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Adam Smith, Jack McEnayne, Hannah Arredondo,
Colin Thompson, KU atmospheric science students
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011
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Wednesday
HI: 55 Wind 10 to 15 mph
LO: 35 50% chance of rain in the afternoon and evening
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Light want to wear a poncho.
HI: 52
LO: 26
Thursday
North wind 10 to 15 mph
skies begin clearing
throughout the day
Wear a sweatshirt, not a winter coat.
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Friday
HI: 60 West wind 5 to 10
L0: 35 mph sunny and clear
HI: 61
LO: 45
Saturday West wind 5 to 10 mph sunny and nice
A great day for a walk
Pioneer Cemetery, which is just south of the Lied Center, contains the graves of early Lawrence settlers, some as old as 1855. Endowment took over management in the mid 1960s and began allowing new burials.
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TORONTO
Canada's Conservative government introduced legislation Tuesday to scrap a controversial law that requires the registration of rifles and shotguns.
Canada has long required registration of hand guns, but the long-run registry law passed in 1995 faced bitter opposition from rural Canada, the Conservative party's base, which considered it an overreaction to the problem of urban crime.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said they don't want laws targeting law-abiding citizens such as hunters.
Police and victims groups are voicing opposition, but the Conservatives have a new majority in Parliament after national elections in May, and can now scrap the law.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper previously tried to kill it, but his bill was narrowly defeated in the last Parliament.
TUNIS. TUNISIA
The moderate Islamist party that appears to have won Tunisia's landmark elections was in talks with rivals Tuesday about forming an interim coalition government to lead the birthplace of the Arab Spring through its transition to democracy.
Partial results released supported the Ennahada party's claims that it had won the most seats in a 217-member assembly tasked with running the country and writing its new constitution. But results so far indicate the Islamists had failed to win an outright majority, meaning a coalition must be formed.
Ennahda's ability to win an election as well as work with other groups will be closely watched in the Arab world, where other Islamist parties are to compete in elections soon. Tunisia has a strong secular tradition, and Ennahda officials promised a broad-based coalition.
GENEVA
An intensive round of talks between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear program ended Tuesday without a deal to resume formal negotiations, but top diplomats from both sides reported progress on the steps that will be needed to finally get there.
The U.S. special envoy to North Korea, Stephen Boswost, told reporters just after the two-day talks wrapped up that there had been progress without agreeing to a formal resumption of negotiations, either bilaterally on in the so-called six-party form that also includes China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
Nevertheless, he called it a useful meeting whose tone was "positive and generally constructive."
In Washington, State Department officials said it could be weeks or months before North Korea responds to issues the U.S. raised during the Geneva talks.
FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN
A moderate earthquake has shaken the northeastern Japanese prefecture to where the much more massive earthquake and tsunami touched off the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl earlier this year.
The 5.2-magnitude quake struck Fukushima Prefecture overnight just after a 2 a.m. local time Wednesday (1700 GMT Tuesday). Its epicenter was on the coast near the town of iwaki, 115 miles (186 km) north of Tokyo.
Fukushima was severely hit by the quake and tsunami in March that left more than 21,000 people dead or missing.
The Wednesday quake was about 70 miles (120 km south) of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility.
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Another 5.3 quake later Wednesday hit 262 miles (423 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo, off the Japan coast.
Megaton bomb era ends after razing
AMARILLO, Texas — The last of the nation's biggest nuclear bombs, a Cold War relic 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was dismantled Tuesday in what one energy official called a milestone in President Barack Obama's mission to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
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Workers in Texas separated the roughly 300 pounds of high explosives inside from the special nuclear material — uranium — known as the pit. The work was done outside of public view for security reasons, but explosives from a bomb taken apart earlier were detonated as officials and reporters watched from less than a mile away.
Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman called the disassembly "a milestone accomplishment." The completion of the dismantling program is a year ahead of schedule, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, and aligns with Obama's goal of reducing the number of nuclear weapons.
Put into service in 1962, when Cold War tensions peaked during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the B53 weighed 10,000 pounds and was the size of a minivan. Many of the bombs were disassembled in the 1980s, but a significant number remained in the U.S. arsenal until they were retired from the stockpile in 1997.
The B53's disassembly ends the era of big megaton bombs, said Hans Kristensen, a spokesman for the Federation of American Scientists. The biggest nuclear bomb in the nation's arsenal now is the 1.2-megaton B83, he said. The B53 was 9 megatons.
The 1.5-kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II killed as many as 140,000 people.
The B53s' size helped compensate for their lack of accuracy, Kristensen said. Today's bombs are smaller but more precise, reducing the amount of collateral damage, he said.
Kristensen said the Obama administration shouldn't boast too much about dismantling the B53 when its arsenal of active nuclear warheads has been reduced by only 10 in the past seven months and Russia's arsenal has grown by 29. The two nations signed a treaty in December to reduce their arsenals.
Since the B53 was made using older technology by engineers who have since retired or died, developing a disassembly process took time. Engineers had to develop complex tools and new procedures to ensure safety.
The plant is the nation's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. Tuesday was the first time in 18 years media were allowed into secure places there. Hallways in one building had pictures of nuclear blasts from tests hanging on the walls. Riding in a bus one could see areas in the 16,000-acre facility, one of the nation's most secure sites, where plutonium pits and other weapons materials are stored.
"We knew going in that this was going to be a challenging project, and we put together an outstanding team with all of our partners to develop a way to achieve this objective safely and efficiently," said John Woolery, general manager of the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, where the bomb was taken apart.
The B53's pit will be kept there temporarily, Pantex spokesman Greg Cunningham said. Meanwhile, the remaining non-nuclear material and components will be processed, which includes sanitizing, recycling and disposal, the National Nuclear Security Administration said last fall when it announced the Texas plant's role in the B53 dismantling.
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