Nuclear Weapons

Iranian Negotiators Show Support for Uranium Deal
A group consisting of Iranian, Russian, American and French negotiators has been meeting in Vienna, Austria for several days, and appears to have reached a breakthrough plan regarding Iranian uranium enrichment.

Israel Will Stop at Nothing to Keep Nuclear Weapons from Iran
Trying to play peacemaker with Iran and Israel, the U.S. could not help but be dismayed by Israel’s hawkish stance on appropriate responses to their arch enemy in the Middle East.

North Korea Ignores World Powers, Conducts Nuclear Weapons Test
North Korea ran a series of underground nuclear missiles tests yesterday, openly defying the world and, perhaps, building support before a successor to Kim Jong Il is announced.

President Obama Looking for Assurances from Pakistan on Nukes
President Obama, to meet with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari this week, will broach the subject of the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.

President Obama Calls for End Nuclear Weapons – Worldwide
President Obama, thinking globally, spoke in Prague yesterday about plans to denuclearize the world.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Nuclear Power
Nuclear power is widely perceived as a dangerous technology. However, it is a significant source of power. Read on to know the pros and cons of nuclear power.

The World’s First Nuclear Reactor
Nuclear power is controversial. However, regardless of how you feel about it, you might be interested in a little information about how man’s quest to harness the atom began.

Greenpeace
How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World. Greenpeace was founded as much by happenstance as by design. In October 1969, the United States detonated a one-megaton nuclear bomb on remote Amchitka Island, 2,400 miles northwest of Vancouver in the Aleutian Islands. The blast created a Richter 6.9 shockwave around the world.

Your Hands Can't Hit What Your Eyes Can't See
The killing machine that aroused the curiosity of the defense intelligentsia of the world as well as the general population.

Atom Bomb: Technique and theory used to make one
America used it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Millions died instantly and generations were crippled. What makes the atom bomb tick? What is the theory behind nuclear fission and fusion? A brief educational description on how an atom bomb works and its various components like altimeter, air pressure detonator, detonating head, Conventional Explosive Charge(s), Neutron Deflector, Uranium & Plutonium, Lead shield and fuses.

Q&A: Nuclear Weapons and the Uk
MPs will vote today on whether to renew the UK's nuclear missile system.

Nuclear Power becomes Popular Again
Nuclear power is on the increase due to increasing oil prices and greater insecurity around the world. Greenpeace is campaigning against this.

Local Energy Production Makes Sense
The energy crisis has given the nuclear industry a major boost, despite problems with nuclear waste and vulnerability to terrorist threats.

Nagasaki Remembers Day of Destruction, 60 Years on
Nagasaki paid tribute to its dead yesterday, 60 years to the day after the city was levelled by an atomic bomb in one of the last acts of the second world war.

Nagasaki Remembers
Sixty years to the day after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, its inhabitants today commemorated the anniversary.

Sixty Years and 242,437 Lives Later, Hiroshima Remembers
As they lay dying amid the ruins of their city, the victims of the Hiroshima bomb craved one thing above all - water.

Hiroshima: 'I don't blame them but I hope they mourn the dead'
Sixty years later, the debate still rages. Was America right to drop the atomic bomb - both bombs? Did it truly face the prospect of a full-scale invasion of Japan which some estimated would result in a million casualties?

Hiroshima: 'I saw both of the bombs and lived'
Anyone who survived the world's first atom bomb blast must have felt the worst was past. But Kazuko Sadamaru was caught up in the second explosion too. That she did so and is still alive today is perhaps the most uniquely improbable story of all.

America to Build Super Weapons
US-based missiles to cover world. The Pentagon is planning a new generation of weapons, including huge hypersonic drones and bombs dropped from space, that will allow the US to strike its enemies at lightning speed from its own territory.

Burning up radioactive waste
A new process to deal with nuclear waste is being developed at the US department of energy's research facility at Hanford, Washington State, writes David Black.

How two students built an A-bomb
It's one of the burning questions of the moment: how easy would it be for a country with no nuclear expertise to build an A-bomb? Forty years ago in a top-secret project, the US military set about finding out.

Spy Chief Urged Churchill to Threaten Nazis With Atom Bomb
One of Britain's most senior intelligence officers wanted the wartime leader, Winston Churchill, to threaten to drop atomic bombs on Nazi Germany a year before they were first used on Japan. The scheme was seriously intended to be urged on the US president, Franklin Roosevelt, as a...

How to make a dirty bomb
They say it's easy to build your own atomic weapon. Is it? Jon Ronson takes a crash course. It is a Monday in July and I have been commanded by the Guardian to attempt to purchase the materials needed to build a nuclear bomb.

A-bomb Survivors Fear New Hiroshima
Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs expressed a growing sense of foreboding yesterday about the increasing tension between the nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.