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  • November 2007

    • US Team to Disable Nuke Plant

      Reuters  |  Nov 1, 07 2:50 PM CDT

      US Team to Disable Nuke Plant

      (Newser) - A US team arrived in Pyongyang today and is to begin disabling North Korea's nuclear complex this week—a process which experts say will zap plutonium production for at least a year, but falls short of destruction. North Korea has agreed to abandon its nuclear program in exchange for 1 million metric tons of heavy fuel oil or its equivalent, Reuters reports. More »

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      North Korea  • nuclear weapons  • nuclear facilities

  • October 2007

    • Cheney Amps Up Rhetoric Against Iran

      Reuters  |  Oct 21, 07 7:56 PM CDT

      Cheney Amps Up Rhetoric Against Iran

      (Newser) - Cheney threatened "serious consequences" today if Iran doesn't drop its nuclear program, Reuters reports. "Our country and the entire international community cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions," he told the audience at a think-tank forum. One analyst called Cheney's threat "quite significant. That’s very strong words and it does have implications.”  More »

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      George W. Bush  • Iran  • Dick Cheney  • Syria  • Lebanon  • nuclear weapons  • diplomacy  • Tehran  • peace

    • USAF Officers Take Rap for Missing Nukes

      CNN  |  Oct 19, 07 5:50 PM CDT

      USAF Officers Take Rap for Missing Nukes

      (Newser) - Nearly 2 months after a B-52 loaded with nuclear warheads took an unauthorized flight from North Dakota to Louisiana, the Air Force has relieved four officers of duty, CNN reports. After a 6-week investigation, 70 airmen will be disciplined for what the Air Force secretary called an "unacceptable mistake and a clear deviation from our exacting standards," the AP reports. More »

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      Robert Gates  • nuclear weapons  • Air Force  • Minot Air Force Base

    • Bush: Iran Risks 'World War III'

      New York Times  |  Oct 17, 07 10:41 PM CDT

      Bush: Iran Risks 'World War III'

      (Newser) - In a cantankerous press conference today, President Bush warned that Iran risks starting World War III if it develops nuclear weapons. His remarks came as reporters sought his reaction to Vladimir Putin's comments, after meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday, that the West should not only rule out military action against Iran, but stop talking about it, the New York Times reports. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Russia  • Iran  • France  • United Nations  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Vladimir Putin  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • nuclear weapons  • sanctions  • multilateral sanctions

    • Israeli Strike on Syria Hit Nuke Reactor

      New York Times  |  Oct 13, 07 6:21 PM CDT

      Israeli Strike on Syria Hit Nuke Reactor

      (Newser) - Israel's air strike on Syria last month was aimed at a nuclear reactor, US and Israeli intelligence analysts say. The partly-built facility was based on a North Korean model—a link that could harm Pyonyang's new denuclearization deal if Israel can prove that Kim Jong Il helped mount the reactor. US and world officials were mum about the origins of Syria's technology, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Iran  • Israel  • Dick Cheney  • North Korea  • Syria  • nuclear weapons  • nuclear reactor  • ballistic missile program

    • Putin Threatens to Pull Out of Nuke Treaty

      Reuters  |  Oct 12, 07 8:11 AM CDT

      Putin Threatens to Pull Out of Nuke Treaty

      (Newser) - Vladimir Putin kicked off a meeting with Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates today in Moscow by threatening to withdraw from a treaty governing intermediate-range nuclear missiles unless it was expanded to include other countries. The pugnacious Russian president also warned his American visitors not to push ahead with the missile shield the administration is planning to install in Eastern Europe. More »

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      Russia  • Condoleezza Rice  • Vladimir Putin  • Robert Gates  • nuclear weapons  • missile shield  • Sergei Lavrov

    • Radiation Weapon Plot Comes to Light

      Associated Press  |  Oct 8, 07 3:22 PM CDT

      Radiation Weapon Plot Comes to Light

      (Newser) - Newly declassified Army documents reveal the US mulled the use of a radioactive weapon to assassinate “important individuals” and contaminate “critical areas for long periods of time.” The heavily censored records date to 1948 and show the weapon was approved for development at the highest levels, reports the AP, which originally requested the documents in 1995. More »

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      Japan  • US Army  • nuclear weapons  • censorship  • Cold War  • radiation  • atomic bomb

  • September 2007

    • Only Details Left in North Korea Disarmament

      Reuters  |  Sep 30, 07 2:47 PM CDT

      Only Details Left in North Korea Disarmament

      (Newser) - North Korea’s nuclear disarmament seems near at hand. Delegates from six-party negotiations returned home today to walk their governments through the plan's “nuts and bolts.” The talks fleshed out Korea’s February pledge to disarm for fuel aid. “Assuming we go forward with this, it lays out an entire roadmap through the end of the year,” said the US envoy. More »

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      China  • Russia  • Japan  • South Korea  • North Korea  • nuclear weapons  • nuclear  • negotiations

    • Korea Denies Secret Nuclear Pact with Syria

      Associated Press  |  Sep 18, 07 10:44 AM CDT

      Korea Denies Secret Nuclear Pact with Syria

      (Newser) - North Korea and Syria each strongly denied a secret nuclear alliance today, after an Israeli raid in Syria, rumored to be aimed at a nuclear installation, raised suspicions. North Korea called the pact a fabrication designed to stall progress in its multi-national nuclear negotiations, while a state-run Syrian newspaper said it was a “flagrant lie.” But the AP says senior US officials confirm Korean presence in Syria. More »

