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President Barack Obama's envoy for North Korea makes a rare visit to the reclusive communist state on Tuesday pursuing a mission analysts say has little chance of breaking the stalemate over Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
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.
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.
The Tehran regime, which has elevated hostage-taking to a tool of diplomacy, defies the laws of God and man. So how can it be trusted to keep its word about nuclear weapons?
TOKYO -- Two months after taking power, Japan's new leadership is still raising alarms in the United States with its continued scrutiny of the countries' more than half-century-old security alliance. But this reconsideration is not a pulling away from the United States so much as part of a broader, mostly domestic effort to outgrow Japan's failed postwar order, say political experts here.
(Washington, D.C.): U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are expected to sign a major nuclear arms control agreement this month.
The nuclear missile operators, maintainers and protectors at Malmstrom Air Force Base went under a new command Tuesday, but their new Global Strike Command leader said the transition won't change their day-to-day operations.
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