Report: Toshiba, other companies aim to develop small nuclear reactors
Banking on a possible shift to nuclear energy as the world tries to cut down its carbon emissions, Toshiba, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries reportedly are working on small, less expensive nuclear reactors that can be used by developing countries. Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE59N0CN20091024
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Monday, October 26, 2009
EU-South Korean deal to benefit nuclear power sector
EU-South Korean deal to benefit nuclear power sector
The European Commission has unveiled details of how a new trade agreement between South Korea and the European Union will benefit the nuclear energy sector. The deal should boost trade in equipment and fuel inputs in both Europe and South Korea.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-EU_South_Korean_deal_to_benefit_nuclear_power_sector-2210095.html
The European Commission has unveiled details of how a new trade agreement between South Korea and the European Union will benefit the nuclear energy sector. The deal should boost trade in equipment and fuel inputs in both Europe and South Korea.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-EU_South_Korean_deal_to_benefit_nuclear_power_sector-2210095.html
Survey: U.S. public strongly supports nuclear energy
Survey: U.S. public strongly supports nuclear energy
A survey of 1,000 Americans found that 75% agreed with expanding the use of nuclear energy as a means to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The survey, commissioned by the Nuclear Energy Institute, also found that 61% of those polled supported the use of nuclear energy in the country, marking the ninth straight year that favorability levels exceeded 60% in surveys. World Nuclear News
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-US_public_support_for_nuclear_remains_high-2310096.html
Support for reprocessing and action on waste
26 March 2009
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A clear majority of US citizens would support recycling and reprocessing of used nuclear fuel, according to a new opinion poll which also found good all-round support for nuclear.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Support_for_reprocessing_and_action_on_waste_2603094.html
A survey of 1,000 Americans found that 75% agreed with expanding the use of nuclear energy as a means to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The survey, commissioned by the Nuclear Energy Institute, also found that 61% of those polled supported the use of nuclear energy in the country, marking the ninth straight year that favorability levels exceeded 60% in surveys. World Nuclear News
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-US_public_support_for_nuclear_remains_high-2310096.html
Support for reprocessing and action on waste
26 March 2009
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A clear majority of US citizens would support recycling and reprocessing of used nuclear fuel, according to a new opinion poll which also found good all-round support for nuclear.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Support_for_reprocessing_and_action_on_waste_2603094.html
Group agrees on creation of international market for nuclear fuel
Group agrees on creation of international market for nuclear fuel
The world's largest nuclear-power users have agreed to find ways to curb nuclear weapons proliferation by establishing "cradle-to-grave fuel services," a global market to supply and dispose of nuclear fuel for civilian use, a U.S. official said after a meeting of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. The proposal calls for large fuel suppliers to work with smaller countries interested in building nuclear power plants without spending too much on uranium processing, disposal and the fuel's safe use. The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125639181336205887.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
The world's largest nuclear-power users have agreed to find ways to curb nuclear weapons proliferation by establishing "cradle-to-grave fuel services," a global market to supply and dispose of nuclear fuel for civilian use, a U.S. official said after a meeting of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. The proposal calls for large fuel suppliers to work with smaller countries interested in building nuclear power plants without spending too much on uranium processing, disposal and the fuel's safe use. The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125639181336205887.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
* Nuclear energy plays important role as Senate tackles climate bill
* Nuclear energy plays important role as Senate tackles climate bill
Nuclear energy has become a key bargaining chip for Democratic senators seeking Republican support for the climate-change bill. While nuclear energy still faces challenges, particularly on the issue of reactor waste, the energy source supplies one-fifth of the country's electricity as well as generates 70% of carbon-free power. "If you want to address climate change and produce electricity, nuclear has got to be a significant part of the equation," said Nuclear Energy Institute President and CEO Marvin Fertel. The Washington Post/The Associated Press (10/25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102500536.html?sub=AR
