6 April, By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER "The 50-page “Nuclear Posture Review” released on Tuesday acknowledged outright that “the massive nuclear arsenal we inherited from the cold-war era” is “poorly suited to address the challenges posed by suicida
From Wikipedia (20.4.) The Islamic Republic of Iran convened a conference entitled "International Disarmament and Non-proliferation: World Security without Weapons of Mass Destruction" on 17 and 18 April 2010 in Tehran. The theme of the conference was N
News | The Moscow Times Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rybakov has called for more confidence-building measures from Tehran to allay international concerns over its nuclear program. Rybakov was speaking Saturday on the sidelines of a nuclear disarmament c
By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Apr 23, 2010 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading T
Alain Gresh: "En 2004 encore, c’était la troïka européenne (France, Royaume-Uni, Allemagne) qui paraphait, le 14 novembre, un accord avec la République islamique : l’Iran acceptait de signer le protocole additionnel du Traité de non prolifération (TNP) pr
I maj 2006 sade den amerikanske FN-ambassadören, John Bolton: "Huvudsaken är att Ryssland och Kina är ense om att detta [Irans kärnforskning] är ett hot mot internationell fred och säkerhet enligt kapitel VII." Kapitel VII ("åtgärder i samband med hot mot
Israel is more likely than not by next July to take military action aimed at curbing Iran's disputed nuclear activities, more than three dozen present and former Israeli policy-makers and other U.S. and Arab state officials indicated in interviews with T
by Justin Vela, SOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug. 6) -- What if you had a missile system and nowhere to put part of it? That seems to be Washington's dilemma as it shops around for a site for a system meant to protect its forces and allies in Europe and the Mideast f
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
The long-awaited 1,000-megawatt light-water reactor, which was built in the southern Iranian port of Bushehr with the help of Russia under a $1 billion contract, was previously scheduled to become operational in fall 2008. Some 700 Iranian engineers were