Also Try Nuclear Power Nuclear and Dirty Bombs News -04-05-06 U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative (U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations) Provides testimony from the U.S. Secretaray of State in support of the Initiative. 04-06 -04-20-07 A Breach in Nuclear Security (Time Magazine) "New Mexico police got more than they bargained for last fall when they responded to a call about a domestic dispute in a trailer park near Los Alamos National Laboratory. Not only had they stumbled on paraphernalia for making the drug crystal meth; they also found thousands of pages of highly classified documents detailing the designs of U.S. nuclear weapons." 04-07 -09-11-07 Russia Develops "Dad of All Bombs" (CBS News) "Russian state television says the military has successfully tested what it describes as the world's most powerful non-nuclear, air-delivered bomb." 09-07 -09-16-07 U.S. Report on Iran Branded "Misleading" by Regulatory Agency (BBC News) "The UN nuclear watchdog has protested to the US government over a report on Iran's nuclear programme, calling it 'erroneous' and 'misleading'." 09-07 -10-08-06 North Korea Tests a Nuclear Bomb (USA Today) "North Korea said Monday it had performed its first nuclear weapons test, an underground explosion that defied international warnings but was hailed by the communist nation as a 'great leap forward' for its people." 10-06 News Related to Nuclear Nonproliferation (IAEA.org) Provides daily news. 04-06 U.S. National Nuclear Security Authority (National Nuclear Security Authority) Provides news and priorities. 04-06 Papers Bush Speaks Against Spread of Weapons (USA Today) "Saying that terror groups wanted to use weapons of mass destruction as 'weapons of first resort,' President Bush called Wednesday for tougher global action against dangerous regimes and terrorist networks that seek those weapons." "In a proposal likely to anger nations such as North Korea and Iran, Bush called for preventing countries from acquiring nuclear enrichment and reprocessing technology under the guise of building civilian power facilities." "Bush also renewed his call, first made before the U.N. General Assembly last fall, for a new Security Council resolution demanding that all U.N. members enact stricter export controls and criminalize weapons proliferation." "Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., said the president's intentions seemed long on rhetoric and short on action. She criticized him for not stepping up funding for the program to secure Russia's weapons and for withdrawing the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty." " 'He has consistently underfunded and even cut the nonproliferation programs that would make the United States safer,' Tauscher said." 2-04 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) (IAEA.org)  Provides the text of the treaty. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) monitors compliance with the treaty. "The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objectives are to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to foster the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving general and complete disarmament. The Treaty establishes a safeguards system under the responsibility of the IAEA, which also plays a central role under the Treaty in areas of technology transfer for peaceful purposes." Also provides news, current status of compliance, and the legal framework for safeguards. 04-06 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Timelines to 2000 (Federation of American Scientists) Provides a timeline to the year 2000. 04-06 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (Wikipedia.org) "The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT, or, much more rarely, NNPT) is a treaty, opened for signature on July 1, 1968, to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. The vast majority of sovereign states (188) are parties to the treaty." "The treaty is often summarized as having three pillars: nonproliferation, disarmament, and the right to peacefully use nuclear technology." 04-06 Tracking Nuclear Proliferation (PBS News) Provides maps, timelines, and a glossary. 05-07 Types of Nuclear Bombs (PBS News) "Fission, or atomic bombs, can be as small as one kiloton (KT) of explosive power or as large as several hundred kilotons. This is in contrast to the much larger thermonuclear or hydrogen bombs, which can be a thousand times bigger than atomic bombs. They are expressed in millions of tons of TNT or megatons (MT)." 05-07

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