~ Nuclear Weapons ~
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[ AMAZING VIDEO: Witness 2000 Nuclear Bombs Exploded since 1945 (be patient!) ]
[ Enrichment & Reprocessing: From Bombs to Reactors & Back Again (Fact Sheet 2022)]
[ Open Letter for the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty (Multinational, 2020-2021) ]
[Use of Canadian Uranium in the First Atomic Bombs: Verbatim Excerpts (’98) ]
[How Uranium from Great Bear Lake Ended Up in A-Bombs: A Chronology (’98) ]
[Canada’s Role in the Bomb Programs of US, UK, France and India: A Chronology ]
[Canada’s Historic Role in Britain’s Nuclear Weapons Programme ]
[CCNR Exhibits Filed at the Nanoose Expropriation Hearings (July/99) ]
Nanoose Expropriation: NEWS ACCOUNTS AND TESTIMONY:
[Groups oppose use of weapons-grade uranium in Chalk River reactors ]
[House of Commons ~ Recommendations on Nuclear Weapons (Dec/98) ]
[Canadian Plutonium Sold For American Bombs 1946-76 ]
[Findings on Plutonium : both Civilian and Military ]
[Nuclear explosives using plutonium from a power reactor (US DOE ’97) ]
[Nuclear weapons using plutonium from a power reactor (US NAS ’94) ]
[American Nuclear Weapons Test Using Reactor-Grade Plutonium (US DOE) ]
[For nuclear explosives, “All plutonium is good plutonium” (Sandia Labs ’96) ]
[Statement of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (’98) ]
[Eight “Foreign Ministers” Call for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (’98) ]
[International Civilian Leaders : Statement on Nuclear Weapons (Feb 98) ]
[75 US Bishops Reject the American Policy of Nuclear Deterrence (’98) ]
[Statement on Nuclear Weapons by International Generals and Admirals (Dec 96) ]
[The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (’96) ]
[Fueling the Nuclear Arms Race — and How to Stop It (Edwards ’85) ]
[The Peaceful Atom Goes to War: Bomb Makers Against Plutonium (’78) ]
[Text of the Non-Proliferation Treaty — Extended Indefinitely in 1995 (’68) ]
[The United States Nuclear Arsenal in Miniature (photo) ]
Press Release : The Indian Bomb Tests and Canadian Accountability
Tritium from CANDU power reactors aids India’s H-bomb capability
Hot-linked background articles on India’s nuclear weapons tests
Canadian Continuing Nuclear Cooperation with India and Pakistan
[A Map of India’s Nuclear Facilities ]
The Plutonium Connection
~ Plutonium Imports to Canada ~
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
NEWS STORIES: Ottawa imports weapons plutonium from US and Russia
[ SIGN: Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World (Aug 2016) ]
[ Endorsers of the Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World (Aug 2016) ]
[Plutonium: Exploding the Nuclear Myths (Edwards, 2001) ]
[CCNR Fax to Jean Chrétien Regarding Plutonium Imports (April 1996) ]
[Ottawa tells Canadians fairy tales about plutonium (Edwards 00) ]
[Why Russia’s plutonium should be immobilized and not burned (BAS 98/06) ]
[MOX Experience — Plutonium in Canada (Griffiths, July 1997) ]
[“Do not approve plutonium imports” ~ CCNR to Transport Canada (Oct 99) ]
[CCNR’s Submission to Transport Canada re. Russian plutonium (Aug 00) ]
[Comments on AECL Plans for Plutonium from Moscow (Lyman Aug 00) ]
[AECL must discuss accidental spill of plutonium dust ~ Transport Canada (Aug’00) ]
[Isn’t MOX one way to phase out plutonium? (Aug 00) ]
[Media Release : Groups demand truth on plutonium airlift plan (Aug 00) ]
[Transport Canada Assurances: “Plutonium Will Not Be Flown” (Nov ’99) ]
[Inadequate Regulations for Air Transport of Plutonium (Lyman ’97) ]
