U.S. Hangs Back as Inspectors Prepare Report on Iran's Nuclear Program David E. Sanger and William J. Broad | New York Times An imminent report by United Nations weapons inspectors includes the strongest evidence yet that Iran has worked in recent years on a kind of sophisticated explosives technology that is primarily used to trigger a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials who have been briefed on the intelligence. But the case is hardly conclusive.
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Jeffrey Goldberg and Marc Ambinder | The Atlantic
Shortly after American Navy Seals raided the Pakistani city of Abbottabad in May and killed Osama bin Laden, General Ashfaq Kayani, the Pakistani chief of army staff, spoke with Khalid Kidwai, the retired lieutenant general in charge of securing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. Full Article
Itar-Tass News Agency
The United States have invited Russia to take part in flight tests for antimissiles to be deployed in Eastern Europe. Missile Defence Agency, Lieutenant General Patrick J. O'Reilly, told Romanian Mediafax news agency on Monday, November 7, that Washington is interested to cooperate with Russia in the field of missile defence and is waiting for Moscow's reply. Full Article
Steven Aftergood | Federation of American Scientists
In the last few weeks, members of Congress have presented radically different estimates of the cost of the U.S. nuclear weapons program. The disparate estimates, which vary by hundreds of billions of dollars, reflect a lack of consensus about how to properly assess the cost of nuclear weapons. Full Article
Pierre Goldschmidt | NPEC Conference Paper
IAEA safeguards are both the principal means of verifying a state's compliance with international nuclear obligations, as well as detecting the potential transgression of these obligations. In the coming years, the IAEA will be asked to safeguard an increasing number of nuclear facilities. It will need additional funds to procure new types and more effective equipment, and expertise to carry out these additional responsibilities. Full Article
Jim Wolf | Reuters
The Pentagon's advanced research arm said Monday it is boosting efforts to build offensive cyber arms for possible keyboard-launched U.S. military attacks against enemy targets. The military needs "more and better options" to meet cyber threats to a growing range of industrial and other systems controlled by computers vulnerable to penetration. Full Article
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