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The frequency and intensity of wildfires in the West adds another variable to the equation, given the high concentration of uranium mines, mills and disposal sites on the Western Slope and in the Four Corners region. And: leakage from atom bomb tests

In the global context of rearmament, there seems to be no sign of any move towards reducing nuclear arsenals or halting their modernisation. Quite the contrary.

Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. To facilitate these nuclear war preparations, the major nuclear powers have withdrawn from key nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties

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In 1945, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico worked feverishly to complete the first atomic bomb. Meanwhile, their colleagues at the University of Chicago mounted a final, ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent its use.

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A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western monarch.

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