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"Israel?s 60 years of nuclear proliferation," By Jerry Mazza, Online Journa
2008-05-25 03:37:00 Article of interest on Israel's nuclear weapons program. With interesting links including US Army Lt. Col. Warner D. Farr's must-read 27-page history of Israel's Nuclear Weapons -- The Third Temple's Holy of Holies. http://www.supremelaw.org/autho-rs/farr/farr.htm Ed Corrigan ... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
United States To Host Fifth Anniversary Proliferation Security Initiative M
2008-05-23 03:25:00 United States To Host Fifth Anniversary Proliferation Security Initiative Meeting; National Security Advisor Steve Hadley To Provide Keynote AddressOn May 28, 2008, Acting Under Secretary of State for International Security and Arms Control John C. Rood will chair a senior level meeting on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) by President Bush in Krakow, Poland. The meeting will be held at the Hilton Washington, in Washington, D.C.Stephen J. Hadley, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, will give the keynote address. Mr. Hadley will discuss proliferation challenges in the 21st century, and how the Proliferation Security Initiative can continue to help meet these challenges in the years ahead.More than 90 governments from across the globe have endorsed the Proliferation Security Initiative Statement of Interdiction Principles since its adoption in Paris, France on September 4, 2003. These PSI participan...
Iran?s nuclear program feeding proliferation
2008-05-20 14:34:00 Iran’s disputed nuclear program has sent a wave of interest in atomic energy across the Middle East, a think tank said Tuesday, warning that it risked setting the scene for a regional nuclear arms race. At least 13 Middle Eastern countries either announced new plans to explore atomic energy or revived pre-existing nuclear programs between February ...
By: 1913 Intel
The North Korea Challenge
2008-05-16 07:01:00 In these two articles, AEI’s Danielle Pletka and John R. Bolton bring us up to date and discuss the larger implications of developments since Kim Jong Il pledged to give up his nuclear ambitions in exchange for diplomatic recognition and foreign aid. Pletka reminds readers that since North Korea signed the 1994 accord, it has ...
By: 1913 Intel
Azerbaijan doing their part to stop nuclear proliferation
2008-04-30 00:38:00 Azerbaijan blocks Russian nuke shipment to Iran Kind of like watching an interception by your favorite team’s defense against your most hated division rival. NICOSIA ? Iran has reported that a shipment of Russian nuclear equipment was being held in neighboring Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, an ally of the United States, has acknowledged the delay. The Azeri government said it ...
Chat client proliferation
2008-04-26 00:38:00 Along with text messaging, chat has become a ubiquitous Web 2.0 application. I list the various ways you can reach me: Application Chat client Who I chat with Email GmailGtalk Gmail users, fave 5VOIP Skype Skype chat Skype users, most used chat clientWeb/blog Chat box Gtalk (Google created a smaller, more elegant Meebo /Plugoo widget)Usually people I don't knowSocial network Facebook Facebook chatFacebook network, not used. In fact, I think it's the chat client that will break the chat camel's backMicro-bloggingTwitterTwitte-r DM (direct msg)The usual Twitter suspects everybody knows What's surprising is the contacts beeping me via chat is as natural as taking/not taking a phone call. Chat is still asynchronous communication that works flexibly into busy schedules.
Iran envoy offers nuclear technology to all Muslim states
2008-04-17 03:33:00 Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi told leaders of the Gulf Arab state of Qatar on Wednesday that his country was willing to put its controversial nuclear expertise at the service of all Muslim states. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
A Ticking Clock on North Korea
2008-03-22 19:59:00 U.S. officials have begun to confirm publicly that they have hard intelligence about North Korean proliferation. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, said in Feb. 7 testimony to the House intelligence committee: “While Pyongyang denies a program for uranium enrichment and also denies its proliferation activities, we know North Korea continues to engage in ...
By: 1913 Intel
Nuclear Games: A Tool for Examining Nuclear Stability in a Proliferated Set
2008-03-11 22:22:00 This paper serves as a description of the findings of nuclear games exercises to test the stability outcomes of deploying defense systems in a proliferated environment in which seven players (nations) have nuclear weapons.[1] These games were conducted at The Heritage Foundation from November 2004 until January 2005, and involved a wide range of policy ...
By: 1913 Intel
Proliferation of Dating Sites
2008-02-18 21:38:00 Have you noticed how many different dating sites exist online today? How can so many survive when they are in fact in direct competition with each other. Well there are four main factors to explain this apparently contradictory situation: Not all are in direct competition with each other and happily manage to exist in niche markets Many ...