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      China  • Israel  • North Korea  • Syria  • nuclear weapons  • nuclear proliferation

    • Israeli Raid on Syria Had Iran in Sights

      Newsweek  |  Sep 17, 07 5:50 PM CDT

      Israeli Raid on Syria Had Iran in Sights

      (Newser) - Arab governments aren’t talking too loudly about the reported Israeli bombing of Syrian territory two weeks ago.  They’re waiting to see what the fallout is, Newsweek notes, for the real intended target—Syrian sponsor Iran. The raid appears to have been a signal that Israel will act against Tehran with or without Western support, Newsweek sleuths conclude, and may even have been an attack on imported North Korean nuclear technology. More »

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      Iran  • Israel  • United States  • North Korea  • Syria  • nuclear weapons  • Damascus  • John Bolton

    • France Warns of War with Iran

      BBC  |  Sep 17, 07 4:24 AM CDT

      France Warns of War with Iran

      (Newser) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner yesterday threatened war with Iran to  halt its nuclear weapons program. France favors negotiations and sanctions but the world should prepare for military action if all else fails, he said in an interview on French TV. Iranian nuclear weapons would pose "a real danger for the whole world," he warned. More »

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      Iran  • France  • United Nations  • European Union  • war  • nuclear weapons  • sanctions  • Bernard Kouchner

    • Al-Qaeda Threat Worse Than Before 9/11

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 13, 07 7:35 AM CDT

      Al-Qaeda Threat Worse Than Before 9/11

      (Newser) - Al-Qaeda has revived and is capable of pulling off another 9/11, a London think tank has concluded. The US has “failed to deal a death blow to al-Qaeda,” which has extended its influence and is now stronger than it was six years ago, the British strategic institute warned at a press conference yesterday. More »

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      Iraq war  • Pakistan  • Iran  • al-Qaeda  • terrorism  • War on Terror  • September 11  • nuclear weapons

    • Nukes Go Missing in Mix-Up

      Military Times  |  Sep 5, 07 11:50 AM CDT

      Nukes Go Missing in Mix-Up

      (Newser) - Five nuclear warheads were briefly unaccounted for last week, the Military Times reports, when the warheads were not removed from missiles carried by a B-52 bomber prior to its flight from North Dakota to Louisiana. Though the weapons were in Air Force control at all times and there was no danger to the public, an investigation is under way. More »

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      nuclear weapons  • Air Force  • disappearance

    • N. Korea Agrees to Ban Nukes

      BBC  |  Sep 2, 07 1:49 PM CDT

      N. Korea Agrees to Ban Nukes

      (Newser) - North Korea has promised to disable all of its nuclear facilities by the end of this year, the BBC reports, possibly paving the way for warmer relations between the US and a country it now lists as a supporter of terror. After meeting with representatives from the North, US negotiator Christopher Hill called the talks “very good and very substantive.” More »

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      China  • Russia  • Japan  • United States  • South Korea  • North Korea  • nuclear weapons  • Kim Jong Il  • Pyongyang  • nuclear reactor  • Yongbyon  • Christopher Hill

  • August 2007

    • US May Take North Korea Off Terror List

      Reuters  |  Aug 30, 07 4:37 AM CDT

      US May Take North Korea Off Terror List

      (Newser) - The US may be willing to remove North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, qualifying the country for American aid and World Bank loans, before Pyongyang has dismantled its nuclear weapons program. In the run-up to talks with North Korean officials in Geneva this weekend, the lead US negotiator hinted yesterday at the possibility of removal. More »

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      list  • terrorism  • United States  • North Korea  • nuclear weapons  • Pyongyang  • Yongbyon  • Geneva

    • French Prez Warns of 'Bombing Iran' Over Nukes

      Times (UK)  |  Aug 28, 07 4:50 AM CDT

      French Prez Warns of 'Bombing Iran' Over Nukes

      (Newser) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy took a bead on Iran in his first major foreign policy speech yesterday, suggesting that if Iran's nuclear weapons program wasn't halted, bombing could be the only alternative. He called Iran's atomic ambitions "without doubt the most serious crisis that weighs today on the international scene.” More »

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      Iran  • France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Nouri al-Maliki  • nuclear weapons  • Bernard Kouchner

    • Hillary to Barack: 'Don't Even Do as I Say'

      Associated Press  |  Aug 10, 07 2:45 PM CDT

      Hillary to Barack: 'Don't Even Do as I Say'

      (Newser) - A year before Hillary Clinton blasted Barack Obama’s prohibition on nukes against Pakistan, she made one on using them in Iran. The AP reports the frontrunner’s head-shaking rebuke last week—no “president should make any blanket statements” about nuke use—doesn't jibe with her own position last year. “I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table,” Clinton said in April 2006. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • election 2008  • Pakistan  • Iran  • presidential campaign  • nuclear weapons

    • Clinton, Obama in Nuke War

      ABC News  |  Aug 2, 07 6:25 PM CDT

      Clinton, Obama in Nuke War

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a Cold War of words over how their putative administrations would handle the US nuclear arsenal. Clinton launched a scathing attack on Obama's apparent reluctance to deploy nukes against al-Qaeda, calling "blanket statements with respect to the use or nonuse of nuclear weapons" unpresidential. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • election 2008  • al-Qaeda  • presidential election  • nuclear weapons

  • July 2007

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