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In 1961 the Mexican government argued that the use of nuclear weapons could not be justified under the right to self-defense in the UN charter. [6] Seven years later the country would sign the Treaty of Tlatelolco in which Mexico and several other Latin American countries agreed not to manufacture nuclear weapons and to limit its nuclear ...
Bloody Christmas was the severe beating of seven civilians by members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on December 25, 1951.The attacks, which left five Mexican American and two white young men with broken bones and ruptured organs, were only properly investigated after lobbying from the Mexican American community.
March 1959: Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Los Angeles, California. Fire in a fuel processing facility. July 1959: Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Los Angeles, California. Partial meltdown. October 15, 1959, a B-52 carrying two nuclear weapons collided in midair with a KC-135 tanker near Hardinsburg, Kentucky. One of the nuclear bombs was ...
Several American cities, including New York, San Francisco, and Honolulu, have response plans for terrorist attacks.
In assessing the likelihood of all these threats, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that in any given year, each of Diablo Canyon's two reactor units has a roughly 1 in 12,000 chance of ...
Operation Cul-de-Sac (OCDS) was a Los Angeles Police Department effort to reduce violent crime, particularly drive-by shootings by gangs. [1] It consisted of installing concrete barriers, later iron fencing, to block fourteen residential streets to vehicle traffic. During the two years it was in effect, it substantially reduced violent crime.
The water shortage was the result of years of mismanagement of LA’s water system — including a federal indictment of a leader and high profile resignations — as well as major operational ...
The agreements made in the third set of sessions consisted of presenting a report of the previous changes to de Co-ordinating Committee and preparing the draft for the following Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America. [5] At the end of the fourth session, the objective was to entry the treaty into force. [6]