”nuclear weapons” News

Syria to allow probe of alleged nuclear site

VIENNA, Austria - Syria will allow in U.N. inspectors to probe allegations that the country was building a nuclear reactor at a remote site destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday.
06 3 2008 1:51AM (...more)

Arabs push through nuclear vote against Israel

VIENNA (AFP) - Arab states on Thursday pushed through a resolution at the UN atomic agency clearly aimed at Israel , calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.
09 21 2007 6:44AM (...more)

US experts leave for NKorea to begin disabling nuclear arsenal

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A team of US experts left Tuesday for North Korea to disable the hardline communist state's nuclear weapons arsenal in a crucial phase of a six-nation disarmament pact.
10 10 2007 12:09PM (...more)

Japan says NKorean nukes threaten world

UNITED NATIONS – Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama warned the world community that North Korea's nuclear weapons
09 25 2009 3:42PM (...more)

NKorea denies nuclear links with Syria

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea 's foreign ministry Tuesday denied allegations that the communist country may be helping Syria develop a nuclear weapons facility .
09 18 2007 4:50PM (...more)

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)

Khan must be questioned over nuclear blueprints: ex-inspector

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A former arms inspector said on Monday the United States and the UN atomic watchdog must be allowed to question Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan to learn if he sold blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon to Iran or North Korea .
06 18 2008 11:54PM (...more)

U.S. to remove plutonium from 1,000 old atom bombs

VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States will remove frommilitary stockpiles nine tonnes of plutonium, enough for morethan 1,000 atom bombs, to demonstrate its commitment tonon-proliferation, the U.S. energy secretary said on Monday.
09 18 2007 1:17PM (...more)

McCain, Obama would toughen sanctions on Iran

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama both said on Tuesday they would work if elected to toughen sanctions on Iran to stop it acquiring nuclear weapons .
10 8 2008 7:11PM (...more)

US diplomat travels to China for talks with NKorea

WASHINGTON - The State Department's top Korea expert will travel to China for talks meant to spur North Korea to agree to a plan allowing inspectors to verify its declared nuclear program.
08 13 2008 9:44AM (...more)