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Abandoned Japanese chemical weapons buried in China during WW2 – NHK 100902

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:08:04 +0000

Chemical weapons disposal plant opens in China
In Nanjing, a plant to dispose of chemical weapons abandoned in China by Japan at the end of World War Two has been completed.
Japan spent about 3.5-billion yen, or around 42-million dollars, to build the plant.
Senior Vice Minister of the Cabinet Office Hideo Hiraoka represented Japan at the plant’s opening ceremony on Wednesday. He said the plant’s completion marks a new phase in the disposal of abandoned chemical weapons in China. He explained that the surveying and excavation phases have ended and work will now begin on the destruction phase.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said China hopes Japan will thoroughly dispose of the discarded weapons as quickly as possible.

Japan plans to conduct test runs and safety checks at the Nanjing plant. There are about 37,000 weapons now stored in the city. Disposal will begin by the end of September, at the earliest.
April 2012 is the deadline for the disposal under the Chemical Weapons Convention. But Japan will have to ask for a deadline extension. Up to 400,000 weapons left by the former Imperial Army are said to remain buried in northeastern China. Only 48,000 have been recovered so far.
2010/09/02 06:37(JST)
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Duration : 0:0:51

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Dispersing radiation for Nuwax-81 exercise

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:01:46 +0000

This is clipped from the 1982 Defense Department film, NUWAX-81 Documentary Nuclear Weapon Accident Exercise. This clip shows the spraying of short-lived radioisotopes via an agricultural sprayer to a localized area to simulate contamination by weapons-grade plutonium.
The Nuclear Weapons Accident Exercise (NUWAX-81) was conducted in April 1981 jointly by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) at the DOE’s Nevada test site and included FEMA and the State of California. The six day exercise scenario involved a simulated crash of an U.S. Army helicopter transporting nuclear weapons to a storage site. Aircraft parts and pieces of inert nuclear training weapons were prepositioned at the site. Short-lived radioisotopes, radium-223 and mercury-197, were distributed via an agricultural sprayer to a localized area to simulate contamination by weapons-grade plutonium. More than 600 accident response personnel participated in the exercise. The major objectives were to exercise and evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s interface with DOD, the command and control of the joint DOD-DOE response forces, and the coordination of their technical and logistical support. The exercise aroused greater awareness within federal and state governments of the need to plan and coordinate response procedures and to practice these procedures and was followed up by additional exercises. The entire film, NUWAX-81 Documentary Nuclear Weapon Accident Exercise, has been digitized by the nonprofit Public.Resource.Org (http://public.resource.org/index.html ) in a cooperative agreement with the National Technical Information Service (http://public.resource.org/ntis.gov/index.html ) and is available at the Internet Archive at www.archive.com .

Duration : 0:0:54

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french nuclear test

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:21:28 +0000

France is one of the five “Nuclear Weapons States” under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.[1][2] France was the fourth country to test an independently developed nuclear weapon in 1960, under the government of Charles de Gaulle. The French military is currently thought to retain a weapons stockpile of around 350 operational nuclear warheads, making it the third-largest in the world.[3] The weapons are part of the national Force de frappe, developed in the late 1950s and 1960s to give France the ability to distance itself from NATO while having a means of nuclear deterrence under sovereign control.

France has never ratified the Partial Test Ban Treaty, giving it the capability to conduct nuclear tests. However, it has signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. On 28 January 1996 then-President Jacques Chirac said the French military would not conduct any more nuclear tests. France denies currently having chemical weapons, ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1995, and acceded to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1984. France had also ratified the Geneva Protocol in 1926.

Duration : 0:0:38

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US Army Uses White Phosphorus as a Weapon

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:10:10 +0000

Following pressure from former Labour MP Alice Mahon, the British Ministry of Defence confirmed the use of MK77 (New and improved Napalm) by US forces during the initial invasion of Iraq.

The Guardian, Tuesday 22 November 2005: …there is hard evidence that white phosphorus was deployed as a weapon against combatants in Falluja. As the Guardian revealed last Tuesday, US infantry officers confessed that they had used it to flush out insurgents. A Pentagon spokesman told the BBC that white phosphorus “was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants”. He claimed “it is not a chemical weapon. They are not outlawed or illegal.” This denial has been accepted by most of the mainstream media.
UN conventions, the Times said, “ban its use on civilian but not military targets”. But the word “civilian” does not occur in the chemical weapons convention. The use of the toxic properties of a chemical as a weapon is illegal, whoever the target is.

The Pentagon argues that white phosphorus burns people, rather than poisoning them, and is covered only by the protocol on incendiary weapons, which the US has not signed.
But white phosphorus is both incendiary and toxic. The gas it produces attacks the mucous membranes, the eyes and the lungs. As Peter Kaiser of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told the BBC last week: “If … the toxic properties of white phosphorus, the caustic properties, are specifically intended to be used as a weapon, that of course is prohibited, because … any chemicals used against humans or animals that cause harm or death through the toxic properties of the chemical are considered chemical weapons.”

