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Toxic munitions 'may be cause' of baby deaths and deformities in Fallujah

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By David Randall - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Evidence was growing this weekend that babies born in the Iraqi city of Fallujah – scene in 2004 of one of the few set-piece battles of the invasion – are exhibiting high rates of mortality and birth defects.

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Nuclear scars: Tainted water runs beneath Nevada desert

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Ralph Vartabedian - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - In a study for Nye County, where the nuclear test site lies, Buqo estimated that the underground tests polluted 1.6 trillion gallons of water. That is as much water as Nevada is allowed to withdraw from the Colorado River in 16 years -- enough to fill a lake 300 miles long, a mile wide and 25 feet deep.

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Scientists: Nuke panel owes Utahns an apology

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Judy Fahys - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Three scientists say federal nuclear regulators owe Utahns an apology -- and a policy change -- for allowing shallow burial of depleted uranium, including the 49,000 tons already at EnergySolutions Inc.'s landfill in Tooele County.

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In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Yorker - By Seymour M. Hersh - Nov. 08 (Special Report) - In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should have been some of the country’s best-guarded targets. In the most

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N. Korea Says It Has More Bomb-Grade Plutonium

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Choe Sang Hun - Nov. 04 (News Report) - North Korea put further pressure on the United States to start bilateral talks by declaring on Tuesday that it had completed reprocessing its spent nuclear fuel for use in a bomb.

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Rabbits Deposit Radioactive Clues on the Landscape

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - The Hanford site, overseen by the federal Department of Energy, produced roughly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal, beginning in World War II and ending in the 1980s. Today it is the focus of the nation’s largest environmental cleanup, an effort that has cost tens of billions of dollars and is expected to continue for decades.

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U.S., Iranian officials meet one-on-one during nuclear talks

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Paul Richter, Michael Muskal - Oct. 01 (News Report) - U.S. and Iranian officials held a rare one-on-one meeting today as major powers convened near Geneva to try to negotiate an end to Tehran's disputed nuclear program.

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Iran agrees to more nuclear talks with U.S. and allies

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Erlanger, Mark Lander - Oct. 01 (Breaking News) - Critical talks over Iran’s nuclear ambitions that included the highest level bilateral discussions between the United States and Iran in many years ended Thursday evening with Iran agreeing to meet to talk again before the end of the month.

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The Possibility of a Nuclear Iran Alarms Arabs

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Slackman - Oct. 01 (News Analysis) - Though it is uncertain how the confrontation over Iranian nuclear facilities will play out, some in the Persian Gulf region are even envisioning a military strike by the West, or Israel.

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Iran ‘has secret nuclear arms plan’

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By James Blitz, Daniel Dombey - Sep. 30 (News Report) - Britain’s intelligence services say that Iran has been secretly designing a nuclear warhead “since late 2004 or early 2005”, an assessment that suggests Tehran has embarked on the final steps towards acquiring nuclear weapons capability.

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Iran Agrees to Let U.N. Examine Nuclear Site

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David E. Sanger, William J. Broad - Sep. 27 (News Report) - The Obama administration plans to tell Iran this week that it must open a newly revealed nuclear enrichment site to international inspectors “within weeks,” according to senior administration officials. The administration will also tell Tehran that inspectors must have full access to the key personnel who put together the clandestine plant and to the documents surrounding its construction, the officials said Saturday.

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Officials: Iran has second enrichment plant

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael D. Shear, Karen DeYoung - Sep. 25 (News Report) - President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain blasted Iran's construction of a previously unacknowledged uranium enrichment facility and demanded Friday that Tehran immediately fulfill its obligations under international law or risk the imposition of harsh new sanctions.

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Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Sep. 25 (News Report) - Iran's acknowledgment of the facility's existence -- and Obama's plans to accuse Tehran of hiding it -- were first reported Friday by the New York Times.

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UN to give big boost to nuclear free world

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Edith M. Lederer - Sep. 24 (News) - With President Barack Obama presiding over a historic session, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution Thursday committing all nations to work for a nuclear weapons-free world. Russia, China and developing nations supported the measure, giving it global clout and strong political backing.

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Obama Challenges World’s Leaders in U.N. Speech

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael D. Shear, Colum Lynch - Sep. 23 (News Report) - President Obama delivered a stern speech to the leaders of the world's nations Wednesday morning, challenging them to live up to their responsibilities even as he acknowledged that the United States also has fallen short on many fronts.

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The Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine. It’s Still Working.

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Nicholas Thompson - Sep. 22 (Special Report) - In the 1980s, the Soviets built a Doomsday Machine — and it’s still active. I learned about it while researching my new book, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War. It’s also the subject of a story in the current issue of WIRED.

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Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Nicholas Thompson - Sep. 21 (Special Report) - "The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and the military." He looks around again. Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination." Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.

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Last Chance for Iran

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Daniel R. Coats, Charles S. Robb, Charles F. Wald - Sep. 20 (News Report) - Next month’s talks may be one of the last opportunities to diplomatically address the advancing Iranian nuclear threat.

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White House to Scrap Bush’s Approach to Missile Shield

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Peter Baker, Nicholas Kulish - Sep. 18 (News Report) - President Obama announced on Thursday that his administration will scrap former President George W. Bush’s planned missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic and instead deploy a reconfigured system aimed more at intercepting shorter-range Iranian missiles.

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Obama to Scrap European Missile Shield Plan

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael D. Shear, Ann Scott Tyson, Debbi Wilgoren - Sep. 17 (Special Report) - President Obama said Thursday that he is abandoning Bush-era plans for a long-range missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic, turning instead to a land- and sea-based system of sensors and interceptors that is focused on stopping shorter-range missiles that could be fired from Iran.

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North Korea Says Uranium Program Near Completion - NYTimes.com

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 04 (News Report) - North Korea said Friday it is on the threshold of mastering a new way of building atomic bombs, pressuring the United States to agree to direct negotiations or see the communist regime become a greater nuclear risk. Pyongyang's claim to have succeeded in experimental uranium enrichment -- an easier way to make nuclear weapons -- raises concerns that North Korea may add uranium-based weapons to enlarge its stockpile of atomic bombs made from plutonium.

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Iran continuing nuclear activity, says UN

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Julian Borger - Aug. 29 (News Report) - The UN's nuclear watchdog reported today that Iran was continuing its uranium enrichment programme in defiance of UN security council resolutions, setting the stage for possible oil and gas sanctions by the west. In a report, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also repeated its regular complaint that Iran was not co-operating with its inspectors over unanswered questions about evidence of efforts to militarise the programme and produce a warhead. In his last report on Iran before leaving his post, the IAEA director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, said the evidence pointing at military aspects of Iran?s programme "appears to have ...

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U.S. presses sanctions to end N.Korea atomic plans

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jack Kim - Aug. 24 (News Report) - North Korea has said it considers as dead often-stalled disarmament-for-aid talks among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States. It has signaled that it instead wants only direct dealings with the United States, something Washington said it would not do.

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Iran Lifts Ban, Allows UN Inspectors Access To Nuclear Reactor

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 20 (News) - International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors visited the nearly finished Arak heavy water reactor last week, the diplomats told The Associated Press. Separately, they said Iran agreed last week to IAEA requests to expand its monitoring of the Natanz uranium enrichment site, which produces material for nuclear fuel that can be further enriched to provide fissile material for warheads

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North Korea makes nuclear threat over military drills | Reuters

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Aug. 15 (News Report) - SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea denounced upcoming joint South Korean and U.S. military drills and said it would "wipe out" the countries with nuclear weapons if they threatened the communist state, its KCNA news agency said on Sunday.

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