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President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed on Friday to a sharp cuts in the nuclear arsenals of both nations in the most comprehensive arms control treaty in two decades....

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2010/03/us-russia-reach-deal-on-cutting-nuclear.shtml

Iran formally responded to a U.N. draft nuclear fuel deal on Thursday, proposing big changes that could sink the plan, including sending its low-enriched uranium abroad in stages instead of all a...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/10/iran-said-to-seek-big-changes-to-draft.shtml

From ArmsControlWonk > As you might know, close to the reactor there is an old Byzantine > fortress called Halabiye (Frank Pabian mentioned it in his > presentation). Tou...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/10/tourist-trip-to-halabiye.shtml

Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency will present Tehran's position on a draft nuclear fuel deal in Vienna on Thursday, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday. Mehr,...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/10/iran-set-to-respond-to-atomic-deal-this.shtml

Iran Friday failed to accept a U.N.-drafted plan for it to cut a stockpile of nuclear fuel that the West fears could be used for weapons, and instead said it wanted to buy nuclear fuel from abroa...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/10/iran-fails-to-accept-un-drafted-nuclear.shtml

August 2009 IAEA Reports on Iran and Syria . Commentary available at armscontrolwonk.com

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/09/august-2009-iaea-reports-on-iran-syria.shtml

If you missed Rachel Maddow 's interview with former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge on August 31, then take a moment and at least read this from Joe Cirincione's blog .

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/09/rachel-maddow-her-intelligence-is-right.shtml

Thirteen years after it officially opened for signature, the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba) has finally come into force with the twenty-eighth deposit of its ratifi...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/08/africa-is-now-officially-zone-free-of.shtml

Tomorrow, August 6th, marks 64 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States at the end of World War II. Targeted for military reasons and for its terrain (flat for easi...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/08/hiroshima-big-picture.shtml

DOD released a fact sheet on the Nuclear Posture Review: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/d20090602NPR.pdf

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/07/nuclear-posture-review-fact-sheet.shtml

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford University Press). This book is a much-abbrevi...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/06/confronting-bomb-published.shtml

Jeff over at armscontrolwonk.com , has posted a nice set of estimates of the yield for the NORK test. They all cluster in an Mb range of 4.5-5.0 -- about 2-6 kilotons.

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/05/north-korean-yield-revised.shtml

The Project for the CTBT has a calculation from Martin Kalinowski: > The U.S. Geological Survey readings indicate a seismic body wave of > magnitude of 4.7, which is larger asÂ...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/05/in-depth-analysis-north-korea.shtml

Russia's Defense Ministry confirmed an atomic explosion at 9:54 a.m. (0054 GMT) in northeastern North Korea, estimating the blast's yield at 10 to 20 kilotons - comparable to the bombs that destr...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/05/north-korea-conducts-second-nuclear.shtml

Dr. Herbert York , the first director of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, died on May 19, 2009 of leukemia. In addition, Dr. York served as Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, fr...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/05/herbert-york-passes.shtml

Saw this article on Wired.com and thought I would share it. http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/yourfriendatom.html

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/04/7-crazy-civilian-uses-for-nuclear-bombs.shtml

North Korea said on Tuesday it would quit international nuclear disarmament talks and restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium after the United Nations chastised it for launching a long-ra...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/04/north-korea-quits-nuclear-talks.shtml

MSNBC's Ali Arouzi takes a look inside Bushehr. > As we were bused from the airport in the southwestern coastal city > of Bushehr toward Iran's nuclear power plant, the most...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/02/look-inside-bushehr-irans-nuclear.shtml

A lot of progress has been made at K-25 in the two months since demolition of the World War II-era facility began Dec. 16, with major sections of the west wing already on the ground. Over the nex...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/02/k-25-demolition-progress.shtml

A Pakistan court declared disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan a "free citizen" on Friday after years of de facto house arrest because of his alleged role in leaking atomic weapons techn...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/02/pakistan-says-nuke-scientist-khan-is.shtml

PBS's American Experience will be airing The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative -- th...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/01/pbs-trials-of-j-robert-oppenheimer.shtml

Almost 700m tonnes of CO2 would be released into the Earth's atmosphere by even the smallest nuclear conflict, according to a US study that compares the environmental costs of developing various...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2009/01/carbon-footprint-of-nuclear-war.shtml

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET launches its third season on PBS with the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Doctor Atomic, John Adams’ powerful portrait of the physicist presiding over the creation...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2008/12/doctor-atomic-on-pbs.shtml

Intelligence historian Jeffrey T. Richelson has a new book entitled "Defusing Armageddon ". You might recognize the author, he wrote Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Ge...

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2008/12/new-book-defusing-armageddon.shtml

An interesting article from the New York Times about the nuclear proliferation from a more scientific point of view.

http://www.atomicarchive.com/weblog/2008/12/hidden-travels-of-atomic-bomb.shtml