Nuclear weapons
Dec 20 2010, Ahmed

Egypt was offered nuclear weapons, material and expertise on the black market after the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to a senior Egyptian diplomat.

Stories
Most Recent Most Popular Most Commented
(0)
Rebecca, Ca
An Iranian resistance group claimed Thursday that it has compiled evidence showing Iran has been secretly developing a nuclear enrichment site for years outside Tehran,...
made popular Sep 10 2010
(1)
Incognito, Atlanta
I’ve always believed a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists or a madman would spell disaster, and the latter seems all too possible. There’s a reason...
made popular Sep 10 2010
(6)
Vijay, Kota
An era in India’s nuclear history has come to a close with the passing away of Homi Nusserwanji Sethna last night in Mumbai. A chemical engineer who built the most...
made popular Sep 7 2010
(0)
John, New York
The Obama administration on Monday widened the scope of U.S. financial penalties against North Korea, escalating pressure on the Pyongyang regime to give up its nuclear...
made popular Sep 1 2010
(4)
Filipe, Brasilia
Brazil’s president has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state-run media reported Saturday. President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva...
made popular Aug 2 2010
(1)
Marco Villa, Connecticut
A war with Iran is coming. Unless the Iranians take humiliating actions to satisfy Washington and, more importantly, Tel Aviv it is likely that a war - Israeli or...
made popular Jul 12 2010
(1)
Marco Villa, Connecticut
One of the most striking examples of America’s double-dealing in the Middle East is the blind eye given to Israeli nuclear weapons. The United States, of course,...
made popular Jul 6 2010
(0)
Alex, Portland
The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that it intends to strictly enforce United Nations sanctions against Iran - a potentially significant move, since the UAE...
made popular Jun 25 2010
(5)
Nirav, Birmingham
Burma has started on a nuclear-weapons programme, according to a documentary based on evidence from a soldier who defected. Major Sai Thein Win provided Norway-based...
made popular Jun 5 2010
(0)
Tommy, Manchester
Britain offered its first public accounting of its nuclear arsenal Wednesday, disclosing that it has a stockpile of 225 warheads in a move that offers transparency to...
made popular May 27 2010
(1)
Korey, Houston
Iran may be able to build a missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, according to an unclassified Defense Department report on Iran’s military sent...
made popular May 8 2010
(0)
Lily, Baton Rouge
The Pentagon said it had a total of 5,113 warheads in its nuclear stockpile at the end of September, down 84 percent from a peak of 31,225 in 1967. The arsenal stood at...
made popular May 4 2010
(0)
Marco Villa, Connecticut
I said it before and I’ll say it again: someone at the White House reads my ever informative IB posts. I have written in the past how the U.S. refusal to even...
made popular May 4 2010
(1)
Tinashe, Harare
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has backed Iran’s controversial nuclear programme and accused the West of seeking to punish the two countries for...
made popular Apr 24 2010
(0)
Ian, Kampala
President Museveni last night told visiting Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Uganda does not support acquisition of nuclear weapons by new countries. In a...
made popular Apr 24 2010
(6)
Chintan, Ambala
Pakistan may slip over nuclear weapons to the Taliban for use against India in the event of escalated tension or war between the two neighbours, a non-proliferation...
made popular Apr 23 2010
(1)
Domonique, Washington
In coming years, President Obama will decide whether to deploy a new class of weapons capable of reaching any corner of the earth from the United States in under an...
made popular Apr 23 2010
(0)
Korey, Houston
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH’-hoo) is calling for “crippling sanctions” against Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear...
made popular Apr 20 2010
Stories
Most Recent Most Popular Most Commented
(0)
Janne, Helsinki
Finland does not need three new nuclear plants to secure its future energy needs, the minister who is preparing a government proposal on the subject said in an...
made popular Apr 20 2010
(0)
Yaniv, Jerusalem
Iran on Saturday opened a nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran with the slogan “Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for No One.” President Mahmoud...
made popular Apr 17 2010
(0)
Shaleah, Los Angeles
World leaders closed out a global summit on nuclear security with a pledge to lock down hundreds of thousands of tons of weapons-usable nuclear fuel by 2014, and set a...
made popular Apr 14 2010
(0)
Yoann, Minneapolis
Russia and the US have agreed to dispose of tonnes of surplus weapons-grade plutonium under a deal signed at a nuclear summit in Washington. The deal calls for each...
made popular Apr 14 2010
(0)
Marco Villa, Connecticut
America simply lacks a coherent policy on nuclear weapons in the Middle East. On the one hand it raises the alarm on any potential weapons program in the region even if...
made popular Apr 12 2010
(3)
View Point, Shimla
For decades, the nuclear relationship had defined the relationship - for better and for worse,” said Kimball. “And we have to remember that unless there is...
made popular Apr 10 2010
(0)
Brandon, Rochester
President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a major nuclear arms treaty Thursday, but critics in the Senate will have their say before anything is put...
made popular Apr 9 2010
(0)
Gil, Jerusalem
Israel’s Prime Minister called off his trip to Washington next week to attend a conference on the spread of nuclear weapons, officials in his office said, fearing...
made popular Apr 9 2010
(0)
Sukhmani, shimla
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says there has been “substantial” progress on a new nuclear disarmament deal with Russia. In Moscow, Mrs Clinton and...
made popular Mar 19 2010
(0)
Yoann, Minneapolis
Japan has confirmed the existence of a secret Cold War deal allowing the transit of nuclear-armed US vessels through its ports. The move by a government-appointed...
made popular Mar 10 2010
(0)
Ben, Jerusalem
Israel is expected to unveil plans this week to build a nuclear power plant, reports say. They say an announcement will be made by Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi...
made popular Mar 9 2010
(0)
Talal, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has expressed doubts about the need for more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, a move being pushed by the United...
made popular Feb 16 2010
(0)
Puneet, Noida
India will test a new nuclear-capable missile with a range of more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) in a year’s time, the country’s top military...
made popular Feb 11 2010
(0)
Saeed, Tehran
China’s ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Yesui, has said the time is not right to consider more sanctions against Iran. The UN Security Council, including...
made popular Jan 7 2010
(2)
Zaheerul Hassan, Lahore
Recently, IAEA designed an agreement for Iran to reduce the amount of nuke material and stop her possibility of making nuclear bomb. The United States and its allies...
made popular Oct 31 2009
(0)
Richard, London
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today said that the Palestinians should be allowed to have nuclear weapons if the world does not act to disarm Israel of its...
made popular Oct 27 2009
(0)
Jonathan, Moscow
Russia has agreed to proposals by the U.N. nuclear watchdog to help reduce Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said...
made popular Oct 23 2009
(23)
View Point, Shimla
US President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. Is he a worthy winner? The Nobel Committee hailed Obama’s extraordinary efforts to strengthen...
made popular Oct 9 2009
(0)
Soshiant, Tehran
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, is expected in Iran to discuss inspectors’ access to a recently revealed uranium facility. Iran announced...
made popular Oct 3 2009
(2)
TJ, Calgary
The parts above may not look like much but in the right hands these pressure transducers can be used in the enrichment of uranium for nuclear weapons. The Post’s...
made popular Oct 3 2009
(0)
Christopher Skyi, New York City
Bad news always seems to break on the weekends: On Fri­day (September 25, 2009), Obama and Euro­pean allies rolled out what they hope is their most con­vinc­ing...
made popular Sep 29 2009