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Obama, Medvedev: Let’s START Today

By | 12.04.09 | 11:19 am

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and Russia expires on Saturday. U.S. and Russian negotiators have been working on a successor treaty to drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals, but they haven’t reached a final deal. So instead, according to a just-released joint statement from Presidents Obama and More…

Iran’s Foreign Minister Rejects Vienna Uranium Deal

By | 11.18.09 | 4:41 pm

It’s still not a definitive rejection of the deal reached in Vienna to reprocess Iran’s uranium abroad into a matter unsuitable for a nuclear weapon, but it’s not nothing, either:

Iran’s foreign minister said in remarks reported Wednesday that he opposes sending the country’s enriched uranium abroad under a

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‘We Don’t Want Atom Bomb’

By | 11.04.09 | 9:50 am

Already circulating through the Twitterverse, thanks to @TehranBureau: this video, in which Iranian dissidents clearly chant that they don’t want an atom bomb (after the jump).

Iran Formally Seeks Changes to Uranium Deal

By | 10.29.09 | 11:37 am

As mentioned earlier this morning; now formally reported, per The Wall Street Journal:

Iran has formally asked for changes to an International Atomic Energy Agency proposal to ship nuclear fuel out of Iran for reprocessing abroad.

The response represents a setback in attempts by the international community to

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Pakistan Suicide Bomber Strikes Outside (Probable) Nuclear Facility

By | 10.23.09 | 12:41 pm

As far as I’m aware, this is a first:

A suicide bomber attacked a suspected nuclear-weapons site Friday in Pakistan, raising fears about the security of the nuclear arsenal, while two other terrorist blasts made it another bloody day in the country’s struggle against extremism.

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U.S., Iran Size Each Other Up at Vienna

By | 10.23.09 | 10:38 am

Today’s the deadline for Iran’s leadership to embrace or reject the deal its negotiators endorsed in Vienna to ship uranium out of the country for enrichment into fuel-producing-and-not-weapons-grade material. Whether that happens or not, Laura Rozen reports an interesting Vienna backstory:

Diplomatic sources tell POLITICO that among the

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Clinton on Nonproliferation

By | 10.21.09 | 12:16 pm

Barely an hour after word came from Vienna that an Iranian negotiating team has accepted a draft version of a deal to ship nuclear fuel out of the country for enrichment, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech this morning at Washington’s tony Mayflower hotel on More…

Iran Takes the Nuke Deal?

By | 10.21.09 | 10:06 am

Breaking news from The Associated Press: the Iranians may in fact accept a crucial nuclear deal:

Iranian negotiators on Wednesday expressed support for a deal that — if accepted by their leaders — would delay Tehran’s ability to make nuclear weapons by sending most of its existing enriched uranium to

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Fewer Iranians Seem to Want Nuclear Weapons

By | 10.06.09 | 1:55 pm

Not that Iran is a democracy — it really, really, really isn’t — but I see via Heather Hurlburt that Iranian public support for nuclear weapons is on the decline:

WPO says 2/3 of Iranians say they would support their country forgoing weaponization in exchange for the

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Obama Sure Does Hate Israel…

By | 10.02.09 | 12:24 pm

I don’t really feel like getting into an argument about Israel today, but Eli Lake at The Washington Times reports:

President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding

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