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Japan Reaffirms Anti-Nukes Policy
Thursday, March 11, 2010Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada reaffirmed yesterday that the island nation has no intention of amending its antinuclear stance, the Asahi Shimbun reported (see GSN, March 10). ...
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Middle East States Frustrated by Nuclear Treaty, Egyptian Diplomat Says
Thursday, March 11, 2010A leading Egyptian diplomat said yesterday that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has left nations in the Middle East feeling duped, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, March 8). ...
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WMD Disposal Forces Take Part in U.S.-South Korea Drill
Thursday, March 11, 2010U.S. soldiers trained in dealing with weapons of mass destruction are taking part in a large-scale military exercise with South Korea, the senior U.S. military official in the South said yesterday (see GSN, ...
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China Seen Building Long-Range Conventional Missiles
Thursday, March 11, 2010An independent assessment found that China appears to be producing more ICBMs than nuclear warheads, suggesting the country is preparing some long-range missiles to carry out non-nuclear attacks, the ...
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Russia Drills for Nuclear War
Wednesday, March 10, 2010Russia's strategic missile forces today launched a three-day drill expected to simulate the use of nuclear weapons, RIA Novosti reported (see GSN, Sept. 9, 2009). ...
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Khan Offered Expansive Nuke Deal to Iraq in 1990, Report Says
Wednesday, March 10, 2010Former top Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is thought in 1990 to have offered then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein a comprehensive deal for development of a nuclear bomb, the Washington Post ...
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Pentagon Won't Discuss Possible Nuke Stops in Japan
Wednesday, March 10, 2010Following official confirmation from Japan yesterday of a decades-old secret pact with the United States, the U.S. Defense Department declined to say whether it had ever transported nuclear weapons through ...
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North Korea Vows to Continue Nuclear Weapons Buildup
Wednesday, March 10, 2010North Korea announced yesterday that it would continue to build up its nuclear forces and accused the United States of doing everything in its power to "bring down" the Stalinist regime, Reuters reported (see ...
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India, U.S. Hit Obstacles on Fuel Reprocessing Deal
Wednesday, March 10, 2010India and the United States made little progress in recent negotiations over a spent fuel reprocessing arrangement, and a deal might not be reached until after the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review ...
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Russia Removes Nuclear Fuel From Sub
Wednesday, March 10, 2010Russia has finished removing spent nuclear fuel from a decommissioned Borisoglebsk K-496 submarine, Interfax reported yesterday (see GSN, March 2). ...
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Arms Control Advocates Call for Nuke-Free Arctic Zone
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Amid growing military interest in the Arctic, a new report urges nations that border the North Pole region to declare it a nuclear weapon-free zone, the Canwest News Service reported today (see GSN, Feb. 2, 2009). The report's authors, Michael Wallace and Steven Staples of the Canadian Pugwash Group, argue that in light of anticipated future competition over the Arctic's territory and resources, establishing the zone now would be a sensible precautionary measure that would also protect the area's environment from possible nuclear mishaps. There are five nuclear weapon-free zone treaties covering Latin America and the Caribbean, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Africa (see GSN, Aug. 17, 2009). The Antarctic is also considered a zone, as are the seabed, space and the moon, according to the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. -
No START Deal Needed by April Nuclear Summit, White House Says
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 The Obama administration said yesterday it hopes to reach agreement with Russia on a new strategic arms control treaty "in short order," but suggested there is no pressing need to conclude negotiations ahead of the U.S. Global Nuclear Security Summit next month, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, March 9). "If it takes, quite frankly, many more weeks past April to get something that we believe is in our best interest, then we're not looking to rush the negotiations," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, pledged last July to cut their nations' respective strategic arsenals to between 1,500 and 1,675 deployed nuclear warheads under a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired in December. Negotiators have reportedly also agreed to reduce each state's arsenal of nuclear delivery vehicles -- missiles, submarines and bombers -- to between 700 and 800, down from the 1,100-vehicle limit set by the leaders. -
Iranian Troubles Seen Aiding West in Nuclear Dispute
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 The United States and several partner nations believe that the internal unrest in Iran could be used to help resolve the standoff over the Middle Eastern nation's nuclear activities, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday (see GSN, March 9). The Obama administration turned to the new strategy -- financially isolating Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard and backing the nation's dissidents in a bid to alter Iranian nuclear policies -- as its pursuit of a negotiated resolution to the nuclear dispute has increasingly appeared unproductive. Washington, Israel and several European governments suspect Iran's nuclear program is geared toward weapons development, an allegation Tehran has denied. "Sanctions are increasingly being looked at by the administration in the context of how these measures could be potentially helpful to the cause of political reform in Iran. Depriving the Revolutionary Guard of the ability to sign billion-dollar contracts and turning them into an international pariah would be welcomed by many democratic activists in Iran," said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. -
Syria, Israel Unveil Plans For Nuclear Energy
Tuesday, March 9, 2010Syria and Israel both announced their intentions today to pursue atomic energy capabilities, which for Jerusalem could lead to more international scrutiny on its widely assumed but always undeclared nuclear ...
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Bills Could Tighten U.S. Sanctions on Iran
Tuesday, March 9, 2010Several U.S. lawmakers yesterday urged Congress to pass legislation that would require the Obama administration to investigate and report on firms suspected of doing business with both Iran and the U.S. ...