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Obama’s Nuclear Option

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Feb 17, 2010 President Obama's publicly financed resuscitation of the nuclear power industry in the U.S. is bound to fail, another taxpayer bailout waiting to happen. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

IAEA Not Worried About Second Iran Nuclear Site

Staff / Truthdig Nov 5, 2009 U.N. inspectors have found "nothing to be worried about" in their first report after visiting a previously clandestine uranium-enrichment site south of Tehran. The clean assessment, which described the site as a "hole in a mountain," may cause critics to now look for more diplomatic solutions to Iran's nuclear program. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.N. Gets a Look at 2nd Iranian Uranium Plant

Staff / Truthdig Oct 25, 2009 The continuing drama surrounding Iran's nuclear program took a daring turn earlier this month when the U.S. revealed the existence of a secret uranium enrichment plant. Now U.N. inspectors have checked out that plant, and will do so again in the next couple days. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Outs Iranian Nuclear Site

Staff / Truthdig Sep 25, 2009 Following Thursday's U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at halting nuclear proliferation, President Obama announced Friday that Iran has concealed a partly built second uranium enrichment plant. The Iranians admitted existence of the plant but asserted that it would be used only for peaceful purposes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.N. Agency: Iran ‘Stonewalling’ Nuclear Inspectors

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2008 Iran's nuclear program is once again raising concerns among members of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who claim in a new report that, despite earlier signs of cooperation this year, Tehran is leaving key questions unanswered about possible plans to ramp up its uranium enrichment capabilities by the end of this summer. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Syria: Nukes or Peace?

Staff / Truthdig Apr 27, 2008 This past week, Syria made headlines not once but twice. One story implicates the country in enriching uranium and says that the CIA confirmed to Congress that the target of a mysterious Israeli air raid in northern Syria on Sept. 6, 2007, was a reactor built with North Korean help. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Can Nukes Save the Planet? Not So Fast

Staff / Truthdig Jul 17, 2007 You may have seen the bumper stickers: "Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Power." With oil prices high and the planet cooking, some prominent green voices want us to reconsider nuke plants. Long before Monday's earthquake in Japan started a nuclear plant fire (causing a radioactive water leak), writer Rebecca Solnit was trying to stop this line of thinking in its tracks, calling it defeatist and naive. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

North Korea Shuts Down a Nuclear Reactor

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2007 Score one for diplomacy: North Korea is toeing the line and following the dictates of a deal struck with the U.N. in February to shut down one of its nuclear reactors in exchange for heavy fuel oil, according to the BBC. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The End of the World as We Know it

Staff / Truthdig Oct 17, 2006 Mohamed El Baradei cautioned on Monday that as many as 30 nations could rapidly develop nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency chief warned that countries are "hedging their bets" by developing peaceful nuclear programs that could provide the necessary technology and material for weaponization. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

N. Korea Says Sanctions Would Be Act of War

Staff / Truthdig Oct 11, 2006 In his country's first formal statement since its claimed atomic bomb test on Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said he would consider additional sanctions imposed on the country an act of war Bush said he has "no intention" of attacking Pyongyang, and that the U remains committed to diplomacy, but also "reserves all options to defend our friends in the region" Hmmwhen have we heard that one before?. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

North Korea Threatens Another Explosion

Staff / Truthdig Oct 11, 2006 North Korea's No. 2 leader, Kim Yong-nam, threatened a second nuclear test if the U.S. refuses to back down: "If the United States continues to take a hostile attitude and apply pressure on us in various forms, we will have no choice but to take physical steps to deal with that." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )