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  • September 2008

    • Bush Blocked Israel Attack on Iran

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 26, 08 3:00 AM CDT

      Bush Blocked Israel Attack on Iran

      (Newser) - Israel asked Washington for a green light to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities but was told no, reports the Guardian . Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made the request in a private meeting with President Bush in May, but Bush feared air strikes over several days would lead to full-scale war and terrorist attacks in the US. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Iran  • Israel  • Ehud Olmert  • Hezbollah  • nuclear program  • Tzipi Livni  • air strikes

    • N. Korea Restarts Nuke Program

      Associated Press  |  Sep 24, 08 6:40 AM CDT

      N. Korea Restarts Nuke Program

      (AP) - North Korea plans to reactivate its nuclear program and will start reinserting plutonium-producing nuclear material within a week, reports the AP. Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, said that his inspectors removed all agency seals and surveillance equipment from the country's main nuclear facility. He added that "from here on, the IAEA inspectors will have no further access to the reprocessing plant." More »

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      North Korea  • nuclear program  • nuclear disarmament  • Yongbyon  • IAEA  • six party talks  • plutonium

    • Bush Is Right on Nuclear India

      Financial Times (UK)  |  Sep 23, 08 10:00 AM CDT

      Bush Is Right on Nuclear India

      (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 the 21st century,” he writes, so it’s time for the West “to move beyond a futile effort to sanction the country into renouncing the bomb.” More »

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

  • June 2008

    • Israel Has a Year to Thwart Iranian Nuke: Official

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jun 29, 08 11:51 AM CDT

      Israel Has a Year to Thwart Iranian Nuke: Official

      (Newser) - Israel has 12 months to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons or risk Tehran’s wrath, a former Israeli defense official said. “The time that is left to be ready is getting shorter all the time,” Shabtai Shavit told the Telegraph. “We should do whatever (is) necessary in case sanctions don’t work. What’s left is military action.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • Iran  • Israel  • nuclear program  • missile  • Mossad

    • Britain Rolls Out New Iran Sanctions

      Washington Post  |  Jun 16, 08 8:18 AM CDT

      Britain Rolls Out New Iran Sanctions

      (Newser) - Britain and the European Union will slap Iran with a new round of sanctions over its refusal to curtail its nuclear program, PM Gordon Brown announced today, handing President Bush an unexpected farewell gift on the last day of his weeklong European trip. Brown froze the assets of Iran's largest bank as of today, reports the Washington Post; he also pledged about 200 more troops to join the 7,800 British soldiers already in Afghanistan. More »

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      Iran  • Great Britain  • Bush administration  • European Union  • Gordon Brown  • nuclear program  • sanctions

  • May 2008

    • North Korea Hands Nuclear Docs to US

      Associated Press  |  May 8, 08 2:12 PM CDT

      North Korea Hands Nuclear Docs to US

      (Newser) - Seeming to move closer to US demands for information, North Korea handed key documents on its nuclear weapons program to an American diplomat today, the AP reports. The records provide information on the North’s silenced plutonium reactor, and would allow American officials to fact-check a still-awaited summary of the country’s nuclear workings. More »

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      Bush administration  • North Korea  • nuclear program  • food aid

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • Gates Orders Full Nuclear Inventory

      Washington Post  |  Mar 28, 08 6:32 AM CDT

      Gates Orders Full Nuclear Inventory

      (Newser) - Secretary of State Robert Gates has ordered Pentagon officials to take a new inventory of all US nuclear weapons and related equipment, the Washington Post reports. The count, to be completed in 60 days, is in addition to a specific probe into how 4 missile fuses were shipped accidentally to Taiwan and not noticed for 18 months. More »

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      China  • accident  • Defense Department  • nuclear program  • Taiwan  • missile

    • Irked North Korea Fires Test Missiles

      Bloomberg  |  Mar 28, 08 3:50 AM CDT

      Irked North Korea Fires Test Missiles

      (Newser) - North Korea test-fired a number of short-range missiles into the waters off its west coast, according to South Korean officials, in an apparent show of anger at Washington and the new government in Seoul, Reuters reports. "We are monitoring the situation," said a South Korean presidential spokesman. The development comes at a key moment in the effort to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons, writes Bloomberg. More »

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      North Korea  • South Korea  • nuclear program  • Kim Jong Il  • nuclear disarmament  • Lee Myung-bak  • Six nation talks

    • China Furious Over US/Taiwan Nuke Mixup

      Washington Post  |  Mar 26, 08 12:34 PM CDT

      China Furious Over US/Taiwan Nuke Mixup

      (Newser) - Beijing unloaded on Washington today, enraged by reports that the US had accidentally sent nuclear missile parts to Taiwan. China demanded a full US investigation, and said the mistake had “disastrous consequences.” China told the US to halt all arms shipments to Taiwan to “avoid endangering the peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and the improvement in Sino-US relations.” More »