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Archive for Category: "Nuclear Weapons News"

North Korea Nuclear Disarmament Talks Near End

Voice of America news, The North Korean nuclear disarmament talks closed Saturday with widespread reports suggesting the Chinese hosts will announce a recess Sunday morning, temporarily ending the negotiations. Diplomats say the talks are deadlocked over North Korea's refusal to dismantle all of its nuclear programs. After twelve days of intense negotiations the six-party talks [...]

Iran nuclear programme poses no threat to intl peace, security

Itar-Tass, MOSCOW: Russia

DoD to Notify Gulf War Vets on Latest Chem Agents Study

American Forces Press Service / DoD, WASHINGTON: The Defense Department is again sending letters to thousands of Gulf War veterans exposed to low levels of chemical agents contained in munitions destroyed at a weapons depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq, in March 1991. A study released this week by the Institute of Medicine here concluded that veterans [...]

Bush Move To Share Nuclear Technology With India Comes Under Fire

AFP, Washington: US President George W. Bush has set a dangerous precedent by moving to lift a ban on civilian nuclear technology sale to nuclear armed India, which has not signed up to global non-proliferation rules, some analysts and lawmakers said Tuesday. The warning came as a bipartisan energy panel of the US House of [...]

World Not Addressing Dangers Of Russian Nuclear Stash: Experts

AFP, Tokyo: Nuclear weapons are the greatest danger to the world, with the slow pace of dismantling Russia's arsenal of particular concern as terrorists seek out nuclear material, experts said here Tuesday. “The gravest danger in the world today is the threat of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction,” said former US senator Sam [...]

Seven years after going nuclear, India and Pakistan thriving

AFP, NEW DELHI: Based on the experiences of India and Pakistan since they tested nuclear weapons in 1998, North Korea could be forgiven for thinking the price of carrying out an atomic test is worth paying. The South Asian rivals at first triggered global condemnation, only to emerge stronger as key partners in the US-led [...]

Russia has no plans for nuclear weapons in space – top commander

AFP / AFX, MOSCOW: Russia has no intention of putting nuclear weapons into space, a top Russian military commander was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. 'Russia doesn't plan to do that — I can say that categorically,' General Vladimir Popovkin — head of Russia's military space command — said in response to a [...]

US May Consolidate Nuke/WMD Stockpile

Project On Government Oversight, Consolidating and shrinking the nation

DoD Tests

US Department of Defense, FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas: Department of Defense specialists are testing a cutting-edge technology so revolutionary military scientists said it will change the face of biological warfare. The joint biological agent identification and diagnostic system, a 40-pound device small enough to slip into a rucksack, is designed to vastly increase the speed [...]

 
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