US, Russia Clash at IAEA Over Syria Probe

The US and Russia clashed at the UN atomic agency Monday over Moscow's request for an IAEA probe into the risks posed by US airstrikes hitting a small Syrian reactor. "Russia is pulling out all the stops to deter a US attack on Syria and apparently it feels this is one of them," Mark Hibbs, analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told AFP, saying there might be a risk of "local" contamination.

 

The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Friday she hoped to set a date for nuclear talks with Iran when she meets Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on the sidelines of a United Nations gathering this month.

 

Agni-V, India's longest-range, nuclear-weapons-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile, will be tested from Wheeler Island in Odisha around September 15.

 

South Korea and the United States have completed a draft of a joint military plan that outlines how to handle the North Korean nuclear threat, a government source said Sunday.

 

Russia has put trials of two nuclear subs on hold following an unsuccessful launch of a Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Friday, a Russian defense ministry spokesman said on Saturday.

 

The federal government's top nuclear safety official will tell lawmakers Tuesday that regulators are moving “promptly” to comply with an August court ruling that revived the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump.