Vitaly Ginzburg Dies at 93; Worked on Soviet H-Bomb
New York Times - 2 hours 59 minutes agoMr. Ginzburg, a Russian physicist, helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb and went on to win the Nobel Prize.
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No worries at Iran uranium site: IAEA chief
Space War - Sun Nov 8, 9:36 pm ETVienna (AFP) Nov 6, 2009 - UN experts found "nothing to be worried about" during their first inspection of a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran, UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Thursday.
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Pakistan rejects report questioning nuclear weapons' safety
Space War - Sun Nov 8, 9:34 pm ETIslamabad (AFP) Nov 8, 2009 - Pakistan on Sunday angrily rejected a media report that raised fears of a militant takeover of the Taliban-hit nation's nuclear weapons and suggested that the US had a hand in protecting the arsenal.
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Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached
AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 7, 3:13 pm ETRussia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.
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Russia sees nuke deal with U.S. by January
The Record and Herald News - Sun Nov 8, 10:04 am ETMOSCOW — Russia and the United States have a good chance at signing a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.
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Medvedev: Russian arms deal with U.S. hopeful
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Sun Nov 8, 1:11 am ETRussia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released yesterday.
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Seymour M. Hersh: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?
The New Yorker - Sun Nov 8, 12:01 am ETIn the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should have been some of the country’s best-guarded targets. In the most brazen strike, ten gunmen . . .
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Author re-examines Truman's controversial decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan
The Kansas City Star - Sat Nov 7, 11:16 pm ETDid Harry Truman’s combat experience play a role in his decision to drop the atomic bomb? D.M. Giangreco, a Kansas City area author who for 20 years served as an editor at Military Review, thinks it could have.
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US says open to NKorea visit
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 10:00 pm ETThe United States said it was open to sending an envoy to Pyongyang but insisted that North Korea prove it is serious about giving up nuclear weapons for good.
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Deal for new Honeywell nuclear weapons plant in KC advances
The Kansas City Star - Sat Nov 7, 12:06 am ETA $650 million development agreement to build a new nuclear weapons plant for Honeywell is bound for the Kansas City Council after being endorsed Friday by a development agency. The board of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City voted unanimously to approve the plan, which calls for a private developer, CenterPoint Zimmer LLC, to build a 1.4 million-square-foot campus at ...
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IAEA report: Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design
The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 4:00 am ET• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
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Nov. 6, 1944, '71: A Double Nuke Anniversary
Wired News - Fri Nov 6, 12:25 am ETIn 1944, weapons-grade plutonium is first produced, making the atom bomb possible. Twenty-seven years later, see how things have progressed.
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BREAKING: Correction -- Livermore Director Makes Just $442,000
Albuquerque Journal - Fri Nov 6, 11:32 am ETGeorge Miller, the director of the nation's third nuclear weapons lab, Lawrence Livermore, makes $442,000 not $442 million, as was reported earlier on this blog. The number was correct in Friday's Albuquerque Journal. Because the three nuclear weapons research centers are run for the government by private companies, the directors' salaries were not previously a matter of public record, but were ...
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The mullahs' big week
Jewish World Review - Fri Nov 6, 6:07 am EThttp://www.JewishWorldReview.com | At first glance, this past week seems like a week that Iran's mullahs would very much like to forget. Early Wednesday morning, IDF naval commandos boarded the merchant ship Francop and diverted it to the naval base at Ashdod.
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Lawrence S. Wittner: Advice on moving toward a nuclear-free world
The Capital Times - Fri Nov 6, 5:54 am ETAddressing a U.N. Security Council Summit on Sept. 24, President Barack Obama observed that the resolution unanimously adopted by the Security Council earlier that day "enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons."
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Sandia Director Makes $1.7 million
Albuquerque Journal - Thu Nov 5, 9:32 pm ETSandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter makes $1.7 million per year, according to data made public this week. Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio makes $800 thousand per year. The numbers became public this week when the labs reported them as one of the conditions of accepting money under the federal stimulus program. The compensation triggered outrage from critics ...