Nuclear proliferation and terrorism serious challenges say Antony, Pranab M
2008-02-06 09:37:00 Union External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defence Minister A K Antony on Tuesday said that nuclear proliferation continues to be a serious challenge for mankind. They were speaking at the three-day 10th Asia Security conference here. In his keynote address Pranab Mukherjee said that threat of terrorist groups and non-state actors playing their hands on the nuclear material including assembling of nuclear weapons is causing great concern. "A principle cause of concern in the recent years has been threat of nuclear proliferation. This is not limited only to new states acquiring the nuclear weapons capability. It also extends to the very real threat of terrorist groups, non-state actors playing their hands on their nuclear materials and even fully assembles nuclear weapons. These two security challenges are interlinked and they are products of the demand-supply dynamics. On the supply side of the proliferation problem is a product of two factors," he said. Prana...
By: B4U India
Nuclear Proliferation and Prez Candidates: Deadly Silence?
2008-01-22 20:49:00 Catherine Collins (co-author of The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets ... and How We Could Have Stopped Him) published an interesting op-ed in the Chicago Tribune last week on what she perceives as a lack of attention paid to nuclear proliferation in this year's presidential debates. Though a significant portion of the January 5 Democratic Presidential Debate in Manchester, New Hampshire was dedicated to the issues of nuclear terrorism and nuclear proliferation, with approximately 15 minutes of a one hour debate spend on the topic, she... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Proliferation of new banks raises eyebrows
2008-01-10 12:56:00 The State Bank of Viet Nam has annouced plans to grant licences to five new commercial banks this year, increasing the total number of newly-established banks in the past year to nine, an alarming trend, say some analysts, in a market already filled... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Bomb in the Shadows: Proliferation, Corruption and the Way of the World
2008-01-10 00:56:00 The Bomb in the Shadows: Proliferation, Corruption and the Way of the World by Chris Floyd This week, the Sunday Times lifted the lid on one of the most important stories of the last quarter-century: how American officials sold nuclear arms technology to illegal proliferators — including ideological allies of al Qaeda — in return for bribes and other inducements. This widespread corruption has been protected from exposure by the highest levels of the U.S. government, which has gone to enormous lengths to protect the truth from coming out. The entire planet has been put at grave risk by the greed — and geopolitical gamesmanship — that lies behind this criminal enterprise, which actually is even more extensive, and goes back further in time, than the newspaper's remarkable revelations. The Sunday Times story is based on the evidence provided by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who has been subjected to an unprecedented campaign of state-enforced muzzl...
The Nuclear Jihadist
2008-01-04 14:55:00 Exposing a one-man force for nuclear proliferation. Book in a nutshell: Husband-and- wife journalists retrace the secretive dealings and ultimate downfall of arms dealer Abdul Qadeer Khan, whose stock in trade was offering up the makings for nuclear weapons to the world’s most tyrannical regimes. The authors revisit Khan’s efforts to distribute the worst weapons of mass ...
By: 1913 Intel
Proliferation of Dating Sites
2007-12-03 11:41:00 Have you noticed how many different dating sites exist online today? How can so many survive when they are in fact in direct competition with each other. Well there are four main factors to explain this apparently contradictory situation: Not all are in direct competition with each other and happily manage to exist in niche markets Many ...
Proliferation of Dating Sites
2007-12-03 11:41:00 Have you noticed how many different dating sites exist online today? How can so many survive when they are in fact in direct competition with each other. Well there are four main factors to explain this apparently contradictory situation: Not all are in direct competition with each other and happily manage to exist in niche markets Many ...
Reports forecast GPS proliferation
2007-11-11 08:28:00 Low-cost GPS chipsets will increasingly be integrated into mobile devices, according to reports just released by two major market research firms. While apparently disagreeing on the exact numbers, both ABI Research and In-Stat forecast extremely strong growth between now and 2011. Spread the word:digg this story In its statement, ABI Research said personal navigation devices (PNDs) ...
A New Mandate For FATF? Combating Nuclear Proliferation Financing
2007-10-21 18:46:00 FATF (The Financial Action Task Force) appears to be poised to take on a greater role in combating illicit international financial activities, adding nuclear proliferation financing to its focus of attention. Meeting in Paris earlier this month, under British chairmanship, the group voted to issue new international warnings concerning Iran’s illicit financial transactions and new measures to support the UN Security Council counter nuclear proliferation resolutions. On 11 October 2007, the FATF...(read more)
Being Under Attack: War, Genocide, Terrorism & Nuclear Proliferation
2007-10-10 20:17:00 I’m fairly certain that the most dangerous people in the world are those that nihilistically believe that their group—especially one they find essential to their identity—is under attack. Many relatively powerless people with such fears, rational or otherwise, resort to terrorism. Having no ability to defend their group through conventional warfare, they strike anything and ...
