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U.S. Faces Delays in Effort to Keep Guns Out of Mexico

By | 10.07.10 | 8:46 am

As politicians call for increased border security, the joint U.S.-Mexican government effort to stem the flow of guns into Mexico has been delayed significantly by technological problems and a lack of training, The Washington Post reports today:

In the past four years, Mexico has submitted information

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Next Steps on Nuclear Safety: Enforcement, Enforcement, Enforcement

By | 04.13.10 | 11:00 am

Later today, the Washington Nuclear Security Summit will conclude by issuing a communique pledging to concentrate the international mind around President Obama’s goal of securing all separated plutonium and highly enriched uranium within four years, in order to prevent nuclear terrorism. It won’t be released until it’s released, of course. More…

Is the Vienna Deal Being Renegotiated?

By | 11.09.09 | 9:29 am

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week urged Iran to stop stalling and accept a proposal formally put forward in Vienna by the so-called P5+1 nations to enrich Iranian uranium in Europe to a form unsuitable for nuclear weapons. “We are not altering” the deal, she said. Well, More…

Qom: First Look

By | 11.05.09 | 1:09 pm

So, what was at Iran’s nuclear facility at Qom, anyway?

U.N. inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday.

Ahmadinejad Warms to a Nuclear Deal

By | 10.29.09 | 8:46 am

Whether it’s the one the United States, France, Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency are offering is a different story. But the Iranian “president” has told state TV, in advance of a formal response expected to come Friday, that the basis for cooperation on the nuclear question is More…

Pelosi Calls for Nuke-Document-Publication-Gate Investigation

By | 06.03.09 | 3:13 pm

She doesn’t mention that Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) called her out for the Government Printing Office’s publication of hundreds of civilian nuclear sites, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) put out this statement on the issue:

“The disclosure of information related to nuclear facilities suggests that the current system

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Scenes From the Real America

By | 04.06.09 | 10:54 am

I spent Saturday at the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, right outside of Louisville, Ky. Gun enthusiasts of all stripes were there — from the National Rifle Association and sportsmen to militia members to white supremacists and Obama birthers. Here’s a collection of choice photos from the show More…