Tag: Nuclear Weapons

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2009-06-10 "Our position is that we cannot go below the level of 1,500 nuclear warheads. But the final decision is to be made by the country's political leadership."
-- Nikolai Solovtsov, Russian Strategic Rocket Forces Commander, at a meeting of the Defense Ministry's Public Council, at the training center of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces' Military Academy
2009-05-25 Te Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said
the test was "part of the measures to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence in every way as requested by its scientists and technicians.
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The current nuclear test was safely conducted on a new higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology of its control and the results of the test helped satisfactorily settle the scientific and technological problems arising in further increasing the power of nuclear weapons and steadily developing nuclear technology,"
-- According to a statement released by the official news agency KCNA
2009-04-13 The United Nations Security Council adopted a presidential statement condemning the April 5 rocket launch by the DPRK and demanding the country "not conduct any further launch", saying it is "in contravention of Security Council resolution 1718" and urging the early resumption of the six-party talks.
2009-04 In London, Britain, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his USA counterpart Barack Obama met for the first time.
They agreed to negotiate a replacement for the START I by the end of the year.
2009-01-17 "All of those I met said that North Korea has already weaponized the 30.8 kg of plutonium listed in its formal declaration and that the weapons cannot be inspected.
"That means North Korea has four or five nuclear weapons, depending on the grade of plutonium, the specific weapons design and desired explosive yield."
-- Selig Harrison, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a policy institute in Washington D.C, told a news conference in the Chinese capital after returning from five days in Pyongyang
2009 “Israel has some 200 to 300 nuclear weapons.”
-- Anthony Cordesman and Abdullah Toukan, senior scholars at Washington’s Center for Strategic & International Studies, in a recent 114-page paper
2008-12-17 "If it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima, Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America."
-- Ehud Barak, Defense Minister of Israel, speaking at a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University
2008-12-07 "We are willing to talk to them directly and give them a clear choice and ultimately let them make a determination in terms of whether they want to do this the hard way or the easy way.
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We need to ratchet up tough but direct diplomacy with Iran, making very clear to them that their development of nuclear weapons would be unacceptable, that their funding of terrorist organizations, their threats against Israel are contrary to everything we believe in.
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In terms of carrots, we can provide economic incentives that would be helpful to a country that despite being a net oil producer is under enormous strain, huge inflation, lot of employment problems.
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But we also have to focus on the sticks. In order for us to change Iran's behavior we may have to tighten up those sanctions."
-- Barack Obama, US President-elect, NBC's "Meet the Press" program
2008-11-20 Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb.
-- According to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors
2008-09-18 In the USA house draft resolution number 362 is tabled.
So far, it has attracted the co-sponsorship of nearly half of the 430-member House of Representatives.
The draft resolution calls on the President to stop all shipments of refined petroleum products from reaching Iran. It also "demands" that the President impose "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran".












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