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''Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System'' is a 2007 book by Jim Harding which chronicles the struggle over Saskatchewan's
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, and demonstrates the negative impacts on Aboriginal rights and environmental health, and the effect of free trade. Harding argues that
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cannot mitigate
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and that the " peaceful nuclear technology" does not exist.
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wrote the foreword to the book. Jim Harding is an emeritus professor of environmental and justice studies and was director of research for Prairie Justice Research at the
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. He is a founding member of the Regina Group for a Non-Nuclear Society and International Uranium Congress. Harding also acted as Prairie Correspondent for ''Nuclear Free Press'' and consultant to the award-winning film ''Uranium'', a 1990 documentary about uranium mining in Canada. Several reviews of the book have been published.


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Nuclear disarmament Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons. Its end state can also be a nuclear-weapons-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated. The term ''denuclearization'' is also used to describe the pro ...
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Anti-nuclear movement The Anti-nuclear war movement is a new social movements, social movement that opposes various nuclear technology, nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified them ...


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