What if the electricity suddenly went out? One nuclear warhead detonated high above North America would produce a shockwave powerful enough to knock out the entire electric grid and all electronic devices. Not just temporarily because the system was overloaded, but permanently because the circuits were fried.

FOXNews.com – The Nightmare No One In America Sees Coming

Middle Eastern countries feel tricked by the 40-year-old nuclear non proliferation treaty, an Egyptian diplomat warned on Wednesday, less than two months before crucial talks on the arms control deal.

AFP: Mideast feels ‘tricked’ by nuclear arms treaty

The US 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.

Nuclear Disarmament: The Missile Shield Deadlock between the US and Russia – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International

In the Iranian desert, at a sprawling industrial site ringed by barbed wire and antiaircraft guns, a shift in the enrichment of uranium is producing global jitters because it could shorten Iran’s path to the acquisition of nuclear weapons.

The Diminishing Difficulty of Enriching Uranium – NYTimes.com

North Korea said on Tuesday it would boost its nuclear weapons capability because U.S. President Barack Obama was determined to ignore its calls for peace and bring it down by military force.

N.Korea to boost nuclear weapons capability | World | Reuters

Does he substantially advance his bold pledge to seek a world free of nuclear weapons by declaring that the “sole purpose” of the U.S. arsenal is to deter other nations from using them? Or does he embrace a more modest option, supported by some senior military officials, that deterrence is the “primary purpose”?

Obama must decide degree to which U.S. swears off nuclear weapons – washingtonpost.com

The United States Navy and Lockheed Martin have been concealing the assembly and movement of nuclear warheads in the densely populated San Francisco Bay Area for decades. The nuclear weapons facility is so secret that not only is photography strictly prohibited, but even making drawings or taking notes about the buildings from a public street is considered illegal. It is internally identified as a Naval Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant (NIROP), one of several across the country.

U.S. Navy Conceals Nuclear Weapons Production in California : Indybay

The review “will point to dramatic reductions in the stockpile, while maintaining a strong and reliable deterrent through the investments that have been made in the budget,” the official said.

Officials say thousands of nuclear weapons could be cut, in many cases by retiring weapons that are now kept in storage.

BBC News – US plans ‘dramatic reductions’ in nuclear weapons