Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest

Posted: 12th December 2022

A UK air force base, in reality a US Air Force staging ground, has been recategorized to receive US nuclear weapons, the first time since 2008. CND is protesting this dangerous move. More than 700 people qualify as victims of French atomic testing in Algeria. So far, only one has been compensated. That needs to change write Jean-Marie Collin, Patrice Bouveret and Merzak Remki.

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Are the bombs back?

Although cloaked in secrecy, experts believe that the US may be poised to return nuclear weapons to RAF Lakenheath in the UK. Possibly, the bombs are already there. Vigorous protests in the 1980s eventually eradicated US atomic weapons from British soil. Now, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is gearing up for another round. READ MORE

What France owes to Algeria

France carried out 17 atomic tests in Algeria, leaving the landscape radioactively contaminated and a legacy of negative health effects. It’s now past time, write three French experts, for the French government to conduct environmental restitution and make the compensation avenues more accessible, especially since only one Algerian has been compensated so far out of 723 eligible. READ MORE

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