For countries - small, middling, or great - acquiring nuclear weapons is all about the most basic requirement: the survival of the regime or nation. Joining the "nuclear club" has proved an effective strategy for survival.
A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.
For countries - small, middling, or great - acquiring nuclear weapons is all about the most basic requirement: the survival of the regime or nation. Joining the "nuclear club" has proved an effective strategy for survival.
In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran.
In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran.
In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran.
In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran.
In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran.
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In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran.
In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran.
In a surprise meeting in Berlin, Germany's foreign minister met privately with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. But western hopes for progress were met with intransigence by Iran.
China is modernizing its military in ways that give it options for launching surprise attacks, potentially far from its borders, the Pentagon said Friday.
"Analysis of China's weapons acquisition ... suggest(s) China is looking beyond Taiwan as it builds its force," states the Defense Department's annual report to Congress on "Military Power of the People's Republic of China."
"The nuclearization of the world," Langewiesche writes, "has become the human condition, and it cannot be changed." It is with that grim but realistic assumption in mind that he sets out on a long expedition, from Washington to Holland, Pakistan, Russia, Georgia and Turkey, in order to discover just how hard or easy it now is fo
It's funny how a gun can in stantly change your perspec tive on things, make you wish you could rewrite history. State Rep. Michael DeBose, a southside Cleveland Democrat, discovered this lesson the night of May 1, when he thought he was going to die. That's the night he wished he had that gun vote back.
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) -- The world commemorated the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention on April 29, but in a very bad omen, the next day terrorists used chemical weapons in an attack in Iraq.
After the recent ineffectiveness at finding peace in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, the United Nations has been under serious fire from the world at-large. Dan Craig looks at the charter and thinks the situation might be worse than any of us imagined.
Bill Moyers lost me during the first few minutes of his excellent PBS special, "Buying the War." Not because it was painful to watch - blood boils at about the same temperature as water, and you could have made strong tea out of mine - but because my life became stranded at the very place where his story begins: "Four years ago th
The excerpt here is a small piece of the forthcoming book by Lonnie Story, "Without a Shot Fired: The Dustin Brim Story." This is a heart-wrenching true story - about Dustin Brim - a 22 yr. Old U.S. Army soldier that died shortly after being deployed to Iraq - and some stuff called Depleted Uranium.
U.S. Special Forces may soon have a strange and powerful new weapon in their arsenal: a pair of high-tech binoculars 10 times more powerful than anything available today, augmented by an alerting system that literally taps the wearer's prefrontal cortex to warn of furtive threats detected by the soldier's subconscious.
After a Chinese interceptor smashed into a target satellite in January, Bush administration officials criticized the test as a destabilizing development. What the officials did not say is that as the Chinese were preparing to launch their antisatellite weapon, American intelligence agencies had issued reports about the preparations being made...
The Democrats may not want to hear about Iran, but our troops in Iraq have an earful to say about it. In both formal briefings and informal conversations with soldiers when I was in Baghdad, the subject of Iranians arms and influence constantly cropped up.
Security guards at a nuclear weapons plant in Texas went on strike this week over new fitness requirements that could cost many their jobs. BWXT Pantex in Carson County outside Amarillo is the only nuclear weapons assembly plant in the United States. The contractor responsible for the plant says the strikers were replaced when the walkout began
Kansas' concealed carry law took effect January 1, 2007. On January 19, two armed men burst into a gas station owned by Dean Yee. According to police, they twice demanded money from Yee while holding him at gunpoint. A customer inside the store, however, had a concealed-carry permit. He shouted for the robbers to drop their weapons. When they refus
How can a teacher schooled in 20th-century science prepare today's high school students for stem cells, avian flu and other biological issues of the 21st century?
Sunni militants are being armed with Iranian-made munitions, US military spokesman Maj Gen William Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad. These include mortar rounds and rocket-propelled grenades, he said. There was no immediate reaction from the government in mainly Shia Iran which has been accused of arming fellow Shia militants in Iraq in the past.
The US and its allies started the psychological preparation of world public opinion for the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons to resolve 'the Iranian problem'. The US propaganda machine is working hard to create the impression that a 'surgically precise' use of the nuclear weapon with only limited consequences is possible.
Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, potentially enabling the Islamic regime to develop a nuclear bomb by 2009, much sooner than previously though, a media report said on Tuesday.
Workers scouring the site of a World War II chemical weapons training camp in northeast Alabama have found 13 mortars filled with liquid, but they have yet to determine if any of them contained hazardous agents, the military said Wednesday.









