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Deep Green: Pillars of Greenpeace leave a legacy | Greenpeace ...  Aug 6, 2010 ... Meanwhile, Canada possessed deeply seeded, broad-based peace and ... 'Don't Make a Wave Committee' members and Greenpeace founders ... After the U.S. announced a series of nuclear tests on Amchitka Island in Alaska, the ... began campaigning against nuclear weapons, adopting the Quaker...
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Greenpeace - Wikipedia  Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 40 .... While no earthquake or tsunami followed the test, the opposition grew when the ... According to the Greenpeace web site, The Don't Make a Wave Committee ... was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the...
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Karen Orr: Greenpeace and the Media  Direct Action, Bearing ...  began in Greenpeace's first protests against the Amchitka nuclear tests by ... institution that encompasses a broad range of environmental issues, but they are still able to ... nuclear bombs at Amchitka, a site in the Aleutian Islands, off the coast of Alaska. ... came together under the name of the Don't Make a Wave Committee.
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Jeopary Questions page 840 - BASEBALL TERMS - TriviaBistro.com  COMMITTEES: The Don't Make a Wave Committee, opposed to weapons tests in Alaska, grew into this broader organization  AN AMERICAN IN PARIS:...
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Who Founded Greenpeace? Not Patrick Moore.  Greg Laden's Blog  Jun 27, 2014 ... [U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, 2/25/14; .... And I agree with his other points that the broad let's put fewer nasty things into the water campaign ..... The Don't Make a Wave Committee had legal standing and a ... organization in tact and turn its attention on French nuclear testing...
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Arctic Exploration Isn't New - Arctic Energy Center  Aug 21, 2015 ... 1911: New wells began to produce significant oil in Katalla, AK and ... 1956: Shell conducts first offshore seismic study of Alaska; Wide Bay, on Alaska's south coast. ... oil-and-gas field on the shore of an inlet of the Kara Sea in western ... clears the way for authorization of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System .
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Sonar : detector of submerged submarines - traktoria.org  These equipments were useless in detecting any of the U-boats at sea ... In the closing months of World War I the Allied Submarine Devices Investigation Committee ... When World War I ended the Asdic Committee was dissolved; nations and .... About 1931 NRL developed the QB echo ranging Sonar for submarines.
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Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) - NRC: History  Eight years later, Congress replaced that law with the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which for ... and regulatory duties of the AEC should be assigned to different agencies. The Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 created the Nuclear Regulatory...
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Canadians campaign against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island ...  The direct action campaign against nuclear testing in Amchitka Island began with an ... When the United States announced an underground test of a 1-megaton nuclear bomb on Amchitka Island, Alaska, SPEC began their protests. Amchitka ... After World War II, the military decided to establish military bases on Amchitka.
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HUAC - Cold War - HISTORY.com  Sound Smart: The House Un-American Activities Committee ... as a weapon and called citizens to testify in high-profile hearings before Congress. ... hearings in 1948; 20 years later, he was elected the 37th president of the United States. ... Particularly after 1947, HUAC assumed new heights of prominence and notoriety,...
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Education World: Scavenger Hunt: "State to State" Worksheet  30 items ... Hawaii and Alaska do not border any other states. a. .... Don't forget our archive of more than 150 icebreaker activities. Another ... Two Truths and a Lie.
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Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - Wikipedia  The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and ..... NATO believes its "nuclear forces continue to play an essential role in war prevention, but their role is now more...
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Radicalization in 1960s Madison, Wisconsin: One Participant's ...  Feb 27, 2012 ... At the UW-Whitewater I joined the newly-formed Peace Studies Club (a ..... Anti-war activists in Madison spent a considerable amount of time gathering the ... 1968, 1969, and 1970 were the key years of the youth radicalization in .... They had intended to blow up the U.S. Army Mathematics Research Center...
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Wayne Morse and the Vietnam War | WAYNE MORSE CENTER ...  Senator Morse was staunchly opposed to communism, even approving the use of ... Ernest Gruening of Alaska in voting against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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This group that first met in 1942 didn't get a permanent chairman until  Jeopardy Question: U.S. GOVERNMENT - This group that first met in 1942 didn't get a permanent chairman until 1949.
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The 1964 Republican Campaign . The Rockefellers . WGBH ... - PBS  Standing before the hostile crowd at the 1964 GOP Convention in San Francisco, a defiant ... In July 1963 he publicly declared war against what he called the "extremist groups" that ... "First let's take over the party," Goldwater told his aides. ... "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice -- and let me...
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Controlling the Further Spread of Nuclear Weapons - Council on ...  Apr 13, 2010 ... Founded in 1921, CFR carries out its mission by maintaining a diverse membership ... At the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) re- ... tion of nuclear weapons will be viewed as a practical possibility. ... rea or Iran, neither Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament nor Tehran's cessation of nuclear weapons.
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An Overview of the Development of U.S. Congressional Committees*  through which Congress oversees executive agencies and participates in formulating and ... A few examples of standing committees include the House and Senate ... legislation and oversaw the nation's atomic energy program. ..... required that one third of funding for staff be directed to the minority party, and gave the.
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Amchitka: the founding voyage | Greenpeace International  May 15, 2007 ... In 1971, a small group of activists set sail to the Amchitka island off Alaska to try and stop a US nuclear weapons test. The money for the mission was raised with a concert, their old fishing boat was called The Greenpeace. ... Today, Greenpeace is the world's most visible environmental organisation, with...
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Anti-nuclear protests in the United States - Wikipedia  There were many anti-nuclear protests in the United States which captured national public attention during the 1970s and 1980s. These included the well-known Clamshell Alliance protests at Seabrook Station Nuclear Power .... May 24, 1986: 74 anti-nuclear demonstrators were arrested in protests. October 17, 1988: 84...
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Roster of Members - Alaska State Legislature  of the First Territorial Legislature: two senators, two representatives and three ...... opposition to the territory's schools and offices employing women who had ..... testimony by Elizabeth Peratrovich, Alaska became the first state or U.S. ...... the Nunaka Valley all-stars softball team won the world championship for 12 to 14 year.