Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html

For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.

Secret Document Exposes Iran’s Nuclear Trigger

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6955351.ece

Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.

The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies date them to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme.

An Asian intelligence source last week confirmed to The Times that his country also believed that weapons work was being carried out as recently as 2007 — specifically, work on a neutron initiator.
The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. Uranium deuteride is the material used in Pakistan’s bomb, from where Iran obtained its blueprint.

“Although Iran might claim that this work is for civil purposes, there is no civil application,” said David Albright, a physicist and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, which has analysed hundreds of pages of documents related to the Iranian programme. “This is a very strong indicator of weapons work.”

U.S. to Stop Counting New Missiles in Russia

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/01/us-to-stop-counting-new-missiles-in-russia/

The United States is about to lose a key arms-control tool from the closing days of the Cold War -- the right to station American observers in Russia to count the long-range missiles leaving its assembly line.

The end of full-time, on-site access will likely ignite complaints in Congress, with insiders from both parties arguing over whether the George W. Bush or the Obama administration is responsible.

Although the United States does not produce new long-range missiles, Russia continues to do so and has built dozens of missiles since the monitoring started 15 years ago.

IAEA chief: Iran Investigation at 'Dead End'

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9C7C6VG0&show_article=1

The International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Iran's nuclear program is at a dead end because Tehran is not cooperating, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Thursday in an unusually blunt expression of frustration four days before he leaves office.

Mohamed ElBaradei also warned that international confidence in Iran's assertions of purely peaceful intent shrank after its belated revelation of a previously secret nuclear facility. And he criticized Tehran for not accepting an internationally endorsed plan meant to delay its achieving the ability to make nuclear weapons.

Iran says it is enriching only to power a future network of nuclear reactors. But enrichment can also produce fissile warhead material. Iran continues enriching, despite three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions meant to make it freeze that activity and has built an enriched stockpile that could arm two nuclear warheads.

Obama to Shut Down Yucca Mountain

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/04/tracking-taxes-high-price-nuclear-waste/?test=latestnews

After 30 years, five presidents and $13 billion dollars, the Obama administration is pulling the plug on Yucca Mountain, the federal government's proposed storage facility for America's nuclear waste.

For a candidate who said he wanted to get politics out of science, critics find the president's decision hypocritical and shortsighted, at a time when nuclear energy is making a comeback.

This is what comes of programs that the government runs. Years of wasted money only to be shut down. Obviously, increasing relance of nuclear power is now no longer a viable option, which is probably how Obama wants it.

Russians Violating Treaty, Developing Missile

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/22/inside-the-ring-8537762/?page=3

Russia for years has been violating the current Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which is set to expire Dec. 5.

Mr. Verma stated that the administration has "committed ourselves fully" to finishing a new treaty by Dec. 5. "If a follow-on treaty cannot be concluded by December, the United States and Russia will need to find a mutually acceptable means to continue essential verification and transparency measures until a new treaty enters into force," he said, noting that a five-year extension of the old treaty is not likely.

"In this case, it appears the Russians have cheated - if not in the letter of the START agreement, at least in its spirit - by converting one of their existing missiles, the Topol-M, to this new multiple-warhead variant," he said.

A Senate Republican aide said the Russians have been developing the new missile in secret for years. "Essentially what's happening is they've got a missile ready to field as soon as START expires," said the aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly.

This is why you never disarm...evil exists in this world and will always cheat. If you disarm, you will be left at a disadvantage when violence breaks out.

Iran Says Makes New Model of Nuclear Centrifuges

http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINLM24002120090922

Iran has built a new generation of centrifuges for enriching uranium and is testing them, the official news agency IRNA quoted its nuclear energy agency chief as saying on Tuesday.

"Iranian scientists have made a new generation of centrifuges that are currently undergoing necessary tests," Ali Akbar Salehi told a Tehran news conference as reported by IRNA.

"Chains of 10 centrifuges are now under test," he said, and the number in each chain "will be gradually increased."

Salehi did not say when the new model of centrifuge would be introduced to the production line in its Natanz enrichment plant but said it was stronger and faster than those now in operation.

Nuke Agency Says Iran Can Make Bomb

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AP714G0&show_article=1

Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead.

Wait, I thought Biden said Iran wasn't a threat?

US Shifts Policy, Willing to Meet 1-on-1 With North Korea

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/us-shifts-policy-willing-to-meet-1on1-with-north-korea.html

The US shifted its policy today, saying it is now willing to meet one on one with North Korea if that is helpful to bring Pyongyang back to the nuclear negotiations.

US envoy Stephen Bosworth got the green light from the other members of the 6-party talks, negotiations to rid Pyongyang of its nuclear program, during meetings in the region in recent days.

N.Korea to build more nuclear bombs after UN vote

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090613/ts_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsunleadwrap

"North [Korea]... said it would never abandon nuclear weapons and would treat any attempt to blockade it as an act of war."
You really showed them this time, UN, yeah!

I love this, only in Washington can you "hail" something that causes "further provocations."
"Washington hailed the measure but warned that Pyongyang might respond with "further provocation."

U.N. Nuke Watchdog Finds 'Manmade' Uranium in Syria

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525233,00.html

The Nightmare Scenario: Why you should worry about Pakistan's nukes.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4932

Israel's Secret War With Iran

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB124243059842325581-lMyQjAxMDI5NDEyNTQxMzUwWj.html

Experts Predict Pakistan’s Collapse

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/04/16/experts-predict-pakistan’s-collapse/

Maybe we should be paying less attention to Iran and North Korea...