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North Korea Takes ‘Positive First Step’ On Nukes, Official Says
The North Korean government has agreed to stop all nuclear activities at its main production and testing plant and to allow the return of inspectors, in a move a Defense Department official described as a positive step toward denuclearization of the communist state. The North Korean leadership’s decision “is a positive first step toward complete [...]
Pakistan rejects report of unsafe nukes
Pakistan on Sunday angrily rejected a report that it had been moving its nuclear weapons in unsafe conditions, saying nobody should underestimate its capability to defend itself. Two US magazines reported Friday that Pakistan has begun moving its nuclear weapons in low-security vans on congested roads to hide them from US spy agencies, making the [...]
Stratcom Chief Discusses US Nuclear Triad
While 10 years of war have focused the military on conventional weapons, the nation’s nuclear force is in need of attention, a senior officer told Defense Writers Group reporters yesterday. Air Force Gen. C. Robert “Bob” Kehler leads U.S. Strategic Command, which with its subordinate and functional commands is responsible for missile defense; global strike; [...]
Israel a threat to region because has atomic bomb: Erdogan
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday branded Israel as a “threat” to its region, accusing it of owning nuclear weapons, in a defence of Palestinians. “I right now see Israel as a threat for its region, because it has the atomic bomb,” Erdogan said in a foreign policy speech during an official visit [...]
US tried to stop Pakistan nuclear drive
The United States waged a secret diplomatic campaign in the 1970s to prevent Pakistan from developing nuclear weapons by pressing countries to control exports, declassified documents said. In remarks with striking parallels to current US debates, officials in President Jimmy Carter’s administration voiced fear about Pakistan’s trajectory and tried both pressure and aid incentives to [...]
More nuke treaties remain on agenda, official says
With one major arms reduction treaty nearly to the enforcement stage, more work lies ahead to advance the nation’s nuclear security, a senior State Department official said Jan. 19. Rose Gotemoeller, the State Department’s assistant secretary for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, spoke about that work at the National Academy of Sciences [...]
Tritium Supplies for US Nukes in Jeopardy, Says GAO
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been unable to overcome the technical challenges it has experienced producing tritium. To produce tritium, stainless steel rods containing lithium aluminate and zirconium —called tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBAR)—are irradiated in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Watts Bar 1 commercial nuclear power reactor. Despite redesigns of several components [...]
Pakistan nukes safe despite growing militant threat: Clinton
LONDON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday the latest militant attack in Pakistan shows an “increasing” threat to the state, but voiced confidence Islamabad was in control of its nuclear arsenal. Clinton told reporters in London that the militants’ brazen bid to storm the Pakistani military headquarters in Rawalpindi on Saturday highlighted the [...]
US confident Pakistan nukes secure: CIA chief
LOS ANGELES: CIA director Leon Panetta said Monday US intelligence officials did not know the exact whereabouts of all Pakistan’s nuclear weapons but believed they were safe from the Taliban. Speaking in Los Angeles, the Central Intelligence Agency chief said Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal was “pretty secure” amid concerns that the weapons could possibly fall into [...]
