CCNS News Archive Index 1996 The following is a listing of the CCNS News Update going back to January 4, 1996. We are dreaming of developing a search engine for the web page, but for the time being you will have to bear with us and manually search through the news archives for posted articles of interest. March 14, 1996 New bomb waste factory packages radioactive glass Radiation panel seeks special prosecutor March 7, 1996 Secretary O'Leary announces increased plutonium work at LANL LANL thyroid cancer study findings inconclusive LANL worker goes home in radioactive clothes February 22, 1996 DOE national radioactive waste study branded a lemon UC faculty panel recommends severing ties with nuclear weapons labs February 15, 1996 DOE sets 1998 opening for WIPP; State of New Mexico not ready Details of 50 years of plutonium shipments revealed February 8, 1996 WIPP Trucks ready to roll down Santa Fe streets in two years DOE discloses existence of 33 hundred pounds of "excess" plutonium waste at Los Alamos French end testing and pledge to sign Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. START II is ratified. January 24, 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty pushed by Clinton Administration DOE report cites LANL as potential site for most bomb work January 18, 1996 Harvard University report finds threat of future nuclear war greater now than since height of Cold War Debate over extending University of California contract for management of LANL heats up January 4, 1996 Toxic Pantex waste contaminates adjacent farm Kirtland Air Force Base still possible storage site for plutonium from nuclear weapons back to News Archive