Victory for Non-Proliferation and Diplomacy
2007-10-05 21:49:00 *Guest post from Katie Mounts President Bush's "Axis of Evil" may soon be one less. In no small victory for diplomacy and non-proliferation, recent six party talks yielded a nuclear deal with North Korea. Under the deal, North Korea agrees to disable all activities at its main nuclear complex in Pyongyang and to report on all of its current nuclear programs by the end of this year. NSC spokesperson Gordon Johndroe stated, "These second-phase actions effectively end the DPRK's production of plutonium ? a major step towards the goal of achieving the verifiable denuclearization of the... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Kucinich Opposes Iran Counter-Proliferation Act: 'We need to create a new o
2007-09-27 00:09:00 Iran Counter-Proliferation Act Unintentionally Undermines Diplomatic Efforts WASHINGTON - September 25 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), released the following statement today: ?Madam Speaker I was unavoidably detained for the vote on HR 1400, the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007. I wish to make clear my opposition to this bill. The bill inadvertently brought attention to the need for diplomatic negotiations. I am concerned that the bill will undermine diplomacy,? Kucinich said. ?Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush Administration falsely accused Iraq of having Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations conducted inspections in Iraq and concluded that there were no WMD in Iraq. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq the accuracy of IAEA and the UN inspections was inevitably verified when the U.S. found no evidence of WMD in Iraq. Has this Congress not learned from previous mistakes? The IAEA has an acti...
Syria?s Chemical Weapons Proliferation Hydra
2007-09-22 22:51:00 Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa promised last week that Syria’s response would be forthcoming to avenge Damascus’ humiliation by the alleged Israeli air incursion into its airspace. Dr Boaz Ganor, executive director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) in Herzliya, has commented on the various options, that President Bashar Assad has in store. ...
By: 1913 Intel
Potter and Dhanapala: The perils of non-proliferation amnesia
2007-09-05 16:29:00 William C. Potter of the Monterey Institute?s Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Jayantha Dhanapala recently put out a well-placed op-ed in the influential Indian daily, The Hindu, arguing, ?The India-U.S. civilian nuclear deal, if endorsed by the NSG and the U.S. Congress, will virtually ensure the demise of global nuclear export restraints.? Potter and Dhanapala begin: Indo-U.S. nuclear cooperation means different things to different people ? a reversal of decades of U.S. non-proliferation policy, a promising new market for U.S. nuclear commerce, violation of the fundamental... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
FOSS License Proliferation Adding Complexity
2007-08-25 01:01:00 E5Rebel writes “Business is embracing open source like never before, but the effective demise of SCO’s claims against Linux doesn’t mean an end to licensing problems, an analyst warns. The debate on Slashdot seems to focus on the GPL and its virtues, but there are 1,000-plus open source licenses (according to analyst Saugatuck), and businesses ...
By: Technology Blog
George Perkovich on the ?Proliferation Trilogy: North Korea, Iran, and Indi
2007-08-22 05:37:00 The always insightful George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, recently had an interesting interview with Bernard Gwertzman on the... Nukes of Hazard is a project of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. It provides a view from the Hill to Congressional action on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation issues.
By: Nukes of Hazard
Obama, Hagel introduce non-proliferation bill
2007-08-17 16:11:00 Before leaving town for the Congressional August recess, Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE) introduced S.1977, a bill?to provide for sustained United States leadership in a cooperative global effort to prevent nuclear terrorism, reduce global nuclear arsenals, stop the spread of nuclear weapons and related material and technology, and support the responsible and peaceful use of nuclear technology.? The bill builds on the recommendations outlined in the January 4, 2007 Wall Street Journal op-ed, A World Free of Nuclear Weapons, by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn.It emphasizes that"securing nuclear weapons and weapons-usable material at their source is the most direct a reliable way to disrupt efforts by terrorist organizations to acquire such material.?and urges that?nuclear weapon states should reaffirm their commitment to Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?The bill authorizes:-$50 million for an international nuclear fuel ...
