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In the mid nineteen eighties I found my self visiting a lovely little town in Eastern Washington called Pasco. Part of the “Tri Cities†which includes Richland and Kennewick, the town of Pasco seemed idyllic. Quiet, clean, plenty of parks, inexpensive housing… I liked it. Well, I liked it except for the 586-square-mile Hanford Nuclear [...] The world’s largest single nuclear weapons storage facility is a huge underground bunker in New Mexico. Because of a backlog of warheads awaiting dismantlement at the one U.S. facility that is equipped to load and unload nuclear warheads the safe way, Pantex, there are more nuclear weapons stored underground here than any other single place [...] TEXAS ranks 10th in number of nuclear warheads deployed, a change from 5th place (and 1,365 warheads) in 1992 and 6th place in 1985 (630 warheads). However, nuclear weapons are stored only at the Pantex Plant of the Department of Energy outside of Amarillo on a temporary basis while they await dismantlement. Though the composition [...] Unfortunately, many are unaware of this because U.S. sanctions prevented the Ministry from publishing its findings in much of the world. It is the United States that now puts the Geneva Conventions and other aspects of international law at risk by ignoring them. |
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