Nuclear energy has become a key bargaining chip for Democratic senators seeking Republican support for the climate-change bill. While nuclear energy still faces challenges, particularly on the issue of reactor waste, the energy source supplies one-fifth of the country's electricity as well as generates 70% of carbon-free power. "If you want to address climate change and produce electricity, nuclear has got to be a significant part of the equation," said Nuclear Energy Institute President and CEO Marvin Fertel. The Washington Post/The Associated Press (10/25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102500536.html?sub=AR
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Enrichment at heart of Iran nuclear programme
Enrichment at heart of Iran nuclear programme
Paris (AFP) Sept 25, 2009 - Enriching uranium for nuclear power -- or building a weapon of mass destruction -- lies at the heart of the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear programme. The point of enrichment -- which is to be discussed again at talks between Iran and the western powers in Vienna on Wednesday -- is to boost the ratio in uranium of the uranium-235 isotope, which splits in a chain reaction and releases ... more
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Enrichment_at_heart_of_Iran_nuclear_programme_999.html
Paris (AFP) Sept 25, 2009 - Enriching uranium for nuclear power -- or building a weapon of mass destruction -- lies at the heart of the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear programme. The point of enrichment -- which is to be discussed again at talks between Iran and the western powers in Vienna on Wednesday -- is to boost the ratio in uranium of the uranium-235 isotope, which splits in a chain reaction and releases ... more
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Enrichment_at_heart_of_Iran_nuclear_programme_999.html
Senior Iran MP says 'better' to buy nuclear fuel
Senior Iran MP says 'better' to buy nuclear fuel
Tehran (AFP) Oct 24, 2009 - Iran would be better off buying nuclear fuel directly than entering into a UN-brokered deal for a third party to enrich its uranium, a senior lawmaker said on Saturday. Alaeddin Borujerdi, head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, also said Iran's low-enriched uranium (LEU) should be retained and used in power plants. "It is better to buy 20 percent enriched ... more
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Senior_Iran_MP_says_better_to_buy_nuclear_fuel_999.html
Tehran (AFP) Oct 24, 2009 - Iran would be better off buying nuclear fuel directly than entering into a UN-brokered deal for a third party to enrich its uranium, a senior lawmaker said on Saturday. Alaeddin Borujerdi, head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, also said Iran's low-enriched uranium (LEU) should be retained and used in power plants. "It is better to buy 20 percent enriched ... more
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Senior_Iran_MP_says_better_to_buy_nuclear_fuel_999.html
Japanese firms to develop small nuclear reactors: report
Japanese firms to develop small nuclear reactors: report
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 24, 2009 - Japan's major nuclear reactor manufacturers have begun developing small nuclear power systems for both developed and emerging countries, a report said on Saturday. Toshiba Corp. is developing an ultra-compact reactor with an output of about 10,000 kilowatts and has started procedures for approval in the United States, the Nikkei business daily said. The new reactor, the Toshiba 4S, is ... more
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Japanese_firms_to_develop_small_nuclear_reactors_report_999.html
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 24, 2009 - Japan's major nuclear reactor manufacturers have begun developing small nuclear power systems for both developed and emerging countries, a report said on Saturday. Toshiba Corp. is developing an ultra-compact reactor with an output of about 10,000 kilowatts and has started procedures for approval in the United States, the Nikkei business daily said. The new reactor, the Toshiba 4S, is ... more
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Japanese_firms_to_develop_small_nuclear_reactors_report_999.html
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Will U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons Be Positioned In South Korea?
Will U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons Be Positioned In South Korea?
from War News Updates by Bookyards
U.S. soldiers take part in a joint military drill with South Korean soldiers north of Seoul in early June. KIM JIN-TAE / AFP / Getty
Calls For Nuclear Weapons In South Korea -- UPI
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- With the U.S. defense chief in Seoul for security talks, a group of scholars and retired military officials have called for a redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea to counter North Korea's nuclear drive.
They also urged the United States to delay the planned transfer of wartime control of South Korean troops to Seoul beyond 2012, citing lingering threats from the North.
Read more ....http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/10/21/Calls-for-nuclear-weapons-in-South-Korea/UPI-51191256130461/
from War News Updates by Bookyards
U.S. soldiers take part in a joint military drill with South Korean soldiers north of Seoul in early June. KIM JIN-TAE / AFP / Getty
Calls For Nuclear Weapons In South Korea -- UPI
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- With the U.S. defense chief in Seoul for security talks, a group of scholars and retired military officials have called for a redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea to counter North Korea's nuclear drive.
They also urged the United States to delay the planned transfer of wartime control of South Korean troops to Seoul beyond 2012, citing lingering threats from the North.
