Supreme Leader Renews Opposition to Inspection of Iran's Military Sites
Fars News Agency
"No permission will be given for inspection of any military centers and talks with the nuclear scientists and other sensitive fields of study and intrusion into their privacy," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing the Iranian cadets at Imam Hossein University.
U.S. Weighing Punishments for Russia's Nuclear Violations
Josh Rogin | Bloomberg News
The Obama administration is considering a range of options to respond to Russia’s ongoing violation of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. Part of the response could involve deploying new U.S. weapons to Eastern Europe.
South Africa Aims to Select Nuclear Power Partner This Year
Yahoo! News
South Africa intends to select this year an international partner to build a series of nuclear power reactors that would end the regular electricity blackouts that have hobbled economic growth, the energy minister told parliament Tuesday.
NRA Approves Restart for Third Nuclear Plant
Japan Times
Japan's nuclear regulator signed off on the basic safety of a reactor at a third nuclear plant on Wednesday, as the country inches toward rebooting its atomic industry more than four years after the crisis began at Tepco’s Fukushima No.1 facility.
Doubts Greet North Korea Claims of Advance to Mini-Nuclear Weapons
Anna Fifield | Washington Post
North Korea claimed Wednesday it has been able to make nuclear warheads small enough to fit on a missile — a development that, if verified, would mark a major advance in its military capabilities and the threat it can pose to the world.
How the South China Sea Could Help Beijing Level the Nuclear Playing Field
Will Englund | Washington Post
Tong Zhao, an analyst at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing, thinks China may have decided on a "bastion" policy, with the South China Sea as the bastion. By enforcing its claims to sovereignty, Beijing could turn the sea essentially into a Chinese lake, Zhao says.