US Attends then Defies Conference on Nuclear Weapons Effects
December 10, 2014
The Naked Emperor Can’t See his Own Bare Ass
US Attends then Defies Conference on Nuclear Weapons Effects
by JOHN LAFORGE
VIENNA, Austria
A pair of conferences here this week have tried to raise public and government awareness of nuclear weapons.
The first, a Civil Society Forum put on by the Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, brought together non-governmental groups, parliamentarians, and activists of all stripes to try and boost morale and renew enthusiasm in efforts to ban the bomb.
About 700 participants spent two days delving into the ghastly health and environmental effects of nuclear war, the hair-raising frequency of H-bomb accidents and near detonations, and the horrifying impacts of bomb test fallout — and other human radiation experiments conducted without informed consent upon our own unwitting civilians and soldiers.
This is ground that’s been plowed before, and for decades, but it’s nevertheless staggering to the uninitiated and is never repeated too often — especially in view of the destabilization and skyrocketing death toll of what the Pope has called today’s “World War Three.”
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