Read more ....http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/10/21/Calls-for-nuclear-weapons-in-South-Korea/UPI-51191256130461/
How Big Is North Korea's Nuclear Program
How Big Is North Korea's Nuclear Program
from War News Updates by Bookyards
North Korean Nuclear Arms Program Has 20 Sites, 3,000 Workers, South Says -- Global Security Newswire
South Korea said yesterday that North Korea's nuclear-weapon operations involve 20 facilities employing 3,000 personnel, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Oct. 22).
Lawmaker Lee Mi-kyung, reading from a South Korean Unification Ministry report, said that there are roughly 200 scientists and researchers among the North's nuclear work force. The Yongbyon nuclear complex contains 11 of the nuclear-related sites, while nine uranium mines and related facilities are found at two other locations.
The Unification Ministry did not dispute the data.
Read more ....
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20091023_6221.php
from War News Updates by Bookyards
North Korean Nuclear Arms Program Has 20 Sites, 3,000 Workers, South Says -- Global Security Newswire
South Korea said yesterday that North Korea's nuclear-weapon operations involve 20 facilities employing 3,000 personnel, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Oct. 22).
Lawmaker Lee Mi-kyung, reading from a South Korean Unification Ministry report, said that there are roughly 200 scientists and researchers among the North's nuclear work force. The Yongbyon nuclear complex contains 11 of the nuclear-related sites, while nine uranium mines and related facilities are found at two other locations.
The Unification Ministry did not dispute the data.
Read more ....
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20091023_6221.php
Major Nuclear Agreement Reached In The Middle East .... But No One Is Reporting It from War News Updates by Bookyards
Major Nuclear Agreement Reached In The Middle East .... But No One Is Reporting It
from War News Updates by Bookyards
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right) shakes hands with United Arab Emirates Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two countries are now completing an unprecedented cooperation deal for nuclear power in the Middle East. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters-Landov
Yes, Virginia, There is a Mideast Nuke Deal -- Newsweek
While negotiations with Iran are hitting snags at every turn, the U.S. has quietly inked a massive nuclear deal with Iran's neighbor, the United Arab Emirates.
On Friday, the world awaited Iran's decision on a proposal by Western powers that the country outsource its uranium enrichment. Enriching uranium is the key step to making a bomb, so, the thinking went, if Iran is indeed sincere about wanting a peaceful nuclear-power program, a perfect fix would be to unload the supersensitive process to one of the big nuclear states, such as Russia. Iran would build its own power plants, and everyone would be happy. No such agreement was reached, however. Iran's counteroffer remains private, but what's known is that Iran offered to buy fuel abroad but made no commitment to halt enrichment.
Read more .... http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2009/10/major-nuclear-agreement-reached-in.html
I find it amazing that on such an important issue, there is no discussion or debate in Congress, the media, or among those in the Middle East who are concerned about nuclear issues. Even those who are concerned about nuclear proliferation issues are quiet ....
Kudos to Newsweek for covering this story .... a story that (probably) everyone will forget about tomorrow.
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2009/10/major-nuclear-agreement-reached-in.html
from War News Updates by Bookyards
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right) shakes hands with United Arab Emirates Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two countries are now completing an unprecedented cooperation deal for nuclear power in the Middle East. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters-Landov
Yes, Virginia, There is a Mideast Nuke Deal -- Newsweek
While negotiations with Iran are hitting snags at every turn, the U.S. has quietly inked a massive nuclear deal with Iran's neighbor, the United Arab Emirates.
On Friday, the world awaited Iran's decision on a proposal by Western powers that the country outsource its uranium enrichment. Enriching uranium is the key step to making a bomb, so, the thinking went, if Iran is indeed sincere about wanting a peaceful nuclear-power program, a perfect fix would be to unload the supersensitive process to one of the big nuclear states, such as Russia. Iran would build its own power plants, and everyone would be happy. No such agreement was reached, however. Iran's counteroffer remains private, but what's known is that Iran offered to buy fuel abroad but made no commitment to halt enrichment.
Read more .... http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2009/10/major-nuclear-agreement-reached-in.html
I find it amazing that on such an important issue, there is no discussion or debate in Congress, the media, or among those in the Middle East who are concerned about nuclear issues. Even those who are concerned about nuclear proliferation issues are quiet ....
Kudos to Newsweek for covering this story .... a story that (probably) everyone will forget about tomorrow.
