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President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reached a preliminary agreement to cut American and Russian nuclear arsenals by as much as a third, instructing negotiators to draft a new accord to maintain critical verification mechanisms of the 1991
The meetings between Russian President Medvedev and President Obama focused on many issues besides nuclear disarmament, but none so important, according to Ambassadors James Collins and
In this front page profile on the eve of nuclear talks in Moscow with President Dmitry Medvedev, the New York Times traces the development of President Obama's commitme
With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test, two independent scientists say the regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States. The design of a long-range missile tested last April "represents a very significant advance in rocket technology," said Ted Postol of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists, both Ploughshares grantees, in a June 29 assessment published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
North Korea has conducted test-launches of four short-range missiles, the latest in a series of recent provocations that included the nation's second underground nuclear blast. "North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests, but it isn't thought to have designed a nuclear warhead that co
Whoever becomes head of the International Atomic Energy Agency later this year will have to tackle a deep political divide over a nuclear fuel supply plan aimed at keeping the world safe from the spread of atomic weapons.