Tag: Nuclear
South Korea nuclear envoy to travel to US
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy will visit the United States this week, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, after North Korea's latest announcement that it...
Both Nawaz, Benazir were against nuclear explosions
Revelations made by WikiLeaks about the US diplomatic cables have suggested that the Pakistani leadership, then prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the opposition leader,...
Iran, Russia seek nuclear crisis breakthrough
Russia and Iran pinned their hopes Wednesday on a new Kremlin-backed nuclear proposal aimed at reviving stalled negotiations with Western powers suspicious of Tehran’s...
Russia presents new nuclear plan to Iran
The top diplomats of Russia and Iran sought a breakthrough Wednesday on a deal that could revive the stalled nuclear talks between the Islamic...
Break begging bowl to safeguard Nuclear assets: Shahbaz Sharif
Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday that the begging bowl needs to be broken in order to safeguard the nuclear assets...
UN chief heads to Japan as nuclear crisis simmers
UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrives in Japan on Sunday, where he plans to visit the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, as the crippled atomic power...
US has plan to ‘snatch-and-grab’ Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
Former president Pervez Musharraf warned that a snatch-and-grab operation by the US would lead to all-out war between the countries, calling it total confrontation...
Japanese PM in Hiroshima vows nuclear-free future
A ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing was dominated by national soul-searching on atomic power as Japan's prime minister pledged a...
Japan to sack top officials over nuclear disaster
Japan may replace three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy, the minister overseeing energy policy said on Thursday, five months after the...
US, Britain tried to prevent Pakistan from going nuclear in 1970s
The US and Britain undertook a secret campaign in the late 1970s to prevent Pakistan from going nuclear and unsuccessfully tried to block its...
United States lobbied to stop Pakistan’s nuclear drive
The United States waged a secret diplomatic campaign in the 1970s to prevent Pakistan from developing nuclear weapons by pressing countries to control exports,...
US ‘encouraged’ by Korea nuclear talks: Clinton
The United States said Saturday it was "encouraged" by surprise talks between North and South Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear programme, which could pave the...
Tito’s top secret nuclear shelter goes arty
Embedded deep inside a remote Bosnian mountain, a vast, top-secret bunker built to shield a communist dictator from nuclear attack has been converted into...
France includes nuclear power exit among options
France raised the possibility for the first time of pulling out of nuclear power although its energy minister stressed on Friday that this was...
N. Korea bribed Pakistan for nuclear secrets: report
The architect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program Abdul Qadeer Khan claims North Korea paid bribes to senior Pakistani military officials in return for nuclear...
Japan to ‘stress test’ all nuclear reactors
Japan said Wednesday it will run "stress tests" on all its nuclear reactors in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi atomic accident sparked by...
Russia to supply nuclear submarine to India
Russia will deliver a nuclear submarine to India by the end of the year, Russia’s navy chief was quoted as saying on Friday by...
