”nuclear weapons” News

The Old and New Shapes of Nuclear Danger

The Nation --"After I became an American citizen, the thing that standsout so clearly in my
12 11 2007 2:17PM (...more)

India lobbies for backing on nuclear deal

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India on Friday asserted its credentials as a "responsible" nuclear weapons state in last-minute lobbying for international backing for its atomic energy deal with the United States.
09 7 2008 4:57AM (...more)

Europe's Secret Nuclear Weapons: What Should NATO Do?

Is Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike? Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets? And what about Germany - a country where fear of atomkraft is so great that the last government opposed
12 3 2009 3:28PM (...more)

Report: Russia building new nuclear submarines

MOSCOW – Russia said that new submarines will be armed with improved nuclear-tipped cruise missiles , a state-connected news agency reported Friday. ITAR-Tass quoted the
03 28 2009 12:32PM (...more)

U.S. report: Iran halted nuclear weapons drive in 2003

WASHINGTON — Iran halted its secret effort to develop a nuclear weapon four years ago and doesn't appear to have restarted the project, a comprehensive new U.S. intelligence report said Monday.
12 4 2007 10:42AM (...more)

Official: US has to stop the nuclear black market

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is not doing enough to buy uranium and plutonium on the black market and keep it out of the hands of terrorists, criminals and rogue states, the Energy Department's top intelligence official said Monday.
06 18 2008 5:50PM (...more)

Analysis: Obama no-nukes pledge not so farfetched

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama 's startling call Friday for a "world without nuclear weapons" brings to mind Ronald Reagan 's idealistic, unfulfilled dream
04 4 2009 4:18PM (...more)

Clinton outlines how U.S. might deal with nuclear Iran

PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sketched out on Wednesday how the United States might cope with a nuclear Iran -- by arming its allies
08 19 2009 5:10AM (...more)

The Case for Nuclear Abolition

05 30 2009 4:26PM (...more)

North Korea still holds plutonium card: analysts

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's threat to restart its plant that makes arms-grade plutonium is feasible, although the task would be a daunting one, analysts said on Wednesday.
08 28 2008 4:25PM (...more)