An incredible time-lapse map by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto, showing every nuclear explosion from 1945-1998. It starts off slowly, but builds and builds until the 1960s when the screen begins flashing with nuclear explosions all over the world.
Nuclear weapons program
Iran explodes over UN inspectors
More conflict between Iran and the U.N. has ensued following the ban of two nuclear inspectors from Tehran. Iran officials allege the inspectors leaked false information about experiments conducted at a research laboratory.
How Iran sanction fears awakened the sleeping
giant
China has only recently come back into the UN’s good books. So why doesn’t it support sanctions against Iran in light of its secret nuclear facility? What is the nature of China and Iran’s relationship?
Iran: ready, willing and able to build a nuke
Iran now has the technology and know-how to create — and detonate — a nuclear warhead, according to The Times. Intelligence sources say the country could produce their own bomb is as little as a year.
How Israel could destroy Iran’s nuclear program
A 114-page study has been published that meticulously gathers all data on Israel and Iran’s military capabilities, and outlines exactly how Isreal could attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
But does India want our uranium?
In Australia the Labor Party Opposition is against the deal Prime Minister John Howard has done with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to allow sales of Australian uranium to India.
Cut the blokey crap — Rudd’s indiscretion is serious
I have spent years giving regular briefings to UN missions, the country representatives and the bureaucrats in New York, Geneva and other UN duty stations and it’s actually not a common thing in that world to take a brief to the UN and find yourself in a strip joint, writes a UN insider.