By: Nukes on a Blog
Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Highlights From House Appropriations Com
2007-08-02 22:10:00 The Center?s Travis Sharp released his Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Highlights From House Appropriations Committee Action on the FY 2008 Defense Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3222) today. It... Nukes of Hazard is a project of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. It provides a view from the Hill to Congressional action on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation issues.
By: Nukes of Hazard
US: Peace through arms proliferation
2007-07-28 18:48:00 News that the US ‘plans huge Saudi arms deal’ should be shocking, but it isn’t. We are used to it: one of the superpower’s knee-jerk responses to international antipathies has long been to arm both sides in a conflict, or arm-up a side that may be a little armamentally-challenged. So, selling the oil-rich sheikdom, which stands ...
By: Carson's Post
Nuclear Proliferation: The Riddle of Iran
2007-07-20 14:35:00 ?THE Iranian regime is basically a messianic apocalyptic cult.? So says Israel’s once and perhaps future prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. If he is right the world is teetering on the edge of a terrifying crisis. While the world has been distracted by Iraq, Afghanistan and much else, Iran has been moving relentlessly closer to the point ...
By: 1913 Intel
World: Nuclear-Power Push Eroding Nonproliferation Efforts, Expert ... - Ra
2007-06-18 18:40:00 World: Nuclear-Power Push Eroding Nonproliferation Efforts, Expert ...RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty-, Czech Republic - 36 minutes agoPRAGUE, June 18, 2007 -- North Korea and Iran continue to grab the headlines over their nuclear programs, keeping the world focused on the broader issue of ...
World: Nuclear-Power Push Eroding Nonproliferation Efforts, Expert ... - Ra
2007-06-18 18:40:00 World: Nuclear-Power Push Eroding Nonproliferation Efforts, Expert ...RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty-, Czech Republic - 6 hours agoPRAGUE, June 18, 2007 -- North Korea and Iran continue to grab the headlines over their nuclear programs, keeping the world focused on the broader issue of ...
Barack Obama quotes on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation
2007-06-11 04:08:00 The most recent issue of Foreign Affairs had articles by both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney laying out their foreign policy perspectives. I was planning to read these articles and provide nonproliferation quote highlights, but our friend Terri Lodge over at Arms Control Advocacy Collaborative beat me to it for the Obama article. She sent me the following quotes outlining Obama's nonproliferation plans, as well as issues with Iran and North Korea:America must lead a global effort to secure allnuclear weapons and material at vulnerable siteswithin four years... This will require the activecooperation of Russia... We must also work with Russiato update and scale back our dangerously outdated ColdWar nuclear postures and de-emphasize the role ofnuclear weapons. America must not rush to produce anew generation of nuclear warheads. And we should takeadvantage of recent technological advances to buildbipartisan consensus behind ratification of theComprehensive Test Ban Treaty... I will w...
By: Nukes of Hazard
Notable non-nonproliferation quotes from the Republican debate on June 6 -
2007-06-07 21:24:00 A couple days ago we highlighted the salient nonproliferation quotes from the June 3 Democratic debates in New Hampshire, here. There was nothing exceptional.The Republican debate from last night (June 6) was a bit spicier: Wolf Blitzer directly asked the candidates: "If it came down to a preemptive U.S. strike against Iran?s nuclear facility, if necessary would you authorize as president the use of tactical nuclear weapons?"This is a notable difference from the Democratic debates, where Wolf asked the candidates if they would attack Iran, but never specified whether such an attack would use nuclear or conventional weaponry. Here is what the Republican's had to say:Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA):I would authorize the use of tactical nuclear weapons if there was no other way to preempt those particular centrifuges. When the Osirak reactor that was hit `86, when the six F-18s came over the horizon and knocked that out, they didn?t need anything but conventional weapons. Probab...
By: Nukes of Hazard
Notable nonproliferation quotes from the Democratic debate on June 3
2007-06-05 21:32:00 The New Hampshire Democratic debate failed to address the disarmament of our current nuclear arsenal, although moderator Wolf Blitzer had me on the edge of my seat when he asked the presidential hopefuls, "are there relics of the Cold War, big tickets, military items, that you would cut [from the military budget]?" Nuclear weapons were not brought up.Nuke issues with Iran did become part of the conversation, however, with the following notable moments:Clinton:You know, the president's policy has been, we don't talk in this administration to people we don't agree with or that we think are bad... In my administration, diplomacy -- patient, careful diplomacy... that really gets people to stay with it over time. Are you always going to get good results? No. But you've got to start the process. However, we still have to make it clear that Iran having a nuclear weapon is absolutely unacceptable. We have to try to prevent that at all costs. But we need to start with diplomacy in or...
