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The UN nuclear disarmament resolution 2009
Adopted by the Security Council at its 6191st meeting, on 24 September 2009Ahmadinejad on Nuke Deadline: 'We Don't Care'
Iranian president Ahmadinejad went as far as to say that the international community can give Iran as many deadlines as they want for their nuclear programHow To: Measure North Korea's Nuclear Blast
North Korea's official mouthpieces are crowing about a successful nuclear weapons test. But how do we know what really happened? By checking the seismic data, scouring the satellite images — andNuclear power - undermining action on climate change
Nuclear power could at best make only a negligible contribution to CO2 reduction; even then many years after massive cuts are needed and only by depriving real climate solutions of funding.ITER fusion reactor gets final approval
"Fusion researchers can breathe a sigh of relief now that the ink has dried on an international agreement to build the ITER fusion reactor at Cadarache in southern France."Iran test-fires missiles amid nuclear tension
Iran test-fired missiles on Sunday to show it was prepared to head off any military threat, four days before the Islamic Republic is due to hold rare talks with world powers worried about its nucle..Google Earth Tracks Nukes
"...the wonks at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Federation of American Scientists have teamed up to make a Google Earth map of the nearly nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads in the U.S.Project Aims To Make Sodium-cooled Nuclear Reactors Safe, Efficient
Laudable, certainly. Missing the point? Possibly.Supercomputers Can't Mimic Nuke Blast
"So why should any nation test-blast weapons anymore if supersimulators can do the job? Because, nuclear experts say, it has turned out to be tougher than most people thought to mimic the 'real tThomas Friedman's Love Affair with China, Cont.
Thomas L. Friedman’s recent NY Times column states China is doing more work in solar power and wind generation and this, like Sputnik, a direct challenge to the US that warrants a strategic response.Laser fusion - the safe, clean way to produce nuclear energy
"The scientists admit that a commercial reactor is a long way off, but they believe the laser approach to producing fusion shows great promise." Got to be a better move than swapping oil depAs Battlefields Shift, Old Warrior for Peace Pursues the Same Enemy - NYTimes.com
A growth industry in the middle of world-wide recession Somewhere I read. . . "Some boast of chariots and some of horses, but we boast of the name of the Lord."Looking Back at Orion
"Driving the ship would be a nuclear arsenal of staggering proportions: 30 million nuclear bombs, each of which would explode 120 kilometers behind the vehicle at intervals of 1,000 seconds."The Coming Failure on Iran - washingtonpost.com
None of the steps the West is considering to stop the Iranian nuclear program is likely to work.Rapid-fire 'spark plug' may bring fusion power closer
"A "spark plug" that should trigger nuclear fusion in a pellet of hydrogen every 10 seconds is being tested by Russian and US researchers."What Exactly is Nuclear Power and How Does it Work?
Nuclear power is often vilified in the press. Learn the real story about nuclear power, nuclear power plants, the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power.U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel - washingtonpost.com
"U.N. inspectors [...] angrily complained to the Bush administration [...] about a recent House committee report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document "outrageous and dishoneThe Pirate Bay Relocates to a Nuclear Bunker
The Pirate Bay is going on a road trip through Europe, one they hope to end today in a former NATO bunker. After a move from Sweden to the Ukraine, The Pirate Bay has now arrived at CyberBunker, an..Glimmers of Hope in Iran Report?
The former staff of Defense Tech are now running out of 'Danger Room' at Wired - where they're going to find their readership a lot less hawkish - witness the comments on this post.Short Movie : Oasis Terminal
Oasis Terminal is a science Fiction Short Film written and directed by Ruben Fernandez 25 years into the future, civilization has been destroyed by nuclear war. Andres, one of the fewFuture Be Warned: Keep Out!
"[The nuclear waste] be safely secured now, but how to keep our descendants centuries in the future from accidentally unearthing it?" I remember Stephen Baxter talking about this at Easterco
