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By KEVIN COLLISON
October 1, 2008
A Kansas City Council committee delayed its recommendation on a proposed new nuclear weapons plant following a lengthy session during which peace activists described the project as immoral.
The Planning and Zoning Committee decided to hold off consideration for two weeks to learn more details about the $500 million redevelopment plan. It calls for the city to provide more than $40 million in tax incentives to build infrastructure for the 1.5-million-square-foot complex proposed for Missouri 150 and Botts Road.
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Des Moines Free Register
September 8, 2008
By Susan Gordon and Martin Fleck
Nearly 60 years ago, Americans learned of the first case of nuclear proliferation. The Soviet Union, thought to be years away from acquiring its own atomic bomb, set off a successful test explosion in August 1959. The nuclear-weapons arms race had begun.
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Knoxville News
Frank Munger
The national network of 35 groups, including the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, is meeting in Oak Ridge next week. (Interesting that it coincides with a nuclear security summit taking place at Y-12.)
The organization was originally called the Military Production Network. It focuses on issues related to production of nuclear weapons (decidedly against), nuclear waste and other concerns in communities near the government facilities.
Posted by Frank Munger on September 6, 2008 at 12:29 PM
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Frank Munger
Knoxville News
Knoxville, TN
September 4, 2008
Ralph Hutchison, longtime coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, always speaks his mind, and by no means does he limit his voice to local protests and occasional trips to New York and Washington, D.C. 
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Associated Press -- August 16, 2008
by Lisa Cornwell
The Fernald Preserve and its visitors center make their public debut Wednesday at the former site of the government facility that processed uranium metal for nuclear weapons from 1952 to 1989
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Albuquerque Journal
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
By Frida Berrigan and Susan GordonSixty-three years ago this week, the United States was the first (and last — so far) nation to use nuclear weapons in war, detonating two warheads in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Tens of thousands were killed instantly, and by the end of 1945 another 200,000 had died from radiation-related ailments
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By Kevin Welch
Amarillo Globe-News
Publication Date: 02/29/08
About 40 people, including Pantex and National Nuclear Security Administration staff attended a Thursday night public hearing on the proposal at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.
One part of the plan calling for increased manufacture of new nuclear pits, the core of nuclear warheads, drew the most criticism.
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