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Externally, it's things like wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and ongoing concerns about North Korea's nuclear-testing activities.
All of these things are occupying a lot of their minds," the former New Brunswick premier said. "So the bottom line is... it's hard to get their attention.
"I'm convinced that with the latest member we have in our embassy and if we roll up our sleeves, we can resolve these problems..."
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TSgt Suhy is a nuclear surety expert who imple- mented a rigorous nuclear surety testing regimen throughout the 2 BW, maintaining nuclear readi- ness and achieving a wing-wide average of 95 percent.
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Almost 900 Canadian military personnel were exposed to radiation from nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War as well as two serious reactor accidents in Chalk River, Ont. during the 1950s, according to a report produced for Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor. The January 2007 report, obtained by the Ottawa Citizen, is the first time the full extent of the involvement of Canadian military personnel in U.S. and British nuclear weapons testing has been documented.
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...; continue its moratorium on nuclear testing; and work with the US to conclude the missile mate...
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.... I organized a demonstration against nuclear testing off Amchitka Island in the Pacific Ocean. ...
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[Ehud Olmert]'s trip comes against the backdrop of North Korea's testing of a nuclear device and the danger of sharing its technology with both Syria and Iran. This is not a theoretical danger. It was proven during the recent war in Lebanon. Trying to break the Israeli naval blockade on Lebanon's shores, Hezbollah fired two C-802 missiles that damaged an Israeli missile boat. Israel knew that Iran had bought missiles that were made in China and improved in North Korea, but it didn't know that some of these missiles were transferred by Iran to Hezbollah via Syria.
The dangers facing Israel as a result of Iran's nuclearization will be at the centre of the [Vladimir Putin]-Olmert discussion. While Israel strongly supports the American and European approach for exhausting all diplomatic ave...
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This week, now in what seems to be its dotage, the UN faces another crisis in Korea and appears to be unable to do anything about it, despite the fact that the Security Council is unanimous in its opinion. No temper tantrums are needed. This new crisis was brought on by North Korea's underground testing of a nuclear bomb on Monday in defiance of previous UN demands that it cease its nuclear weapons development. As the world was still feeling the aftershocks of that explosion, North Korea's President Kim Jong Il ordered short-range missile tests on both Monday and Tuesday, giving the diplomatic finger to the UN and the international community.
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... weapons program, but future nuclear testing by India would, as per US law, lead to the US stop...
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...'s decision in 1974 to test a "peaceful nuclear device" using plutonium extracted from a Canadian-... had been banned following India's nuclear testing. The ban was lifted and India purchased $2.7 milli...