Wikio - Nuclear Weapons

Max Bergmann: Romney Thinks Stopping Spread of Nuclear Weapons is a Liberal Issue - Huh? (The Huffington Post)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:33:40 GMT

... 31, 2003. The aim of the initiative is to enlist the nations of the world to "stop trafficking of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems and related materials to and from states and non-state actors of proliferation concern." Whether the program is a success is very much in question (though the administration claims it is), but I've never heard anyone call it a "liberal" position....

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Bush arrives in Japan for G8; oil, climate in focus (Reuters)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:36:59 GMT

CHITOSE, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Japan on Sunday for the Group of Eight rich nations' meetings where North Korea's nuclear weapons program, soaring oil and food prices, and climate change top the agenda.

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Iran and war (Darwiniana)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:49:39 GMT

Strike and We’ll Strike You back, Warns Tehran by Donald Macintyre, Anne Penketh and Kim Sengupta Iran has handed over its long-awaited response to the West’s offer of incentives to halt its suspected nuclear weapons programme, after a warning by one of its top military leaders that any strike against it would trigger war.

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Another Nail In The NPT Coffin (FreeThoughtManifesto)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:18:00 GMT

By Gordon Prather July 5, 2008 Courtesy Of Anti - War Garold Larson has the misfortune to be the Bush-Cheney Deputy Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, and hence, was required to " celebrate " the 40th anniversary of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons . Misfortune, because Larson – who may not be a pathological liar – was required to make this outrageous...

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No Rush, Please (Vox Verax)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:20:00 GMT

NYT editorial Three years ago, President Bush offered India a far-too-generous nuclear deal. India’s illicit pursuit of nuclear weapons would effectively be forgiven. And for the first time in 30 years, it would be allowed to buy nuclear fuel and equipment for its civilian energy program from the United States and other nations. Instead of celebrating a big political win,...

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Iran: attack and we'll strike you back (Belfast Telegraph)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:01:57 GMT

Iran has handed over its long-awaited response to the West's offer of incentives to halt its suspected nuclear weapons programme, after a warning by one of its top military leaders that any strike against it would trigger war.

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Strike and we'll strike you back, warns Tehran (The Independent)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:00:01 GMT

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A 'Nuclear' Vacation Your Family Won't Soon Forget (Science Friday)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:04:36 GMT

Much of the nuclear weapons industry is top secret, but there are parts of the atomic establishment that a tourist can see.

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A Declaration of Indepedence (Shakespeare's Sister)

noreply@blogger.com (Wolfrum) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:56:00 GMT

I was born into a country at war with the bloodthirsty, inhuman animals of North Vietnam. Growing up, I cannot even count the times I looked to the skies in fear of nuclear missiles coming to destroy everything I cherished. I grew up terrified of the evil Soviet Empire. When President Ronald Reagan began his "War on Terror" against Nicaragua and other Central American regimes, I worried...

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N Korea Says 25.5 Kg Of Plutonium For Nuclear Weapons: Sources (Nikkei)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:35:53 GMT

N Korea Says 25.5 Kg Of Plutonium For Nuclear Weapons: SourcesBEIJING (Kyodo)--North Korea has acknowledged in a declaration of its nuclear programs submitted last week that it used 25.5 kilograms of extracted plutonium for making nuclear weapons, sources involved in the six-party denuclearization talks said Friday.

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Two US Congressmen Think Kazakhstan's President Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize (Eurasianet )

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:18:47 GMT

BY JOSHUA KUCERA Two members of the US Congress are spearheading an effort to nominate the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, for a Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of Kazakhstan's decision in the early 1990s to give up nuclear weapons it inherited upon gaining independence from the Soviet Union.

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Iran and Washington’s Israeli option (1913 Intel)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:50:58 GMT

Will Israel attack Iran? I see the probability of an Israeli attack at less than 50% with the Olmert government. Olmert knows he needs to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons, but he just doesn’t have the will to pull off an attack on Iran. The bottom line - we need to wait for a new Israeli [...]

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Trita Parsi: How to Avoid an Israeli-Iranian War (The Huffington Post)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:10:46 GMT

A military attack on Iran would not only lead to Iran opting out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it would kill the Iranian pro-democracy movement.

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Why does one country have the right to have nuclear weapons while another country does not? (The Pakistani Politics)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:55:20 GMT

No one has the right to have nuclear weapons Nuclear weapons are the most destructive weapons on Earth. Everyone has the images of Hiroshima after the bomb stored in his mind forever. Just think of the many victims that were vaporized into nothing or to those that died slowly as a result of radiation. Just think [...]

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Terrorists and Extremists Seek Nukes (End Times Prophecy News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:52:00 GMT

Extremist groups continue to actively seek nuclear weapons, a senior US official said recently during a meeting in Spain of a US-Russian initiative to fight nuclear terrorism. "Combating nuclear terrorism is especially important today," US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Rood told a news conference. "Regretably we continue to see indications in the United States...

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India can’t help Egypt Pranab

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:04:13 GMT

Check out latest International News India on Wednesday night expressed its inability to have nuclear cooperation with Egypt as New Delhi is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

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Letter: Sanity on Nuclear Weapons (New York Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:18:21 GMT

To the Editor:Related (June 30, 2008) Re “Thinking the Unthinkable: A World Without Nuclear Weapons,” by Carla Anne Robbins (Editorial Observer, June 30):How encouraging it is to know that there is a group of influential former secretaries of state and defense and national security advisers who are “calling on the United States to lead a global campaign to devalue and eventually rid the...

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Nuclear futures for the Middle East: impact on the goal of a WMD-free zone (Human Security Gateway: All Updates)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:36:40 GMT

Today, Iran and Israel are under the international spotlight for assumed or suspected nuclear weapons programmes, outside or in spite of the global non-proliferation regime. Over a dozen Arab states have announced plans to develop nuclear power programmes and are in various stages of negotiations or research and development. France, the Russian Federation and the United...

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When an army can only be as good as its Commander-in-Chief… (Vidiot Speak)

noreply@blogger.com (Bill Arnett) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:44:00 GMT

…you have got to know that America's armed forces are in pitiful and pitiable shape under gw bush, especially when it comes to bush's signature call to secure all nuclear weapons and deprive others of even the knowledge of how to build nukes. No one has to build any new nukes, just steal one from America which, as it seems, has the most lax security of anyone when it comes to securing...

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Air Force Finds Lax Nuclear Security: At U.S. nuke sites overseas (Democratic Underground)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:24:56 GMT

Source: [b]Washington Post[/b] Most overseas storage sites for U.S. nuclear weapons, particularly in Europe, need substantial improvements in physical security measures and the personnel who guard the weapons, according to a newly available Air Force report. "Most sites require significant addi...

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