By: Nukes of Hazard
Development Officer - Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
2007-05-17 02:51:00 Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is seeking to hire immediately a Development Officer (Washington DC): The Development Officer is responsible for the planning and execution of fund-raising and development activities for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (a C-3 organization) and the Council for a Livable World (a C-4 organization with an associated political ...
By: DemWork
Pakistan sets up body to promote nuclear non-proliferation
2007-04-30 17:54:00 Islamabad, April 30: Pakistan has set up a body in its foreign ministry to promote the objective of nuclear non-proliferation, foreign office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said Monday.
By: newkerala.com
'Civil nuke deal with India has non-proliferation benefits'
2007-03-24 05:56:00 Washington, Mar 24: A civil nuclear deal with India has non-proliferation benefits because more Indian facilities then can be brought under safeguards, a US Energy department official told a Congressional panel.
By: newkerala.com
Series of steps ordered to check bird flu proliferation
2007-03-24 05:54:00 Dhaka, Mar 23: Thousands of birds were today culled and army troops called out to assist police in carrying out an "intensive" monitoring after bird flu broke out in several farms in Bangladesh.
By: newkerala.com
Russia demands that Israel join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
2007-03-05 01:39:01 DEBKAfile reports:Defense minister Sergey Lavrov?s comment to the Syrian News Agency Friday was repeated by the foreign ministry in Moscow. DEBKAfile?s sources report Lavrov?s comment was released in reprisal for disclosures in Israel 24 hours earlier that Moscow was selling large amounts of sophisticated anti-air and anti-tank missile systems to Syria with Iranian funding. Moscow was fighting... [read more]
By: Munaeem's Blog
Nuclear Proliferation And The World
2007-02-22 07:55:01 The latest hot topic of debate in world affairs for the last one month has been "Iran and Its Nuclear Energy Program" . There are all kind of debates going on the effect of Nuclear Proliferation and its effects in World Peace. let me introduce my fellow readers to what exactly Nuclear Proliferation means:Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons production technology and knowledge to nations that do not already have such capabilities. It has been opposed by many nations with and without nuclear weapons, who fear that more countries with nuclear weapons may increase the possibility of nuclear warfare, de-stabilize international or regional relations, or infringe upon the national sovereignty of individual nation-states.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been the primary international anti-proliferation organization since it was established in 1957 by the United Nations. It operates a safeguards system as specified under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
By: News Ahead
North Korea and Umbrella Proliferation
2007-02-02 11:18:03 Although America?s nuclear umbrella for Japan dates back to the end of World War II, the United States has not limited nuclear guarantees to historic allies. In order to convince Ukraine to disgorge the nuclear weapons that remained on its territory after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Washington reportedly provided Kiev with some security guarantees. Whether they include a promise to use nuclear weapons against Russia on behalf of Ukraine has never been revealed. In any case, Kiev may have given up its ultimate deterrent in the belief that Washington was offering an implicit commitment. Moreover, Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post wants America to provide nuclear guarantees for the Middle East. He writes: ?Bush should announce that he wants consultations with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan and other Arab states?as well as principal U.S. allies in Europe?on extending a U.S. or NATO nuclear umbrella over friendly states in the Gulf.? This would, Hoagland contends, ?enable ...
By: 1913 Intel
Senior State Department Official Resigns over Nuclear Proliferation
2007-01-31 10:40:02 The Washington Post Reports that "Robert Joseph, the State Department's senior arms control and security official, has resigned.Joseph submitted his resignation to President Bush amid uncertainty about the future of negotiations to curb nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea. Talks on both fronts have moved slowly, with U.N. penalties against both countries showing limited results. The talks are in recess...."Photo: Robert Joseph, Under Secretary, Arms Control and International Security. (U.S. Dept. Of State Photo)Technorati tags: Washington Post, Barry Schweid, Robert Joseph, State Department, Arms Control, National Security, Iran, Korea, Libya, news
Proliferation of slacks hints at the demise of schoolgirl skirts
0000-00-00 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}Slacks are slowly becoming part of schoolgirl uniforms throughout the country, with a Sapporo junior high school's decision earlier this year to make them compulsory threatening to end the hegemony of the hem.Slacks replaced skirts as girls' compulsory garb at the Sapporo Municipal Minamigaoka Junior High School from spring this year, although pupils will be able to wear skirts for about three months over the summer period.School officials say the main r ... |
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