Nuclear Weapons

HEAVY BREATHING at a nuclear weapons plant….

Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

HEAVY BREATHING at a nuclear weapons plant.

Tighten safety rules for nuclear bomb bases, says Scottish government

Rob Edwards (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

from Sunday Herald, 22 November 2009 The Scottish government is to press Westminster to tighten up the regulation of nuclear bomb bases in Scotland following a series of safety problems revealed by the Sunday Herald. Scottish ministers have promised to lobby the UK government to close the loopholes which allow the Faslane and Coulport bases on the Clyde to escape statutory scrutiny by government watchdogs....

Japan admits secret pact: reports

The Age (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A Japanese government team has found documents on an alleged secret pact with the US to transport nuclear weapons through its territory.

• Japan admits secret pact: reports - Sydney Morning Herald
• DPJ to admit existence of secret nuke pact - Japan Times

Iran to Hold War Games to Protect Nuclear Sites

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said Saturday, reflecting the country's concern that Israel could make good on threats to strike militarily. The five-day drill will involve Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard and the regular army and will cover 230,000 square miles...

How North Korea's Arms Trade Funds Its Nuclear Program

War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday

North Korea Arms Trade Funds Nuclear-Bomb Work, UN Panel Says -- Bloomberg Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea is running a global arms smuggling enterprise to finance its nuclear weapons program, a United Nations panel said in a report on sanctions imposed on the regime. “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has established a highly sophisticated international network for the acquisition,...

• North Korea Arms Trade Funds Nuclear-Bomb Work, UN Panel Says - Naval Open Source INTelligence

You don't say: Outlook for tough Iran sanctions is dim

Middle East Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday

Well yes, we already knew the outlook for tough Iran sanctions is dim - USSR and China watered down all previous sanctions resolutions, didn't they? But as the Obama administration had about 10 months to prepare for this moment, you would've thunk they had thought about the problema and worked out solutions, no? Apparently not. Don't ever take it for granted that the people in charge know what they...

• Trying for Sanctions Against Iran - Boots and Sabers

The man who won't lie for peace

Covenant Zone (Free subscription) | yesterday

Wishful thinking pervades discussion of some fancied Middle East "peace process". Here's an excellent video of a lecture given at Yale by Prof. Barry Rubin that touches on many issues but especially on the nature of Arab antisemitism and why, at the end of the day, Israel simply cannot exist in the Arab mind. That's to say, the predominant ideology in the Arab world, in which Jews are but...

Sign the Petition for Nuclear Disarmament to: Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, United Nations

thoughts from podunk (Free subscription) | yesterday

We wish to add our voices to the global campaign for an end to nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We believe that the world needs to take urgent action to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to make the world free of nuclear weapons, as part of the overall drive for worldwide peace and the transfer of military spending to socially-useful ends. The international treaties concerning...

Chairman Berman’s opening statement at hearing, “Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?”

Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Thursday, November 19, 2009 Verbatim, as delivered Americans have the right to travel to Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, which seeks a nuclear weapons capability in violation of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. We can go to North Korea, which threatens to destabilize East Asia with its nuclear weapons program....

Pakistan amasses more nukes than India

Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

By Arnold Bhebhe Pakistan is reported to have amassed 70 to 90 nuclear weapons and India 60 to 80 as both countries alongside China race for more arsenals deploying them at different sites to escape detection. Eminent American atomic experts Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen in an article “Nuclear Notebook: Worldwide Deployment of Nuclear [...]

On Nuclear Disarmament for Iowa

Blog for Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

On Nuclear Disarmament for Iowa by Paul Deaton When Dr. Helen Caldicott moved from Australia to the United States, she became what Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy called, “the First Lady of the Nuclear Freeze Movement in the 1980s.” Less well known is that Dr. Caldicott traveled around Iowa with Tom Harkin during his first campaign for election to the United States Senate in 1984,...

Syria suspected of concealing nuclear activity

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

WASHINGTON - The International Atomic Energy Agency and Syria are walking a tightrope and appear to be headed toward a collision over two nuclear sites where undeclared uranium was recently found. The agency found traces of uranium at the Dair Alzour nuclear site that are not included in Syria's declared inventory, according to a just released report. The Syrians said the uranium came from the Israeli...

A Sense of Perspective

UnLaoised (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

We all know that the French can be a right shower of bastards when they want to be. Just ask the New Zealanders. Back in 1985, they sank a Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland Harbour, drowning a photographer in the process. Ten years later, they started testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific, blowing the shit out of a number of atolls in the region. Judging by the hysteria in the...

Slowly, secret U.S. nuke deals come to light

Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

OSAKA — Decades since Washington and Tokyo reportedly crafted secret agreements to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in Japanese territory, declassified documents from the U.S. detailing its nuclear presence in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan during the postwar period are slowly coming to light. The move is creating headaches for both countries as they grapple over military bases in Okinawa and the future...

Solid foundation for U.S., China

Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao held a summit in Beijing earlier this week and agreed to push cooperation on such issues as the fight against global warming, denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and efforts to realize a world without nuclear weapons. The two leaders refrained from locking horns on such issues as Taiwan and human rights. Their joint statement not only...

The China Security Blog

jackmiller1q | 09/12/2009

http://www.chinasecurityblog.com ChinaSecurityBlog.com provides daily updates about China’s security environment. It covers topics such as weapons procurement, weapons development, bilateral relationships, multilateral relationships, non-proliferation, military modernization, power politics, regional developments, and energy security. Sources include open source defense and intelligence reports, news...

Ins Arihant

knmurthy | 07/27/2009

India on Sunday reached a milestone when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur launched the country's first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine 'INS Arihant' for sea trials. Kaur broke a coconut and performed a puja after which she unveiled a plaque naming the 112-metre-long submarine. "I name it INS Arihant. All the best to the submarine," she said. Declaring that India has achieved...