US: Three Mile Island
A radiation leak at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear reactor posed no danger to the public, utility officials said. An estimated 100 workers wearing protective suits were contaminated by the leak Saturday afternoon, but had been decontaminated as of late Saturday night and suffered no injury, plant spokesman Ralph DeSantis told WHTM-TV, Harrisburg. On March 29, 1979, the Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor suffered a partial meltdown in the worst civilian nuclear accident in U.S. history. The reactor core of Unit 2 has since been removed.
Japan
A state-commissioned research panel in Japan finds evidence of Tokyo’s 1960 secret pacts with Washington which allow the US to ship nuclear weaponry via the Japanese territory. Nuke-laden American Navy and Air Force were sanctioned by the 1960 deals to enter the Japanese waters. The clandestine understanding has already been pointed to in US documents and confirmed by those involved in the negotiations. A former Japanese official who served in key ministry posts in the 1980s and 1990s has also confirmed the existence of the document. Some of the secret deals are reportedly related to the 1972 handover of the control of Okinawa from the US to Japan.
Iran
Iran has begun five days of large-scale war games to simulate attacks on its nuclear sites, officials said, warning it will retaliate if provoked. The head of Iran’s air defence said the aim of the exercises was to thwart aerial reconnaissance and air attacks.
Lebanon
Lebanese anti-aircraft guns open fire on an Israeli drone that violated Lebanese airspace over the south of the country. “A surveillance drone of the Israeli enemy” flew over “the area of Bint Jbeil at medium altitude” in the morning, the Lebanese military said in a statement on Saturday. “Army anti-aircraft batteries opened fire on the drone, forcing it to gain altitude before leaving Lebanese airspace,” AFP quoted the statement as saying. The Lebanese military reports, almost on a daily basis, airspace violations by Israeli aircraft, but does not normally open fire on them. The UN considers Israeli violation of Lebanese airspace to be a violation of Security Council Resolution 1701, which brought an end to the Israeli offensive on Lebanon in 2006.
Cuba
Cuba warns that the island is holding a military exercise next week to boost preparedness against any possible US attack. “It is a necessity of the first order given the political-military situation that now defines relations between Cuba and the empire,” Major General Leonardo Andollo warned on Saturday, referring to the United States. He told the official Granma newspaper that the “Bastion-2009″ exercises will “raise the deterrent capacity to prevent a military confrontation, under the principle that there is no better way to win a war than by avoiding it,” AFP reported. The military exercise, Cuba’s largest in five years and the first since Barack Obama’s inauguration as US president in January, will be held Thursday through Saturday, followed by Sunday’s armed forces day to be marked nationwide.
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US: Three Mile Island
A radiation leak at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear reactor posed no danger to the public, utility officials said. An estimated 100 workers wearing protective suits were contaminated by the leak Saturday afternoon, but had been decontaminated as of late Saturday night and suffered no injury, plant spokesman Ralph DeSantis told WHTM-TV, Harrisburg. On March 29, 1979, the Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor suffered a partial meltdown in the worst civilian nuclear accident in U.S. history. The reactor core of Unit 2 has since been removed.
Japan
A state-commissioned research panel in Japan finds evidence of Tokyo’s 1960 secret pacts with Washington which allow the US to ship nuclear weaponry via the Japanese territory. Nuke-laden American Navy and Air Force were sanctioned by the 1960 deals to enter the Japanese waters. The clandestine understanding has already been pointed to in US documents and confirmed by those involved in the negotiations. A former Japanese official who served in key ministry posts in the 1980s and 1990s has also confirmed the existence of the document. Some of the secret deals are reportedly related to the 1972 handover of the control of Okinawa from the US to Japan.
Iran
Iran has begun five days of large-scale war games to simulate attacks on its nuclear sites, officials said, warning it will retaliate if provoked. The head of Iran’s air defence said the aim of the exercises was to thwart aerial reconnaissance and air attacks.
Lebanon
Lebanese anti-aircraft guns open fire on an Israeli drone that violated Lebanese airspace over the south of the country. “A surveillance drone of the Israeli enemy” flew over “the area of Bint Jbeil at medium altitude” in the morning, the Lebanese military said in a statement on Saturday. “Army anti-aircraft batteries opened fire on the drone, forcing it to gain altitude before leaving Lebanese airspace,” AFP quoted the statement as saying. The Lebanese military reports, almost on a daily basis, airspace violations by Israeli aircraft, but does not normally open fire on them. The UN considers Israeli violation of Lebanese airspace to be a violation of Security Council Resolution 1701, which brought an end to the Israeli offensive on Lebanon in 2006.
Cuba
Cuba warns that the island is holding a military exercise next week to boost preparedness against any possible US attack. “It is a necessity of the first order given the political-military situation that now defines relations between Cuba and the empire,” Major General Leonardo Andollo warned on Saturday, referring to the United States. He told the official Granma newspaper that the “Bastion-2009″ exercises will “raise the deterrent capacity to prevent a military confrontation, under the principle that there is no better way to win a war than by avoiding it,” AFP reported. The military exercise, Cuba’s largest in five years and the first since Barack Obama’s inauguration as US president in January, will be held Thursday through Saturday, followed by Sunday’s armed forces day to be marked nationwide.