Nuclear War

Okay maybe two words: Zinc and Uranium...Canadian-based Scotiabank named the pair this years hottest commodities.

BIG MONEY DOWN UNDER: Export earnings for uranium are forecast to increase 50 per cent this year to $712 million through higher export prices.

Editorial: Mate, I nuked myself in the foot Taipei Times:
"One can almost hear the Australian government's saliva collecting in its mouth at the prospect of selling billions of dollars of uranium from its huge reserves to an eager customer for decades to come. Never mind that the customer is an unstable Third World despot with a big chip on its shoulder - and the owner of nuclear warheads and other munitions pointing in potentially inconvenient directions for Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Russia, India and Taiwan, not to mention US bases in the region."

In case you hadn't guessed, they're concerned with Australia's plans to sell uranium to China.

Dr Jim Green is the national nuclear campaigner for Friends of the Earth, he agrees with the Taipei editorial, and ellaborates on some of the themes.

Despite the potential profits, some nations aparently "do the right thing" as matters of "principle." Sweeden wont be cashing in, according to the official website of the Nordic Council. Weird.

And then there's Russia's lattest plans for the Ore. See below...