| November 12, 18:00 PM
, 2020 | - Iran announced that it had successfully built and tested the country’s first domestically produced nuclear fuel rod, and threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers in response to sanction threats from the West. “Our response to threats is threats,” said Revolutionary Guard deputy commander Hossein Salami.
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CNN
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AFP via Raw Story
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| November 3, 13:00 PM
, 2020 | - Masataka Shimizu, the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., remained in self-imposed seclusion, citing overwork, while two of his employees at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant were hospitalized for beta-ray burns to their feet.
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Kyodo
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Bloomberg
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Kyodo News
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| November 3, 1:00 PM
, 2020 | - A 9.0-magnitude earthquake in northeast Japan triggered a massive tsunami, killing at least 10,000 people in what Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the country's worst crisis since World War II. Hundreds of miles of coastline remained unreachable as hundreds of thousands of survivors struggled to find food and water, and nearly 2 million were without electricity in near-freezing temperatures. In the town of Minamisanrikucho, nearly two thirds of the population of 17,000 were missing and most of the buildings had washed away. Two nuclear power plants experienced partial meltdowns. Workers struggled to cool reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, dumping seawater in them and periodically releasing radioactive steam in an attempt to avoid full meltdowns. The earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in Japan, moved the country's main island by eight feet and shifted the Earth on its axis. Japan's stringent building codes, which require hydraulic shock absorbers and giant rubber pads at the foundations of skyscrapers, were credited with saving countless lives; in Sendai, a city of a million people near the epicenter, no buildings had collapsed during the earthquake.
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AP via Yahoo
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New York Times
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CNN
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New York Times
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New York Times
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CBS News
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| October 12, 11:00 PM
, 2020 | -
North Korea threatened nuclear war.
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Reuters
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| October 12, 9:00 PM
, 2020 | - The Senate ratified the New START arms-control treaty, according to which the United States and Russia will have to reduce their respective nuclear arsenals to only 1,550 warheads and 700 launchers within seven years.
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NYT
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| October 4, 8:00 AM
, 2020 | - President Obama signed a nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia that reduces the nations' stockpiles by a third, and announced plans to end the development of new nuclear weapons; he also declared that the United States would not use nuclear weapons against any country abiding by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if that country attacks the United States with chemical or biological weapons. Sarah Palin then likened the president to a child in the playground asking for a punch in the face.
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ABC News
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| January 14, 2012 | - Hundreds of Saudis gathered to protest the killing of a young Shiite man by security forces, and Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced to death Amir Hekmati, an American citizen accused of spying for the CIA, who claims to have been visiting his grandmothers. The following day, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed by a magnetic bomb that was attached to his car while he was stuck in traffic in Tehran. Iran blamed the United States, the United Kingdom, and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the assassination. “[Our] response will be a tormenting one,” said General Masoud Jazayeri, “for supporters of state terrorism.”
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New York Times
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Atlantic
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National Post
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NPR
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| June 18, 2011 | - Workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, where 110,000 tons of radioactive water have collected since an earthquake and tsunami in March, were forced to suspend a new filtration scheme after a cesium absorber that was expected to last a month wore out in five hours. Addressing fears that Japan’s seasonal rains could cause some of the contaminated water to spill into the Pacific, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Company said the utility would “probably be able to solve the problem” before the holding facility was overwhelmed.
| Source 1:
Kyodo via Japan Times
Source 2:
BBC
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| April 17, 2011 | - The Tokyo Electric Power Company, which plans to bring the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the stable state of “cold shutdown” within nine months and will pay $12,000 to each household forced to evacuate because of leaking radiation, sent robots and remote-controlled helicopters into Units 1 and 3 of the plant, which brought back images revealing that the buildings were still too radioactive for workers to enter.
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WSJ
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Newser
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NYTimes
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| April 8, 2011 | - An F/A-18 fighter jet crashed into a field in central California, and a Royal Navy serviceman shot two people onboard the HMS Astute, a nuclear submarine.
