The crisis was compounded when back-up generators required for emergency cooling failed.
Japan Faces Possible Three-Mile Island
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Energy
The Turko-Persian Tandem
Home to the region’s biggest economies, largest middle classes, and most educated populations, Iran and Turkey represent vibrant societies with huge reservoir of both soft and hard power. Growing cooperation between the two may signal the opening of a new chapter in the Middle Eastern affairs.
Will Computer Virus Stuxnet Sow Not Only Destruction, But Death?
A computer virus might seem like the perfect way to stop Iran’s nuclear program. But it could spin out of control.
WikiLeaks: Venezuela’s Crude Awakening
Without technology and know-how, even the world’s largest oil reserves are worthless.
WikiLeaks: For Norway, Oil Wealth and Humanitarianism Go Hand in Hand
For most states, oil wealth spells, to a certain extent, an end to ethics. Not Norway.
Is China Greening Africa?
Is China smartening up its environmental and social act in Africa? It certainly wants to be seen as doing just that. One telling example was the recent Chinese government-sponsored ‘top Chinese enterprises in Africa’ competition, won by China Road and Bridge Corporation [CRBC].
Oil or Terrorism: Which Motivates U.S. Policy More?
Among the batch of classified diplomatic cables recently released by the controversial whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, several have highlighted the vast extent of the financial infrastructure of Islamist terrorism sponsored by key U.S. allies in the ongoing “War on Terror.”
Cloistered Climate Talks
The UN Climate Conference (COP16) in Cancun is turning out to be both anti-climactic and anti-climatic.
Iran’s Adventures in Latin America
As the United States continues to isolate Iran over its nuclear program, the Islamic regime is engaging in a foreign policy counter-attack with profound strategic consequences. The theater of strategic warfare between the United States and Iran has expanded well beyond the Middle East.From sub-Saharan Africa to Latin America, Iran is selling arms, offering aid and investments, and otherwise establishing a new pattern in south-to-south relations as it battles what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls “Western arrogance.”
Obama: Blowing It on India?
President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to India will come just after the mid-term elections in the United States. Whether this timing is coincidental or deliberate, it will decide where Obama stands on several contentious issues between the two countries.
One of these issues is the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to India.