Nuclear Weapons

Deal for new Honeywell nuclear weapons plant in KC advances

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

A $650 million development agreement to build a new nuclear weapons plant for Honeywell is bound for the Kansas City Council after being endorsed Friday by a development agency. The board of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City voted unanimously to approve the plan, which calls for a private developer, CenterPoint Zimmer LLC, to build a 1.4 million-square-foot campus at Missouri...

• Planned Industrial Expansion Authority OKs agreement for NNSA plant - The Kansas City Business Journal

The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on the Relationships Between Allied Nations

Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday

As part of its " nuclear sharing " policy aimed at defending against nuclear threats, NATO involves member nations in the storing and delivery of nuclear arms, even if they've got no weapons of their own. Belgium, Germany, and Italy, for example, host a number of U.S. nuclear weapons and means of delivering them should the need arise. In an effort to lessen NATO's reliance on nuclear weapons...

Germans press for removal of US nuclear weapons in Europe

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pressure is growing within Nato for the removal of the remaining US nuclear weapons on European soil, and for a new doctrine for the alliance that would depend less on nuclear deterrence. The initiative is being driven by the new German government coalition, which has called for the removal of American nuclear weapons on its territory as part of a Nato strategic rethink. The German foreign minister,...

I think we know where this is going

Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

John Limbert will be the senior Iran official at the State Department , replacing Dennis Ross who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard of publicly since). Should America be concerned? Yes. Limbert is not a neutral arbiter; he serves on the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), widely considered to be the de facto lobby for the Iranian regime...

• National Iranian American Council Member Replaces Dennis Ross at State Dept. Iran Desk - Solomonia

U.S. officials hopeful for new nuclear treaty with Russia

Washington Post (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

After months of negotiations with Russia, Obama administration officials are hopeful about a breakthrough -- possibly this week -- that would enable the two sides to sign a successor to their most extensive nuclear weapons treaty before it expires Dec. 5.

Turkey backs Iran’s ‘right’ to nukes

Jesus Lives! (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

From WND Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who is steering his country toward more eastward thinking and away from reliance on the West, is backing Iran’s “right to peaceful nuclear energy,” according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. But he goes further, warning the West that if it doesn’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons, [...]

Afghanistan: the Case for Staying the Course

Skipper (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Having given my account of why we should get out of the war in my last post, here is my version of the arguments why we should stay. 1. Nuclear threat: if the west withdraws it will give the Taliban a golden chance to win not just Afghanistan but Pakistan too and access their nuclear weapons. Al-Qaeda did terrible things with commercial aircraft- imagine what they might do with nuclear weapons. Possibly...

There's No There There: IAEA Inspects Iran Nuclear Site; Finds "Nothing To Be Worried About"

Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday

What happens after all the fear mongering that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons bunker turns out to be bunk ? U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. Mohamed ElBaradei also told the New York Times that he was examining...

Guardian: Iran Testing Advanced Nuclear Warhead Designs

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday

Some troubling news has come out from the British Guardian . According to sources in the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iranian scientists have been working on a nuclear warhead design which makes it easier to miniaturize the bomb. This allows the warhead to be placed on a missile for deployment. Western weapons experts say there are no such civilian applications, but the use of co-ordinated detonations...

Report: Iran Tested Advanced Nuclear Warhead

Jesus is Lord, A Worshipping Christ (Free subscription) | yesterday

The toothless U.N. nuclear watchdog group, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) has asked Iran to explain why they appear to have the technology to make nuclear weapons now. Where was this report last month when the chairman of the IAEA said that he had no evidence that Iran was building or attempting to [...]

Iowans Can Take Action on Nuclear Disarmament

Blog for Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday

Iowans Can Take Action on Nuclear Disarmament by Paul Deaton Nuclear disarmament is an Iowa issue for a lot of reasons. So why do so many Iowans seem unaware or unconcerned about the importance of nuclear disarmament? The President continues to keep the “nuclear football” nearby; enabling the rapid and mutually assured destruction of the planet should Russia launch an attack against the...

GEORGE BARNSBY BLOG NO.968 THURSDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 2009 INCORPORATING COPAM (COMMITTTEE OF PEACE AND MULTICULTURALISM) barnsby@blueyonder.co.uk

The Barnsby Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

DAY FORTY TWO OF A WORLD NOT THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION ? What has Barack Obama, most powerful man in the world who told the world that he would remove all nuclear weapons from the world, but who since seems to have had second thoughts and has admitted into his Cabinet some of the worst [...]

Is Iran Testing Advanced Nuclear Warhead Designs?

War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility. The picture was released by Ahmadinejad's office in April. AP/Newsweek Iran Tested Advanced Nuclear Warhead Design – Secret Report -- The Guardian Exclusive: Watchdog fears Tehran has key component to put bombs in missiles The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists...

Turkey is no longer an ally

Tel-Chai Nation (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Daniel Pipes wrote last week about Turkey's turning away from the west, starting with Israel:"There is no doubt he is our friend," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, says of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous assertions point to the profound...

Lugar on START Verification

ArmsControlWonk (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Now, that was what I was talking about. Dick Lugar, one of the old bulls of the Senate, has introduced a bill, S.2727 , to extend, on a reciprocal basis, the inspections under START for another six months. (More precisely, it extends the necessary privileges and immunities to Russian arms inspection teams.) The bill itself is good idea because the New START treaty isn’t going to be ratified...

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...