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Plutonium connection (1991)
| Author | Greens in EP |
| Date | March 1991 |
| Classification | 6.01.2.55/17 (PLUTONIUM - GENERAL) |
| Remarks | Report on the meeting of the Greens in the European Parliament, held in Cherbourg France, in March 1991 on the theme of nuclear energy |
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FOREWORD WE DON'T WANT EVERYTHING TO DISAPPEAR On August 6th. 1945, a uranium bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Since then, starting with the Soviet Union in the early days of the cold war period, the number of countries in possession of nuclear weapons has increased. In what became known as the "balance of terror", bombs increased in both number and destructive power. Then other countries joined the nuclear club, with the result that there now exist enough bombs to destroy the planet several times over, as if once wasn't enough. Later, after the development of nuclear energy, certain "pacifists" believed in the idea of redirecting nuclear arms towards peaceful purposes. The idea was even spread around that non-military nuclear technology could be separated from military, that you could switch from the latter to the former but not vice-versa. International bodies were set up to monitor the non-military use of nuclear technology and to prevent nuclear states from using it towards military ends. Then we woke up one day to learn that India had just tested its first atomic bomb, a Jew years after Canada had sold it a CANDU reactor. India had made all sorts of promises, pledging that it would never attempt to retrieve the material needed to make the bomb.
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