Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons

POLITICS: US, China Head for Showdown Over N. Korea Sanctions

By Thalif Deen
The United States and China, two veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, may be heading for a political showdown over the implementation of a resolution aimed at imposing tough economic and military sanctions on North Korea.

EGYPT: Nuclear Ambition Could Mean a Presidential Dream

By Adam Morrow
An announcement that the government intends to produce nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is provoking heated debate.

HEALTH: Cancer Fears Emerge as Fallout of French Nuclear Tests

By Julio Godoy
New evidence is emerging of cancers caused by French nuclear testing in its South Pacific islands from the 1960s.

POLITICS: N. Korean Blast May Hit Indo-US Nuclear Deal

By IPS Correspondents
How is North Korea's atomic explosion, signifying the latest breakout from the global nuclear restraint regime, likely to affect the preceding two breakout cases, India and Pakistan?

POLITICS: New U.N. Chief Could Be an Asset in Korean Crisis

By Thalif Deen
When U. Thant of Burma (now Myanmar) was the first - and last - Asian Secretary-General of the United Nations during 1961-1971, the former Burmese ambassador was described as modest and low-key compared with his high-profile predecessor, Sweden's Dag Hammarskjold, who died in a plane crash in Africa in 1961.

POLITICS: The Baker Saviour?

By Jim Lobe
For the many, many foreign policy experts who have reached an advanced state of despair over the ever-plunging image and influence of the United States after nearly six years of the presidency of George W. Bush, the name James Baker III has an almost talismanic quality.

EAST ASIA: Grappling with Security Crisis Triggered by N. Korea Nuke Test

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
North Korea's underground nuclear weapons test, the first by the Stalinist state, has plunged East Asia into its worst security crisis - a situation so bad that analysts contend the fallout could be a string of difficult problems in the region.

POLITICS: U.S. Neo-Cons Call For Japanese Nukes, Regime Change

By Jim Lobe
Encouraging Japan to build nuclear weapons, shipping food aid via submarines, and running secret sabotage operations inside North Korea's borders are among a raft of policy prescriptions pushed by prominent U.S. neo-conservatives in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test.

POLITICS: Iran Awaits Security Council Reaction to N. Korea

By IPS Correspondents
In a first reaction to North Korea conducting nuclear tests, Iran has said that the best way to stop proliferation was for the big powers to begin disarmament themselves.

POLITICS-US/KOREA: No War, No Talks, More Pressure

By Jim Lobe
In its initial reaction to Monday's North Korean nuclear test, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush indicated it will seek the strongest possible sanctions against Pyongyang at the U.N. Security Council but was not considering taking military action on its own, at least for now.

POLITICS: N. Korean Nuke Tests Say World Must Return to Peace Agenda

By IPS Correspondents
North Korea has shocked the world by detonating a nuclear explosion and making good the threat it had held out six days earlier. Pyongyang's action is one more blow to the existing global non-proliferation order and will trigger greater instability in Northeast Asia and in the Asian continent and world as a whole.

EAST ASIA: North Korean Bomb – Bargaining Chip for China

By IPS Correspondents
While it reproved North Korea's readiness to conduct nuclear tests China has been laying the ground for what it considers unavoidable.

POLITICS-US/MIDEAST: “Strategic Consensus” Redux?

By Jim Lobe
President George W. Bush and his peripatetic secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, may believe that they have broken with 60 years of U.S. policy in order to "transform" the Middle East, but to long-time regional observers, their latest initiatives look painfully familiar.

POLITICS: Indo-US Nuclear Deal Hits Doldrums

By IPS Correspondents
The controversial United States-India "civilian nuclear cooperation" agreement met with a major setback over the weekend when the Senate formally went into recess without voting for a bill which would have granted the President George W. Bush the necessary powers to enable the deal to be implemented.

POLITICS-US: Elite Project Proposes Bipartisan Grand Strategy

By Jim Lobe
After two years of consultations with more than 400 members of the U.S. foreign policy elite, a project headed by two leading international relations academics is calling for the adoption of a new U.S. grand strategy designed to address multiple threats and strengthen Washington's commitment to a reformed and reinvigorated multilateral order.

POLITICS-US: Top CIA Expert Slams Bush Anti-Terror Actions

By Jim Lobe
The Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) recently retired top expert on radical Islamists has strongly denounced the conduct of U.S. President George W. Bush's "global war on terrorism" and the continued U.S. military presence in Iraq, which he said is "contributing to the violence".

POLITICS: Italy Boosts Talks on Iran But Real Test Lies Ahead

By IPS Correspondents
After a tense week with several U.S. allies breaking ranks with the George W. Bush administration on Iran, an agreement has been reached to give diplomacy a bit more time.

POLITICS-US/IRAN: War, Diplomacy on Parallel Tracks

By Jim Lobe
If you're feeling increasingly confused about whether the administration of President George W. Bush is determined to go to war with Iran or whether it is instead truly committed to a diplomatic process with its European allies to reach some kind of modus vivendi, you're not alone.

POLITICS: Iraq Occupation Depends on Sadr – and Iran

By Gareth Porter
For many months, the George W. Bush administration has been complaining that Iranian meddling in Iraq is a threat to the country's stability and to U.S. troops. The irony of this publicity campaign over Tehran's alleged bid to undermine the occupation is that Iran may well be the main factor holding up a showdown between militant Shiites and U.S. forces.

POLITICS: Iran Defends Nuke Programme at General Assembly

By Haider Rizvi
"If the governments of the United States or the United Kingdom, who are permanent members of the Security Council, commit aggression, occupation and violation of international law, which of the organs of the United Nations can take them to account?"

POLITICS-US: Bush Clears Task Force to Meet With Iranians

By Jim Lobe
While his handlers worked assiduously Tuesday to ensure that U.S. President George W. Bush did not run into his Iranian nemesis, Mahmood Ahmedinejad, in the corridors of the U.N., a legendary fixer for the Bush family announced that the White House had cleared him to meet with a "high representative" of Tehran's government.
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