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Israel, Iran Terrorists Are Killing Scientists: Officials

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:37:33 CST

As Iran has long claimed, Israel is indeed behind the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, providing financing, training, and weapons to the Iranian terrorist group that carries out the attacks, US officials confirm to NBC News . Five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed since 2007, reportedly by the People’s Mujahedin...

Car Bomb Kills Iranian Nuke Expert

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:00 CST

Yet another Iranian nuclear scientist has been murdered, this time after two assassins on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the 32-year-old chemistry expert's car. The death of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan comes almost exactly two years to the day since another nuclear professor was killed. Roshan, a professor and...

UN Examines Possible Syria-Pakistan Nuke Ties

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:00:00 CDT

Satellite images have provided UN investigators with fresh evidence that the Syrian government once worked with AQ Khan, the world's most prolific nuclear weapons merchant. The images reveal that a complex in northwest Syria appears to match Khan's designs for a uranium enrichment plant that were sold to Moammar Gadhafi's...

Ahmadinejad Abruptly Fires Foreign Minister

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:38:05 CST

Iran's president abruptly fired his foreign minister today and named nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi as acting top diplomat. It's the latest sign of a rift at the top levels of the Islamic theocracy as the country faces intense pressure from the West over its nuclear program. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

Kissinger, Powell, et Al.: Ratify New START

Matt Cantor — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:15:17 CST

The New START treaty got some serious firepower behind it this morning, with the past five Republican secretaries of state writing a Washington Post op-ed in its support. "Although each of us had initial questions about New START," write Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker III, Lawrence Eagleburger and Colin...

Stuxnet Worm Built to Feast on Nuclear Centrifuges

Nick McMaster — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:19:28 CST

A bit more light has been shed on the Stuxnet computer worm that wreaked havoc in Iran: it was tailor-made to go after nuclear centrifuges in ingenious fashion, the New York Times reports. It now looks pretty certain the worm was unleashed specifically to derail Tehran's nuclear work. As for...

Satellite Reveals N. Korea Nuke Building

Matt Cantor — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:38:05 CST

Satellite photos reveal construction at North Korea’s main atomic complex, suggesting the country is fulfilling its plans to build a light-water nuclear reactor, the AP reports. The images, from a private Washington institute, show at least two cranes and an under-construction rectangular structure, and come amid reports that work is...

Iran Kicks Off 5 Days of War Games

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:42:32 CST

Iran today begins large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities, state television reports, adding that the five-day drill will cover a third of the country, including regions that are home to Iran's nuclear facilities. The drill involves both Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, the paramilitary Basij...

US, South Korea Offer North 'Grand Bargain' on Nukes

Rob Quinn — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:47:58 CST

South Korea's president says he and President Barack Obama have agreed to offer North Korea a "grand bargain" aimed at ending the North's nuclear program. President Lee Myung-bak, speaking at a joint news conference today in Seoul, said the deal would be similar to his proposal for a package of...