Posted by Matt in September 5th, 2006 |
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The “Father of the Islamic Bomb,” Khan is seen as a national hero in Pakistan for providing his country with a nuclear deterrent against its archrival, India. He is also one of the world’s most notorious criminals, the former head of a network that distributed nuclear technology on the black market (Globalsecurity.org) [...]
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MICHAEL EDWARDS: Estimates vary as to the full extent of China’s nuclear arsenal. But conservative sources believe, conservatively, it has several dozen intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with multiple nuclear warheads. Within range of these is Japan, the United States and Australia.
A Senate inquiry is presently investigating whether Australia should supply uranium, the [...]
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The greatest danger to Israel at this point is Egypt. When Iran will go nuclear, that will change. But right now, the greatest military threat hanging over Israel’s head is the Egyptian threat. There is not, and there never was — peace with Egypt. “All that poor Menachem got was a piece [...]
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Posted by Matt in September 5th, 2006 |
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The U. S. Army has just released a report that light water reactors–which 25 nations, from Armenia to Slovenia as well as Spain, already have and are covered by no existing arms control treaties — can be used to obtain near weapons-grade plutonium easily and cheaply.
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List of nuclear reactors is a [...]
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Posted by Matt in September 5th, 2006 |
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A group of more than 700 intellectuals yesterday joined veterans and politicians in opposing the Roh Moo-hyun administration’s initiative to regain wartime troop control from the United States.
“The government is politicizing security matters. The administration’s push for the independent wartime command under the self-reliance doctrine is being spurred by its anti-American and [...]
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ON THE morning of September 12th 2001, Americans woke up to a changed country. They had seen the twin towers of the World Trade Centre reduced to rubble, the Pentagon aflame and a field in Pennsylvania transformed into a graveyard. Almost 3,000 people had been killed and twice as many injured, in [...]
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Nuclear Iran: The U.S. is bravely pushing ahead with sanctions against Iran. But why bother? Neither Europe, Russia nor China will agree to anything beyond a wrist slap. And Iran won’t stop enriching uranium.
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Some adults in five European nations express reservations about the role of the United States in world affairs, according to a poll by Harris Interactive published in the Financial Times. 30 per cent of respondents believe the U.S. is the greatest threat to global stability.
Iran is second on the list with 23 [...]
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