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2009/10/major-nuclear-agreement-reached-in.html
Friday, October 23, 2009
Suicide bomber strikes suspected nuclear weapons site in Pakistan
Suicide bomber strikes suspected nuclear weapons site in Pakistan
By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers
ISLAMABAD — A suspected nuclear weapons site in Pakistan was hit by a suicide bomb attack, raising fears about the security of the nuclear arsenal, while two other terrorist blasts made it another bloody day in the country’s struggle against extremism.
Increasingly daring and sophisticated attacks by terrorists allied to al Qaida on some of Pakistan’s most sensitive and best protected installations have led to warnings that extremists could damage a nuclear facility or seize some nuclear material. The country’s nuclear sites are located mostly in the northwest of the country, close to the capital Islamabad, to keep them away from the border with arch-enemy India. However, that places them close to Pakistani Taliban extremists, who are massed in the northwest. Al Qaida has made clear its ambitions to get hold of a nuclear bomb or knowledge of nuclear technology. Several other sites associated with Pakistan’s nuclear weapons have previously been hit.
Pakistan is reeling from a wave of terrorist violence that’s coincided with the launch of a U.S.-backed ground operation by the military against the country’s al Qaida and Taliban heartland of South Waziristan, on the Afghan border.
Friday morning a suicide attacker struck a check post on the boundary of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, an Air Force base at Kamra, about 40 miles outside Islamabad, killing eight people, including two security personnel, and wounding a further 15.
"There were strict security arrangements, so he [the bomber] was intercepted at the first check post," local police chief Fakhar Sultan told reporters.
More…
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/77650.html
By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers
ISLAMABAD — A suspected nuclear weapons site in Pakistan was hit by a suicide bomb attack, raising fears about the security of the nuclear arsenal, while two other terrorist blasts made it another bloody day in the country’s struggle against extremism.
Increasingly daring and sophisticated attacks by terrorists allied to al Qaida on some of Pakistan’s most sensitive and best protected installations have led to warnings that extremists could damage a nuclear facility or seize some nuclear material. The country’s nuclear sites are located mostly in the northwest of the country, close to the capital Islamabad, to keep them away from the border with arch-enemy India. However, that places them close to Pakistani Taliban extremists, who are massed in the northwest. Al Qaida has made clear its ambitions to get hold of a nuclear bomb or knowledge of nuclear technology. Several other sites associated with Pakistan’s nuclear weapons have previously been hit.
Pakistan is reeling from a wave of terrorist violence that’s coincided with the launch of a U.S.-backed ground operation by the military against the country’s al Qaida and Taliban heartland of South Waziristan, on the Afghan border.
Friday morning a suicide attacker struck a check post on the boundary of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, an Air Force base at Kamra, about 40 miles outside Islamabad, killing eight people, including two security personnel, and wounding a further 15.
"There were strict security arrangements, so he [the bomber] was intercepted at the first check post," local police chief Fakhar Sultan told reporters.
More…
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/77650.html
Thursday, October 22, 2009
From Secrecy News: NOZETTE AND NUCLEAR ROCKETRY
NOZETTE AND NUCLEAR ROCKETRY
Stewart D. Nozette, who was arrested and charged this week under the Espionage Act, is an unusually gifted and accomplished technologist. The allegation that he provided classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer in exchange for cash is distressing on several levels. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/the-scientist-who-mistook-himself-for-a-spy/
Among other things, Nozette had exceptionally broad access to a range of classified programs in defense, space and nuclear technology. According to an FBI affidavit
http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/nozette-complaint.pdf, (pdf), Nozette stated that he "held a DOE Q clearance from 1990-2000, which involved insight into all aspects of nuclear weapons programs. Held TS/SI/TK/B/G clearance 1998-2006,... Held at least 20+ SAP [special access program clearances]... from 1998-2004."
In fact, however, Nozette's participation in Department of Defense special access programs dates back even earlier, to 1990 or so. At that time he was read into an unacknowledged special access program called Timber Wind (pdf), which was an effort by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization to develop a rocket engine powered by a nuclear reactor. Dr. Nozette's name appears on a Timber Wind master access list we obtained which identified the several hundred persons who were authorized to be briefed on that nuclear rocket program.
The discovery of the hyper-classified Timber Wind program http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/tw.pdf, was an inspiration for the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, since we considered it a compelling instance of classification abuse. On a number of occasions I asked Dr. Nozette about the program, but he was always quite scrupulous about rebuffing my inquiries.
