Japan on Friday dropped a recommendation that individuals remain prepared to leave homes between 12 and 19 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic facility, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Sept. 29).
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The U.S. Health and Human Services Department on Thursday announced it had awarded a contract worth up to $31.1 million for development of an orally ingested drug intended to neutralize radioactive contaminants inside the body (see GSN, Sept. 29).
Iran's top diplomat last week reaffirmed an offer by the nation's president to halt production of higher-enriched uranium if provided equivalent material by the United States, the Asia Times reported on Wednesday (see GSN, Sept. 29).
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Biodefense officials in the United States are concerned about the implications of evolving synthetic biology capabilities even as they note the significant strides the nation has made in the last decade in preparing for a potential disease-based attack, USA Today (Read more...)
WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. Energy Department official on Wednesday disputed reports that the Obama administration has sought Mongolian support for construction of a storage site for international spent nuclear fuel in the Central Asian nation (see GSN, March (Read more...)
He was a rare talent who could reach out and recruit and mobilize. If the U.S. have killed Awlaki, then they have achieved a major target.
--Risk analyst Henry Wilkinson, describing U.S. national and prominent al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, (Read more...)
Ground testing this month of infrastructure deployed under the initial segment of the Obama administration's "phased adaptive approach" for European missile defense has shown the soundness of the plan's architecture, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said on Thursday (see GSN (Read more...)
A trial launch of India's nuclear-ready Agni 2 ballistic missile was completed as expected on Friday, following a test last month that ended in failure, the New Indian Express reported (see GSN, Sept. 19).
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President Obama's bid to alter the U.S. nuclear stockpile in pursuit of a nuclear weapon-free world has achieved much less to date than anticipated by a number of issue experts, the Atlantic magazine reported on Thursday (see GSN, Sept. (Read more...)
North Korea requested that South Korea buy its unused nuclear fuel rods should it accept other nations' demands for relaunching multilateral talks aimed at shuttering Pyongyang's nuclear program, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Friday (see GSN, Sept. 28).
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