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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
STEVEN R HURST MOSCOW PRESIDENT Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will end a seven-year hiatus in US-Russian summitry today, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and...
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
New IAEA Head: No Evidence Iran Seeking Nuclear Weapons By Jason Ditz, July 03, 2009 Courtesy Of Anti-War News New International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano may have been the candidate of choice for Western nations , and in particular Israel , but he sought to assure the world today that he would remain independent and would seek to de-politicize the office. Yukiya Amano...
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CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Mike Blanchfield It's springtime in Ottawa, and Barack Obama's nuclear weapons adviser invites a luncheon gathering to join him on an imaginary journey that is more Dr. Strangelove than A Moveable Feast. ``Picture in your mind's eyes your favourite bistro, or some other cherished spot in the city of Paris,'' Dr. Bruce Blair tells the 75 guests picking at a rubber-chicken lunch recently at a downtown...
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Nouslife (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
"out of the spotlight, Global Zero, a new alliance of prominent diplomats, military and civic leaders, is beginning to persuade the nuclear powers that there is only one answer to solve this crisis: the elimination of all nuclear weapons.Presidents Obama and Medvedev are meeting next week. Let's call on them to put their historic pledge into action and lead global efforts to achieve a nuclear
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
MOSCOW | As President Barack Obama arrives in Moscow today for meetings with Kremlin leadership, at the top of his agenda is reducing the number of strategic nuclear weapons capable of destroying life on Earth. And that might be the easy part.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
MOSCOW | As President Barack Obama arrives in Moscow today for meetings with Kremlin leadership, at the top of his agenda is reducing the number of strategic nuclear weapons capable of destroying life on Earth. And that might be the easy part.
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SquidHammer (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Flight distances via the Saudi option. Assumes take-off from Negev bases. Israel has 25 F-15 variants with a range of 2,200km and a large number of F-16s with a range of 2,000km. They have some aerial refueling capability, but not for the 100 planes thought necessary for an effective attack. As discussed before, some people believe Israel can and should attack Iran to prevent its acquisition of nuclear...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The diplomatic storm brewing between Britain and Iran threatens to undo years of patient behind-the-scenes diplomacy and propel the political situation into uncharted and dangerous territory ( Iran brings formal charges against UK embassy official , 4 July). Before the elections President Obama went out of his way to extend an olive branch to Tehran. In his broadcast to Iran and his Cairo speech,...
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The Seferm Post (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Jordan's Queen Noor, a founder of an international initiative to eliminate nuclear weapons, called on the presidents of the United States and Russia to advance the cause at their Monday summit by agreeing to significant cuts in their arsenals.
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
In the current issue of The Atlantic , the indispensible Jeffrey Goldberg wonders if a tacit alliance of sorts might develop between Israelis and Sunni Arabs against the Persian Islamic Republic regime in Iran. If Tehran’s government is overthrown, of course, a very different relationship would likely develop between Israel and Iran. In the meantime, though, Goldberg may be correct. According...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
WASHINGTON (CNN) – On the eve of one-on-one talks between President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin, one of the founders of Global Zero, an initiative aimed at ridding the planet of nuclear weapons, said the time was now to do away with the weapons. “We have two paths,” Queen Noor of Jordan [...]
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen said Sunday a military strike on Iran could prove very destabilizing. Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation, Mullen said if any country, such as Israel, attacked Iran to limit the country's controversial nuclear program, that could have far-reaching implications. Well, I have been for some time concerned about any strike on...
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Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
In reply to Cara's Commentary & Community Chat, Thursday, Jul 2, 2009 : Those that win are 'in the room' and privy to the cycles, and they use it to increase their physical holdings of what can't be printed; land, oil, gold, silver, timber, art, antiques, various foreign holdings in the same class of hard assets, etc. Our forefathers knew this long before Lenin. Thomas Jefferson, who was so opposed...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The date: July 31, 1991 The place: Moscow The players: George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev Mr. Gorbachev had this to say: Mr. President, in recent months and weeks, the Kremlin, a symbol of our nation's centuries-old history, has been the scene of events that will shape this country's future. Tomorrow it will witness another such event, the signing of the treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
MOSCOW -- When President Barack Obama flies into Moscow on Monday for meetings with Kremlin leadership, at the top of his agenda will be reducing the number of strategic nuclear weapons capable of de...