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New Evidence Suggests Iranian Missile Program

Metal shipments, banking activities come under US scrutiny

Jan 16, 09 9:45 AM CST
(Newser) - New evidence suggests that Iran may be evading international sanctions, importing high-performance metals that could be used to build long-range weaponry, US security and law enforcement officials tell the Wall Street Journal. One invoice shows a shipment of metals going to an Iranian company through an intermediary. UAE officials,... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • nuclear program • nuclear missiles • UAE • titanium • tungsten copper

US to Sign Nuclear Pact With UAE

Some fear move
could help fuel Iran's nuclear ambitions

Dec 12, 08 6:42 AM CST
(Newser) - The White House is set to sign a nuclear cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates—a move some fear could put nuclear materials in the hands of Iran, the UAE’s top trading partner. The Bush administration’s first such pact with a Middle Eastern country would mean sharing... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • nuclear proliferation • United Arab Emirates • nuclear fuel • agreement • nuclear energy

 Books Map A-Bomb's Spread 

Authors track nations' paths to nuclear club

Dec 9, 08 11:49 AM CST
(Newser) - When it comes to the spread of nuclear weapons, all paths lead back to the US, the New York Times reports in a look at two books. In The Nuclear Express, the authors chart the rise of the world's nine nuclear nations and conclude that "since the birth of... More »

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China • nuclear proliferation • Russia • Israel • France • atomic bomb • Los Alamos • Manhattan Project

 Obama to Fill 
 WMD Post 
 Bush Ignored 

Dem has long focused on stopping proliferation of nuclear, chemical arms

Dec 3, 08 2:24 PM CST
(Newser) - President-elect Obama will hire an official to oversee efforts to stop terrorists from gaining nuclear and biological weapons, the Boston Globe reports, a position the Bush administration approved but left unfilled. Such efforts are currently spread among many agencies, and a report predicting a deadly attack within 5 years using... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • nuclear proliferation • Joe Biden • North Korea • terrorism • Pakistan • nuclear weapons • WMD • Janet Napolitano • bioterrorism • President Obama

Pakistan Moves to Mend Fences With India

Zadari extends olive branch, proposes economic union

Nov 24, 08 12:28 PM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan has proposed an economic pact and a general détente with India, marking the country’s friendliest overture in decades, the Financial Times reports. Asif Ali Zardari promised not to use his nuclear first-strike capabilities, a departure from Pakistan’s official policy, and offered to join India in... More »

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nuclear proliferation • Pakistan • India • trade • Asif Ali Zardari • nuclear arsenal

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

North Korea Threatens
to Sever Ties With South

Calls South Korean government 'traitors'

Oct 16, 08 2:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea is threatening to sever ties with South Korea in a war of words that has plunged relations between the partitioned neighbors to a new low, Reuters reports. North Korean officials are upset about hardline policies of South Korea's conservative government.  "If the traitors keep to the... More »

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nuclear proliferation • North Korea • South Korea • Pyongyang • disarmament • plutonium • Lee Myung-bak • state sponsored terrorism

(AP) - The US has removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist after Pyongyang agreed to all nuclear inspection demands, the State Department said today. North Korea will allow atomic experts to take samples and conduct forensic tests at its nuclear facilities. If it balks, it will go back on the list.... More »

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nuclear proliferation • North Korea • Kim Jong Il

  N. Korea Readies 
 Test Launch Missiles 

UN monitoring halted, disarmament pact nearing collapse

Oct 9, 08 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea sent 10 missiles to test-launch sites off the Yellow Sea today and halted UN monitoring of its nuclear complex, Reuters reports, in the latest hardline signal from the Communist regime as it flirts with scrapping a nuclear disarmament deal. Meanwhile, Pyongyang tested two ship-to-ship missiles in the West... More »

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nuclear proliferation • North Korea • United Nations • IAEA • United States • uranium enrichment • nuclear test

