Jan
19

Nuclear Weapons – Nuclear weapons plant in lockdown (Adelaide Now)

Nuclear weapons plant in lockdown (Adelaide Now)
A NUCLEAR weapons facility in Texas was placed in lockdown in response to a potential security situation that turned out to be a group of hunters.

Iranian nuclear scientist is killed by bomb outside home (The Scotsman)
AN IRANIAN nuclear scientist was killed in a rare bomb attack in Tehran yesterday which the regime promptly blamed on “mercenaries” in the pay of the United States and

Texas Digest: Goose hunters spark nuclear weapons plant lockdown (Austin American-Statesman)
Texas Digest: Goose hunters spark nuclear weapons plant lockdown

Texas nuclear weapons plant on lockdown (CNN)
A nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant in Texas was on lockdown Friday morning because of a “potential security situation,” according to a news release.

Texas nuclear weapons facility on lockdown due to hunters (People’s Daily)
A nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S. state of Texas was put on precautionary lockdown Friday because of a “potential security situation,” according to a news release. The Pantex Plant in Carson County, Texas, activated its Emergency Response Organization at around 8 a.m. after armed hunters were spotted near the plant, the Carson County Sheriff’s Department said. The …

2 goose hunters near nuclear weapons plant accidentally cause it to temporarily shut down (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
AMARILLO, Texas – Two goose hunters inadvertently caused a security lock down in Texas at the nation’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant.

Hunters spark lockdown of Texas nuclear weapons plant (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A pair of fowl hunters sparked a brief lockdown of a Texas nuclear weapons plant Friday, officials said.

‘Significant’ progress in US-Russia nuclear talks (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The United States and Russia have made “significant” progress towards a new nuclear disarmament treaty, President Dmitry Medvedev was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Major powers reach no deal on new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program (Washington Post)
NEW YORK — Top diplomats from six key powers focused on possible new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program at a meeting Saturday but reached no agreement, diplomats said.

Texas nuclear weapons plant shut down by duck hunters (Daily Telegraph)
A pair of duck hunters prompted a lock-down in Texas at America’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant, officials said on Friday. but there was no security threat, officials said.

Time to Ban Production of Nuclear Weapons Material (Scientific American)
Editor’s Note : On Jan. 18, diplomats from 65 countries at the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva will try to agree to begin talks on a treaty that would stop the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. Cutting off production of fissile materials for weapons could provide the basis for irreversible reductions of all nuclear weapons. In the article below …