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Medvedev takes control of Russian nuclear arsenal Moscow (AFP) May 7, 2008 
Newly inaugurated President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday formally assumed control of Russia's nuclear arsenal at a Kremlin meeting in which a military officer brought him a black nuclear briefcase. Medvedev, who was sworn in to succeed Vladimir Putin earlier, took command in the presence of Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov at a sombre meeting that contrasted with his glittering inauguratio ... read more |
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Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) May 7, 2008India successfully tested a nuclear-capable missile Wednesday that can hit targets deep inside China, joining the ranks of nations possessing intermediate-range missile capacity, the defence ministry said. It marked the third test of the Agni-III missile - India's longest-range ballistic missile - and was staged "to establish the repeatability of the missile's performance," defence ministr ... more Analysis: U.S. eyes Korea/Iran contract 
Washington (UPI) May 7, 2008 U.S. forces are investigating two contracts to build schools in northern Iraq that required bathroom fixtures to be supplied by Iran. The new elementary and middle schools built in Erbil were also authorized by a South Korean member of coalition forces, against U.S. contracting rules, but officials say this practice has been stopped and corrected. The contracts for both the Sarw ... more 79 Religious Organizations Oppose Energy Department Plan For New Nuclear Bomb Plant 
Washington DC (SPX) May 06, 2008Seventy-nine Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and Protestant groups have joined together to reject administration plans to reactivate the U.S. nuclear weapons infrastructure and build new nuclear bomb plant facilities, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) have announced. In a formal letter to the Energy Department, religious organizations from across the country called instead ... more US envoys head to Asia in new bid for NKorean nuclear declaration 
Washington (AFP) May 6, 2008The United States launched a new diplomatic push Tuesday to obtain a long-sought cornerstone to scrapping North Korea's atomic arms by sending key envoys this week to Pyongyang and nearby capitals. The State Department said its Korea office director Sung Kim was due Thursday in the North Korean capital while Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte will leave Wednesday for Tokyo, Seoul and ... more SKorea expects NKorea nuke talks soon 
Seoul (AFP) May 2, 2008North Korea is expected to deliver its promised nuclear declaration within two weeks and six-party disarmament negotiations could resume soon afterwards, a senior South Korean official said Friday. The upbeat assessment follows a US newspaper report that the communist state has tentatively agreed to give Washington substantial records from its nuclear complex to back up the declaration. ... more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) May 1, 2008Iran could be just months away from fully mastering nuclear technology, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Thursday, citing intelligence estimates. "The Iranians could cross the technological line within a relatively short time, within months, before the end of the year," he told army radio. "We have to prepare for that scenario," said Mofaz, who was speaking while on an ... more Pentagon denies report of new Iran war planning 
Mexico City (AFP) April 30, 2008The United States remains focused on halting Iranian meddling inside Iraq, the Pentagon's spokesman said here Wednesday, denying reports of new planning for military options against Iran. "I'm not aware of any ramping up or revision of war plans for Iran," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters traveling with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is winding up a two day visit here. ... more US Air Force planned nuclear strike on China over Taiwan: report 
Washington (AFP) April 30, 2008The US Air Force considered a plan to drop nuclear bombs on China during a confrontation over Taiwan in 1958, but was overruled by then-president Dwight Eisenhower, declassified documents showed Wednesday. Eisenhower instead ordered military officers to initially use conventional bombs against Chinese forces if the crisis escalated, according to previously secret US Air Force history. Th ... more Syria nuclear disclosure a warning to North Korea, Iran: Bush 
Washington (AFP) April 29, 2008President George W. Bush said Tuesday he disclosed details of an alleged Syrian nuclear drive to send a clear "message" to North Korea and Iran that they could not hide their nuclear activity. The president expanded on the Syrian facility destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in September in a news conference also consumed by fears of economic recession and his lingering hopes for a deal on a ... more Analysis: Azeris seize Iran nuke material 
Washington, April 29, 2008 Amid increasingly rancorous U.S.-Iranian relations over Tehran's nuclear energy program, the U.N. sanctions regime scored a small victory March 29 when Azerbaijan's customs and frontier officials detained a Russian cargo bound for Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility. Khazar Ibragim, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry, said the convoy of trucks carrying the shipment, sent from ... more |
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Washington (UPI) April 28, 2008 When Yasser Arafat first addressed the U.N. General Assembly in November 1974, he told the world body he came bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand," stated the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, at that time still considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel. Today, the odds have increase ... more Congress Angry Over Syrian Intel Delays As Assad Denies Nuke Plans 
Washington (AFP) April 27, 2008Top US legislators questioned Sunday why the US only revealed this week that Syria had built a military-oriented nuclear facility, and asked why Washington had not shared its intelligence with the UN's nuclear watchdog. "I was surprised that they hadn't given the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," Senator Diane Feinstein, a member of the Senate Select Committee on ... more Outside View: Iran's nuclear fuel stalled 
Moscow (UPI) pril 25, 2008 Azerbaijani customs officials have been keeping a single Russian trailer -- which they describe as a truck convoy -- carrying absolutely safe heat-insulating equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant at the Astara checkpoint on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border since March 29. Russia sees no reason for this. "We have an agreement on the transit of the cargo across Azerbaijan ... more US says it does not trust North Korea 
Washington (AFP) April 26, 2008A day after accusing North Korea of helping Syria build a covert nuclear reactor, the United States said it did not trust the hardline communist state, which is negotiating to end its atomic weapons drive. "We are not yet to the trust part, we are still working on the verify part," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday, paraphrasing late president Ronald Reagan's signature ph ... more Syrian reactor was almost operational: US officials 
Washington (AFP) April 24, 2008US intelligence officials said Thursday that a Syrian nuclear reactor built with North Korean help had been close to becoming operational when it was destroyed last year by an Israeli strike. "We assess that the reactor was complete and startup could have begun at any time," a senior US intelligence official told reporters. "The reactor was destroyed in an Israeli air strike early in the ... more
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