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Iran said it will provide the U.N. nuclear watchdog with the bare minimum of information about its plan to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, a stance sure to stoke Western suspicions about its atomic agenda.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday Iran would enrich uranium to a higher level itself, apparently ruling out a U.N.-brokered deal meant to dispel fears Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons capability.
Not many people know that four non-nuke states in Europe host nuclear bombs and have air forces ready to drop them. It's time to rid Europe of this anachronism
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.
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.
South Korea Wednesday questioned North Korea's calls for a peace treaty with the United States, declaring its real aim is to buy time to make more nuclear weapons.
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.
A new top inspector took charge Tuesday of the International Atomic Energy Agency as it faces one of the most turbulent periods in its 52-year history.
Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945. Einstein warned against use of the atomic bomb because it would trigger a global arms race that would threaten all life on Earth.
Iran's leaders continue to reject compromises over their nuclear program and are rebuffing the IAEA. The West is likely to respond with tighter sanctions, but that is unlikely to satisfy Israel, which has attack plans already drawn up.
The White House warned Iran Tuesday that it faces further sanctions if "they don't stop their enrichment activities, if they don't forsake their nuclear weapons program."
North Korea will mothball its nuclear weapons for a billion dollars a year, Iran will not build nukes at all and Middle East peace is just round the corner, at least according to one game theorist courted by the CIA.
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