Full Coverage: Nuclear arms

02.05.2008 The US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 has left an indelible impact on country’s health and environment. Scientists believe that rising incidence of diseases and birth defects in Afghan children are attributed to the weapons used by the American forces containing depleted uranium.

14.03.2008

17.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - A diverse coalition of environmental and peace organizations in the United States is urging Congress to reject the Bush administration's move to send nuclear technologies to India.

05.12.2007 The newest official U.S. intelligence review not only contradicts the Bush administration's line on Iranian intentions regarding nuclear weapons, but points to a link between Tehran's 2003 decision to halt research on weaponisation and its decision to negotiate with European foreign ministers on both nuclear and Iranian security concerns.

26.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 26 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration is pushing for plans to reuse spent nuclear fuel in power reactors across the United States, but key senators and nuclear analysts have raised economic and security concerns about reusing the weapons-grade fuel.

06.08.2007 WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (OneWorld) - In the history of warfare, nuclear weapons have been used twice, and though it has been 62 years since an atomic bomb has been employed in a conflict, the threat of a nuclear attack remains as present as ever, say arms control advocates.

02.08.2007 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s recent dispute over the use of nuclear weapons highlights serious differences between their positions on threatening to use or employing the most destructive weapons ever developed, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation said today.

01.08.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Aug 1 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's decision to let India obtain nuclear technology from the United States is renewing long-held fears that it could result in further proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world.

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11.05.2007

06.03.2007 NEW YORK, Mar 6 (OneWorld) - A U.S. plan to develop a new hydrogen bomb could spark production of new nuclear weapons by other countries, including several foes of the Bush administration, warn some of the nation's leading arms control and disarmament advocacy groups.

01.03.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 1 (OneWorld) - A delegation of U.S. religious leaders called Monday for Washington to negotiate with Tehran, following the delegation’s landmark two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

08.01.2007 A six-hour blockade of Faslane nuclear base by students and academics on Sunday forced operations at its main gate to a halt.

08.11.2006 Voices for nuclear disarmament in the South Asian region will find the ISF a strong platform for voicing their pacifist views. Events like - Nuclear Free South Asia, People's Initiative for a Peaceful South Asia and Reducing Military Spending in India and Pakistan - the Peace Dividend - are taking place at the ISF on November 10 and 12. Most have been organised by Indian and Pakistani NGOs working on improving relations between the two countries.

19.10.2006 WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (OneWorld) - The United States, in a twist on social Darwinism, maintains protection standards so low that they shield only the strongest people from cancer-causing radiation. So say scientists whose conclusions are propelling a new campaign to provide greater safety for women, children, and others at greatest risk.

12.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (OneWorld) - North Korea's nuclear weapon test has spawned widespread denunciation but the fallout also includes divergent positions on how to respond.

13.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 13 (OneWorld) - The Bush Administration is objecting to a groundbreaking treaty that set up a nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Asia.

12.09.2006 Viisi entistä neuvostotasavaltaa allekirjoitti sopimuksen Keski-Aasian ydinaseista vapaasta alueesta (Central Asia nuclear-weapon-free zone). Sopimuksen mukaan ne eivät enää koskaan hanki, valmista, omista tai testaa ydinaseita. Osa Neuvostoliiton ydinaseista oli aikaisemmin sijoitettu näihin Keski-Aasian neuvostotasavaltoihin Kazakstaniin, Kirgisiaan, Tadzhikistaniin, Turkemistaniin ja Uzbekistaniin.

02.06.2006 UNITED NATIONS, June 2 (OneWorld) - Though appreciative of what Hans Blix has recommended in a new report on the threats of weapons of mass destruction, some key disarmament advocacy groups say they are disappointed with the former UN chief weapons inspector's suggestion that the risk of nuclear proliferation could be minimized by controlling uranium and plutonium production.

08.05.2006 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 8 (ENS) - Brazil has inaugurated its first uranium enrichment facility to produce the type of fuel for nuclear power plants that Iran is running into trouble for attempting to produce. There are strong suspicions that the objective of the Iranian nuclear program is to eventually build a bomb, but Brazil has managed to assure the international community its intentions are industrial and commercial, not military.