Nuclear Weapons – Scottish cardinal condemns nuclear weapons system (Christian Today)

Scottish cardinal condemns nuclear weapons system (Christian Today)
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland condemns the Trident nuclear weapons system

US-Russia Report on Scrapping Nuclear Weapons to be Unveiled (CommonDreams.org)
by Nick Mathiason and Ian Traynor A three-step process for the phased elimination of nuclear weapons will be unveiled by a powerful group of former policy makers in Washington tomorrow. The report by the Global Zero Commission, formed in response to Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev’s pledge earlier this year to rid the world of nuclear weapons, is released ahead of a summit in Moscow between the …

Russian-U.S. summit to focus on new nuclear arms reduction treaty (People’s Daily)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama will focus on a new treaty on nuclear arms cuts during their upcoming summit in Moscow, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The heads of state will discuss the most pressing bilateral and international issues, Andrei Nesterenko told a regular press conference. “High on the agenda will be a new …

Japan’s Amano elected head of U.N. nuclear watchdog (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano was narrowly elected the next head of the U.N. atomic watchdog Thursday and he vowed to tackle rich-poor tensions weakening the fight against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Obama says he’s ‘not reconciled’ to Iran having a nuclear weapons capability, must resist it (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he is “not reconciled” to the idea of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon within a year. The president told The Associated Press in an interview that U.S. government planning is running in precisely the opposite direction.

Nuclear arms pact elusive (Straits Times)
MOSCOW – US PRESIDENT Barack Obama faces one of the toughest diplomatic challenges of his young presidency next week as he seeks to persuade a reluctant Russia to salvage an expiring nuclear arms treaty. Clinching a deal on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), a landmark Cold War-era disarmament agreement that runs out on December 5, would indicate that Mr Obama’s plan to ‘reset’ …

Obama hopes for nuclear arms breakthrough with Russia (EARTHtimes.org)
Moscow – US President Barack Obama plans to discuss concrete steps towards nuclear arms control during his visit to Moscow next week, he said in an interview released Friday My goal is that both countries reduce their nuclear stockpiles in a way that…

UN nuclear agency chooses veteran Japanese diplomat as its new director general (Sun-Sentinel)
VIENNA (AP) The world’s top nuclear watchdog chose Japan’s Yukiya Amano as its next head on Thursday and he touched on the devastation U.S. atom bombs wreaked on his country in pledging to do his utmost to prevent the spread of nuclear arms.

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