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ABC
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Guardian
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| March 17, 2011 | - The confirmed death toll from Japan's earthquake and tsunami rose to about 8,400, and the final death toll was expected to be more than 20,000. President Barack Obama made an unannounced visit to the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C., to sign a condolence book. As the risk of full-scale meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant became more likely, 750 emergency staff were evacuated, leaving behind only 50 technicians, who either volunteered or were compelled to stay. “I may be a bit too callous about this due to the fact that I was really heavily exposed to radiation,” said seventy-one-year-old Kazuko Yamashita, who was five when her home in Nagasaki was destroyed by an atomic bomb, “but I don't think this is anything to turn pale over.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
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Talking Points Memo
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New York Times
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MSNBC
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| March 10, 2011 | - Mohammed ElBaradei, the former head of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency, said that he intends to run for president of Egypt later this year.
| Source:
Al Jazeera
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| December 1, 2010 | - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to unleash a “thermonuclear device” of 1.3 gigabytes of unexpurgated government files, which he calls his “insurance policy,” if he is forced to appear before authorities. “I believe geopolitics will be separated into pre- and post-Cablegate phases," he declared of previous WikiLeaks revelations. Assange remained in hiding, as did his mother, Christine, who runs a puppet theatre.
| Source 1:
The Globe and Mail
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AOL
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| November 18, 2010 | -
North Korea revealed a new, sophisticated nuclear facility capable of enriching uranium to a visiting American scientist, and an international team of physicists announced that for the first time they were able to trap antimatter, 38 anti-hydrogen atoms, for one-tenth of a second.
| Source 1:
AP via Fox News
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AP
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| September 27, 2010 | - Computer worm Stuxnet was reportedly targeting Iranian nuclear facilities. Exploiting security flaws in Microsoft Windows, it is the first known worm designed to infect industrial-control systems. Computer-security experts said the complexity of the worm suggested it was probably made by a government agency.
| Source 1:
Symantec
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PC Mag
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NYT
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CSM
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CSM
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Guardian
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| September 18, 2010 | - A couple who worked at the Los Alamos National Lab were charged with conspiring to help Venezuela develop a nuclear weapon, and a Washington State woman whose face was disfigured by acid admitted that her injuries were self-inflicted and not, as she had previously claimed, the result of an attack.
| Source 1:
USA Today
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KGW.com
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| August 23, 2010 | - Iran celebrated the opening of its first nuclear power plant, and President Obama invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United States for peace talks. “When they reach an impasse, and they will, the expectation will be that the president has to come in and fix these things,” said Middle East scholar Aaron David Miller. “Does he really understand what he’s getting himself into?”
| Source 1:
NYT
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USA Today
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| May 26, 2010 | -
Britain reported that it has a stockpile of 225 nuclear warheads (its first public accounting of its total nuclear arsenal) after the U.S. revealed that it has 5,113 such warheads.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 17, 2010 | - A memo by Defense Secretary Robert Gates claimed that the U.S. does not have a plan to counter Iran's efforts to build a nuclear bomb.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 26, 2010 | - President Obama announced a new arms-control treaty with Russia, under which he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to reduce their countries' deployed nuclear warheads by one third.
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WhiteHouse.gove
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| February 10, 2010 | - Hundreds of thousands of Iranians celebrated the thirty-first anniversary of the Islamic Republic with pro-government demonstrations in Tehran. To prepare for the “disruption free” event, the government arrested opposition supporters, imposed a virtual blockade on text messages and emails, arrested journalists, and sentenced to death a thirteenth opposition activist. On the day of the demonstrations security forces thwarted opposition protesters with tear gas and road blockades. Before the demonstrations, Iran announced that it had produced 20-percent enriched uranium and was planning to triple its uranium production, bringing the country closer to nuclear-weapons capabilities. “Please pay attention,” said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “and understand that the people of Iran are brave enough that if it wants to build a bomb it will clearly announce it and build it and not be afraid of you.”
