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UN watchdog says Syrian site had features that point to a nuclear reactor
Associated Press WriterVIENNA, Austria (AP) _ The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday that a Syrian site bombed by Israel in 2007 had the characteristics of a nuclear reactor. It also admitted that its investigation into Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program is...Tags: Weaponry, Defense, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Policy, Metal and Mineral
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New guns for Easton police evoke a sentimental journey
If you Google ''nuclear weapon straddle carrier'' on the Internet, you'll find pictures of odd-looking machines first designed to move stacks of lumber at lumber yards, but later used to transport huge bombs. In the late 1950s, during the Cold War,...Tags: Weaponry, Defense, Armed Forces, Firearms, Gun Control
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U.S. policy change could court Tehran
The obvious reply to the suggestion in The Baltimore Sun's editorial "Two-faced Tehran" (Nov. 16) that "Iran should change its rhetoric if it wants a change in U.S. policy" is that the United States should change its militaristic foreign policy if it...Tags: Defense
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IAEA chief says more information needed about traces of uranium found at bombed Syria site
AP Business WriterDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) _ The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said Monday the agency needs more transparency from Syria and others to determine whether traces of uranium found at a site bombed by Israeli planes indicate Damascus was...Tags: Defense, Nuclear Policy
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Report: Diplomatic document shows NKorea's founder opposed nuclear weapons development
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ North Korea's late founder Kim Il Sung swore to Beijing in the 1960s that he opposed the development of nuclear weapons, a report said Monday, citing a newly declassified Chinese document. In a letter Kim wrote to then-Chinese...Tags: Weaponry, Defense, News Agency, Kim Jong Il, Newspapers
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Diplomats: US, allies opposed to Syria getting nuclear reactor aid from UN agency
Associated Press WriterVIENNA, Austria (AP) _ The U.S. and key allies object to an International Atomic Energy Agency offer to help Syria as it considers building a nuclear power plant because of suspicions it secretly worked on a program that could make nuclear weapons,...Tags: Defense, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Policy, Diplomacy, Economic Sanctions
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Israeli prime minister calls for world to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons
JERUSALEM (AP) _ Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Iran is still trying to build nuclear bombs and the world must make a concerted effort to stop the project. "Iran has not terminated its pursuit of nuclear weapons," Olmert told a...Tags: Defense, Weaponry, Nuclear Policy, Ehud Olmert, Judaism
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Report: South Korea's president says he welcomes summit between Obama, Kim Jong Il
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ South Korea's president would welcome a meeting between U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il if it could reduce tension on the peninsula over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, a news report said....Tags: Defense, Nuclear Policy, Foreign Aid, Lee Myung-bak, George Bush
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Changing climate may push more countries past the brink of war
McClatchy-TribuneA warmer planet could find itself more often at war. Earth's fast-changing climate has a range of serious thinkers - from military brass to geographers to diplomats - predicting a spate of armed conflicts driven by the weather. Shifting temperatures...Tags: Farms, Meteorological Disasters, National Government, Hurricanes, Population
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Deutch calls for examination of fuel terminal with ties to Iran's oil sector
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsBoca Raton Sen. Ted Deutch today called on Gov. Charlie Crist to "examine" a $100 million fuel terminal being constructed in Brevard County's Port Canaveral by a European oil company, Vitol, that Deutch says supplies more than half the oil......Tags: Defense, Florida, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Diplomacy, Executive Branch
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Iran moderates rare as hen's teeth: Gates
The Swampby Frank James Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington today of, among other things, the need for the U.S. to modernize its nuclear weapons capability. I'll deal with what he said on......Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Defense, Robert Gates, The White House, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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U.S. nuclear arsenal faces crisis
The Swampby Frank James How much have you heard on the presidential campaign trail about the growing weaknesses in the U.S. nuclear arsenal? I don't recall hearing much about it at all, which probably says more about the way we view......Tags: Defense, Weaponry, Robert Gates, Migration, John F. Kennedy
Nov 19, 2008
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