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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 28. februar 2006 / Time Line February 28, 2006
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02/28/2006
Saab Aerotech to reduce staffing by 100 employees
Source: Saab -- Saab will give notice to the county labor boards of
Östergötland and Västmanland of the intent to reduce
staffing levels by 100 employees in the Saab Aerotech business
unit. The filing covers 60 employees in Linköping
(Malmslätt), Sweden as well as 40 individuals in Arboga,
Sweden and is in response to a changing market situation and
resulting overcapacity...
02/28/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
ITT Industries Systems Division, Cape Canaveral, Fla., is being
awarded a $6,691,335 cost plus award fee contract modification to
provide for development, installation, integration, test, and
delivery for operational acceptance of a new Command Transmitter-2
(CT-2) site, to include construction of pads, antenna foundations,
support facilities, communications infrastructure and a
Transportable Vehicle Uplink System (VUS) command transmitting
station consisting of a Transportable Unit (TU). This CT-2 VUS site
will develop using a transportable container, RF Switches, antennas
and transmitters purchased and received under the original first
VUS Development and Installation project. The existing CT-5 console
hardware and associated software will be integrated into the
transportable VUS container (TU02) and interfaced with the
equipment previously purchased. The location of performance is ITT
Industries, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Total funds have been
obligated. This work will be complete April 2009. Negotiations were
complete February 2006. The Headquarters Space and Missile Systems
Center, Los Angeles, Calif., is the contracting activity
(F04701-01-C-0001/ P00298).
02/28/2006
Canada's CANDU Snafu-Bush Mired in Fallout
By Ingmar Lee
Countercurrents.org -
http://www.countercurrents.org/lee280206.htm
'In 1956 Canada provided India with a 40 megawatt "Canadian-Indian
Reactor, U.S." (CIRUS) research reactor near Mumbai. The United
States supplied the heavy water necessary to control nuclear
fission. In 1959 Canada sold a 125-megawatt nuclear reactor to
Pakistan and then in 1964, sold them a "CANada Deuterium Uranium"
(CANDU) reactor. In 1971, Canada constructed a 137-megawatt CANDU
heavy-water nuclear reactor at Karachi, Pakistan. Canada also
included heavy water and a heavy water production facility as part
of the deal. Three years later, in 1974, India detonated its first
nuclear device, nicknamed the "Smiling Buddha," at Pokhran,
Rajasthan, using plutonium from the CIRUS reactor. Turns out,
Canada's reactors are just great at producing weapons-grade
plutonium. Canada did not bother to ask India to comply with
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards nor for any
accounting of the amount of plutonium the CIRUS produced. India
claims that its agreement with Canada did not preclude the use of
CIRUS-produced plutonium for "peaceful" nuclear explosions. India
described its Smiling Buddha blast as a "Peaceful Nuclear
Explosion," but predictably, as soon as Pakistan saw that India had
the Bomb, it put its shiny new CANDU reactor to work developing its
own nuclear weapons. Canada is clearly a major proliferator of
nuclear weaponry and is completely complicit in the nuclear arming
of both Pakistan and India...'
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