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November 29, 2011 |
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Russia's New Threats May Endanger Obama's 'Reset' Policy
Fred Weir | Christian Science Monitor
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Russia will target US anti-missile sites in Europe, deploy advanced radars to monitor all missile launches from NATO territory, and might even withdraw from the New START arms reduction treaty that came into force this year unless Washington takes dramatic steps to allay Moscow's concerns over plans to deploy major elements of an anti-missile shield in several European countries, President Dmitry Medvedev warned this week.
In his toughest-ever foreign policy statement, which Russian officials qualified Friday as "a call to dialogue," Mr. Medvedev said he has ordered the Russian military to immediately take measures to restore the strategic balance – as Moscow understands it – to counter US plans to install advanced radars and anti-missile interceptors in countries such as Poland, Romania, and Turkey in the next few years.
"This is an extremely tone deaf statement from Medvedev, which sounds as if it were written to appeal to hardliners in the West in order to draw the most rigid possible response," says Alexei Arbatov. Full Article
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Fredrik Dahl | Reuters
Iran regards its nuclear programme as a source of power and prestige and tougher sanctions look unlikely to alter Tehran's cost-benefit analysis much despite the economic pain they cause. Deep mistrust of Western intentions in a volatile region where the U.S. maintains a strong military presence could help explain Iran's resolve not to back down.
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Kate Galbraith | New York Times
The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, earlier this year caused many countries to rethink their appetite for nuclear power. It is also, in subtler ways, altering the fraught discussion of what to do with nuclear plants’ wastes. A prime example is Germany, which decided to shut down all its nuclear power plants by 2022 after the partial reactor meltdowns at Fukushima.
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Saurav Jha | IBN Live
Dr Srikumar Banerjee, chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India, spoke to Saurav Jha, author of The Upside Down Book of Nuclear Power, on a gamut of issues concerning the state of nuclear power development in India. "We did have an inkling that 'full civil nuclear cooperation' wouldn't really be forthcoming from all NSG members despite the atmospherics."
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Kim Yoon-mi | Korea Herald
Hans Blix, former director-general of the IAEA, said the U.S. and South Korea's precondition for North Korea to halt uranium enrichment could make it more difficult to start six-party negotiations. Blix visited Korea as a member of an eminent persons' group to provide advice to President Lee Myung-bak for when South Korea hosts the Nuclear Security Summit in March, next year.
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Hiroshi Ishzuka | Asahi Shimbun
Radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have now been confirmed in all prefectures, including Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, about 1,700 kilometers from the plant, according to the science ministry. The ministry said it concluded the radioactive substances came from the stricken nuclear plant because, in all cases, they contained cesium-134, which has short half-life of two years.
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