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Russia halts further nuclear cutbacks
The cheer over Russia’s approval of a new nuclear disarmament treaty is short-lived as it masks Moscow’s reluctance to ensure further cuts, threatening US President Barack Obama’s vision of a nuclear-free world. Russia is going through the final motions of ratifying a new START treaty that reduces old nuclear warhead ceilings by 30 percent and
North Korea’s uranium for making bombs: South Korea
SEOUL: North Korea’s new uranium enrichment programme is designed to make nuclear weapons, South Korea’s foreign minister has said, rebutting Pyongyang’s claims that it is for peaceful use. “I think it is part of an attempt to produce nuclear bombs on top of plutonium-based ones,” Kim Sung-Hwan said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency
US tried to protect 3 in CIA nuclear spy effort: book
The United States pressured Swiss authorities not to prosecute three people suspected of weapons trafficking who had been helping a CIA spy effort, according to a book released this month. In the book “Fallout: The True Story of the CIA’s Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking,” authors Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz argue that pressure helped
China rejects report of nuclear policy shift
China on Thursday strongly denied reports that it would consider a pre-emptive nuclear strike if it had no other way to defend itself against a nuclear-armed state — a move that would be a shift in policy. “Since the very first day that China possessed nuclear weapons, the Chinese government made a solemn pledge to
China shifting nuclear rules of engagement: report
The Chinese military would consider a pre-emptive nuclear strike if it had no other way to defend itself in a war against another nuclear-armed state, Kyodo News said Wednesday, citing Chinese documents. The policy, called “Lowering the threshold of nuclear threats” may indicate a shift from China’s pledge not to first fire nuclear weapons under
Iran opens nuclear sites to selected nations
TEHRAN: Iran said on Tuesday it will open its atomic sites to some world powers, in a rare move swiftly dismissed as “antics’ by the United States, which along with Britain, France and Germany, is not invited. Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said invitations to visit Iran’s nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak have been
North Korea may stage atom test to boost heir: think-tank
North Korea may carry out another atomic test next year to bolster the status of leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-Un, a Seoul state think-tank said Friday, a day after the North threatened a nuclear attack. Tensions remain high on the peninsula a month after the North bombarded a South Korean border island and killed four people including
Israel destroyed Syria nuclear reactor: WikiLeaks
Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in an air raid just weeks before it went online in 2007, said a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks and published on Friday in an Israeli daily. “On September 6, 2007, Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor built by Syria secretly, apparently with North Korea’s help,” then US secretary
US Senate set to ratify Russia nuclear treaty
WASHINGTON: A landmark nuclear arms control treaty binding the United States and Russia sailed over a last US Senate procedural hurdle Tuesday, setting the stage for ratification a day later. Lawmakers voted 67-28 to end debate on the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), rallying the margin necessary to hand President Barack Obama a major