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By JACK MENDELSOHN | May 17, 1992
The agenda for this week's visit to Washington by Kazakhstan's President, Nursultan Nazarbayev -- as well as the one put forward earlier this month when Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk was in town -- includes a crucial national security issue.After months of trying to pin down the two leaders on the future of the nuclear weapons left behind in their countries by the former Soviet Union, the United States finally persuaded Mr. Kravchuk, and very likely will succeed in convincing Mr. Nazarbayev this Tuesday, to make three very important commitments:* To renounce nuclear weapons and to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
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By Gwen Dubois and Cindy Parker | August 6, 2002
FROM THE nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, to our current "war," the enemy has changed from the Japanese to the Russians to Muslim terrorists, but the solution always seems to involve nuclear weapons. As long as there are terrorists and unstable or foolish leaders, there can be no safety in these weapons. As physicians, we are concerned about the health and safety of our patients, our communities and all the residents of this world. The sacrifice to public health is too great, the scale of civilian suffering and deaths too large, and the environmental contamination too long-lasting to ever justify using a nuclear weapon again.
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By George Lee Butler | February 4, 1997
WELL MEANING friends have counseled me that by championing elimination of nuclear weapons I risk setting the bar too high, providing an easy target for the cynical and diverting attention from the more immediately achievable.The harsh truth is that six years after the end of the Cold War we are still prisoner to its psychology of distrust, still enmeshed in the vocabulary of ''mutual assured destruction,'' still in the thrall of the nuclear era. Worse, strategists persist in conjuring worlds that spiral toward chaos, and concocting threats that they assert can only be discouraged or expunged by the existence or employment of nuclear weapons.
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By New York Times News Service | December 17, 1991
WASHINGTON -- Nearly a half-century after a secret atomic experiment led to the development of a mammoth government nuclear weapons industry, the Bush administration announced plans yesterday to slash the complex to four production plants in the South and Midwest and a test site in Nevada.The new configuration means that an enterprise that once produced 5,000 to 6,000 nuclear warheads a year will, by 1996, be mainly responsible for maintaining the shrinking stockpiles and cleaning up the pollution it produced, Energy Secretary James D. Watkins said.
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By Los Angeles Times | September 13, 1991
2/3 TC LONDON -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has decided that all of its tactical nuclear weapons will be removed from Europe.Formal ratification of the decision may be announced as early as November, when the 16 NATO defense ministers are to meet in Rome, Secretary-General Manfred Woerner said yesterday in Bonn, Germany.NATO officials in Brussels, Belgium, disclosed that eliminating the battlefield nuclear arms would be part of the alliance's revised doctrine. The doctrine has been undergoing change since the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and is being further revised because of the upheaval in the Soviet Union.
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By Mark Matthews and Mark Matthews,Washington Bureau | June 29, 1993
WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration, making a virtue of political necessity, is leaning toward a declaration that the United States would not be the first nation to resume testing of nuclear weapons, officials said yesterday.Such a move means that no new tests would be conducted in the foreseeable future by any of the world's declared nuclear powers, except perhaps China, knowledgeable officials said yesterday.While President Clinton has not announced a final decision, officials and outside experts said the ground had shifted in the administration's internal debate and a "no-first-test" policy was increasingly likely.