 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

US Rep Heads to North Korea With New Nukes Proposal

Verification system at heart of new mission aimed at restarting process

Sep 30, 08 7:10 PM CDT
(AP) - The chief US nuclear negotiator with North Korea will propose a face-saving compromise during a trip tomorrow to the isolated communist nation to try to salvage the derailed disarmament pact, officials said. Envoy Christopher Hill said his goal was to persuade North Korea to agree to a verification system to... More »

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nuclear proliferation • North Korea • Christopher Hill

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

In Break With Policy,
US to Join Iran Nuke Talks

Move hailed as breakthrough in Iranian relations

Jul 16, 08 12:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a break with long-standing policy, a top US envoy will join European Union talks with Iran concerning its nuclear program, reports the Washington Post. Undersecretary of State William Burns will join the EU's foreign policy chief and Iran's nuclear negotiator in Geneva this weekend. Burns will hold out... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Barack Obama • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Javier Solana • Saeed Jalili • William J. Burns

Amid Pressure, Helping Iran on Nuke Power More Popular

Diplomats, legislators back idea of international enrichment; Bush again lashes out

Jun 10, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even as US and European leaders warned today of new sanctions, a controversial plan to help Iran build an internationally run nuclear enrichment facility is gaining traction in Washington, the Boston Globe reports. The Bush administration rejected the proposal from MIT scientists 3 years ago, but now legislators from both... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • United Nations • nuclear enrichment • nuclear facilities

Syria Must 'Come Clean'
on Nukes, US Says

Reactor destroyed by Israel was nearly complete, it says

Apr 24, 08 8:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A covert nuclear reactor in Syria was only months away from producing uranium for weapons when Israel destroyed it in a bombing raid, US intelligence officials say. The officials briefed members of Congress on the Israeli raid in September, asserting that North Korea helped Syria build the site. The White... More »

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nuclear proliferation • Israel • North Korea • Syria • nuclear reactor • Kim Jong Il • Osirak nuclear reactor

 Video Links
 North Korea
 to Syrian Reactor 

Design similar to North Korean nuke technology

Apr 24, 08 4:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Video showing a nuclear reactor under construction in Syria is expected to be released today by the White House, the New York Times reports. The video, shot before the reactor was obliterated by Israeli air strikes, confirms that Syrians had North Korean technological help. The design is similar to one... More »

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nuclear proliferation • Israel • North Korea • Dick Cheney • Syria • Condoleezza Rice • nuclear weapons • Christopher Hill • nuclear reactor • Kim Jong Il • Trading With the Enemy Act • Imad Moustapha • Osirak nuclear reactor • state sponsored terrorism

CIA Recruited Iranian Officials to Defect

A 'handful' left
in US plot to
disrupt nuke program

Dec 9, 07 6:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The CIA plotted to recruit Iranian officials to defect and managed to entice a handful to do so over the last two years, reports the Los Angeles Times. The secret program, begun in 2005, was intended to disrupt Iranian nuclear research. The primary criterion for recruitment, according to a former... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • CIA • defection • defectors

Iran Prez:
Go Ahead
Make My Day

  We're ready for a
US attack, warns Ahmadinejad

Nov 18, 07 2:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday warned that his nation is fully prepared to respond if attacked, but downplayed the possibility of a war with the US. "We have made all preparations, and if there is any suspicion, then we are ready," he said during a visit to Bahrain.... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Washington • war

Dems Stonewall on
Pullout Deadline

Obama, Edwards, Clinton won't guarantee withdrawal by 2013

Sep 27, 07 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - None of the three leading Democratic White House contenders were willing last night to guarantee that they would get US troops out of Iraq by 2013. During a Democratic debate at Dartmouth College, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards—who all support a timetable for troop withdrawal—each declined... More »

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Iraq • Iran • nuclear proliferation • health care • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Joe Biden • John Edwards • Bill Richardson • New Hampshire • Mike Gravel • Dennis Kucinich • troop withdrawal • counterterrorism • Chris Dodd • Democratic debate • Dartmouth College • Iraq war

Korea Denies Secret Nuclear Pact with Syria

China cancels talks after Israeli raid
raises suspicions

Sep 18, 07 10:44 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

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