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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.
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.
President Obama delivers his much anticipated address on Afghanistan Tuesday night. NPR senior news analyst Ted Koppel joins Neal Conan for a discussion of what we expect to hear from Obama, and how he'll try to bring the country, Congress and U.S. allies on board.
Iran's announcement of plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment facilities is largely bluster after a strong rebuke from the U.N.'s nuclear agency, analysts said Monday. Nonetheless, the defiance is fueling calls among Western allies for new punitive sanctions to freeze Iran's nuclear program.
WASHINGTON -- With a decision on Afghanistan , we will now see if a reluctant president can persuade a reluctant Congress and inspire a reluctant nation to accept additional wartime sacrifice. But the administration must feel relieved. The mere act of choosing releases accumulated tension. - That relief, however, will be short-lived. Coinciding with the Afghan decision, Iran has entered a final ...
Amano, 62, handled nuclear proliferation issues for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for three decades. He joined the IAEA’s 35-member board of governors in September 2005 and was elected the agency’s director general in July.
Malmstrom Air Force Base officially transferred to the new Global Strike Command in a ceremony held today at the base.
An influential Iranian leader suggested on Monday Iran should quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty in protest against a U.N. censure over its nuclear activity, but its atomic energy chief dismissed such a move.
Loading of the government's new storehouse for bomb-grade uranium is expected to begin in mid-February, according to the latest projections.Construction of the $549 million Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility was essentially completed in late 2008, and since then, workers have been installing equipment, applying finishing touches to the high-security structure and conducting test ...
He infuriated Washington by challenging claims Saddam Hussein had a secret nuclear program, grappled with Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and brought luster and unprecedented scrutiny to his organization by winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
Iran sees little point in staying in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, a senior official said on Monday, a day after Iran announced plans to build 10 more nuclear sites in a swipe at growing pressure to rein in atomic activity.
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