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The U.S. needs a new, modern arsenal of nuclear weapons to use as a deterrent to attacks from other nations for the remainder of the 21st century, the top military commander for strategic warfare said Tuesday.
Thanks to global warming, nuclear energy is hot again. Its promise of abundant, carbon emissions-free power is being pushed by the president and newly considered by environmentalists. But any expansion won't come cheap or easy.
An escalating war of words across the world's last Cold War, nuclear-armed border spiraled dramatically yesterday when North Korea threatened to wreak total destruction on its neighbour to the south.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has formally ordered the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency to conduct an inventory of all U.S. nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon-related materials to make sure all items are accounted for, according to a Pentagon memo released Thursday.
In one of those ironies of history, advocates of "unconditional talks" with Tehran may make war more not less likely.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has said France will reduce its number of airborne nuclear weapons by one third. Mr Sarkozy said the reduction to fewer than 300 missiles would leave France with "half the maximum number of warheads we had during the Cold War".
When President Bush assumed office, Iran was not a nuclear power. When his successor takes the oath of office next year, however, Iran will have achieved (or be on the verge of achieving) that status.
Roger L Simon, the screenwriter and executive honcho of Pajamas Media, had what he called "one of those rare zen moments of simplicity" while watching some or other presidential debate the other day. "It all comes down," he wrote, "to a simple question:
Moscow: Russia has warned Iran that it may support new potential UN sanctions unless it stops enriching uranium within the next few days.
French armed forces will take part in large-scale war games in the Gulf next week, underlining France's growing military presence in the region amid heightened tensions over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
''"The assassination of Hizbullah arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was only the first in a string of assassinations that Israel is planning to carry out against senior figures of Hizbullah, Hamas and perhaps even Iran," Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper quoted Israeli sources as saying o …
An exiled Iranian opposition group on Wednesday claimed that Teheran has accelerated its alleged nuclear weapons program, including the production of nuclear warheads. [Alireza Jafarzadeh, head of...]
LIEBERMAN ON AMERICA'S CHALLENGES February 15, 2008 -- ASKED to describe the threats the next president will face, Sen. Joe Lieberman's voice remains calm - but there's no mistaking his determination to win every fight forced upon us.
"Any movement on creating a weapon of such potential of course worries others too, and, in addition, raises suspicions concerning Iran over its possible desire to create a nuclear weapon," Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov was quoted as saying by Interfax and RIA Novosti …
Does America Really Want "Mack The Knife's" Finger Near the Nuclear Button? Senator John McCain may appear presidential, but one aspect of his fitness for command has been strikingly absent from media scrutiny; and the severity of it is alarming.
Today there's two stories I wanted to look at: Israel won't accept nuke weapons in Iran By LAURIE COPANS, Associated Press Writer
And apparently, we fell for it. Don't we have intelligence agencies to ferret out the real from the fake threats?
For the second time in two weeks, the entire U.S. press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch's London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation.
''Described by many as "peripatetic", Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz was true to that Aristotelian view of the world when as part of his 20 some minutes of remarks he offered a single, quietly powerful statement:
WASHINGTON, DC—A report released Monday by the Defense Intelligence Agency suggests that there is reason to believe that the former Soviet republic of Nukehavistan may be manufacturing nuclear weapons.
US special forces snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Excerpt- ''US special forces snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.''
Israeli military intelligence analysts publicly dispute the NIE on Iran
New York: Iran did shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003 but restarted it a year later, dispersing the equipment to thwart international inspectors, an overseas Iranian opposition group told the Wall Street Journal.
Bush Administration turned a blind eye to Iranian nuclear program in exchange for Iran's cooperation in Iraq.
In truth, Bush seemed as befuddled as everyone else about how and why the nation's intelligence community — the 16 federal agencies charged with spying — had issued an NIE that so profoundly undermined his provocative rhetoric toward Iran. As recently as Oct.
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