| Source 1:
CNN
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NYTimes
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Washington Post
Source 4:
CNN
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LA Times
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CNN
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BBC
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CNN
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Wall Street Journal
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| January 11, 2010 | -
North Korea announced that it would not give up nuclear weapons until the United States signed a peace treaty bringing a formal end to the Korean War after 60 years.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 3, 2010 | - As the Obama Administration failed to meet a self-imposed deadline for diplomatic progress with Iran, foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki demanded that the United Nations renegotiate the terms of a nuclear fuel deal by the end of the month lest his country begin producing and enriching its own uranium. An Iranian general announced plans for a “large-scale military exercise” to correspond with the deadline.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Wall Street Journal
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CNN
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| 0, 2009 | - The United States was planning a fact-finding mission to Burma, and North Korean diplomats attended nuclear talks in New York City.
| Source 1:
Reuters
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JoongAng Daily
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| 0, 2009 | - The Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state was found to be peppered with radioactive rabbit droppings, all of which must be scooped.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 26, 2009 | - President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy revealed that Iran had a secret uranium-enrichment facility. The announcement, based on previously classified intelligence, came soon after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. “What business is it of yours,” countered Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “to tell us what to do or not?” Ahmadinejad previously said that he wanted nuclear materials only for “medicinal purposes.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Washingtpon Post
Source 3:
CNN
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| September 23, 2009 | - A 310-mile-wide dust storm swept through Sydney, Australia, shrouding the city in orange powder, which one tourist described as “a nuclear winter morning.”
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| August 4, 2009 | -
Russian
nuclear submarines were caught patrolling off the eastern coast of the United States,.
| Source:
NYT
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| May 25, 2009 | -
North Korea announced that it had successfully conducted a second nuclear test.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 5, 2009 | -
North Korea defied United Nations resolutions and launched a rocket over the Pacific Ocean, prompting President Obama to call for a world without nuclear weapons. “I'm not naive,” he said. “But now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change. We have to insist, 'Yes, we can.'”
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
Politico
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| February 17, 2009 | -
French and British authorities acknowledged that nuclear submarines from the two countries collided earlier this month.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 18, 2009 | - South Korea put its military on alert after North Korea announced it had “weaponized” enough plutonium for four to five nuclear weapons and threatened “an all-out confrontational posture.”
| Source:
SKorea army on alert after North's military threat
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| December 12, 2008 | - Spurred by pollution, global warming, and overfishing, massive poisonous jellyfish and tiny jellyfish-like creatures were gathering in huge swarms, disrupting fisheries and marine mines, clogging nuclear-plant intake valves, and threatening tourists around the world.
| Source 1:
Colorado Springs Gazette
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Christian Post
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NSF
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| November 20, 2008 | - Global atomic inspectors suggested that Iran has enough nuclear material to make one atomic bomb.
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| October 14, 2008 | - A classified National Intelligence Estimate showed sharply increased militant activity in Pakistan, and also noted food shortages, rising fuel costs, and a sudden flight of foreign capital. An anonymous official summarized conditions in the nuclear-armed country as “no money, no energy, no government.”
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McClatchy
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| September 22, 2008 | -
Russian officials sought to ban South Park, The Simpsons, and Family Guy from television, and sent a fleet of warships, including nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser “Peter the Great,” to Venezuela to participate in military exercises.
| Source 1:
Daily Telegraph
Source 2:
BBC
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| August 2, 2008 | - The United Nations agreed to oversee India's civilian nuclear facilities, a key step toward a U.S.-India nuclear pact desired by the Bush Administration.
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LAT
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| June 28, 2008 | - President George W. Bush announced that North Korea was off the “state sponsors of terrorism” list. North Korea then blew up the obsolete nuclear cooling tower at Yongbyon and took delivery of a U.S. ship carrying 38,000 tons of food; the nuclear and food deals, said officials, were unrelated.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| June 15, 2008 | - Sheikh Ali al-Neda, the head of Saddam Hussein's tribe, was killed by a car bomb, and it was reported that Pakistani smuggler A. Q. Khan possessed blueprints for nuclear warheads more advanced than those he is known to have sold to Libya, though it was unclear whether he had sold them to North Korea or Iran.
| Source:
Fox News
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| April 28, 2008 | - The United States accused North Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor on a site that was destroyed last year by an Israeli air strike.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| March 25, 2008 | - The Pentagon announced that it had accidentally shipped four fuses for nuclear warheads to Taiwan.
