N-weapons accidents

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Wednesday, May 21, 1986
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test ban SGC rap free trade talks,
a May 14, Soviet Communist

Moratorium cP , | ‘ r +
the leader Mikhail Gorbachev said U Gg e S a c E 2 : r Ti fl i
vay nokind be plunged into a nuclear

Because of that, he said, the Soviet
Yemment would take another uni-
4 Step towards disarmament —
.*xtension of its test ban mora-
the Um to Aug. 6, the anniversary of
US. bombing of Hiroshima.
es Orbachev also called for “a
Cus deepening of co-operation in
, framework of the International
ae Energy Agency” and pro-
»4, °d four new initiatives to improve
“safety and-monitoring*of nuclear
Wer installations.
€ further extension of the
i, @torium on nuclear weapons test-
vi mean that the Soviet Union
Yea, have refrained from tests for a full
ann, The moratorium was first
tonne Aug. 6, 1985, and was to
Was Nue until the end of the year but
ap €xtended twice as the Soviets
led to the U.S. to follow suit.
fey ever, the U.S. conducted two
boty, On April 10 and on April 22,
Of which were tied to develop-
Mt of Star Wars-related weapons.
ann Srbachey said that the decision to
Sunce the latest test moratorium
i, tken after “weighing up all the
ity °fs associated with our own secur-
4nd the welfare of humankind.”
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| Radiation linked
o Nevada test

By KERRY McCUAIG
and FRED WEIR
tion Sher than normal levels of radia-
Ing measured across Canada
of Y Not be entirely the consequence
Month’s Chernobyl! nuclear
bas yen depite the impression that
Media Created by government and
Teports.

bro, May 14, the Las Vegas Sun
Bone Re news that something had
I "ously wrong with the April
Mamet Of a hydrogen bomb, code-
ed “Mighty Oak,” in the Nevada

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Work 25 feet underground. Two
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ty °tive iodine-131, $20 million in :
tinneent was destroyed, os ae nt alee oe

Were rendered inaccessible by at the Canadian Inn vood andthe

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