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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Tehran Outpost Looks More Likely Before Bush Leaves

Though Obama team hasn't been consulted, move could insulate Dem from criticism

Nov 7, 08 5:13 PM CST
(Newser) - The Bush administration is moving ever closer to establishing a long-rumored diplomatic office in Iran, Newsweek reports, with a decision possible by Thanksgiving on putting an “interests section” inside another embassy in Tehran, likely the Swiss. The move might signal a victory for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and... More »

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Iran • Dick Cheney • diplomacy • Tehran • Condoleezza Rice • nuclear weapons • negotiations • interests section

OPINION

Iran Cannot Be Allowed to Go Nuclear

Next president must prevent proliferation,
no matter the cost

Oct 23, 08 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US must prevent Iran from going nuclear, even if it means military intervention, write Daniel Coats and Charles Robb, heads of a bipartisan think tank on the issue. “An Islamic Republic of Iran with nuclear weapons capability would be strategically untenable,” they argue. Even if Iran doesn’... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear weapons • nuclear enrichment

OPINION

 How to Restore 
 World's Trust in US  

Next president must lead globe on disarmament, climate change

Oct 13, 08 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration has done wide-ranging damage to the US’ international image, pulling out of key treaties and unilaterally invading Iraq. The next president has got some work to do to restore its reputation, particularly in two areas: making a commitment to nuclear nonproliferation and setting a worldwide example in... More »

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climate change • Iran • environment • global warming • nuclear weapons • nuclear disarmament • Kyoto • financial crisis

 US May Yank 
 N. Korea Off 
 Terror List 

Strategy to restart nuclear diplomacy

Oct 10, 08 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is expected to provisionally remove North Korea from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, possibly as early as today, reports the Washington Post. It may be the Bush administration's last "carrot" to offer as diplomatic efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its... More »

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North Korea • State Department • nuclear weapons • Pyongyang • uranium enrichment • Kim Jong Il • plutonium • state sponsors of terror list • Christopher R. Hill

(Newser) - A slip of the "h" landed France's foreign minister in hot water yesterday, Reuters reports. Bernard Kouchner told an Israeli newspaper that a nuclear weapon would not protect Iran "because you will eat them before." France shot off a quick statement explaining that Kouchner, like... More »

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Iran • Israel • nuclear weapons • Bernard Kouchner

France Warns Israel:
Don't Attack Iran

'Talk, talk and more talk' to stop Iranian nuke program, Kouchner urges

Oct 5, 08 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The French foreign minister has urged Israel not to launch an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Reuters reports. "There are those" in Israel and the Israeli army "who are preparing for a military attack," Bernard Kouchner told an Israeli newspaper. "That's not the solution." Kouchner,... More »

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Iran • France • nuclear weapons • Bernard Kouchner • Mideast • Mideast peace

'That Is the
End of This Broadcast'

UK declassifies
BBC's Cold War script for nuclear attack

Oct 3, 08 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - A radio script that the British government planned to broadcast to survivors of a nuclear attack has been made public for the first time, the BBC reports. The script, written in the 1970s and released by the National Archives, warns listeners to stay in hiding for 14 days and to... More »

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BBC • nuclear weapons • Cold War • survivors • Britain • National Archives • nuclear attack

 India Nuclear Deal Is a Go 

Congress passes agreement three years in the making to sell nuclear material

Oct 2, 08 7:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - A deal with India to sell nuclear fuel and technology made it through Congress last night after 3 years of negotiation, the LA Times reports. The agreement, passed by the Senate moments before the bailout bill, repeals the 30-year-old ban imposed after India defied international law to develop a bomb.... More »

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nuclear proliferation • India • nuclear weapons • Manmohan Singh

OPINION

 Bush Is Right on Nuclear India 

Recognizing the country's status—with nukes and otherwise—sensible diplomacy

Sep 23, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush has taken a lot of heat for the nuclear deal he’ll celebrate during this week’s visit by Indian PM Manmohan Singh, but it’s a wise move, Gideon Rachman writes in the Financial Times. “India is going to be one of the great powers of... More »

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Iran • India • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • George W. Bush • Manmohan Singh

ANALYSIS

 Kim's Death Unlikely 
 to Breed Chaos 

Doomsday scenarios for North Korean succession farfetched

Sep 22, 08 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Kim Jong Il conspicuously out of the public eye in recent months, some speculate that his death could shatter the North Korean government and precipitate humanitarian and possibly military crises. But the reality of succession, Philip Bowring writes in the International Herald Tribune, is likely to be far more... More »