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WP
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| March 17, 2008 | -
Israel was preparing the largest emergency exercise in its history in response to escalating tensions with Syria and to Iran's bid to obtain nuclear weapons. Sirens will wail throughout the country as mass evacuations from “hit zones” and mock chemical and biological attacks are performed as drills.
| Source:
Jerusalem Post
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| December 8, 2007 | - A new National Intelligence Estimate by all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Iran ended its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003, in contrast to a 2005 report that claimed with “high confidence” that such a program was still active. Former CIA officials explained that at the time the earlier report was written the agency's Iran Task Force had been reduced from nearly a hundred analysts and officers to fewer than a dozen, and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, attempting to explain why the earlier report was not “so wrong,” reminded reporters that Iran is “very good at this business of keeping secrets.” “It is all right,” responded Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “It is enough that you are confessing to your mistakes.” In Iowa,
Democratic candidates debated the Iranian nuclear threat as well as the safety of toys made in China. “My toys,” said Senator Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), “are coming from Iowa.” At a dinner in Des Moines, a reporter summarized the Iranian nuclear report for Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who hadn't heard the news. Huckabee, a Southern Baptist preacher, also recalled that he was still learning about the AIDS virus in 1992, when he proposed putting AIDS patients in quarantine.
| Source 1:
WP
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White House
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LAT
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NYT
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WP
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LAT
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Politico
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AP via Yahoo
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| November 19, 2007 | - An American nuclear scientist projected that the number of deaths caused by depleted uranium in ammunition fired on Iraq would exceed those caused by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “The environment is now completely radioactive,” said Leuren Moret. “The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed.”
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uruknet
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| November 2, 2007 | - Alexander Feklisov, the Soviet spy handler of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, died at 93, as did Washoe, the signing chimp, at 42, and Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr., the pilot of the Enola Gay, at 92. Tibbets remained unapologetic about his role in the 66,000 deaths and 69,000 injuries wrought by the atomic blast at Hiroshima. “I never,” he once said, “lost a night's sleep over it.”
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AP via Yahoo! News
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New York Times
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Los Angeles Times
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| October 18, 2007 | -
Vladimir Putin traveled to Iran and cautioned the United States against a military strike; President Bush responded by saying that democracy might not be in the “Russian DNA” and threatened World War III if Iran acquired nuclear weapons.
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The Guardian
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Washington Post
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| October 18, 2007 | -
Vladimir Putin traveled to Iran and cautioned the United States against a military strike; President Bush responded by saying that democracy might not be in the “Russian DNA” and threatened World War III if Iran acquired nuclear weapons.
| Source 1:
The Guardian
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Washington Post
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| September 26, 2007 | -
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hailed by his countrymen as the “Socrates of the Third Millennium” for “disarming other speakers through his sharp reasoning,” gave a speech on Monday in which he claimed that Iran had no homosexuals and disavowed reports of his nuclear ambitions. “Let me tell a joke here,” Ahmadinejad said. “I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs, or testing them, making them, politically they are backward, retarded.” On Tuesday he met with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, addressed the United Nations (where he announced that he would disregard any resolutions adopted by the Security Council), and hosted a reception at the Intercontinental Hotel that was attended by Brian Williams and Christiane Amanpour.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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Adnkronos International
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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New York Times
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Time
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| September 22, 2007 | - It was reported that not long ago Vice President Dick Cheney considered asking Israel to launch missiles at an Iranian
nuclear site to kick-start a new war.
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Reuters
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| September 15, 2007 | - A U.S. State Department official speculated that North Korea was helping Syria develop nuclear weapons.
| Source:
NYT
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| September 5, 2007 | - A B-52 bomber plane flew across the United States, mistakenly loaded with nuclear-armed missiles.
