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Russian Bombers Could Be Deployed to Cuba - washingtonpost.com

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:43:00 -0000

Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian newspaper reported Monday, citing an unnamed senior Russian air force official.

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AFP: US general warns Russia on nuclear bombers in Cuba

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:35:03 -0000

Russia would cross "a red line for the United States of America" if it were to base nuclear capable bombers in Cuba, a top US air force officer warned on Tuesday.

"If they did I think we should stand strong and indicate that is something that crosses a threshold, crosses a red line for the United States of America," said General Norton Schwartz, nominated to be the air force's chief of staff.

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Information Clearing House - Who can and can't have nuclear weapons? (video)

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:03:23 -0000

Americans should question the assumption that the US has to be the most powerful nation on earth

The Nuclear Non Proliferation treaty was signed by non nuclear countries on the assumption that there would be a swift move towards disarmament by those that already had them would begin to disarm and even destroy their nuclear stockpiles.

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Nuke-Armed Paranoids - by Gordon Prather

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:59:14 -0000

Emigré scientists – many of them Jews who had fled Europe to avoid persecution under the Nazi regime – were principal instigators of the United States nuclear-fission weapons program known as the Manhattan Project.

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Tests show US shield 'not needed'

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:38:45 -0000

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said the results of Iran's missile tests prove that US plans for a defence shield in Europe are unnecessary.

Mr Lavrov said the tests confirmed Tehran had missiles with a limited range of up to 2,000km (1,240 miles).

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Newsvine - When Village Idiots Become World Leaders, Nuking the Planet Becomes a No-Brainer

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:54:46 -0000

Recently, the famous picture of Iran launching four missiles capable of reaching Israel has drawn even more attention to the renegade government in Iran. Their current activities make North Korea's nuclear program look tame by comparison.

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RIA Novosti - Russia - Russia may scrap missile deal over U.S. shield - military expert

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:58:18 -0000

Russia may respond to U.S. plans for missile defense bases in Central Europe with a host of measures, including the withdrawal from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a senior military expert said on Thursday.

President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that Russia would respond to the U.S. missile shield program in Central Europe, adding that Moscow was "dismayed" by the signing of a U.S.-Czech missile deal. He did not specify what steps Russia would take.

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U.S. and Czechs Sign Accord on Missile Shield - NYTimes.com

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:51:12 -0000

The United States and the Czech Republic signed a landmark accord on Tuesday to allow the Pentagon to deploy part of its widely debated antiballistic missile shield on territory once occupied by Soviet troops.

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Mairead Corrigan-Maguire: Let Mordechai Vanunu go | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:39:16 -0000

In 1986, a young Israeli man called Mordechai Vanunu followed his conscience and told the world that Israel had a nuclear weapons programme. He was convicted of espionage and treason and sentenced to 18 years in prison. After serving this (12 years of which were in solitary confinement), Vanunu was released. In April 2004, about 80 people from around the world went to welcome him out of prison. Unbelievably, upon his release Vanunu was made subject to severe restrictions, which forbade him many basic civil liberties (including his right to leave Israel, to speak to foreigners and foreign media) and restricted his travel within Israel.

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FACTBOX: Proposed U.S. missile shield in E.Europe | Reuters

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:21:12 -0000

The United States and the Czech Republic will sign a pact on Tuesday for the central European country to host a radar system, part of U.S. plans to create a missile defense shield in Europe.

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Khan: Musharraf approved nuclear sale - UPI.com

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:01:04 -0000

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 5 (UPI) -- The Pakistani scientist accused of operating a nuclear proliferation ring says President Pervez Musharraf approved a sale of weapons to North Korea.

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Another Nail in the NPT Coffin - by Gordon Prather

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:57:28 -0000

Garold Larson has the misfortune to be the Bush-Cheney Deputy Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, and hence, was required to "celebrate" the 40th anniversary of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

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RIA Novosti - World - U.S. says Lithuania has agreed to consider hosting missile shield

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:55:42 -0000

United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that Lithuania has agreed to consider hosting a missile interceptor base if the U.S. deal with Poland falls through.

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Arms Control Associationn: Bush’s Nuclear Reprocessing Plan Under Fire

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:49:38 -0000

The Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program, already under siege, has been further imperiled after recent action by several congressional panels and an April report from the congressional watchdog agency.

Administration officials have claimed that GNEP, which seeks to develop new nuclear technologies and new international nuclear fuel arrangements, will cut nuclear waste and decrease the risk that an anticipated growth in the use of nuclear energy worldwide could spur nuclear proliferation.

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Report: Iran will halt enrichment if West removes sanctions | Jerusalem Post

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:44:31 -0000

Iran expressed readiness to freeze its uranium enrichment program in return for lifting the international sanctions imposed on it, Israel's Channel 2 senior analyst Ehud Ya'ari revealed Thursday evening.

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Global nuclear stockpiles 'must be reduced to prevent terrorist attacks' - Telegraph

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:07:46 -0000

Nuclear stockpiles around the world must be reduced to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, a coalition of senior British politicians has warned.

The four former British defence and foreign secretaries warn that the more nuclear material in circulation, the more countries who have not had such weapons to date are likely to want to acquire their own.

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Gulfnews: Nuclear double standards

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:43:16 -0000

The demolition by North Korea of the 60-foot cooling tower of its main reactor complex in Yongbyon on Friday represents an important breakthrough in dismantling its nuclear programme.

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Atlantic Free Press - The Iran-Divine Strake Connection

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:50:44 -0000

To a few individuals in the civilian and defense communities, Divine Strake was more than just an exercise to determine the lowest nuclear calibration needed to destroy a hardened underground bunker in limestone geology. The 'other' purpose of Divine Strake, one that I personally never had much belief in, was to conduct a 'dry run' on an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

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Cold War has thawed only slightly

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:04:07 -0000

At the conclusion of their April 2008 summit, Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin agreed the Cold War was over and that another Cuban missile crisis would be "unthinkable." Standing nearby were U.S. and Russian military officers, each holding a briefcase from which their respective president could quickly transmit a launch order that, in about three minutes, would cause hundreds of ballistic missiles armed with thousands of nuclear warheads to begin their 30-minute flights toward Russia or the United States.

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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Is Obsolete - WSJ.com

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:36:48 -0000

If claims by Iran that it's building 3,000 more centrifuges to enrich nuclear fuel are true, then the Bush administration and Congress face a more serious challenge than we first thought. Even assuming that Iran intends to use nuclear energy solely for peaceful purposes – and there are very good reasons to doubt Iran's stated intentions – the dangers posed by unsupervised, weapons-grade material in the hands of a regime that has threatened to "wipe Israel off the map" are unacceptable.

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