NEWS
November 28, 2012 |
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - He's a hero in Pakistan for founding the country's nuclear weapons program, and a pariah in the West for relaying nuclear secrets to rogue states. On Wednesday, aides to A.Q. Khan announced that the retired scientist has become an office seeker in the cutthroat world of Pakistani politics. The Election Commission has approved Khan's request to register his party, the Movement for the Protection of Pakistan, for the national election slated for spring, said Rafiq Ghuncha, a top official in the new party.
WORLD
September 18, 2013 |
Iran will never develop nuclear weapons, President Hassan Rouhani vowed Wednesday in his first U.S. media interview since his inauguration last month. Rouhani also said in the interview in Tehran with NBC News international correspondent Ann Curry that he has the authority to cut a deal with the United States and other Western countries to allay their fear that Tehran's uranium enrichment activity is aimed at creating weapons-grade fuel for a nuclear bomb. Rouhani told NBC in the interview, scheduled to air at 6:30 p.m., that President Obama had written to him to congratulate him on his June 14 election and to raise "some issues.
NATIONAL
February 19, 2014 |
Praise has continued to pour in for an 84-year-old nun and two other Catholic activists who were sentenced to prison this week for embarrassing the U.S. government two years ago by breaking into a nuclear weapons complex in Tennessee. Trying to draw attention to the immorality of nuclear weapons, Megan Rice, 58-year-old Greg Boertje-Obed and 64-year-old Michael Walli cut through several rings of fences at the Y-12 National Security Complex and sprayed blood on a uranium storage facility.
NATIONAL
January 30, 2014 |
WASHINGTON - Nearly half of the officers responsible for maintaining and operating nuclear-armed missiles at a Montana base have been implicated in a widening cheating investigation, a sign of deep cultural and command problems in the nuclear force, the leader of the Air Force said Thursday. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said at a Pentagon news conference that 92 of 190 launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base had been suspended because of the investigation into the sharing of answers on a proficiency test last year.
NEWS
January 27, 2014 |
Israel has many well-wishers in Congress, and on some matters - such as how best to pressure Iran not to develop nuclear weapons - those U.S. legislators are closer to Israel's position than to the Obama administration's. Another example: Congress passed a law ordering the State Department to allow U.S. citizens born in Israel to list their birthplace on their passports as “Jerusalem, Israel,” even though successive U.S. presidents have refused to recognize Jerusalem as part of Israel, believing that the status of the city must be decided in negotiations.
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