The media has finally discovered the new nuclear pit facility being built — at outrageous cost — at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
New Nuclear Weapons Facility: “Gateway to a Bleak and Hopeless World”
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Is the Success of Israel’s Attack on Osirak a Myth?
Israel’s 1981 attack on Iraq’s Osirak reactor may have actually accelerated Iraq’s nuclear-weapons program, just as an attack on Iran might spur it to develop nuclear weapons.
Chinese Tunnels: And We’re Worried About Iran’s Nuclear Program?
If China’s tunnel system turns out to be for nuclear weapons, it makes Iran’s underground enrichment facilities seem like small change in comparison.
The Great $500 Billion Nuclear Debate of 2011
There’s disagreement over whether the nuclear budget should include maintaining and upgrading nuclear weapons, as well other programs such as missile defense and environmental clean-up.
Infrastructure Explosions in Iran Don’t Exactly Inspire Confidence in Its Nuclear Program
Iranian gas pipelines and oil refineries have been subject to a series of explosions in the last year.
No, Really, Iran Isn’t Developing Nuclear Weapons
However obstinate Iran is, it doesn’t deserve to be piled on by the West for its nuclear program.
M.O.P. vs. Qom: Irresistible Force Meets Immoveable Object
While Iran digs deeper to protect its uranium enrichment facilities, the United States develops ever larger bombs to destroy them.
Believing the Worst About Iran Without Attacking
Focusing on the impartial problems that nuclear weapons create for their possessors might be of more benefit in ratcheting down tensions between Israel and Iran than belittling their genuine security concerns.
Is Rick Perry Trying to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons?
If Rick Perry and conservatives would were to get their wish and shut down the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration would go with it.
Nuclear Turkeys
By the time you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, the 12-member congressional supercommittee will have succeeded in meeting its November 23 deadline to approve a plan to shrink the budget deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade. Or it will have failed – and produced a turkey instead.