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VIDEO Interview: "You're killing me": How whales and dolphins sacrifice for national security

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This Video is a Part of: "You're killing me": How whales and dolphins sacrifice for national security

An audio version of this story was published by the Public News Service on August 13, 2010.

The general consensus, with which courts over the past decade have largely agreed, says high-intensity mid-frequency sonar can kill whales and dolphins. The National Marine Fisheries Services – part of the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration – explicitly allows Navy sonar tests and training exercises to result in the deaths of specific numbers of whales and dolphins as long as they have a negligible impact to the population.
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Trento’s Take: Atif Amin Sacked For Trying to Shutter the A.Q. Khan Nuclear Proliferation Network

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A.Q. Khan

For those of you who care about how nuclear proliferation really works, the story of Atif Amin should restore your faith that there are real public servants out there. Amin was the Customs investigator for the British government who uncovered A.Q. Khan and Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation network in Dubai in April 2000.  Amin went to his bosses with the evidence, only to have his investigation shut down. Khan was allowed to proliferate nuclear technology to places like Iran and Libya for another three years.

David Armstrong and I told this story in our book, America and The Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise, which was published in 2007. We never met Amin before publication of the book. We got the secret documents that contained his story from American and French sources. But because these documents embarrassed British and American intelligence agencies, the British authorities targeted their collective wrath on Amin.

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