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New York Times (US): U.S. Nuclear Envoy Puts Gentle Pressure on North Korea "North Korea missed a Dec. 31 deadline for disabling its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, and, according to Washington, for providing a full list of its nuclear activities, including weapons, facilities and fissile material. Last week, North Korea announced that there was nothing further to declare because it had already explained enough."
2008-01-07 15:26:27
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YNetNews (Israel): Radioactive attack possible, says IAEA head "Terror groups might try to attack a facility housing radioactive materials in a populated area or even in one (of the world's) capitals, which could lead to a wide area being infected with radiation and thousands of deaths," ElBaradei told the London based, Arab-language al-Hayat newspaper.
2007-12-14 09:56:29
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Taipei Times (Taiwan): Keep strong nuke pact: Gorbachev "Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday a pillar of the arms control system could fall if Washington and Moscow replace the landmark START nuclear arms reduction treaty with a less formal pact.
The START treaty, signed in 1991, set ceilings on the size of the Russian and US nuclear arsenals and became a symbol of the end of the Cold War. Washington has indicated it will not extend it in 2009 but wants to replace it with a pact that eliminates strict verification requirements and weapons curbs."
2007-12-08 14:08:32
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Telegraph.co.uk: Russia 'needs nuclear arsenal to match US' The Kremlin has already announced plans to commission six or seven of its ultra-modern Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles a year.
The Topol-M, which can to carry up to six warheads, is capable of penetrating America's most sophisticated defence systems.
Russia's nuclear modernisation programme is at the core of an ambitious plan to update the country's armed forces, which came close to total collapse during the chaotic and penurious 1990s.
