Nuclear weapons: Can they be stopped?
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Nuclear technology is now so widespread that it is only political will which stops many countries from making nuclear weapons. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN&#39;s nuclear regulatory body the
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You're responsible for protecting your nation from a nuclear-missile strike. The alarm bells go off and your monitor says you're under attack. You should counterattack, and quickly. But, well, you have this feeling that something isn't right. What do you do?
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charge Iran vehemently denies. The IAEA has found many previously concealed nuclear activities in Iran. but no &quot;smoking gun&quot; backing the US view.
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US and Russia resort to name-calling over Ukraine. The UN's atomic energy agency warns that Pyongyang has enough weapons-grade plutonium for up to six a-bombs. The Pope gets his due in a graphic novel.
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It was a mistake, the Air Force says -- and the public was never in danger. But nevertheless, a B-52 armed with six nuclear warheads flew for more than three hours last week across several states. They meant to take the warheads off the missiles before they mounted them under the wings, but somebody goofed. A commander is fired over the incident.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The Bush administration has come under fire for stating before a United Nations conference that the U.S. nuclear arsenal is not on "hair-trigger alert" -- an assertion that arms-control experts criticized as "inaccurate" and "misleading."
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Vienna - More than 40 countries with peaceful nuclear programmes could retool them to make weapons, the head of the UN atomic watchdog agency said on Monday amid new USand European demands that Iran give up technology capable of producing such arms.
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PARIS, March 8 -- The United Nations atomic monitoring agency on Thursday curtailed nearly two dozen nuclear technical aid programs to Iran, part of a continuing international effort to pressure the country to halt its uranium enrichment program.
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Analysis: More tough talk, another provocation. What's behind Pyongyang's threat to test a nuclear weapon?
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By Anonymous  Broader Space Arms Control Is Needed  As Geoffrey Forden ("After China's Test: Time for a Limited Ban on Anti-Satellite Weapons," Anns Contrat Tbday, Mardi 2007) indicates, space arms control has been stalled for many years, primarily by US.
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Choose between nuclear weapons and a future The US has warned North Korea that it can have nuclear weapons or it can have a future - "but it cannot have them both", the BBC reports.â¦
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North Korea has made another strong statement about its nuclear capability. At the United Nations on Monday, a North Korean minister said his country had made arms from reprocessed nuclear fuel rods.
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A study led by former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix called Thursday for outlawing nuclear weapons and reviving global cooperation on disarmament including security guarantees to curb the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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Iran has offered to stop some activities linked to uranium enrichment, diplomats said Tuesday. The United States said the move would not stop it from trying to have Tehran hauled before
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UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea has reprocessed the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and used it for weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said yesterday. Warning that the danger of war on the Korean peninsula ''is snowballing,&quot; Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon blamed ...
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It's not going to be pretty folks.  Mr. Sarkozy praised the current diplomatic initiative by the world's powers, a two-pronged approach that threatens tougher United Nations-mandated sanctions if Iran does not stop enriching uranium for possible use in a nuclear weapon, but holds out the possibility of incentives if Iran complies.   That approach, he said, "is the only one that can enable us to avoid being faced with an alternative that I call catastrophic: an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran."