America’s dirty little secret EDITORIAL 09/16/2011

America’s dirty little secret

EDITORIAL

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09/16/2011
The rise of whistle-blower sites and organizations is turning inside out secretive governments and institutions primarily the United States which used to be thought of to have an impenetrable security lock on state secrets.

For years, the United States was suspected of lying in denying the presence of nuclear weapons in their former military bases in the country chiefly in Clark Air Base and the Subic Naval Base.

The mystery that shrouded the likely presence of nuclear arms in the country persisted until 1991 when almost at this time of the year, the Senate voted to terminate the Bases Agreement.

The debate on the nuclear presence in the country was significant because of a provision in the 1987 Constitution that bans the deployment of such weapon within the Philippine territory. The ban is absolute that even the transit of vessels or aircraft carrying nuclear arms were prohibited..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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