TagsTagsWhere does GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney stand on foreign policy? That's a question that even his advisers are asking. He went and said that we shouldn't negotiate with the Taliban and that we should defeat the Taliban, even as many of his advisers and supporters are looking at a ...
Mitt Romney, Foreign Policy, 2012 Elections, Diplomacy, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, China, Russia, USA
NPR has some interesting details on the nuclear physicist and his wife who were arrested and charged with trying to sell nuclear information to Venezuela: Pair Accused Of Trying To Help Venezuela Get Nukes. CARRIE JOHNSON: Well, the key figure in this case is Pedro Mascheroni. He was born in ...
Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Nuclear Weapons, Los Alamos, Espionage
Slate international relations columnist Fred Kaplan goes line by line through Mitt Romney’s attack on President Obama’s new START treaty, and concludes that it’s “shabby, misleading, and thoroughly ignorant.”
Barack Obama, Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, START, Mitt Romney
“What good is an atom bomb to anyone? The stupidest thing today is accumulating atomic weapons.” — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Hat tip: PlutoniumPage.)
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation
Ukraine may not be the biggest player in the non-aligned nuclear proliferation game, but this is good news: Ukraine to give up nuke material; boost for summit.
Barack Obama, Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, Ukraine
Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) thinks the best way for the United States to respond to a cyber attack would be to nuke somebody. “If in fact there is a nation who is compliant with all of the rules ahead of time and they’ve complied with the United Nations on nuclear proliferation, ...
Michele Bachmann, Loony Right, Extremism, Botnets, Cyber Attack, Nuclear Weapons, Completely Freaking Insane
“The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues.” [Video] I have to differ with President Obama. Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on anything, except maybe shooting defenseless animals with high caliber weapons. She’s an empty-headed, platitude-spouting, fanatically religious, determinedly ignorant, anti-science dim bulb.
Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Idiocy
Today, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed a historic nuclear arms reduction treaty, reestablishing a nuclear inspection agreement that lapsed along with START last December. Wingnut blogs are going bonkers, of course, because that’s what they do. Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller has a representative comment, delivered with her characteristic taste, ...
Barack Obama, Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation
President Obama is revising the nuclear strategy of the United States, substantially limiting the conditions under which the US would use nuclear weapons. The most controversial part of the new strategy: Obama is committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that comply with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if ...
The Obama administration is making more than symbolic moves to pressure Iran, as federal prosecutors file complaints to seize 4 mosques and a New York skyscraper owned by an Iranian front group. NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation, Barack Obama, Mosques
Go ahead, tell me you didn’t see this coming: Iran suggests it is not ready to export uranium. An Iranian diplomat said Monday his country wanted to buy fuel for its Teheran research reactor, the latest indication that Iran is not willing to ship most of its enriched uranium out ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation, IAEA
Surprising only those who haven’t paid attention to Iran’s history for the last 30 years, Iranian authorities waited until the last day to formally request “changes” to the latest IAEA proposal. Iran has formally asked for changes to an International Atomic Energy Agency proposal to ship nuclear fuel out of ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation, IAEA
With each missile test, Iran’s capability to deliver nuclear weapons is increasing. And with this new announcement today, we see that they’ve been carefully analyzing the best ways to protect their nuclear development sites, even if Israel launches a surprise attack: Iran put nuclear site near base in case of ...
Huge demonstrations have broken out again in Iran. In a clear rebuke to the Ahmadinejad regime’s support for Hezbollah and Hamas, protesters have taken to the streets chanting, “Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon, I give my life to Iran!” — on Quds Day, Iran’s “official” day of solidarity with the Palestinians. [Video] A ...
The Associated Press says they’ve seen a secret report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb.
The Obama administration is giving up their naïve and ill-considered policy of “engagement” toward Iran: Washington shifting from diplomacy toward sanctions on Iran. The United States is laying the groundwork for sanctions against Iran after having become increasingly disenchanted with the strategy of engagement, two senior administration officials told Jewish ...
Barack Obama, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
President Obama has told Iranian thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to bother showing up to a UN reception for world leaders: White House: ‘Ahmadinejad won’t get invite to NY event’. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be unlikely to receive an invitation to a reception US President Barack Obama will host in ...
Barack Obama, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“If President Obama walked on water, [Bolton] would say he couldn’t swim.” — Hillary Clinton [Video]
North Korea, Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Kim Jong-Il, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Bolton, Video
Following Bill Clinton’s meeting with Kim Jong-Il, news is just coming over the wires that the two US journalists arrested by North Korea, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, are being freed. Li’l Kim is giving them a “special pardon,” and they’ll be returning to the United States on Clinton’s private plane. ...
North Korea, Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Kim Jong-Il, Bill Clinton
Anne Bayefsky ticks off the evidence that President Barack Obama has decided to allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons: Waiting to See.
Daniel Freedman has a good commentary piece at Forbes, on Iran’s ’Dictaplomacy’.
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, Unclench, Diplomacy
Libyan dictator “Col.” Muammar Gadafi, the Man of Many Spellings with the all-girl bodyguard squad, says that when Libya gave up its nuclear program (following the invasion of Iraq), they were on the brink of producing a nuclear bomb. I’ve realized that what seems like total insanity in Muammar Gadafi is ...
MEMRI TV, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, Gadhafi, Qadhafi, Qaddafi, Gaddafi, Qadafi, Gadafi, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, James Dean
Iran’s thug-in-chief said today that his new government is going to “bring down Western arrogance.” How’s that Unclenching Initiative working out, President Obama? TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his next government “would bring down the global arrogance,” signaling a tougher approach toward the West after ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Election, Protests, Barack Obama, Unclench
Charles Krauthammer says, “Our president likes his plumage.” Obama says that his START will be a great boon, setting an example to enable us to better pressure North Korea and Iran to give up their nuclear programs. That a man of Obama’s intelligence can believe such nonsense is beyond comprehension. ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, Russia