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North Korea • nuclear weapons • Pyongyang • dictatorship • Kim Jong Il • reunification • succession

analysis

Kim Jong-Il a 'Pigmy', 'Tyrant' US Will Miss

Like a good dictator,
he kept N. Korea's nukes in check

Sep 14, 08 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration felt a pending bittersweet goodbye when news leaked that North Korea's Kim Jong-Il likely had a stroke last month, the New York Times reports. True, officials had called Kim a "tyrant" and a "pigmy," but they knew he kept close tabs on his nation's... More »

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North Korea • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • nuclear weapons • Kim Jong Il • international governments

OPINION

 Elect the Guy 
 Who Can Prevent This 

Keeping terrorists from striking US with nukes is next president's only real goal

Sep 9, 08 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fannie and Freddie, health-care reform, and Wasilla, Alaska, are just meaningless election “commentary” to Jeffrey Goldberg, who writes in the New York Times that nuclear terrorism is the only issue that matters. Proliferation experts say the chance of a terrorist group detonating an atomic bomb in the US could... More »

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nuclear proliferation • national security • Barack Obama • John McCain • terrorism • nuclear weapons • Election 2008

OPINION

Nuke Advantage Emboldened Putin's Russia

US disarmament partly to blame for Georgia war, says Schoenfeld

Aug 21, 08 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Diplomats and pundits have debated what led Russia to attack Georgia so forcefully, pointing to everything from newfound economic strength to a sense of national humiliation. But Gabriel Schoenfeld, editor at neoconservative magazine Commentary, has another explanation: it's Russia's growing nuclear advantage, especially with short-range arms, that has "helped... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • nuclear weapons • Georgia • Cold War • nuclear disarmament • nuclear arsenal • George W. Bush • neoconservatves

 Russia Issues
 Nuke Threat
 to Poland

Nation 'exposed' to strike if it hosts US base, general warns

Aug 16, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A top Russian general warned yesterday that Poland would be "100% exposed" to nuclear attack if it follows through with plans to host a US missile defense system, reports the Times of London. The agreement "cannot go unpunished," the general warned in the first direct threat from... More »

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Russia • Poland • nuclear weapons • Kremlin • missile defense system • Iron Curtain

North Korea Sticks on 'Axis
of Evil' List

Rice says Pyongyang hasn't made progress on nuclear issue

Aug 11, 08 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US will not remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Reuters reports. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told her Japanese counterpart that Pyongyang had not made sufficient progress on a verification plan for its nuclear programs, which was a condition for removing it from the... More »

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North Korea • Condoleezza Rice • nuclear weapons • Pyongyang • Axis of Evil • nuclear disarmament

World to Iran: More Sanctions in Store

Move follows missed deadline concerning nuclear program

Aug 4, 08 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran faces new global sanctions after ignoring an offer designed to halt its uranium enrichment program, the AP reports. In a move intended to boost international pressure, the UN Security Council's permanent members, plus Germany, agreed today that their only option is to turn up the heat. "Iran has... More »

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Iran • nuclear weapons • sanctions • nuclear enrichment • UN Security Council

Iran Refuses to Cede Nuclear Rights

President rejects deadline for halting uranium enrichment

Aug 3, 08 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected an informal deadline from the UN Security Council to halt its uranium enrichment program, the AP reports. In talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Ahmadinejad refused to cede "a single iota of its nuclear rights" despite threats of more sanctions. Tehran maintains its nuclear program is... More »

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Iran • United Nations • Syria • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Bashar al Assad • nuclear weapons • uranium enrichment • international sanctions • UN Security Council

 US Nuke
 Bomb Crew
 Caught Napping

Sleeping missile crew held secret codes

Jul 25, 08 4:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A three-man US missile crew fell asleep while in possession of  top secret launch codes for nuclear missiles, reports Reuters. It happened earlier this month at a Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota—the same site of a breach last year in which nuclear weapons were erroneously loaded on... More »

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Robert Gates • nuclear weapons • Minot Air Force Base • nuclear arsenal • B-52 bomber • security breach • launch codes

Judge Orders Rosenberg Evidence
Kept Secret

Attorneys sought material to clear Ethel

Jul 23, 08 4:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Evidence that could clear the name of Ethel Rosenberg must stay under wraps to protect grand jury secrecy, a judge ruled yesterday. Ethel and husband Julius were executed in 1953 for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Her brother David Greenglass, who testified against her, has since said he lied... More »

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espionage • Soviet Union • nuclear weapons • Cold War • atomic bomb • Communists

OPINION

Dear Obama: Oppose Iran and We'll Love You

On eve of visit, one Israeli explains his nation's nuclear fears

Jul 21, 08 8:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - On the eve of Barack Obama’s visit to Israel, Yossi Klein Halevi writes to him in the New Republic about Israel's fears. Like many nations, Israel is well-inclined towards Obama: It has no fear of his Muslim middle name and recently hailed his description of Israeli security as "... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Israel • US foreign policy • nuclear weapons • Israel and Palestinians • foreign policy • nuclear arsenal

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