Tag: Nuclear

Nukes fully safe but someone may endanger it: Qureshi

Former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan’s nuclear programme is completely safe but someone may endanger it. In a statement Qureshi said...

No compromise on nuclear programme: FO

While commenting on the remarks made by the former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi regarding Pakistan's nuclear programme in Ghotki, the Foreign Office spokesperson...

Germans rally against nuclear waste train

German police on Sunday battled thousands of anti-nuclear protestors — many chained to railroad tracks — trying to block a train delivering radioactive waste...

Iran parliament votes to downgrade Britain ties

Iran's parliament voted Sunday to downgrade diplomatic and economic ties with Britain in retaliation for fresh Western sanctions imposed over Tehran's nuclear programme. A majority...

Iran won’t give up nuclear ambitions, says Ahmadinejad

Iran will not back down from its nuclear ambitions despite new Western sanctions announced this week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in a speech...

On Iran’s nuclear crisis

A possible way forward? Now that the furore created by IAEA’S latest report on the Iranian nuclear program has subsided and the sword, temporarily at...

Iran says Western sanctions aim at “propagandistic, psychological war”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that latest Western sanctions against the country aim at propagandistic and psychological war. The recent move by...

UN atomic watchdog condemns Iran

The UN atomic agency's board passed Friday a resolution condemning Iran's nuclear activities tabled by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council...

Woman pleads guilty in US on Pakistan nuclear reactor scam

The former boss of a US company's Chinese subsidiary Tuesday pleaded guilty to illegally supplying material to Pakistan for use in a nuclear reactor...

India tests long-range nuclear-capable missile

India on Tuesday sucessfully test fired one of its longest range missiles capable of carrying a one-tonne nuclear warhead deep inside China, officials said. A...

Iran’s nukes

There is a lot of hullabaloo surrounding Iran nukes which may or may not exist. A lot of officials from the US are issuing...

World must halt Iran nuclear drive: Israel PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on world governments to waste no time in stopping “Iran’s race to arm itself with a...

Abnormal radioactivity also in Hungary, no risk seen

Hungary was the latest European country on Saturday to confirm higher than usual levels of radioactivity in the air, although like others it maintained...

Japan opens Fukushima reactors to outside eyes

Japan took a group of journalists inside its crippled nuclear plant for the first time on Saturday, stepping up efforts to prove to the...

‘Possible incident’ at nuclear power station in Pakistan

A spokesman from Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency on Friday said there were “unconfirmed reports” about a possible incident at a nuclear power station...

Soviet scientist denies helping Iran develop atomic bomb

A Soviet scientist has denied being the brains behind Iran’s nuclear programme, despite US media reports that he helped put Tehran on the threshold...

US ‘confident’ Pakistan nukes are safe

Rebutting a US media report that Pakistan's atomic arsenal was vulnerable to theft, the United States has expressed confidence in Islamabad's ability to keep...