Issue 412 of New Internationalist
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June 2008
June 2008
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My Grandmother – A memoir
Every family has its secrets. So does every nation. But Turkey’s official secret remains extraordinarily potent because public...
The Boy Bands Have Won
A yowl of fury against the Pop Idol-type mediocrity that seems so often to fuel cultural commerce these days.
Nuclear weapons - the facts
There are over 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Thousands are deployed on land, at sea and in the air, posing the constant...
Nuclear weapons: a history
From the Manhattan Project and Hiroshima, to the Cold War, North Korea and beyond, nuclear fission has changed everything.
Trident tested
Activist *Angie Zelter* celebrates a year-long blockade of Britain’s weapons of mass destruction.
Uzbekistan
In the heart of Central Asia, enclosed by the Pamir mountains to the southeast and desert in the northeast, Uzbekistan was once...