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Russia and the United States are close to a deal to cut vast arsenals of nuclear weapons, Russia said on Friday, as the world's two biggest atomic powers rush to replace a Cold War treaty that expires at midnight.
Having a nuclear weapon fall into the wrong hands is one of those cataclysmic possibilities that ranks up there with global warming's worst-case scenario or a large meteor on a collision course with Earth.
Having a nuclear weapon fall into the wrong hands is one of those cataclysmic possibilities that ranks up there with global warming's worst-case scenario or having a large meteor on a collision course with Earth.
Moscow - The US and Russia will not sign a follow-up nuclear disarmament treaty to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) by its expiration on Saturday, the Interfax news agency reported the Russian foreign ministry as saying. The curren...
TODAY Sacramento State's Japan Club and members of the community will spend this Sunday folding one thousand paper cranes to send to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Japan. Sunday's event will be the Japan Club's second annual Origami-A-Thon. The Origami-A-Thon aims to promote world peace by folding one thousand paper cranes held together by strings.
Americans are facing a dangerous situation with the war in Afghanistan, and students at the University of New Mexico need to be part of the national dialogue.
The first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, considered by many as the most comprehensive arms control treaty in history, will expire tomorrow.
As his Administration pursues a path toward nuclear disarmament, President Obama has stated that, in the meantime, he will seek to maintain an effective U.S. nuclear arsenal.
A senior U.S. delegation will travel to North Korea next week for talks aimed at restarting nuclear disarmament negotiations.
US envoy Stephen Bosworth will visit Pyongyang next week at the start of an Asia-Russia tour aimed at bringing North Korea back to nuclear disarmament negotiations, officials said Thursday.
Once again, a medical screening program designed for the early detection of lung cancer is available to eligible current and former Department of Energy K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant nuclear weapons workers.
December 3, 2009: Particularly in media centers, like Moscow, politics is a contact sport, with a high body count. Businessmen or politicians who have angered government officials, major gangsters, or each other, still get shot dead in public.
KEARNEY - Sadako Sasaki was 2 years old when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
Tehran (AFP) Dec 2, 2009 - A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Iran will itself enrich uranium up to 20 percent purity in a blow to Western efforts to stop Tehran's sensitive nuclear activities.
Owning nuclear weapons seems to be controlled by the elite countries of the world: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom (England), France, and China.
Takashi Tanemori was 8 years old when an atomic bomb destroyed his home city of Hiroshima. "I had a 14-month-old baby sister, and I had promised my daddy that I would love and protect her with all my heart and all my soul," Tanemori told Marin Academy students Wednesday as part of the school's participation in the World March for Peace and Non-Violence.
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