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OK, here’s a pretty scary story I originally discovered on Business Insider yesterday, and confirmed with ABC News, but doesn’t seem to have gotten much traction yet with other media sources: Yakuza boss charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear...
by Irontortoise
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 06:33 PM PST
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I’ve shared some of this information before — but this time the focus is on proliferation. (Reprinted with permission by CovertAction Magazine.) Military Spy Drones: How Domestic U.S. Drone Integration is Propelling Next Wave of Killer Drone...
by theOtherBarry
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on Sat Jan 29, 2022 at 09:39 AM PST
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On the 75th of the Hiroshima bombing, I wrote a piece to which I find it only fitting to make a follow-up for the 75th of Nagasaki. In my August 6 piece, a commenter DLup made reference to the author Gar Alperovitz who also wrote a piece in the Nation....
by Fffflats
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on Sun Aug 09, 2020 at 03:30 AM PDT
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During the Iowa Democratic Presidential Debate, candidates were asked if they would “allow” Iran to have the bomb. This line of questioning resulted in the expected answers of “No” across the board. Not only did the candidates say “no,” they were...
by Fffflats
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on Thu Jan 23, 2020 at 07:18 PM PST
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North Korea is the sole country to have acquired a nuclear weapon over the past 30+ years.
Concerted effort by numerous international organizations is one reason that is true. An equally important reason is that the US has mutual defense pacts with...
by subir
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on Tue Mar 07, 2017 at 06:28 PM PST
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Facebook is wonderful - it provides opportunities to talk with larger organizations (as well as those who follow them). So I have been motivated to spend some time talking on the AIPAC Facebook page (
by Greg306
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on Wed Aug 26, 2015 at 08:06 AM PDT
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by TomDispatch
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on Thu Dec 11, 2014 at 07:44 AM PST
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Mullah Omar and the Quetta shura have been hung out to dry.
That leaves Paki nukes off the table.
by aoeu
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on Mon Aug 11, 2014 at 02:20 PM PDT
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Seriously, we are seeing reports that Saudi Arabia has bought nukes from Pakistan, and they are to be delivered whenever they want them :Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons ...
by LunkHead
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on Fri Nov 08, 2013 at 02:03 PM PST
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Last week the Washington Post obtained confidential portions of a report for the Pentagon by the Defense Science Board that warned that Chinese hackers had cracked into the programs for many of the ...
by Bud Meyers
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on Sun Jun 02, 2013 at 12:32 PM PDT
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Among the six topics CBS' Bob Schieffer has announced he plans to cover during Monday's night's third and final presidential debate is "Red Lines - Israel and Iran." With Election Day just 15 ...
by Jon Perr
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on Mon Oct 22, 2012 at 02:06 PM PDT
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Really remarkable reporting here by the New York Times. Political intrigue, just war theory, and high-stakes spy games all at play.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-...
by TarantinoDork
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on Fri Jun 01, 2012 at 08:21 AM PDT
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In the immediate wake of the end of the Gaddafi regime last year, emphasis was placed on securing and/or destroying the massive stockpiles of weapons the terrorist dictator had amassed.
Memories ...
by TarantinoDork
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on Fri Apr 13, 2012 at 09:12 AM PDT
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North Korea has twice before halted nuclear enrichment activity, only to break the seals later (in 2002 and 2009) and restart production. But the agreement to also halt nuclear tests and long-range ...
by TarantinoDork
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on Wed Feb 29, 2012 at 08:06 AM PST
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ranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a ...
by jim in IA
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on Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Robert Kagan's thesis "Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus" was not based on transatlantic disagreements in the Bush era, but described developments that became already ...
by Atlantic
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on Fri Feb 26, 2010 at 12:40 AM PST
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There's a saying in journalism: "If it bleeds, it leads."
The saying traditionally applies to crime reporting , but can be ...
by Page van der Linden
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on Sun Jan 31, 2010 at 04:09 PM PST
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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. -- ...
by Page van der Linden
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on Sun Dec 06, 2009 at 04:00 PM PST
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If Obama is truly serious about eliminating the threat of nuclear weapons once and for all, then he should also be considering the elimination of nuclear power.
Here's the problem: fissionable ...
by richardbelldc
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on Sat Apr 11, 2009 at 01:50 PM PDT
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I've been hearing reports on twitter about this possibility for the last few hours. Well it has just been confirmed by news outlets all over the world.
Here's a real quick ...
by alpolitics
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on Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 08:05 PM PDT
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