DEFENSEWATCH for Thursday, September 4, 2003

Thursday, September 4, 2003

The Facts About Depleted Uranium

The co-called controversy over bullets and armor plating made with Depleted Uranium (DU) has become the new rallying point for what I call the anti-nuclear coalition (ANC). The ANC is a loosely knit informal group of organizations that share several commonalities. Among these is a total rejection of anything nuclear. The ANC consists primarily of left-wing, pseudoscientific environmental organizations whose core membership draws on the disaffected fringe elements of our society. Unfortunately,... Sign in to see full entry.

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A Unified Korea in 60 Days

The Bush Administration experienced a major diplomatic triumph last week when Pyongyang agreed to multi-lateral talks with the United States and four other nations – China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea – instead of the bilateral talks it had insisted upon. This success, which followed an offer by Beijing to host the multilateral meeting, seemed to say the choice to follow diplomacy instead of force was the correct choice. The actual triumph, in my view, was that for the first time in a formal... Sign in to see full entry.

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