BBC NEWS | UK | Nuclear threat sparked tea worry
The threat of a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released reveal. Government officials planning food supplies said the tea situation would be "very serious" after a nuclear war.
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Wikipedia distorts nuclear history: Rutland Herald Online
There are only seven Web sites that more people use than Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that lets anyone edit most of its articles. None of the sites that are more popular than Wikipedia have as their main purpose producing information about the world. The top sites, Google and Yahoo, mainly function as links to other sites. Facebook and Myspace, which people use to keep in touch with their friends, are third and fifth most popular, respectively. The other sites that are more visited than Wikipedia are YouTube (a kind of online TV), eBay (a virtual flea market), and Microsoft's version of Google.
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Chernobyl shows nuclear power danger: MEP - icWales
TWENTY two years on from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, MEP Jill Evans says the anniversary serves as a timely reminder of why nuclear power must be phased out. Ms Evans visited the site of the nuclear power plant two years ago with a group of MEPs and met local people whose lives were shattered by the disaster as well as people who are now working to secure the site.
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Chernobyl nuclear accident - World - BrisbaneTimes - brisbanetimes.com.au
Twenty-two years ago today the Soviet Union announced that a serious nuclear accident had occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Ukraine near the small town of Pripyat 100 kilometres from the capital Kiev. The explosion in reactor number four, which occurred three days before, is the world's worst reactor meltdown, spewing radioactive material across the then Soviet Union and much of northern Europe.
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National Geographic: Inside Chernobyl, The Long Shadow of Chernobyl
In the wan light of a snowy spring morning, belongings scattered on the floor of an abandoned kindergarten speak of a time before the children of Pripyat lost their innocence. Musty sandals and ballet slippers for tiny feet. Cardboard pictures of Lenin as a young boy and as a youthful leader—the Soviet equivalent of baseball cards. In the next room, dolls in various states of dress and dismemberment, lolling on metal cots where the children once napped. Finally, on the gymnasium wall, photos of the children themselves—doing calisthenics, climbing monkey bars, balancing on boards.
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Veterans reveal nuclear photos in compo fight | NEWS.com.au
A GROUP of veterans insist they have been wrongly denied repatriation benefits because the Howard government refused to believe they were involved in a 1952 nuclear test. Now they have photographs they say prove they were there. Former national serviceman Mike Rowe, who served aboard the frigate HMAS Murchison, said he and others had spent the past five years trying to set the record straight about their participation in the nuclear test at Monte Bello Island off the West Australian coast in October 1952.
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Chernobyl, 22 Years Later, Exploring The Rubble Of The World's Largest Nuclear Disaster - CBS News
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Panic at TMI - The York Daily Record
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Public Citizen | Press Room - Anniversary of Three Mile Island Reminds Us, Nuclear Power is Still Not the Answer
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Three Mile Island 29 Years Later: Nuclear Safety Problems Still Unresolved
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Aldermaston protest recalls the birth of CND - Home News, UK - The Independent
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High Country News -- June 13, 2005: Navajos put more than 17 million acres off-limits
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | World's best-known protest symbol turns 50
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