The Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky is scheduled soon to inherit specialized containers utilized for housing chemical warfare materials during shipment to an on-site destruction facility, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 17).
The first shipment (Read more...)
The five permanent U.N. Security Council member nations and Germany are set next week to convene discussions for two days with Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Reuters reported today (see GSN, Nov. 29).
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EU foreign policy chief (Read more...)
For a one-month period in late 2009 during the last stages of a Russian-U.S. effort to remove weapon-grade uranium from Libya, the security of some of the nuclear material was put at risk when a member of the Qadafi family (Read more...)
The United States suspects Russia has transferred a number of nonstrategic nuclear warheads to areas bordering NATO nations, a move seemingly made as the alliance members accepted additional missile defenses within their territory, the Wall Street Journal reported today (see (Read more...)
A package of radioactive rods that briefly went missing last Thursday was recovered in Tennessee the following day, the Chicago Tribune reported (see GSN, Oct. 7).
Though the rods contained only low levels of radiation, specialists cited the incident (Read more...)
Bombs thrashed the vehicles of two Iranian nuclear scientists as they commuted to work today, killing one of the men and injuring the other, the Los Angeles Times reported (see GSN, Nov. 24).
Attackers on motorcycles threw the explosives (Read more...)
China yesterday called for emergency direct diplomacy with North Korea in order to lower escalating tensions following last week's artillery attack on South Korea (see GSN, Nov. 24).
However, the United States and its allies said now is not (Read more...)
A key U.S. senator insisted yesterday that partisanship had nothing to do with his push for a delay in ratifying a nuclear arms control treaty signed by Washington and Moscow in April, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Nov. (Read more...)
We don't want a conflict and neither does the United States. Like parents of fighting children, we will drag them apart to keep things under control. Who fired first is meaningless.
--Shanghai-based professor Ni Lexiong, describing Beijing's stance on (Read more...)