Obama to chair historic U.N. council nuclear meeting (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
U.S. President Barack Obama will chair a historic meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that is expected to ask nations with nuclear weapons to scrap their deadly arsenals.
Iran and US talk past each other on nuclear issue (AP via Yahoo! News)
At a key moment in the conflict over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Tehran is speaking more softly, echoing President Barack Obama’s call for eliminating nuclear weapons. But it’s showing no sign of slowing what the U.S. calls a clandestine march to nuclear arms.
UK’s Brown proposes deal to halt nuclear arms race (The Star)
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has backed calls for access to a uranium bank for states that renounce nuclear weapons but want to develop atomic energy.
U.N. Focus Shifts to Terrorism and Nuclear Weapons (Fox News)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon challenged world leaders on Wednesday to cleanse the globe of nuclear weapons, tackle the threat of catastrohic climate change and combat growing poverty from the global financial crisis.
Nuclear weapons expert Graham Allison to speak at Wake Forest University (Wake Forest University News Service)
Graham Allison, one of the world s foremost authorities on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation efforts, will speak at 7 p.m. Oct. 1 in the Scales Fine Arts Center s Brendle Recital Hall at Wake Forest University.
China calls for world without nuclear weapons (New Kerala)
New York, Sep 24 : China’s President Hu Jintao Wednesday called for a world without nuclear weapons and destruction of all nuclear arsenals, a position similar to that of US President Barack Obama.
Global Zero: Eliminating nuclear weapons, one at a time (Student Life)
A far cry from a Miss America pageant, a new Washington University student group, Global Zero, has a much more modest goal: to help eliminate nuclear weapons by 2030.
Iran has no need of nuclear arms: Ahmadinejad (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran has no need of nuclear arms, but did not explicitly rule out acquiring them during an interview with US television.
Nuclear weapons: how many are there in 2009 and who has them? (Guardian Unlimited)
The thing is, counting nuclear weapons is a bit like counting votes a lot depends on who is doing the counting, and how.
Iran has no need of nuclear arms: Ahmadinejad (Khaleej Times)
WASHINGTON – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday Tehran has no need of nuclear arms, but did not explicitly rule out acquiring them.
