Nuclear lab loses equipment, but says no security breach (USA Today)
Three Los Alamos National Laboratory computers were taken from a scientist’s home and a BlackBerry belonging to another employee of the nuclear weapons lab was lost overseas, but officials say no sensitive information would have been lost.
Ex-CIA Investigator’s Book Describes Hunt for Weapons in Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s Final Days (Washington Post)
UNITED NATIONS — During his final days in U.S. captivity, Saddam Hussein wrote poetry, flirted with American nurses, expressed his desire to restart a nuclear weapons program and asked to be put to death by firing squad like a soldier, not hanged like a common criminal, according to a new book by…
Tennessee: Plea Deal in Nuclear Case (New York Times)
A former janitor caught trying to sell hardware from a shuttered plant that enriched uranium for nuclear weapons agreed to a plea deal that carries a six-year prison sentence.
US court dismisses Pacific nuclear test lawsuits (PhysOrg)
A panel of US appeal judges Friday dismissed a claim to enforce a billion-dollar compensation settlement for islanders from two former Pacific nuclear test sites, an attorney for the islanders said.
Germany urges Iran not to reject Obama’s new offer on nuclear issue (People’s Daily)
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged on Friday Iran not to reject new U.S. President Barack Obama’s offer to open direct talks on the country’s nuclear program, saying diplomacy was the way to solve the dispute. Obama has shifted U.S. policy on Iran since he took office on Jan. 20 and wanted to engage in “direct diplomacy” with Iran, according to the report of AP. “I think it is …
Iran Nukes: Nuclear Weapons Material This Year (US News & World Report)
The options switch from the “hard kill” to the “soft kill.”
Iranian Nuclear Threat More Real Than Ever (Blogcritics.org)
Oops. Turns out Bush was right about Iranian nukes. Now what are we going to do? The irony would be rich, were the subject any less serious. After years of the the left and international critics accusing the Bush administration of fearmongering and sabre-rattling about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, it turns out that Bush was dead on — Iran will have a working nuclear weapon within the …
Netanyahu: Iran nuclear threat outstrips economy (Times Online)
Binyamin Netanyahu, the front-runner to become the next Israeli Prime Minister, today warned that Iran s 100-yard dash to securing nuclear weapons is a graver danger to the world than the global economic crisis.
Mr. Netanyahu, it s About All Nukes In General (Middle East Online)
Mr. Netanyahu claimed that he wants to neutralize the mother regime (Iran). He may instead, be better off and more secure by neutralizing ALL nuclear weapons, including those based in Israel and the US, notes Dallas Darling .
A different kind of nuclear freeze at Y-12 (Knoxville News Sentinel)
This sounds hard to believe, given how many billions of dollars have been invested in nuclear weapons in the United States, but the folks at Y-12 actually have to use backup heaters to keep the pipes from freezing at the warhead plant’s main production center.
Obama’s Showdown Over Nuclear Weapons (Time Magazine)
While the new President says no to new nukes, his Bush-holdover Defense Secretary disagrees
