultersaid thatthe Olympic Dam uranium >» Two cases of breast cancer among Many speakers in thedebate criticised | minein South Australia wasamajor areaof 9,500 men working on switching | the'norms'ofexposuretoradiationwhich | concern in Australia, and that male equipment, much higher than the expected | have been officially accepted untilnow. | employees expecting to father children LN] incidence rate of one case in a million. People have been told that it is safe to | should not be working there. Scientists say that how electro- | live in areas contaminated by up to 5 magnetic fields affect human tissue is | curies per square kilometre, but some TWO-HEADED MUTATION not precisely understood but they | believethat1curiepersq kmshould | Bulgaria. A baby girl with two heads was maintain that studies show there is | be the limit, Radiation in the city of | bominthetownofChirpan, east of Plovdiv growing reason for concern. Gomel ranges up to 8 curies per sq km, | in south-eastern Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Despite some scepticism, seven US | while in nearby towns the levels are | trade union daily “Trud’ reported. States have adopted standards limiting | much higher still. iN) Five hours after the delivery, doctors the intensity of the electric fields at the via The Independent performed surgery to remove the second edge of high-voltage transmission-line head, apparently the operation was rights-of-way. Florida last year became NEXUS WELCOMES NEWS successful. One head is better than two! the first State to limit magnetic fields Send any items of interest to us to In 1987 “Trud’ described Chirpan as an around new transmission lines. Unlike go in our research files or possible area highly polluted with radioactivity, electric fields, magnetic fields are not inclusion in either Unclear Age, even one year after the Chernobyl blocked by obstacles suchas house walls. Token Liberties or Global News. accident in the nearby Soviet Union. via Washington Post iN} via AP - SMH 24/2/90 —— eee ss SS Nexus #10 5