An international smuggling ring may have secretly shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with Iran, North Korea and other rogue countries, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The now-defunct ring led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is previously known to have sold bomb-related parts to Libya, Iran and North Korea. A draft report by former [...]

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Iran’s disputed nuclear program has sent a wave of interest in atomic energy across the Middle East, a think tank said Tuesday, warning that it risked setting the scene for a regional nuclear arms race.
At least 13 Middle Eastern countries either announced new plans to explore atomic energy or revived pre-existing nuclear programs between February [...]

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Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi told leaders of the Gulf Arab state of Qatar on Wednesday that his country was willing to put its controversial nuclear expertise at the service of all Muslim states.
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U.S. officials have begun to confirm publicly that they have hard intelligence about North Korean proliferation. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, said in Feb. 7 testimony to the House intelligence committee: “While Pyongyang denies a program for uranium enrichment and also denies its proliferation activities, we know North Korea continues to engage in [...]

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This paper serves as a description of the findings of nuclear games exercises to test the stability outcomes of deploying defense systems in a proliferated environ­ment in which seven players (nations) have nuclear weapons.[1] These games were conducted at The Heri­tage Foundation from November 2004 until January 2005, and involved a wide range of policy [...]

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Exposing a one-man force for nuclear proliferation.
Book in a nutshell: Husband-and- wife journalists retrace the secretive dealings and ultimate downfall of arms dealer Abdul Qadeer Khan, whose stock in trade was offering up the makings for nuclear weapons to the world’s most tyrannical regimes.
The authors revisit Khan’s efforts to distribute the worst weapons of mass [...]

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Russia is continuing nuclear war exercises aimed at the United States. China is making open war preparations. Iran seeks to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran’s leaders talk openly of wiping Israel out of existence. Can anyone see what all this signifies? A destructive war is on the horizon. But we refuse to take the danger seriously. [...]

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“THE Iranian regime is basically a messianic apocalyptic cult.” So says Israel’s once and perhaps future prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. If he is right the world is teetering on the edge of a terrifying crisis.
While the world has been distracted by Iraq, Afghanistan and much else, Iran has been moving relentlessly closer to the point [...]

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This is the first in a series of articles on how to prepare for nuclear war.
Preparing for nuclear war is going to be expensive, so I’m going to focus on how to make lots of money fast.
Do not be alarmed by this post. I am simply going to explain when and how to purchase options [...]

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On our comprehensively terrorized globe, almost everybody, from covert, stateless bands of jihadists to accredited members of the United Nations, believes himself in need of either ready-made atomic bombs or the technology and expertise with which to manufacture them. “The nuclearization of the world,” Langewiesche writes, “has become the human condition, and it cannot be [...]

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Though it seems like a plot line from a James Bond film, clandestine acquisition of nuclear technologies and materials is still very much with us, according to a newly released study. Preventing nuclear proliferation by both state and non-state actors is very much an action-reaction process. Proliferators illicitly acquire materials and technologies critical to constructing [...]

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The West’s greatest fear is a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. With Pakistan plunging into crisis mode as it deals with its ever-growing and –powerful fundamentalist population, FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan outlines how we are perilously close to just such a scenario.
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With Pakistani Islamist groups now proclaiming they will “Islamize” the [...]

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With this book, he’s created an odd hybrid: The nonfiction tragi-thriller. One can’t put down this tale of real-life, diabolical intrigue that is, simultaneously, a book so depressing it ought to come shrink-wrapped with a fifth of Jim Beam.
The opening essay is the sort of work every journalist wishes he or she could produce and [...]

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London, May 3: The International Institute of Strategic Studies, influential think tank, has claimed that the cladestine nuclear proliferation network run by Pakistan’s disgraced top scientist A. Q. Khan, is still very much in business.
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WASHINGTON, April 9 (UPI) — According to the British counter-intelligence group MI-5, over 360 private companies, university departments, and government organizations in eight countries, including Israel, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, India, Egypt, the Pakistani High Commission in London, and the United Arab Emirates, have been procuring nuclear technology and equipment for use in nuclear weapons construction.
At [...]

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Nuclear terrorism threatens to wreck nuclear peace, which has lasted 61 years despite the presence of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles around the world, noted Nobel laureate Tom Schelling, one of the key speakers at the conference.
The latest change is that there is no talk of enriching uranium but of the right to enrich [...]

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It should surprise no one that quiet discussions have already begun in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, and elsewhere in the Middle East about the desirability of developing national nuclear capabilities to blunt Iran’s anticipated advantage and to offset the perceived decline in America’s protective power. This is just the beginning. We should anticipate that proliferation [...]

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Until an Anglo-American joint intelligence team busted the racket in 2003, Pakistani scientist, spy and national hero Abdul Qadeer Khan had been peddling the most dangerous nuclear technology across the world for three decades.
Described by former US director of central intelligence George Tenet as “at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden”, Khan wreaked havoc [...]

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Iran Declared war On America In 1979
“How many Americans realize that Iran declared war on us 27 years ago - in 1979 - and has been killing Americans ever since…North Korea, the world’s leading missile proliferator, and Iran are on the verge of starting nuclear arms races in both Asia and the Middle East - [...]

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