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Texas A&M University in College Station Texas,1 has been conducting research into so-called “select agents,” i.e. biological agents that the government thinks can be turned into biological weapons. The university’s efforts are part of an $18 billion federal program to develop vaccines. On April 20, 2007 the Centers for Disease Control — the CDC — [...] The federal government wants to do nuclear weapons testing and bio-warfare agent experimentation on Site 300, near the city of Tracy, California. Tracy, 19 miles from Livermore, home of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, is in the northern part of California’s San Joaquin Valley, some of the world’s most fertile farmland. It is a fast-growing [...] In 1880 the Italian explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza founded a new city in an African village called Nkuna. Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, was born. One hundred twenty-three years later, a 2003 survey found Brazzaville the worst city in the world in which to live. The African nation of Somalia came into being in the 1960s when the former British protectorate of Somaliland joined with Italian Somalia. The amalgamation was not a good one for the people of Somaliland and the joining of those two previously separate states, along with the legacy of Western imperialism, is what set the country [...] Enrichment is a process that uses networks of machine centrifuges, which spin uranium hexafluoride gas into low-enriched uranium for civilian power plants and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons fuel, depending on the duration of the process. National Public Radio |
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