In these two articles, AEI’s Danielle Pletka and John R. Bolton bring us up to date and discuss the larger implications of developments since Kim Jong Il pledged to give up his nuclear ambitions in exchange for diplomatic recognition and foreign aid. Pletka reminds readers that since North Korea signed the 1994 accord, it has [...]

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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.
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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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