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In a television interview with ABC News broadcast on Monday night, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rejected charges that a memo published last week by a British newspaper proves that Iran has been working on a trigger for a nuclear weapon.
A leaked memo appearing to show Tehran's efforts to design an atomic bomb trigger was forged by the United States, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.S. news program.
Russia and the United States plan unprecedented cuts to their Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons under a new arms reduction deal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- China signaled resistance to any U.S. and European push for tougher United Nations sanctions on Iran, saying talks aimed at preventing its development of nuclear weapons should be given a chance to succeed.
By United Press International WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Charges that Iran has a secret program to make a trigger for a nuclear weapon are false and the documents they are based on are forgeries Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad told ABC News in an interview aired Monday.
Russia's top military officer says that Moscow and Washington are likely to sign a new nuclear arms control deal early next year.
Russia and the U.S. are likely to sign a new nuclear arms control deal early next year, but they are still facing "serious difficulties" in talks, Russia's top military officer said Monday.
Military force would have only limited effect in stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons but must remain an option, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator called for a global nuclear weapons ban on Monday but insisted all nations — including his own — have the right to develop nuclear energy.
Iran's leaders have worked to pursue nuclear energy technology since the 1950s, spurred by the launch of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program. It made steady progress, with Western help, through the early 1970s.
A leading arms control expert, George Perkovich says Iran's domestic political turmoil has seemingly caused it to back out of an agreement with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany to send its processed uranium out of the country.
Concern over Iran is in an accelerating mode without any positive endgame in sight. The consequences for the United States and its allies demand new levels of resolve that are not without danger.
GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona says the United States must try sanctions to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon before considering other options like a military attack.
For the first time in almost five months, a Catholic priest who came to Weld County last August to protest nuclear weapons is out of jail. Friends of Father Carl Kabat, 76, bonded him out of jail Monday - with his permission - after his first day of trial on misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and trespassing at a nuclear missile silo near New Raymer. For a case involving misdemeanor ...
Jury selection began this morning in the trial of a Missouri priest who is said to have been protesting nuclear weapons when he entered a Weld County missile silo facility last August. Father Carl Kabat, 76, has been in jail since his Aug. 6 arrest, in which he was charged with two misdemeanor counts of trespass and criminal mischief. Both charges carry at most a year in jail upon conviction. If ...
Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has called for the disarmament of all nations with atomic weapons, but said all countries have the right to develop nuclear energy.
