ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Los Alamos National Laboratory has delivered to the federal government the first plutonium core certified for use in nuclear warheads in 18 years.
The National Nuclear Security Administration certified the plutonium pit — a softball-size sphere of enriched uranium encased in stainless steel — in early June.
Read More…

read more....

If another war between Lebanon and Israel is to be prevented, the traffic of Hezbollah arms and fighters across the Syrian-Lebanese border must be stopped. That’s been clear since the last round of fighting ended nine months ago and the job of monitoring the border went to the Lebanese Army, backed up by an expanded [...]

read more....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – The top U.S. military commander in South Korea on Monday criticized last week’s missile test launches by North Korea, saying the country remains a threat despite its recent moves toward dismantling its nuclear program.
Gen. B.B. Bell said he welcomed Pyongyang’s efforts to live up to a February commitment to shut [...]

read more....

In a bid to shape public opinion on the eve of the Kennebunkport summit, the Russian military did something they have never done before.
They took Western journalists to the Gabala base to try to prove it is a realistic alternative, and therefore a solution, to the current missile crisis stoking tensions between Russia and the [...]

read more....

But what if anything will that accomplish?
Graham Allison, a nuclear expert who served as assistant secretary of defence in the Clinton administration, estimates that North Korea has built an arsenal of 10 nuclear weapons. In a May, 2007, oped in the Boston Globe, Allison observed:
“[Kim Jong-Il's] goal is to keep these weapons, sell the aging [...]

read more....

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, fearing a rupturing of Lebanon’s political system, is ratcheting up pressure on Syria and its Lebanese allies ahead of what the U.S. believes could be a bid by opponents of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to set up a parallel government in Beirut by the fall.
Read More…

read more....

SAPPORO, Japan, July 2 (UPI) — The annual summit of the presidents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will take place this coming August in Kyrgyzstan. The SCO groups together Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The U.S. government has reacted warily to the SCO for several reasons.
First, when Washington asked to send observers [...]

read more....

Pillai said that the submarine version of BrahMos will be tested on one of the Indian submarines and negotiations are underway with the Indian Navy to provide one of its Kilo class submarines for the trials.
Meanwhile, the development of air version of the supersonic cruise missile is in advance stages and it would be showcased [...]

read more....

GLASGOW, Scotland – Doctors from Iraq and Jordan were among the seven suspects arrested in the failed car bombings in London and at Glasgow’s airport, officials said Monday. A witness said police were closing in on the terror network just before attackers rammed the Scottish terminal building.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said at least 19 [...]

read more....

Bush coddles American apologists for radical Islam
At Wednesday’s rededication ceremony of the Saudi-funded Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., President Bush missed a perfect opportunity to repudiate apologism for radical Islam, and instead announced his latest plan to get the Muslim world to stop hating America: appoint a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic [...]

read more....