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  • Obama says willing to visit Hiroshima

    AFP – Tue Nov 10, 5:14 am ET  
    The atom-bomb ravaged Dome and Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.... AFP/Jiji Press/File

    TOKYO (AFP) - US President Barack Obama is willing to visit the nuclear-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while in office but won't go there during a Japan trip this week, he said in an NHK TV interview Tuesday. Full Story »

  • Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima in future

    AP – Tue Nov 10, 5:10 am ET  
    FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, U.S. Ambassador to Japan... AP

    TOKYO - President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan to go to the cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II. Full Story »

  • Clinton says nuclear race not in Iran's interest

    AFP – Tue Nov 10, 12:22 am ET  
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said pursuing nuclear weapons... AFP/DDP/File

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said pursuing nuclear weapons was not in Iran's own interest as she pressed Tehran to accept a UN-backed deal. Full Story »

  • U.S. says can give Iran time to okay nuclear deal

    Reuters – Mon Nov 9, 9:52 pm ET  
    Map showing the border region between Iraq and Iran where three... AFP graphic

    VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States is willing to give Iran time to decide whether to accept a U.N.-brokered deal meant to allay suspicions it is after atomic bombs but which has drawn Iranian objections, a U.S. diplomat said Monday. Full Story »

  • Clinton urges Iran to accept U.N. nuclear offer

    Reuters – Mon Nov 9, 3:16 pm ET  

    BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Iran to accept a U.N.-drafted proposal to have uranium for a medical reactor enriched abroad. Full Story »

  • Iran still wants nuke talks with world powers

    AP – Mon Nov 9, 10:03 am ET  
    An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US mural painted on the wall... AFP/File

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran still wants talks with world powers over fuel supplies to a Tehran nuclear reactor — despite the country's apparent rejection of a U.N. plan to curb Iran's enriched uranium stockpile. Full Story »

  • Soviet H-bomb scientist Ginzburg dies

    Reuters – Mon Nov 9, 3:43 am ET  
    Vitaly Ginzburg, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, attends... Reuters

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin's purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project and later won the Nobel Prize for physics, died in Moscow late on Sunday after a long illness. He was 93. Full Story »

  • US, Pakistan negotiate deal on nuke security: report

    AFP – Sun Nov 8, 5:23 pm ET  
    A Pakistani Abdali missile, capable of carrying nuclear warheads,... AFP/File

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine. Full Story »

  • US says open to NKorea visit

    AFP – Fri Nov 6, 10:00 pm ET  
    US special representative on North Korea Stephen Bosworth speaks... AFP/File

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said it was open to sending an envoy to Pyongyang but insisted that North Korea prove it is serious about giving up nuclear weapons for good. Full Story »

  • Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead: report

    Reuters – Thu Nov 5, 6:26 pm ET  
    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony... Reuters

    LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic's scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition. Full Story »

  • IAEA found nothing serious at Iran site: ElBaradei

    Reuters – Thu Nov 5, 2:15 pm ET  
    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed... Reuters

    VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. Full Story »

  • NKorea claims to expand arsenal of atomic bombs

    AP – Tue Nov 3, 7:06 pm ET  
    Satellite image of Yongbyon, North Korea released by DigitalGlobe... Reuters

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing North Korean nuclear arsenal. Full Story »

  • NKorean plutonium production violates UN resolutions: US

    AFP – Tue Nov 3, 3:04 pm ET  
    This handout photo taken in January 2009 shows unused fuel rods... AFP/HO/File

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - North Korea's plutonium production for atomic weapons "runs counter" to its disarmament commitments and "violates" UN Security Council resolutions, the State Department said Tuesday. Full Story »

  • US: NKorea plutonium moves violate commitments

    AP – Tue Nov 3, 2:17 pm ET  
    France's special envoy on North Korea, Jack Lang, has arrived... AFP

    WASHINGTON - The United States says North Korea's use of more nuclear fuel for weapons violates the North's past commitments at international disarmament talks. Full Story »

  • Iran began nuclear arms plants in 2000: opposition

    AFP – Tue Nov 3, 1:47 pm ET  
    Iranian Mehdi Abrishamchi, head of a peace commission, shows... AFP

    PARIS (AFP) - Iran has been building secret nuclear weapons labs separate from its uranium enrichment sites since as early as 2000, the country's main opposition group in exile claimed Tuesday. Full Story »

  • AP – Tue Nov 3, 11:20 am ET  

    WASHINGTON - Chancellor Angela Merkel pledges to remain a 'strong and dependable' partner of United States. Full Story »

  • Exiled group says Iranian nuclear site needs check

    AP – Tue Nov 3, 10:00 am ET  
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a news conference... Reuters

    PARIS - An exiled Iranian opposition group called on the U.N. nuclear agency Tuesday to waste no time in examining a hidden site near Tehran that it claims is used to help build nuclear detonators. Full Story »

  • North Korea says has made more arms-grade plutonium

    Reuters – Tue Nov 3, 3:30 pm ET  
    Fire-fighters wearing protective gear take part in an anti-terrorism... Reuters

    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium, giving the mercurial state more material to produce atomic arms. Full Story »

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