Nuclear Weapons – Nuclear Disarmament – The Missile Shield Deadlock Between The U.S. And Russia (Free Internet Press)

Nuclear Disarmament – The Missile Shield Deadlock Between The U.S. And Russia (Free Internet Press)
The U.S. and Russia are currently negotiating a successor to the START nuclear disarmament treaty. But continued American plans for a missile shield in Europe have proven to be a major stumbling block. President Obama’s vision of a nuclear-free world is in danger.

A.Q. Khan offered Saddam nuclear ‘package’ deal: Post (Sify News)
An agent linked to disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan had offered Saddam Hussein a $150 million nuclear ‘package’ deal guaranteeing Iraq a weapons-assembly line capable of producing nuclear warheads in as little as three years, the Washington Post reported today.

Nuclear weapons physics: Welcome to the Atomic Weapons Establishment (Nature)
With the launch of a powerful laser facility, Britain’s most secretive lab is opening up to academics. Geoff Brumfiel secures a preview.

Minju Joson Dismisses U.S. Talk about Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Hypocritical (Korean Central News Agency)
Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) — The U.S. is mulling keeping its nuclear forces deployed in Europe as they are. This fact goes to prove that its “plan to build a world without nuclear weapons” is nothing but rhetoric to serve its propaganda purpose in an attempt to deceive the international community.

Is US’ nuke-free world pledge sincere? (China Daily)
Media reports from the United States say the Barack Obama administration is conducting a “nuclear posture review”, aimed at reducing nuclear arsenals and reassessing the importance of nuclear weapons in America’s national security strategy.

Politics Okada says nuclear weapons may have entered Japan under secret pacts (Japan Today)
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Tuesday he cannot rule out the possibility that nuclear weapons were introduced into Japan under secret pacts with the United

Obama must decide degree to which U.S. swears off nuclear weapons (Washington Post)
President Obama’s top national security advisers will within days present him with an agonizing choice on how to guide U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the rest of his term.

Canada Urged to Seek Nuclear-Free Arctic Zone (CommonDreams.org)
by Juliet O’Neill Calling for the creation of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Arctic is not alarmist, says an academic report as foreign ministers of the world’s Arctic nations prepare for a summit in Canada later this month. While the threat of nuclear-weapon use in the Arctic may be nebulous now, the ground should be prepared for potential future confrontations over competing claims for …

Saddam Hussein weighed nuclear ‘package’ deal in 1990, documents show (Washington Post)
As troops massed on his border near the start of the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein weighed the purchase of a $150 million nuclear “package” deal that included not only weapons designs but also production plants and foreign experts to supervise the building of a nuclear bomb, ac…

Canada urged to seek nuclear-free Arctic zone (Canada.com)
Calling for the creation of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Arctic is not alarmist, says an academic report as foreign ministers of the world’s Arctic nations prepare for a summit in Canada later this month.

A.Q. Khan offered Saddam nuclear ‘package’ deal: Post (New Kerala)
Washington, March 10 : An agent linked to disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan had offered Saddam Hussein a $150 million nuclear “package” deal guaranteeing Iraq a weapons-assembly line capable of producing nuclear warheads in as little as three years, the Washington Post reported today.

EU Parliament calls NATO nuclear warheads in Europe ‘anachronistic’ (EARTHtimes.org)
Strasbourg – NATO’s tactical nuclear weapons in Europe are a strategic anachronism that needs to be gradually eliminated in cooperation with Russia, the European Parliament said in a resolution approved Wednesday. The move follows on from the lette…

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