Nuclear Weapons

HEAVY BREATHING at a nuclear weapons plant….

Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

HEAVY BREATHING at a nuclear weapons plant.

Tighten safety rules for nuclear bomb bases, says Scottish government

Rob Edwards (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

from Sunday Herald, 22 November 2009 The Scottish government is to press Westminster to tighten up the regulation of nuclear bomb bases in Scotland following a series of safety problems revealed by the Sunday Herald. Scottish ministers have promised to lobby the UK government to close the loopholes which allow the Faslane and Coulport bases on the Clyde to escape statutory scrutiny by government watchdogs....

Iran to Hold War Games to Protect Nuclear Sites

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said Saturday, reflecting the country's concern that Israel could make good on threats to strike militarily. The five-day drill will involve Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard and the regular army and will cover 230,000 square miles...

• Iran begins war games to protect nuclear sites - Boston Globe
• Iran holds nuclear defence exercises - News Scotsman
• See the 16 articles on the same subject

Japan admits secret pact: reports

The Age (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A Japanese government team has found documents on an alleged secret pact with the US to transport nuclear weapons through its territory.

• Japan admits secret pact: reports - Sydney Morning Herald
• DPJ to admit existence of secret nuke pact - Japan Times

How North Korea's Arms Trade Funds Its Nuclear Program

War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday

North Korea Arms Trade Funds Nuclear-Bomb Work, UN Panel Says -- Bloomberg Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea is running a global arms smuggling enterprise to finance its nuclear weapons program, a United Nations panel said in a report on sanctions imposed on the regime. “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has established a highly sophisticated international network for the acquisition,...

• North Korea Arms Trade Funds Nuclear-Bomb Work, UN Panel Says - Naval Open Source INTelligence

You don't say: Outlook for tough Iran sanctions is dim

Middle East Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday

Well yes, we already knew the outlook for tough Iran sanctions is dim - USSR and China watered down all previous sanctions resolutions, didn't they? But as the Obama administration had about 10 months to prepare for this moment, you would've thunk they had thought about the problema and worked out solutions, no? Apparently not. Don't ever take it for granted that the people in charge know what they...

• Trying for Sanctions Against Iran - Boots and Sabers

Sign the Petition for Nuclear Disarmament to: Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, United Nations

thoughts from podunk (Free subscription) | yesterday

We wish to add our voices to the global campaign for an end to nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We believe that the world needs to take urgent action to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to make the world free of nuclear weapons, as part of the overall drive for worldwide peace and the transfer of military spending to socially-useful ends. The international treaties concerning...

The man who won't lie for peace

Covenant Zone (Free subscription) | yesterday

Wishful thinking pervades discussion of some fancied Middle East "peace process". Here's an excellent video of a lecture given at Yale by Prof. Barry Rubin that touches on many issues but especially on the nature of Arab antisemitism and why, at the end of the day, Israel simply cannot exist in the Arab mind. That's to say, the predominant ideology in the Arab world, in which Jews are but...

Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come

AterSlash (Free subscription) | yesterday

The NY Times reports that the Jason panel, an independent group of scientists advising the federal government on issues of science and technology, has concluded that the program to refurbish aging nuclear arms is sufficient to guarantee their destructiveness for decades to come, obviating a need for a costly new generation of more reliable warheads, as proposed by former President Bush. Senator Jon...

Chairman Berman’s opening statement at hearing, “Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?”

Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday

U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Thursday, November 19, 2009 Verbatim, as delivered Americans have the right to travel to Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, which seeks a nuclear weapons capability in violation of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. We can go to North Korea, which threatens to destabilize East Asia with its nuclear weapons program....

War Is for Children

Pen and Sword (Free subscription) | yesterday

“It really boils down to one of two decisions, getting out or getting in.” --President Lyndon Johnson, speaking about Vietnam. “Soldiers came to school today,” announced the Kindergarten kid. "They only kill bad people. They don't kill good people." This is story comes to us by way of Jon Letman of Truthout. The Kindergarten kid was his son, who is five. Letman relates...

Letters: Herman rains on Tone's parade

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Do I detect a certain regret that Tony Blair failed in his bid to become president of the European council ( Comment , Leaders , 20 November)? Is there a single person left in this country who does not share in the shame of the deceit over Iraq? Anthony Marrian London • It is a major missed opportunity for the future prosperity, and indeed safety, of Europe that Tony Blair has been deemed too...

Pakistan amasses more nukes than India

Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

By Arnold Bhebhe Pakistan is reported to have amassed 70 to 90 nuclear weapons and India 60 to 80 as both countries alongside China race for more arsenals deploying them at different sites to escape detection. Eminent American atomic experts Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen in an article “Nuclear Notebook: Worldwide Deployment of Nuclear [...]

On Nuclear Disarmament for Iowa

Blog for Iowa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

On Nuclear Disarmament for Iowa by Paul Deaton When Dr. Helen Caldicott moved from Australia to the United States, she became what Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy called, “the First Lady of the Nuclear Freeze Movement in the 1980s.” Less well known is that Dr. Caldicott traveled around Iowa with Tom Harkin during his first campaign for election to the United States Senate in 1984,...

Syria suspected of concealing nuclear activity

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

WASHINGTON - The International Atomic Energy Agency and Syria are walking a tightrope and appear to be headed toward a collision over two nuclear sites where undeclared uranium was recently found. The agency found traces of uranium at the Dair Alzour nuclear site that are not included in Syria's declared inventory, according to a just released report. The Syrians said the uranium came from the Israeli...

Obama- Medvedev Summit in Russia -By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

abdulruff | 05/07/2009

Obama- Medvedev Summit in Russia -By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ***** I. In international affairs relations between the strongest UNSC veto powers USA and Russia occupy the center slot and perhaps rightly so. Both jointly and divided they decide...

Obama's Russia Visit -By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

abdulruff | 04/07/2009

Obama's Russia Visit -By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ***** I. In international affairs relations between the strongest UNSC veto powers USA and Russia occupy the center slot and perhaps rightly so. Both jointly and divided they decide the fate of...