The United States’ first hydrogen bomb explodes at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Nov. 1, 1952. This photo was taken from Majuro Atoll. | AFP-JIJI ASIA PACIFI AFP-JIJI OCT 6, 2016 THE HAGUE – The U.N.’s highest court on Wednesday narrowly threw out landmark cases brought by the […]
‘Schizophrenics from America are sharpening nuclear weapons for Moscow,’ says Russian government-run TV network Matt Payton A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of delivering multiple nuclear weapons, is paraded through Moscow’s Red Square in the 2009 Victory Day parade DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/Getty Images The Russian government has launched a nationwide […]
Sep 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – BENNETT RAMBERG The recent failed military coup in Turkey has produced instability, paranoia and a crackdown on the regime’s perceived opponents, including many journalists. Luckily, it did not end with rebel forces seizing some of the dozens of US nuclear weapons stored at Turkey’s […]
Apr 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – By Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan Humanity hoped that the 21st century would herald a new era of global cooperation. This, however, may turn […]
Apr 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US Secretary of State John Kerry, along with fellow G-7 foreign ministers, on Monday toured the memorial to the victims of Hiroshima, paying tribute to the 140,000 people killed on August 6, 1945, when the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the city. Kerry […]
Source: NBC News SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea issued another threat Monday, warning of an indiscriminate “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:9) By Don Melvin and Michael Martinez (CNN) Iran has completed the necessary steps in a deal […]
Nov 11,2015 – Last updated at Nov 11,2015 JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud US Secretary of State John Kerry is often perceived as one of the “good ones” — a less hawkish top American official who does not simply promote and defend his country’s military adventurism, but reaches out to […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star The agreed parameters of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program that were reached Thursday between the Islamic Republic and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany represent a monumental achievement that affirms the power of […]
Iran nuclear deal: A powerful Tehran turned into America’s policeman in the Gulf? It could happen This week’s Lausanne deal could trigger a political earthquake by Robert Fisk, The Independent Iran was reborn as a major Middle East nation when it agreed to limit its nuclear ambitions. Despite the “ifs” […]
Geopolitical Diary APRIL 1, 2015 | The Obama administration has slipped past self-imposed deadlines and minced words over red lines before. Although certainly an embarrassment for the White House, another missed deadline in the seemingly never-ending Iran nuclear negotiations — which stretched beyond the latest deadline of March 31 — […]
Source: Stratfor: The Obama administration has slipped past self-imposed deadlines and minced words over red lines before. Although certainly an embarrassment for the White House, another missed deadline in the seemingly never-ending Iran nuclear negotiations — which stretched beyond the latest deadline of March 31 — may not matter much […]
Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:29PM Hamid Baeidinejad (L), an Iranian nuclear negotiator, speaks with press about negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program outside the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 31, 2015. © AFP A senior member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team says Tehran and the P5+1 group […]
SOURCE: ARABNEWS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced Tuesday that his country will build six civil nuclear power plants. Speaking at a function, Coastal Power Project K-II and K-III […]
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN When the deal between Iran and the major world powers was announced in Geneva, Iranian reporters greeted Foreign Minister Javad Zarif with cheers at his press conference, and Iranians gave him and his team a hero’s welcome when they landed back home in Tehran. Such is […]
Despite years of negotiations, so-called weapons of mass destruction are still stockpiled. While the amount of nuclear arms is down and chemical agents are being eliminated, biological weapons represent an […]
Tensions between Iran and Israel continue to escalate amid reports over the past week that Tel Aviv has drawn up plans for a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities before the US presidential election in November. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the country’s new ambassador to China, Matan Vilnai, recently […]
Source: China Daily TEHERAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran has never been after producing or using weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the official IRNA news agency reported. In a message to a ceremony held in Iran’s western city of Boroujerd “to commemorate 8,000 martyears of chemical […]
Israel has stockpiles of WMDs. by Stephen Lendman Israel’s long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. More on that below. In 1986, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed documents showing what many long suspected. Israel had been […]
Businessinsider.com: A surprise deal by Israel’s house of representatives Monday night has apparently left the U.S. far more concerned about an attack on Iran, by the new government, than it has let […]