[Policing Plutonium: The Civil Liberties Fallout (Harvard Law 1975) ]
[CELA Legal Opinion: Canadian airlift of plutonium was illegal (CELA 00/02) ]
[Findings on the Toxicity of Plutonium (Amer. Nuclear Soc. ’97) ]
[How much plutonium does it take to overdose a person? (AECB/CCNR 00/02) ]
[For nuclear explosives, “All plutonium is good plutonium” (Sandia Labs ’96) ]
[Using Weapons-Derived Plutonium to Fuel CANDU Reactors (AECL ’97) ]
[What does “burning weapons plutonium in nuclear reactors” mean? (NAS ’94) ]
[Plutonium: Peace or Profits? ~ 3-part series by the North Bay Nugget (Oct 99) ]
[Ontario is not actively planning to use plutonium (MOX) fuel (Aug 99) ]
[Foreign Affairs Commmittee recommends against plutonium imports (Dec/98) ]
[Hot Leftovers from a Cold War — Plutonium Imports into Canada (July 99) ]
[1999 EMO Meeting in NS on plutonium transport ~ before it was scrapped ]
[US-Russia Agreement on Plutonium Disposition (Sept 1 ’98) ]
[Which routes (Los Alamos to Chalk River) will U.S. plutonium shipments take? ]
[March 16, 1998 — Plutonium : An International Action Day ]
[Is it “Plutonium, Hell No!” or “Hello, Plutonium!”? (Feb ’98) ]
[CCNR Brief: Plutonium Fuel Shipments, US to Canada (Sept 17 ’97) ]
[US Environmental Assessment: Plutonium from US to Canada (Sept 13/97) ]
[Action Alert: Plutonium and Democracy in Canada (May ’97) ]
[NIRS Letter to President Clinton About Plutonium (Jan. 1997) ]
[CCNR’s Position on Plutonium Imports (Sept. 1996) ]
[Nuclear Awareness Project: Keep Plutonium Out Of Canada (April’96) ]
[Brief on Plutonium Imports by Nuclear Awareness Project (July’96) ]
[Plutonium Anyone? — Ploughshares Article by G. Edwards (’95) ]
The Plutonium Connection
~ Background on Plutonium ~
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
[ SIGN: Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World (Aug 2016) ]
[ Endorsers of the Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World (Aug 2016) ]
[World Plutonium Inventories 1999 (Norris and Arkin ’99) ]
[Findings on Plutonium : both Civilian and Military ]
[Canadian Plutonium Sold For American Bombs 1946-76 ]
[Canada’s Historic Role in the Britain’s Nuclear Weapons Programme ]
[How to make a bomb using plutonium from a power reactor (US DOE ’97) ]
[How to make a bomb using plutonium from a power reactor (US NAS ’94) ]
[American A-Bomb Test Used Reactor-Grade Plutonium (US DOE) ]
[For nuclear explosives, “All plutonium is good plutonium” (Sandia Labs ’96) ]
[Current AECL plans to commercialize plutonium (’94) ]
[High-Level Radwaste in Canada — The Plutonium Agenda (’86) ]
[A Plutonium Economy in Canada? (from Myth of the Peaceful Atom ’83) ]
[Fueling the Nuclear Arms Race — and How to Stop It (Edwards ’85) ]
[The Peaceful Atom Goes to War: Bomb Makers Against Plutonium (’78) ]
[What is Reprocessing? Past AECL Plans for Plutonium (’77) ]
[AECL’s Master Plan : a plutonium economy in Canada (AECL ’77) ]
[The Flowers Report (UK) : Warnings about the Plutonium Economy (’76) ]
[How much plutonium does it take to make a bomb? (photo) ]
[Dr. Theodore Taylor: Plutonium and the Bomb (photo) ]
[Breeding plutonium-239 from uranium-238 (animation) ]
[Nuclear fission using uranium-235 or plutonium-239 (animation) ]
[What Does Radiation from Plutonium Look Like? (photo + closeup) ]
[The nuclear fuel chain — including plutonium (flow chart) ]
[The World’s First Plutonium Production Reactor (photo) ]
[The World’s First Large Plutonium Reprocessing Plant (photo) ]
[How is high-level radioactive liquid waste cooled? (Flowers, 1976) ]
[Post-Reprocessing High Level Radioactive Liquid Waste Tanks (photo) ]