Dec. 12, 2006 — The decline of the Soviet Union may have left many Americans feeling safer from nuclear war, but a disturbing new study argues that an attack by terrorists sponsored by a small nuclear state could be just as lethal.
Such an attack “could generate casualties comparable to those once predicted for a full-scale [...]

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday provoked another outpouring of global condemnation Tuesday with a quiver of threats aimed at Israel, this time during a conference of academics summoned to question the reality of the Holocaust.
“With God’s blessing, the countdown is now going ahead for the disintegration of Israel, and that is the will of all [...]

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The regional status quo in Northeast Asia appears to have self-destructed over the last few years. North Korea has announced that it possesses nuclear weapons and, with its most recent test, may have kicked down the door to the nuclear club. Japan has already stepped out from under its “peace constitution,” and it is no [...]

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Editor’s note: A former arms control expert in the Soviet Union argues that Bush, in his obsession with North Korea and Iran’s relatively minuscule nuclear threat, has effectively ignored the much more perilous threat of Russia’s 10,000-strong nuclear arsenal.
This is the gist of the scenario, called Vigilant Shield ‘07, for this year’s Homeland Defense Exercise, [...]

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Shell is being forced by the Russian government to hand over its controlling stake in the world’s biggest liquefied gas project, provoking fresh fears about the Kremlin’s willingness to use the country’s growing strength in natural resources as a political weapon.
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MOSCOW - Russia in March will start delivering nuclear fuel for the plant it is building in Iran, the head of a state company in charge of the project said Monday, according to Russian news reports.
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Iran, the country where people feel so offended by some Danish drawings about the Prophet Mahomet, houses a two day conference on December 11 and 12 under the working title “Review of the Holocaust: Global vision”. Organized by the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) in Teheran, the introduction gives the tone: “The word [...]

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