*Sean Gonsalves, [http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16108 "The cockroaches are celebrating. U.S. leads way toward new nuclear arms race,"] ''Cape Cod Times'', December 8, 2003: "The Energy and Water Appropriations Bill signed by President Bush last week is being celebrated by cockroaches the world over. ... The bill, among other things, provides funding for research in developing nuclear weapons with first-strike capability. ... We are now one step closer to nuclear war and if the path we are following is pursued to its logical conclusion, the Information Age will be followed by a radioactive Cockroach Era."
*Jonathan Medalia, [http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/RL32130.pdf "Nuclear Weapon Initiatives: Low-Yield R&D, Advanced Concepts, Earth Penetrators, Test Readiness"] ([[Star Wars]]), [[Congressional Research Service]], December 11, 2003.
*[http://theweekmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=919 "Confronting the threat of nuclear weapons. What are the U.S. and U.N. doing?,"] ''The Week'', May 6, 2005.
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