Vitaly Ginzburg Dies at 93; Worked on Soviet H-Bomb
New York Times - 1 hour 36 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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Alyn Ware: Thinking the Unthinkable on Nuclear Policy
The Huffington Post - Thu Nov 5, 4:53 pm ETIt's become commonplace to say we can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. There's a grain of truth to this, but it doesn't mean we can't still make complete nuclear disarmament a reality.
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IAEA Chief: Iran's Nuclear Program About Winning Recognition, Prestige
Payvand Iran News - Thu Nov 5, 11:44 am ETAs he prepares to step down as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the end of this month, Muhammad el-Baradei has been speaking a lot about Iran and its nuclear program and the challenges that will face the international community.
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JOHNSON: Iran a hard target to penetrate
The Washington Times - Thu Nov 5, 6:10 am ETOPINION/ANALYSIS: It's time to hit the pause button and cease the attacks on the intelligence community over its 2007 judgment that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program. The rush to declare the community guilty of sins ranging from incompetence to perfidy may serve the political purposes of some, but it only further weakens an already bruised relationship between the intelligence and ...
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Elbaradei Reports On Global Nuclear Activity
Payvand Iran News - Thu Nov 5, 10:14 am ET"We have no indication, no complete proof, that Iran has an ongoing nuclear weapons program," said Mohamed ElBaradei. "Iran's program is an effort to force recognition of its role as a regional power. In my view Iran's nuclear program is a means to an end. It wants to be recognized as a regional power. They believe the nuclear know-how brings prestige, brings power and they would like to see the ...
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Mohamed ElBaradei looks to US to fix nuclear system 'in tatters'
The Christian Science Monitor - Wed Nov 4, 8:03 pm ETAs head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei says the world has not done well in preventing nuclear proliferation. But ElBaradei has high hopes for the Obama administration.
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N. Korea Confirms Bomb-Making Plutonium
OfficialWire - Thu Nov 5, 12:27 pm ETNorth Korea has confirmed that it has completed additional extraction of plutonium for its atomic weapons program, ratcheting up pressure on the United States to begin bilateral talks.
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Triple threat in Tehran: Mad mullahs building nukes, arming terrorists, crushing dissent
New York Daily News - Wed Nov 4, 9:01 pm ETWe interrupt reveries about the Yankees with a dose of reality: Iran is racing headlong toward a nuclear weapon, fueling ever more terrorism and brutalizing its citizens.
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France Calls Situation in Iran 'Dangerous'
Fox News - Wed Nov 4, 2:57 pm ETFrance is worried about the latest violence in Iran as well as Tehran's failure to reply to U.S.-backed proposals to export most of its enriched uranium for processing into fuel for a nuclear research reactor.
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US, NKorea agree to hold bilateral meetings: report
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 3, 9:59 pm ETThe United States and North Korea have agreed to hold two rounds of bilateral meetings before the North returns to multilateral nuclear disarmament talks, a US news report said.
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N. Korea claims to expand arsenal of atomic bombs
The Durango Herald - Thu Nov 5, 2:31 am ETSEOUL, South Korea - North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing North Korean nuclear arsenal.
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'These weapons can wipe out everything'
KOMO Seattle - Wed Nov 4, 8:41 pm ETFive anti-war protesters made quite an entrance at Naval Base Kitsap this week. They cut through fences, breached security, and wandered around for four hours before naval police caught them. They say they are just trying to bring a message of peace.
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Iran Raises Uranium Output as Photos Show Need for Wider Checks
Bloomberg - Wed Nov 4, 5:28 am ETNov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Satellite photos indicate that Iran has increased production at a uranium mine, underscoring the need for wider UN inspections to determine whether the country is trying to build a nuclear weapon.
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Meeting Highlight
Foreign Relations - Wed Nov 4, 6:22 pm ETMohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) speaking at the New York office of the Council on Foreign Relations on November 4, discussed ongoing negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program.
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North Korea says has made more arms-grade plutonium
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 3, 3:30 pm ETNorth Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium, giving the mercurial state more material to produce atomic arms.
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NKorean plutonium production violates UN resolutions: US
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 3, 3:04 pm ETNorth Korea's plutonium production for atomic weapons "runs counter" to its disarmament commitments and "violates" UN Security Council resolutions, the State Department said Tuesday.
