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By Richard J. Harknett | April 14, 2009
CINCINNATI -During his recent trip to Europe, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. must "seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." This goal would undermine global nuclear security. A successful policy on international nuclear weapons security must strive to support stable possession and effective stewardship of nuclear technology. Only by stabilizing nuclear capabilities, not by eliminating them, will the world be safe from the threat of nuclear weapon use. The only time in history atomic weapons were used in warfare was when only one country possessed them in very small numbers.
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By New York Times News Service | February 12, 2007
BEIJING -- Negotiations on a step-by-step deal that the Bush administration hopes will lead North Korea to give up its nuclear arms program appeared near collapse yesterday over Pyongyang's demands for huge shipments of oil and electricity before agreeing to a schedule for turning over its nuclear weapons and fuel. The chief U.S. envoy, Christopher R. Hill, said he and North Korea's envoy, Kim Kye Gwan, had held a "lengthy and very frank" meeting yesterday. But Hill seemed much less optimistic than at the start of the five days of talks that a deal could be struck.
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By Melvin A. Goodman | December 6, 2007
U.S intelligence agencies have concluded in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in fall 2003 and that Tehran is now "less determined to develop nuclear weapons." The new findings will make it more difficult for the Bush administration to gain domestic and international support for the use of military force against Iran. The findings also will complicate efforts to arrange a third round of U.N. sanctions against Iran and could open the door to a policy of diplomatic engagement.
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By James Gerstenzang | December 6, 2007
WASHINGTON -- President Bush and his aides spent a second day trying to keep pressure on Iran, with the White House saying yesterday that the disclosure that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 would not affect conditions for opening negotiations with the Islamic republic. As Monday's report by the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies continued to reverberate, raising doubts about the U.S. push to punish Iran, Bush consulted with top advisers on their talks with counterparts from Britain, Germany, France and Russia.
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By James E. Goodby | February 4, 2007
It's only a matter of time. That's what the experts say when asked whether a terrorist organization might detonate an atom bomb in an American city. The Bush administration has taken several initiatives to defend the country against nuclear terrorism. These measures will help to prevent the theft of uranium and plutonium and to interdict any illicit shipments of nuclear materials or equipment. The recent capture in the Republic of Georgia of a smuggler carrying enriched uranium is a case where cooperative intelligence worked quite well.
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By Peter Spiegel | October 20, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Air Force weapons officers assigned to secure nuclear warheads failed on five separate occasions to examine a bundle of cruise missiles headed to a B-52 bomber in North Dakota, leading the plane's crew to unknowingly fly six nuclear-armed missiles across the country. That August flight, the first known incident in which the U.S. military lost track of its nuclear weapons since the dawn of the atomic age, lasted nearly three hours, until the bomber landed at Barksdale Air Force Base in northern Louisiana.
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November 3, 2007
RANDALL FORSBERG, 64 Anti-nuclear activist Randall Forsberg, the activist who founded the nuclear freeze movement and led the largest-ever demonstration against nuclear weapons in 1982, died Oct. 19 of cancer in a Bronx, N.Y., hospital . Dr. Forsberg, a political science professor at City College of New York, , launched the anti-nuclear movement with a paper she wrote while earning a doctorate in international studies at Massachusetts Institute of...
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By Bob Drogin | May 24, 2007
VIENNA, Austria -- Defying the international community, Iran has sharply upgraded its capacity to enrich uranium in recent months while the outside world's access to and grasp of Iran's nuclear program "has deteriorated," according to a unusually blunt report yesterday by the International Atomic Energy Agency. As two U.S. aircraft carriers and a flotilla of warships steamed into the Persian Gulf for previously unannounced exercises, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned that it could not "provide assurances about ... the exclusively peaceful nature" of Iran's expanding nuclear effort.
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By Mark Magnier | June 3, 2007
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- The way Son Hye Suk sees it, having nuclear weapons means more than security for this Stalinist state. It means North Koreans will have more food on their plates. "Our nuclear weapons are a source of great pride in our country, and if anyone insults us now, they won't survive," said Son, an ideologically vetted worker at the International Friendship Museum north of the capital. "Now that we have our pride, our great political and military power and nuclear weapons, the economic problems can be solved.
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By Jenifer Mackby and Ola Dahlman | July 25, 2007
While the United States is spending $3 billion each week on the war in Iraq - a war, let us remember, that was predicated in part on nuclear fears - it refuses to pay a good part of its dues to the organization that provides for monitoring the countries it wants to prevent from developing nuclear weapons, including North Korea and Iran. The organization that is to implement the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has installed 75 percent of its verification structure, an alarm system that monitors the entire globe for nuclear explosions.