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BBC
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| August 30, 2007 | - President George W. Bush predicted a “nuclear holocaust” if Iran develops weapons of mass destruction and accused the country of undertaking “murderous activities in Iraq”; Iran's foreign minister described Bush's comments as a sign of “political despair” caused by “a serious problem in creating propaganda for the next election.”
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BBC
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Breitbart.com via Drudgereport.com
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| July 1, 2007 | - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela visited Tehran and praised Iran's nuclear program, calling President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad his “ideological brother.”
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BBCnews.com
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| June 25, 2007 | - The North Korean government announced it would begin dismantling its nuclear program after the U.S. Treasury unfroze certain bank accounts in Macau.
- The North Korean government announced it would begin dismantling its nuclear program after the U.S. Treasury unfroze certain bank accounts in Macau.
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| June 11, 2007 | -
Scientists speculated that the woolly mammoth, which died off more than 10,000 years ago, as well as the saber-toothed cat, the mastodon, and the giant ground sloth, were exterminated by a comet that exploded over Canada with a force equivalent to more than a million nuclear weapons.
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Washington Post
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| March 2, 2007 | - The Defense Department selected a winner in its nuclear warhead design competition.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 27, 2007 | - Disclosures about North Korea's
plutonium bomb suggested that U.S. intelligence about other countries' weapons programs is frequently wrong.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 23, 2007 | - After widespread opposition from residents of Utah and Nevada, the Pentagon canceled its plan to test a large non-nuclear bomb as part of Operation Divine Strake.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 30, 2007 | - “Hot” patients who had recently received medical treatment using radioisotopes were setting off Homeland Security
radiation detectors.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo!NEWS
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| January 26, 2007 | -
North Korea
demanded 44 million euros from
the insurance company Lloyd's
of London as compensation for damages in
an alleged catastrophic helicopter accident in April 2005. According
to their filed claim, a helicopter owned by the state airline was
flying from Pyongyang to a remote island to save a woman who was in
labor with triplets when it crashed into a warehouse full of
humanitarian-relief supplies, causing a fire. “All this business
about spending their money on
their nuclear program,” said a source
close to the North Koreans, “is
complete
tosh.”
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London
Times
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| January 17, 2007 | - Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists moved the hands on their “doomsday clock” two minutes closer to midnight.
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BBCnews.com
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| November 25, 2006 | - In London, Col. Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent, died several weeks after being poisoned with polonium 210, a rare isotope that is used in nuclear bombs and moon buggies. Investigators fear that Litvinenko, who accused Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of ordering his assassination, may have spread radiation to his wife and son as they hugged and kissed him on his deathbed.
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Sky News
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Sun (U.K.)
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Daily Mail
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| November 4, 2006 | - The International Atomic Energy Agency said that it has been approached by at least six Arab countries interested in developing their own nuclear programs.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| October 27, 2006 | -
North Korea warned the United States not to make any “madcap nuclear moves” or to proceed with any “wild design to ignite a nuclear war.”
| Source:
Korean Central News Agency
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| October 18, 2006 | -
Domestic security officials notified seven football stadiums of a discredited threat of radiological bomb attacks out of an “abundance of caution.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 18, 2006 | - South Korea's government warned that North Korea might be preparing to conduct a second nuclear test.
| Source:
FT
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| October 14, 2006 | -
North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il was said to be at risk of losing his access to McDonald's hamburgers and Hennessy cognac if sanctions on luxury goods are imposed in response to his country's recent nuclear testing.
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All Headline News
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| October 9, 2006 | -
North Korea later detonated a nuclear bomb.
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BBC News
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| September 20, 2006 | - In Fernald, Ohio, the Environmental Protection Agency was planning to cart away 5,800 tons of contaminated soil so that a former nuclear production facility could be turned into a “natural” park.
