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Foreign news outlets have reported that Israel readied its nuclear weapons and even considered using them as a last resort. The Dimona nuclear facility was [...]

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Who needs people to guard a nuclear weapons facility when you can build an autonomous robot to do it? Or, at least that's what the National Nuclear Security [...]

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WASHINGTON North Korea is forging ahead with work to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, which could add to its atomic arsenal and raise the risk it will [...]

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Shouldn't the Terminator movies have taught us not to entrust our nuclear weapons to robots? Oh well. The US National Nuclear Security Administration [...]

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It includes the "oil weapon," armies, proxies, and ultimately nuclear weapons. Each tool of leverage is seriously flawed but that does not prevent alarmists [...]

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Its "strategic patience" strategy has been aimed at breaking Pyongyang's longstanding routine of ramping up its nuclear weapons program, extracting bribes [...]

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A key facility for cleaning up decades of nuclear weapons waste at Hanford must not be commissioned until technical issues are resolved, a federal safety [...]

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expects Iran not to give asylum to Egyptian elements fleeing to it. He added that Iran possessing nuclear weapons will worry Egypt but not threaten it. [...]

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WASHINGTON Pakistan appears to have stepped up construction of a new atomic reactor that could help the country produce easier-to-deliver nuclear weapons [...]

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In a joint statement following two days of talks, both the US and South Korea said that they "will not accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state. [...]

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which would essentially end the country's ability to field US tactical nuclear weapons, United Press International reported (see GSN, April 13, 2009). [...]

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"When more and more countries have or want nuclear weapons, we will always keep our ultimate insurance policy. We will renew our nuclear deterrent based on [...]

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We invented the nuclear weapon and remain the only nation to have ever deployed one in warfare. But, as Obama noted upon signing the treaty, "We've taken [...]

This part of the globalissues.org web site looks into the issue of nuclear weapons around the world. How are the powerful nations dealing with their nuclear [...]

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Please join us on Friday, Oct. 15, for a screening of Nuclear Tipping Point and an intriguing public discussion about the global threat of nuclear weapons use in the age of terrorism. George Shultz, who served as secretary of state in [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) - North Korea may be moving ahead with a program to enrich uranium to make nuclear weapons, according to a report Friday by the Institute for Science and International Security. [...]

While nuclear weapons have been useful to achieve a balance of power with countries like Russia or China, modern threats require a more nimble defence strategy, our correspondent says. But the Obama administration's strategy review is [...]

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I sit on a subcommittee dealing with nuclear proliferation. It focuses on trying to contain nuclear weapons, especially keeping them out of terrorist's hands. This task won't get any easier as nuclear energy spreads throughout the world [...]

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Despite this, the issue of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons dominates American and Israeli thinking. There is no obvious solution how to prevent this happening. The gulf of understanding between Washington and Tehran appears to rule out [...]

North Korea quit U.S.-backed disarmament talks two years ago, stands accused of torpedoing a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, in March and may be seeking to resurrect its partially dismantled nuclear weapons program. [...]

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More significantly, it is hard to circumscribe the damage that nuclear weapons do, and as a result, it is hard to achieve practical aims. Unless the goal is to generally weaken an opponent, nuclear terrorism doesn't seem like a [...]

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From 1948, and as recently as 2007, top military US officers claim that American nuclear weapon installations have been interfered with by alien aircraft. I knew it! There is something out there, and hopefully those somethings are [...]

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Almost a year ago, US President Barack Obama pledged to rid the world of nuclear weapons. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle also supports the drive for nuclear disarmament. Together with Japan and Australia, Germany is looking [...]

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Specifically, many hoped that President Obama could bring his stated plan to fruition: to help eradicate all nuclear weapons. The President himself admitted it may not happen in his lifetime, but a year after accepting his Nobel Prize, [...]

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They arguably promote the overall security and stability of a region -- as nuclear weapons are overwhelmingly destabilizing tools -- and contribute to the [...]