New and Balanced Rules for U.S. Nuclear Technology Exports

For over half a century U.S. policy has walked the line between trying to facilitate the exchange of technology so nuclear energy can fulfill its civilizing promise and combating the threat that nuclear know-how may escape control and unleash terrible destruction.

 

"For us, the end point of the negotiations is (the materialization of) the nation's nuclear rights, including enrichment, and from our point of view, no negotiation on the enrichment right is acceptable ," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday.

 

A team of international disarmament experts has arrived in Syria to begin work on dismantling the country's stockpile of chemical weapons.

 

Pakistani luminaries met with Chinese luminaries a few months ago, and their handshake will translate into a brand new 1,000-MW power reactor–Kanupp-2–being plunked down into the middle of Pakistan’s mega-metropolis Karachi.

 

The cleanup effort at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered another setback Tuesday when workers spilled four tons of radioactive water into the soil.

 

Turkey said on Monday it could still reconsider its decision to co-produce a long-range air and missile defence system with a Chinese firm currently under US sanctions, but said it felt no obligation to heed other countries’ blacklists.