The US army knows that its use as a weapon is illegal. In the Battle Book, published by the US Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a correspondent David Traynier found the following sentence: “It is against the law of warfare to employ WP against personnel targets.”

The blogger Gabriele Zamparini found a declassified document from the US department of defence, dated April 1991, and titled “Possible use of phosphorus chemical”. “During the brutal crackdown that followed the Kurdish uprising,” it alleges, “Iraqi forces loyal to President Saddam may have possibly used white phosphorus (WP) chemical weapons against Kurdish rebels and the populace in Erbil … and Dohuk provinces, Iraq. The WP chemical was delivered by artillery rounds and helicopter gunships … These reports of possible WP chemical weapon attacks spread quickly … hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled from these two areas.” The Pentagon is in no doubt, in other words, that white phosphorus is an illegal chemical weapon.

The insurgents, of course, would be just as dead today if they were killed by other means. So does it matter if chemical weapons were mixed with other munitions? It does. Anyone who has seen those photos of the lines of blind veterans at the remembrance services for the first world war will surely understand the point of international law, and the dangers of undermining it.

The marines treated Falluja as if its only inhabitants were fighters. They levelled thousands of buildings, illegally denied access to the Iraqi Red Crescent and, according to the UN’s special rapporteur, used “hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against the civilian population”.

An assault weapon the marines were using had been armed with warheads containing “about 35% thermobaric novel explosive (NE) and 65% standard high explosive”. They deployed it “to cause the roof to collapse and crush the insurgents fortified inside interior rooms”. It was used repeatedly: “The expenditure of explosives clearing houses was enormous.”

An article published in the Gazette in 2000 details the effects of their use by the Russians in Grozny. Thermobaric, or “fuel-air” weapons, it says, form a cloud of volatile gases or finely powdered explosives. “This cloud is then ignited and the subsequent fireball sears the surrounding area while consuming the oxygen. The lack of oxygen creates an enormous overpressure … Personnel under the cloud are literally crushed to death. Outside the cloud area, the blast wave travels at some 3,000 metres per second … As a result, a fuel-air explosive can have the effect of a tactical nuclear weapon without residual radiation … Those personnel caught directly under the aerosol cloud will die from the flame or overpressure. For those on the periphery of the strike, the injuries can be severe. Burns, broken bones, contusions from flying debris and blindness may result. Further, the crushing injuries from the overpressure can create air embolism within blood vessels, concussions, multiple internal haemorrhages in the liver and spleen, collapsed lungs, rupture of the eardrums and displacement of the eyes from their sockets.” It is hard to see how you could use these weapons in Falluja without killing civilians.

Duration : 0:10:50

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Israeli army terrorising and burning civilians using banned chemical weapons – Jan 2009

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:07 +0000

Human rights groups say Israel is indiscriminately using white phosphorus in Gaza’s densely populated areas.

When ignited, the chemical can burn the flesh off of a person, down to the bone.
source: AlJazeeraEnglish report watch?v=MKgph9PV3SA

Duration : 0:2:50

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BBC Israel’s Nukes and Chemical Weapons 5 of 5

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:52:05 +0000

Very rare BBC program here in 5 parts exposing Israel’s secret weapons. I don’t know if this was aired but some parts are very important considering recent developments.

Duration : 0:4:41

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BBC Israel’s Nukes and Chemical Weapons 4 of 5

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:46:03 +0000

Very rare BBC program here in 5 parts exposing Israel’s secret weapons. I don’t know if this was aired but some parts are very important considering recent developments.

Duration : 0:10:4

BBC Israel’s Nukes and Chemical Weapons 3 of 5

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:02:30 +0000

Very rare BBC program here in 5 parts exposing Israel’s secret weapons. I don’t know if this was aired but some parts are very important considering recent developments.

Duration : 0:9:53

BBC Israel’s Nukes and Chemical Weapons 2 of 5

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:41:27 +0000

Very rare BBC program here in 5 parts exposing Israel’s secret weapons. I don’t know if this was aired but some parts are very important considering recent developments.

Duration : 0:10:3

BBC Israel’s Nukes and Chemical Weapons 5 of 5

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:08:52 +0000

5. Very rare BBC program here in 5 parts exposing Israel’s secret weapons. I don’t know if this was aired but some parts are very important considering recent developments.

Part 1-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d47FiWo3i1E
Part 2-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPOjeEcjRp0
Part 3-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vck_kDNCqA
Part 4-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7J3maqlKH8
Part 5-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twNvZXwg4SY

Duration : 0:4:41

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