Atomic Agency Defends How Iran Collected Evidence at Secret Base
Thomas Erdbrink and David Sanger, New York Times
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday that Iran had turned over samples from a suspected site of nuclear experimentation, but confirmed that they had been collected by Iranians under the watchful eye of surveillance devices, rather than by outside nuclear inspectors.
Air Force/Navy Ballistic Missile Commonality Study Nearing Completion
Brian Bradley, Defense Daily
The overseers of the Navy's Trident 2 D-5 program and the Air Force's soon-to-start acquisition of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent will by Oct. 17 brief key Defense Department brass on a now 2 1/2-month-old study examining commonalities that can be implemented across the two weapon systems, and Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) Director Vice Adm. Terry Benedict on Thursday hinted that the study could favor the most moderate of three proposed solutions.
Administration prepares to implement Iran nuclear deal as Republicans again fail to stop it
Karen DeYoung, Washington Post
Following a final failed attempt by Senate Republicans to kill the Iran nuclear agreement Thursday, the administration moved aggressively toward putting it into effect, naming a new czar to oversee implementation and announcing that President Obama would issue waivers suspending all U.S. nuclear-related sanctions on Oct. 18.
U.S., China won’t accept N. Korea as nuclear power: Rice
Korea Herald
The United States and China are working together for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and won't accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons country, U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice said Monday.
Update on North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site
38 North
Despite renewed speculation of a possible North Korean nuclear test, recent commercial satellite imagery from September 7, 2015 shows no sign of nuclear test preparations at the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site and little or no change at the facility since August.
Osborne expected to back Chinese nuclear power station in Essex
Damian Carrington, Tom Phillips and Arthur Neslen, Guardian
China is expected to be allowed to build a nuclear power station in Essex as George Osborne embraced the world’s most populous country as an ideal partner for British business.