Results for “Nuclear Energy Commission”

Many Iran watchers assert that to persuade Tehran not to pursue a nuclear weapon, Washington must reassure Khamenei that the United States merely seeks a change in Iranian behavior, not a change of the Iranian regime. What they fail to consider is Khamenei's deep-seated convict...

…luding his clerks, to “go home and be with your families.” He was grim-faced and pale. “Why?” we asked. “There may be a nuclear attack,” he said solemnly. “I’ve just been briefed on the presence of Soviet nuclear rockets in Cuba. Neither side is backing down. Nobody wants war, bu...

15 relinquishes occupied Lebanese and Syrian territories and dismantles it nuclear arsenal; cultural, political, and economic development of the region; and equal rights of all people living on that land. The new state will be diverse -- an amalgam of different nationalities an...

…ing the 2016-17 presidential campaign and have also met with informal refusals in some cases, such as Areva, the French nuclear company. The Chinese domestic market is set to save France’s dairy industry, even creating a temporary shortage of butter for the first time since 1945....

…‘We're not afraid to die': Extraordinary courage of the Fukushima Fifty as they return to stricken power plant to fight nuclear disaster e Thug rapes 30-year-old virgin on town centre pavement in full view of passing motorists e Avery selfless British hero: This young teacher w...

…he transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.” On September 12, 1933, Leo Szilard invented the neutron-induced nuclear chain reaction. A few years later he demonstrated such a reaction in his laboratory at Columbia University. As he recalled in a memoir: “We switched eve...

…th obscures a slight glow from radioactive waste. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, atmospheric testing of thermo- nuclear weapons scattered so much radioactive car- bon-14 into the atmosphere that 1t contaminated vir- tually every ecosystem and human. Several thousand unsta...

… misunderstanding of the nature of the concerns raised and the purpose for raising them. It is as if one were to accuse nuclear engineers of Luddism if they pointed out the need for control of the fission reaction. Some objectors also use the term “anti-AI,” which is rather like...

…and the possibility of even more stringent ones if Congress fails to agree on raising the US debt ceiling. The Iranian nuclear programme remains a priority in Washington, but the carrier decision indicates a less warlike stance. One cannot say that US power is ebbing, but there...

…arget, a U.S. department store chain. Died July 5 of cancer. Masao Yoshida, 58. The plant manager of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor in March 2011, when an earthquake and ensuing tsunami crippled the facility in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in eastern Europe. Di...

Iraq, perhaps Iran and other Middle Eastern states, might get nuclear weapons. A violent form of fundamentalist Islam could, over time, erode existing Arab and Muslim states, threatening Israel of course, but also the stability of our neighbourhood and of the world. In those circ...

…ed the negotiations dismissively. Presumably, he was thinking of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has compared Iran's nuclear program to a train without brakes. Iran is now at the outset of what promises to be a raucous presidential election, and may be no more capable of seri...

…icate for tough sanctions, so would failed negotiations lay the predicate for a broadly supported strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran left us no choice, he might say, as the bombers fly. That would constitute a diplomatic triumph ... if a strike against Iran's nuclear...

are cryptic. Iranian authorities have told nuclear inspectors that

building hydrogen bombs mounted on nuclear