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On the recordJanuary 25, 1996
I would say to my friend, I have made this observation earlier. It is bad enough that we cannot even harness and control the situation that we have in harnessing energy from the nuclear power in providing electricity and for other good things, the positive things that it does, but we do not know what to do with the storage. We have a very serious crisis now in our country and other countries as well that use nuclear power for electricity. It is bad enough that we cannot even solve that problem, but it is OK to come up with as many nuclear bombs as you can among these nations that can produce them and go and shoot one another, and just simply annihilate this whole planet. Not only is it the height of hypocrisy, but contradictions that even I cannot comprehend. ... To create bombs means you make more nuclear waste. There is no question about it. So even the process is making a problem for those people.
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Eni Faleomavaega
American Samoa

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Discussing the dangers of nuclear waste and the hypocrisy of nuclear weapons production.

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