Timber Wind was canceled shortly after it became public, and other nuclear rocket initiatives likewise faded away in the 1990s, as the effort to develop nuclear rocketry for military or civilian applications surged and then collapsed, leaving behind only a bunch of good stories.
An idiosyncratic new memoir by Tony Zuppero, one of the would-be nuclear rocketeers, tells those stories as he recalls them, with sometimes alarming candor, humor, and disappointment. Dr. Zuppero had his own concept of a nuclear rocket that would open a path for human expansion into the solar system. But, he laments, "after all the effort, all the visions, I got old instead of making it happen."
Dr. Nozette, myself and the Federation of American Scientists make a few cameo appearances in Dr. Zuppero's new memoir, entitled "To Inhabit the Solar System" (pdf).http://www.neofuel.com/inhabit/inhabit.pdf
Stewart D. Nozette, who was arrested and charged this week under the Espionage Act, is an unusually gifted and accomplished technologist. The allegation that he provided classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer in exchange for cash is distressing on several levels. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/the-scientist-who-mistook-himself-for-a-spy/
Among other things, Nozette had exceptionally broad access to a range of classified programs in defense, space and nuclear technology. According to an FBI affidavit
http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/nozette-complaint.pdf, (pdf), Nozette stated that he "held a DOE Q clearance from 1990-2000, which involved insight into all aspects of nuclear weapons programs. Held TS/SI/TK/B/G clearance 1998-2006,... Held at least 20+ SAP [special access program clearances]... from 1998-2004."
In fact, however, Nozette's participation in Department of Defense special access programs dates back even earlier, to 1990 or so. At that time he was read into an unacknowledged special access program called Timber Wind (pdf), which was an effort by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization to develop a rocket engine powered by a nuclear reactor. Dr. Nozette's name appears on a Timber Wind master access list we obtained which identified the several hundred persons who were authorized to be briefed on that nuclear rocket program.
The discovery of the hyper-classified Timber Wind program http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/tw.pdf, was an inspiration for the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, since we considered it a compelling instance of classification abuse. On a number of occasions I asked Dr. Nozette about the program, but he was always quite scrupulous about rebuffing my inquiries.
Timber Wind was canceled shortly after it became public, and other nuclear rocket initiatives likewise faded away in the 1990s, as the effort to develop nuclear rocketry for military or civilian applications surged and then collapsed, leaving behind only a bunch of good stories.
An idiosyncratic new memoir by Tony Zuppero, one of the would-be nuclear rocketeers, tells those stories as he recalls them, with sometimes alarming candor, humor, and disappointment. Dr. Zuppero had his own concept of a nuclear rocket that would open a path for human expansion into the solar system. But, he laments, "after all the effort, all the visions, I got old instead of making it happen."
Dr. Nozette, myself and the Federation of American Scientists make a few cameo appearances in Dr. Zuppero's new memoir, entitled "To Inhabit the Solar System" (pdf).http://www.neofuel.com/inhabit/inhabit.pdf
U.S. Pressures Japan on Military Package John Pomfret and Blaine Harden, The Washington Post
U.S. Pressures Japan on Military Package
John Pomfret and Blaine Harden, The Washington Post
Worried about a new direction in Japan's foreign policy, the Obama administration warned the Tokyo government Wednesday of serious consequences if it reneges on a military realignment plan formulated to deal with a rising China.
Full Article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102100746.html
* Japan-U.S. Missile Defense Faces Budget Limits
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59K1G220091021
John Pomfret and Blaine Harden, The Washington Post
Worried about a new direction in Japan's foreign policy, the Obama administration warned the Tokyo government Wednesday of serious consequences if it reneges on a military realignment plan formulated to deal with a rising China.
Full Article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102100746.html
* Japan-U.S. Missile Defense Faces Budget Limits
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59K1G220091021
Poland to Accept U.S. Offer on Shield Judy Dempsey, The New York Times
Poland to Accept U.S. Offer on Shield
Judy Dempsey, The New York Times
Poland, smarting after President Obama announced last month that he would scrap Bush-era plans to deploy an antiballistic missile system in Eastern Europe, will accept an offer to host parts of a new, more mobile, missile defense system, Polish officials said Tuesday.
Full Article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/world/europe/21biden.html?_r=1
Judy Dempsey, The New York Times
Poland, smarting after President Obama announced last month that he would scrap Bush-era plans to deploy an antiballistic missile system in Eastern Europe, will accept an offer to host parts of a new, more mobile, missile defense system, Polish officials said Tuesday.
