Rob Edwards

Executive licensed killing of 2500 protected birds

from Sunday Herald, 31 July 2005

LICENCES to kill over 2500 protected birds have been issued by Scottish ministers, despite doubts over whether they can be scientifically justified.

Executive is 'making a mockery' of energy goal

from Sunday Herald, 31 July 2005

VITAL measures to save energy and combat climate pollution in homes throughout Scotland are being so weakened by ministers that they could fall foul of European law.

Exposed: Scotland’s filthiest companies

from Sunday Herald, 24 July 2005

THE companies with the worst pollution records in Scotland have been outed by the government’s green watchdog, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).

Hiroshima bomb may have carried hidden agenda

from New Scientist, 21 July 2005

The US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was meant to kick-start the Cold War rather than end the Second World War, according to two nuclear historians who say they have new evidence backing the controversial theory.

Nuclear convoy could explode, admits MoD

from Sunday Herald, 17 July 2005

TRIDENT warheads carried regularly by road to the Clyde naval base could explode if they are involved in a major crash, an internal Ministry of Defence report reveals.

The A-bomb: 60 years on, is the world any safer?

from New Scientist, 16 July 2005

"I AM become death, the shatterer of worlds." These words from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, flashed through physicist Robert Oppenheimer's mind as he watched the first atomic bomb test in a desert in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Code-named Trinity, the bomb that he developed changed the world forever.