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Pakistani fighter jets pounded Taliban targets in the country's northwestern region as part of a wider military crackdown on militants inside its borders.
The Atlantic has published a special report on President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office. Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione is featured in the Forum section discussing the foreign policy achievements of the new administration.
President Obama has turned his focus to stockpiles of dangerous chemical and radiological materials that remain at risk of being stolen by terror groups planning to make a dirty bomb.
A panel of 15 eminent people will present its recommendations to the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference next year. The panel, sponsored by Canberra and Tokyo, will be chaired by former foreign ministers Yoriko Kawaguchi and G
Babcock & Wilcox recently paid $52.5 million to several hundred claimants in one of few nuclear contamination cases to even be tried, let alone reach settlement for personal injury and wrongful death.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed concerns yesterday that Pakistan's choice to deploy its nuclear weapons in multiple locations could make it easier for extremists to acquire a bomb. Clinton's warning came amid indications that Pakistan is augmenting its atomic capabilities. A new report by Ploughshares-funded Institute for Science and International Security "suggests that Pakistan is increasing its plutonium capacity, and went from one reactor several years ago to having three," with the third yet to be completed, according to ISIS senior research analyst Paul Brannan.
A North Carolina-based company called Nukepills.com reports selling more than five million doses of its potassium iodide pills, intended to protect against carcinogenic nuclear fallout, to Kuwait in recent months. Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Reactor sits 150 miles from the coast of Kuwait.
Advisers to the Obama administration are disturbed by the possibility that Pakistan and its nuclear weapons might fall under the control of al Qaeda militants.
The Ploughshares Fund welcomes former Sen. Chuck Hagel to the Board of Directors and Jeff Skoll to the Board of Advisors. Skoll is founding president of eBay, as well as founder of the newly-launched Skoll Urgent Threats Fund. Sen. Hagel (R-NE) served in the U.S. Senate from 1996 to 2008, and currently serves as chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States.
Pakistan is increasing its capacity to produce plutonium at its Khushab nuclear facility by building a third reactor, according to the Ploughshares-funded Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).