Full Article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/world/europe/21biden.html?_r=1
Iran, 3 Powers Have Till Friday to OK Nuclear Deal Mark Heinrich and Sylvia Westall, Reuters
Iran, 3 Powers Have Till Friday to OK Nuclear Deal
Mark Heinrich and Sylvia Westall, Reuters
The U.N. nuclear watchdog presented on Wednesday a draft deal to Iran and three world powers for approval within two days to reduce Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium, seen by the West as a nuclear weapons risk.
Full Article
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-43326520091022?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
Mark Heinrich and Sylvia Westall, Reuters
The U.N. nuclear watchdog presented on Wednesday a draft deal to Iran and three world powers for approval within two days to reduce Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium, seen by the West as a nuclear weapons risk.
Full Article
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-43326520091022?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
Iran Brings Urgency to U.S.'s Need to Ratify Nuclear-Test Treaty
Iran Brings Urgency to U.S.'s Need to Ratify Nuclear-Test Treaty
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=24023#
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=24023#
This Time, Ban the Test Jessica Tuchman Mathews, International Herald Tribune
This Time, Ban the Test
Jessica Tuchman Mathews, International Herald Tribune
Nuclear TestTen years ago, the Senate rejected a treaty to ban nuclear testing.
To many, this was shocking. After more than 1,000 tests there was nothing of military value left for the United States to learn unless it wanted new warheads. The Cold War had been over for a decade and the U.S. arsenal already had more warheads than imaginable targets. American conventional superiority was enormous and growing. Full Article
http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=24021
Jessica Tuchman Mathews, International Herald Tribune
Nuclear TestTen years ago, the Senate rejected a treaty to ban nuclear testing.
To many, this was shocking. After more than 1,000 tests there was nothing of military value left for the United States to learn unless it wanted new warheads. The Cold War had been over for a decade and the U.S. arsenal already had more warheads than imaginable targets. American conventional superiority was enormous and growing. Full Article
http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=24021
Nuclear Weapons In The News
Nuclear Weapons In The News
Clinton Says Atomic Agency Need Broader Authority to Find Nuclear Storage Sites
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=art3luRBJP8s
Terror threat to Pakistan increasing but nukes safe for now: Clinton
http://blog.taragana.com/n/terror-threat-to-pak-increasing-but-nukes-safe-for-now-clinton-203026/
Sec. Clinton: Sanctions On A Nuclear North Korea Will Not Be Relaxed
http://talkradionews.com/2009/10/clinton-sanctions-on-a-nuclear-north-korea-will-not-be-relaxed/
Sec Clinton: You Can Have Too Many Nuclear Weapons
http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2009/10/sec-clinton-you-can-have-too-many-nuclear-weapons.html
Clinton Says Atomic Agency Need Broader Authority to Find Nuclear Storage Sites
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=art3luRBJP8s
Terror threat to Pakistan increasing but nukes safe for now: Clinton
http://blog.taragana.com/n/terror-threat-to-pak-increasing-but-nukes-safe-for-now-clinton-203026/
Sec. Clinton: Sanctions On A Nuclear North Korea Will Not Be Relaxed
http://talkradionews.com/2009/10/clinton-sanctions-on-a-nuclear-north-korea-will-not-be-relaxed/
Sec Clinton: You Can Have Too Many Nuclear Weapons
http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2009/10/sec-clinton-you-can-have-too-many-nuclear-weapons.html
Iran OKs Draft of Deal on Exporting Nuclear Fuel
Iran OKs Draft of Deal on Exporting Nuclear Fuel
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/21/iran-agrees-on-uranium-enrichment-deal/
Iran 'Has Not Paid Russia' in 'Frozen' Missile Deal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091021/wl_mideast_afp/russiairanmilitarydefence
Clinton Calls for Strengthened IAEA Powers
http://original.antiwar.com/lobe/2009/10/21/clinton-calls-for-strengthened-iaea-powers/
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/21/iran-agrees-on-uranium-enrichment-deal/
Iran 'Has Not Paid Russia' in 'Frozen' Missile Deal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091021/wl_mideast_afp/russiairanmilitarydefence
Clinton Calls for Strengthened IAEA Powers
http://original.antiwar.com/lobe/2009/10/21/clinton-calls-for-strengthened-iaea-powers/
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