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New York times
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| August 31, 2006 | -
Iran ignored a U.N. Security Council deadline for suspending its uranium-enrichment activities.
| Source:
UPI
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| August 26, 2006 | - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the opening ceremony for a power plant that could be used to manufacture nuclear weapons, said his country was “not a threat to anybody, even the Zionist regime which is a definite enemy.”
| Source:
BBC
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| August 14, 2006 | -
Iran was launching missiles at Kurds and cracking down on “decadent” satellite dishes. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed the country would continue to pursue its nuclear program “forcefully,” and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the United States “should be disarmed.”
| Source:
Middle East Times
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| July 21, 2006 | -
Research revealed that giant thermonuclear explosions detected in the constellation Ophiuchus were caused by a Red Giant star dumping gas onto a White Dwarf star.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| July 18, 2006 | - Ehud Olmert, prime minister of Israel, said Hezbollah's war on Israel was a ruse to divert attention from Iran's
nuclear weapons program. Kayhan, an Iranian news daily, replied that it only “wish[ed] Israel's lies were true.”
| Source:
BBC
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| July 10, 2006 | -
India tested its long-range nuclear-capable
ballistic missile, the Agni-III, in the Bay of Bengal. The test failed.
| Source 1:
San Francisco Chronicle
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New York Times
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Guardian
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| July 5, 2006 | -
North Korea launched six rockets over the Sea of Japan, including a Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile, which apparently was aborted after just 40 seconds. One thing we have learned, said President George W. Bush, who strongly dislikes North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, “is that the rocket didn't stay up very long.” The president, who expressed annoyance when a reporter pointed out that Kim Jong Il had on all accounts increased his nuclear potency since Bush took office, claimed that his antimissile system, which has failed repeated tests, had a “reasonable chance” of intercepting the Taepodong.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 5, 2006 | - A British military report concluded that Trident nuclear missiles, which are regularly transported on public highways in the United States and Britain, are vulnerable to terrorist attacks or even severe traffic accidents that could trigger a nuclear explosion.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| June 18, 2006 | - It was revealed that in 2003 the Bush Administration refused an offer by Iran to end Iranian support of Palestinian
terror organizations and recognize Israel in exchange for an end to sanctions and permission to peacefully develop its nuclear program.
| Source:
The Jerusalem Post
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| June 6, 2006 | - Javier Solana, Europe's foreign-policy director, formally offered Iran a package of incentives designed to persuade the Islamic state to give up its nuclear ambitions; that same day, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran restarted its uranium-enrichment program.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
New York Times
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| June 2, 2006 | - The United States announced that it would join 5 other nations in demanding that Iran immediately suspend uranium-enrichment activities, although the country would in the future be allowed to develop some civilian nuclear technologies. Iran said it would refuse to engage in talks unless all conditions were dropped, and Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the United States could endanger its oil supply if it makes a “wrong move” toward Iran.
| Source 1:
The Washington Post
Source 2:
AP
Source 3:
The Daily Star
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| May 12, 2006 | - The International Atomic Energy Agency found evidence that Iran possesses highly enriched uranium.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| May 1, 2006 | -
Iran, under criticism for its nuclear program, accused the United States of using "illegitimate and open threats to use force against the Islamic Republic of Iran."
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 21, 2006 | -
Brazil was planning to open a uranium-enrichment center.
| Source:
AP via STLToday.com
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| April 18, 2006 | - Greenpeace estimated that over the last 20 years 93,000 people have died from the fallout from the Chernobyl
nuclear disaster.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| April 11, 2006 | -
Iran announced that it had successfully produced low-grade enriched uranium; to celebrate, men in traditional dress danced with uranium samples.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| April 8, 2006 | - It emerged that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand jury that when he leaked classified information favorable to the case for war in Iraq to New York Times reporter Judith Miller, he was acting under the specific authorization of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush authorized the leak even though the intelligence in question (regarding Saddam Hussein's
nuclear ambitions) was considered unreliable by key administration members such as then Secretary of State Colin Powell.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 1, 2006 | -
President Bush, after a brief stop in Afghanistan, visited India, where he was met by 100,000 protesters in New Delhi; he promised to provide India with nuclear fuel and expertise.
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
Source 2:
CNN.com
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| February 4, 2006 | - The IAEA voted to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council because of Iran's nuclear program; Venezuela, Cuba, and Syria voted against the measure. Prior to the vote, Egypt proposed to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, but that proposal was rejected by the United States because it would interfere with Israel's weapons program.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 10, 2005 | -
Iran decided to start producing enriched uranium.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 9, 2005 | - The Environmental Protection Agency was working on ways to limit the radioactivity of the planned Yucca Mountain, Nevada, nuclear-waste dump for the next 1 million years.
| Source:
FOX News
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| August 8, 2005 | -
Iran rejected a plan put forth by the European Union that would have limited its ability to manufacture weapons-grade uranium.
| Source:
The Australian
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| August 7, 2005 | - The United States sentenced a South African man to three years in jail for smuggling nuclear bomb parts to Pakistan and India.
| Source:
IOL.co.za
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| August 5, 2005 | - The world marked the sixtieth anniversary of America's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
| Source:
LATimes.com
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| July 17, 2005 | - The atomic bomb turned sixty.
| Source:
LA Times
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| June 28, 2005 | -
France announced that it would build a nuclear fusion reactor.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| June 22, 2005 | - It was revealed that North Korea had approached the United States in 2002, offering to “resolve the nuclear issue” if North Korea's sovereignty was acknowledged; the Bush Administration rejected the offer.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 24, 2005 | -
North Korea refused to rule out a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
| Source:
AP
|
| April 22, 2005 | - The Navajo Nation banned both uranium mining and gay marriage from its reservation.
| Source 1:
MSNBC
Source 2:
ABC News
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| March 31, 2005 | -
Pakistan successfully test-fired the Hatf II, a short-range nuclear-capable
missile.
| Source:
Aljazeera.com
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| March 16, 2005 | - The Department of Homeland Security was preparing for: the detonation of a ten-kiloton nuclear device; a biological attack with aerosolized anthrax; an outbreak of pneumonic plague; a flu pandemic starting in south China; the spraying of a chemical blister agent over a football stadium; an attack on an oil refinery; the explosion of a tank of chlorine; a 7.2-magnitude earthquake; a major hurricane in a metropolitan area; three Cesium-137 dirty bombs going off in three different cities, each contaminating thirty-six city blocks; the detonation of improvised bombs in sports stadiums and emergency rooms; liquid anthrax in ground beef; a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak; and a cyber attack on the nation's financial infrastructure.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 13, 2005 | -
Israel was preparing to attack Iran's
nuclear facilities with helicopters, guns, and dogs.
| Source:
Times Online
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| February 28, 2005 | -
Russia agreed to sell nuclear fuel to Iran.
| Source:
LA Times
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| February 17, 2005 | - In England, a nuclear power plant was unable to account for nearly thirty kilograms of plutonium, enough to make seven nuclear bombs; the discrepancy was said to exist only on paper.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 13, 2005 | - It was discovered that the United States has been sending unmanned drones to spy on Iran's
nuclear facilities since April 2004.
| Source:
Chicago Tribune
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| November 9, 2004 | - A train carrying nuclear waste from Valognes, France, to Gorleben, Germany, arrived late after being delayed by protestors, one of whom died after he chained himself to the tracks and was run over.
| Source:
BBC News
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| November 6, 2004 | - A Russian
nuclear power plant was shut down because of what was called a "minor mishap."
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 10, 2004 | - Congress agreed to permit the Energy Department to redefine some highly radioactive nuclear waste in South Carolina and Idaho so that it can be left in tanks rather than being pumped out for deep burial.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 4, 2004 | - The Senate voted to permit the reclassification of some high-level nuclear waste so that the Energy Department can leave the waste in leaky shallow tanks.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 0, 2000 | - The United States removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism after the nation agreed to provide UN inspectors full access to its nuclear program.
| Source:
BBC News
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