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01/09/2009
Panel Urges Keeping U.S. Nuclear Arms In Europe (Washington Post)
The United States should keep tactical nuclear bombs in Europe and even consider modernizing older warheads on cruise missiles to maintain credibility with allies who depend on the U.S. weapons for security, according to a report released yesterday by a high-level task force appointed by Defense...
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01/09/2009
U.S. Is Seen as Inattentive to Deterring Nuclear War (New York Times)
An inattentive Pentagon has allowed its nuclear mission to become fragmented and subject to lower-level authority, resulting in a staff that lacks depth and breadth, a report found.
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01/09/2009
Pentagon drifting from nuclear deterrence, report says (Chicago Tribune)
A task force recommends that leaders go back to school and refocus the nation's nuclear mission. After firing the two top Air Force leaders last year for a series of embarrassing nuclear weapons mishaps, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was told Thursday that the same problems of inexperience, poor training and splintered authority over nuclear arms affect the entire Pentagon, including its ...
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01/08/2009
Panel warns of weakness in US nuclear deterrent (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Neglect of the US nuclear mission at the highest levels of the Pentagon has weakened confidence in the nation's ability to deter other countries from using atomic weapons, a top-level panel warned Thursday.
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01/08/2009
U.S. panel warns Pentagon on nuclear deterrence (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The U.S. nuclear deterrent that kept a tense peace during the Cold War is in danger of losing credibility among allied nations that look to the United States for security, a Pentagon panel said on Thursday.
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01/08/2009
Obama to face Iran nuclear crisis in first year, ex US official warns (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Incoming US President Barack Obama will likely face a "serious crisis" over Iran's nuclear ambitions in his first year in office, former US defense secretary William Perry predicted here Thursday.
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01/08/2009
North Korea may see no U.S. nuclear threat: adviser (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
North Korea may have begun developing nuclear arms after deciding the United States was unlikely to use nuclear weapons to eliminate its development program, a senior Pentagon adviser said on Thursday.
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01/08/2009
Iran likely taking US nuclear threat seriously: US ex-defense chief (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Iran may regard the threat of a US nuclear attack as "much more likely" in light of Hillary Clinton's warning during the US presidential campaign that Washington can obliterate Tehran, a former US defense secretary said Thursday.
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01/09/2009
Hudson River Lovers Fight to Shutter Aging Nuclear Power Plant (Bloomberg)
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York is showing its age. Patches of rust scar its gray concrete domes, and a derelict smokestack looms over the decades-old facility, which still commands a choice view of the Hudson River.
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01/08/2009
Philippines revisits nuclear energy option at 'white elephant' plant (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Bataan nuclear power plant stands as a monument to the greed and corruption of the years the Philippines spent under strongman president Ferdinand Marcos.
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