Weapons Proliferation

SA urged to block nuke bid

news24.com     Aug 25, 2008   7 related          

Cape Town - An anti-nuclear pressure group has urged the South African government to oppose India's bid to buy nuclear fuel and technology. The Pelindaba Working Group said on Monday it had written to Foreign Minister...                    

TWENTIETH UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT ISSUES

un.org     Aug 25, 2008   3 related          

TO OPEN IN SAITAMA, JAPAN, ON 27 AUGUST NEW YORK, 25 August (Office for Disarmament Affairs) -- The twentieth United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues will take place in Saitama City, Japan, from 27 to 29 August...                    

True Colors

crooksandliars.com     Aug 25, 2008          

Dr. Christopher A. Ford, the U.S. Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, has joined the exodus from the Bush administration, and headed straight for neocon think-tank The Hudson Institute. Ford has been one...                    

Nukes biggest threat to world: Keating (AAP)

yahoo.com     Aug 23, 2008   3 related          

The proliferation of nuclear weapons is the single biggest threat facing the world today, former prime minister Paul Keating says. Mr Keating, who led the government from 1991 to 1996, said the nuclear Non-Proliferation...                    

USIBC Supports Clean Exception for India at NSG

prnewswire.com     Aug 22, 2008   245 related          

Crucial Meeting Set to End India's Nuclear Isolation WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Recognizing that it may take more than one round of meetings to end 34 years of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group high technology...                    

Nuclear exporters to discuss India trade ban

bostonherald.com     Aug 21, 2008   33 related          

By Associated Press Thursday, August 21, 2008 - A group of nations that export nuclear material was meeting today to discuss whether to grant India access to nuclear fuel and technology, a decision crucial to finalizing a...                    

The Georgia Crisis

lonestartimes.com     Aug 21, 2008   2,353 related          

I read this lengthy article from the Asia Times Online describing how Putin has a huge crisis ahead of him: decline of "Russians" and the need to replace them. The article cited how in the past, all a person had to do was show...                    

Playing Chess with the Russians

weeklystandard.com     Aug 21, 2008   1 related          

"Spengler" proposes a grand bargain with Russia: trade the "dubious self-determination of Ukraine" for "Russia's assistance in the Iranian nuclear issue." This is probably less provocative than his talent as a writer makes it...                    

Critical times call for White House czar on WMD

washingtontimes.com     Aug 21, 2008          

Post sits empty despite Bush's security pledge Edmund Rennolds, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Thursday, August 21, 2008 and the Republican Party generally have made much of being champions of national security, protectors of...                    

Now to clean up Musharraf

karachinews.net     Aug 20, 2008   195 related          

Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor | August 21, 2008 THE resignation of former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf is an event of global importance. Second, Pakistan has become the global centre of jihadi terrorism, almost certainly...