”nuclear materials” News

Nations can't agree India nuclear pact, set Sept talks

VIENNA (Reuters) - A 45-nation meeting on whether to lift a ban on nuclear trade with India ended inconclusively on Friday after many raised conditions for the move, leaving the future of a controversial U.S.-Indian nuclear deal unclear.
08 23 2008 11:14AM (...more)

Obama calls for 'world without' nukes

PRAGUE – Just hours after North Korea launched a long-range rocket, President Barack Obama called for "a world without nuclear weapons" and said the United States
04 6 2009 5:02AM (...more)

IAEA, Iran in silent standoff over nuclear probe

VIENNA (Reuters) – An inquiry by the U.N. nuclear watchdog into alleged atom bomb research by Iran has degenerated into a silent standoff a few months after Tehran asserted "the
12 6 2008 1:19PM (...more)

Iran says nuclear technology program to go ahead

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran will never abandon its "legal and obvious" right to nuclear technology, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday,
10 24 2009 2:38AM (...more)

Russia hopes U.S. Congress will pass nuclear pact

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia hopes better ties with the new U.S. administration could help to revive a bilateral civilian nuclear pact potentially worth billions of dollars in trade, a senior Russian official said on Thursday. The
02 22 2009 6:53PM (...more)

IAEA chief sets out nuke-free vision, cites Obama

VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief called for a huge cut in U.S. and Russian atom bomb stocks in setting out a world vision he said drew momentum from new U.S. President 02 6 2009 3:33AM (...more)

Obama to Call for New Efforts to Curb Nuclear Arms

April 5 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will outlinean agenda designed to eventually rid the world of its nucleararsenal in a speech today just hours after North Korea ’s
04 6 2009 3:34AM (...more)

U.N. atom watchdog clears Libya, sounds wider warning

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday it had verified Libya's elimination of a covert atom bomb project , but that the ease with which a Pakistani-led ring supplied it with weapon designs had alarming wider implications.
09 13 2008 4:18PM (...more)

Progress seen in talks on US-India nuclear deal

VIENNA, Austria - Nations that export nuclear equipment and technology edged closer to a compromise Thursday on a contentious U.S. plan to sell peaceful atomic technology to India despite its longtime refusal to sign global nonproliferation accords.
09 5 2008 6:49PM (...more)

Talks resume on US-India nuclear technology deal

VIENNA, Austria - International talks resumed Thursday on a contentious U.S. plan to sell peaceful nuclear technology to India — a deal that critics contend would reverse decades of progress in discouraging nations from potentially developing weapons of mass destruction .
09 5 2008 7:03PM (...more)