Don’t Bomb Iran

The laser enrichment technology of SILEX, developed in secret in Australia and of great proliferation concern, has passed its  last regulatory hurdle in the US.   The company has still to decide on full commercialisation, but is expected to go ahead despite post-Fukushima questions about future demand. NYT story below     THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: September 27, [...]

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• 2010-05-30 Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran – Times
• 2010-05-24 Israeli bomb sale to S. Africa – documentary evidence published
• 2009-11-04 Brazil’s new uranium enrichment and old bomb
• 2009-10-04 Obama Reafirms He Will Keep Israel’s Nukes ‘Secret’
• 2009-10-03 Australia’s uranium enrichment goes commercial – SILEX
• 2009-09-05 North Korea says uranium bomb near completion
• 2009-05-12 High-enriched uranium traces found in Egypt: IAEA
• 2009-05-09 Nuclear talks get first breakthrough in 10 years
• 2009-04-27 Yankee Bombs Go Home: German Foreign minister
• 2009-02-10 US labs use British nuclear factory to build new bombs
• 2009-01-22 Bush offers Emirates nuclear power by 2017 – they say it’s a possible route to the bomb
• IAEA snow banner – “Yes we can”
• 2008-12-23 Britain sells its nuclear weapons factory to US in secret
• 2008-12-10 Hidden travels of the atomic bomb
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• 2008-10-31 Pentagon must test nukes again or build new ones, threatens Gates
• 2008-09-20 Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program expanding rapidly
• 2008-05-29 US helped Pakistan get the bomb – new allegations
• 2008-05-25 Swiss destroy evidence in nuclear smuggling case against Khan network
• 2008-02-09 FBI Whistleblower claims US nuclear secrets leaked to Turkey, Pakistan
• 2008-02-04 Canadian plutonium in US and UK bombs – over 250 kg
• 2008-01-12 CIA in 1974: Israel has bomb and maybe helped Iran with nuclear technology
• 2007-12-01 Defeated French PM backdated bomb deal with Peres in 1957
• 2007-11-21 Australian Highly Enriched Uranium stockpile – 350kg in 2003
• 2007-11-20 US secretly helping Pakistan safeguard its nukes
• 2007-10-17 Israel and US tell IAEA nothing of bombed Syrian ‘nuclear programme’
• 2007-09-06 Australia’s WMD safeguards weakened by new defence treaty with US?
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• 2007-09-04 UK new nuclear High Surety Warhead under development ?
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• 2007-05-05 Trident: UK tells one story to the UN, the opposite at home
• 2007-03-23 Pentagon: new warheads seen as provocative, destabilising
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• 2007-03-19 Iran attacks UK’s Trident nuclear arsenal modernisation plans
• 2007-03-05 US chooses new green warhead design
• 2007-02-20 Iran 6 months from large scale enrichment, Trident does not help: El Baradei
• 2007-02-14 Nuclear weapons states “swindle” NPT – and new nukes are incompatible with treaty: Kofi Annan
• 2007-01-31 Gorbachev: The Nuclear Threat letter to WSJ
• 2007-01-27 US declassifies Nixon decision to keep quiet about Israel’s bomb
• 2007-01-25 Jordan aims to develop nuclear power
• 2007-01-08 Israel seeks same deal as India – nuke aid outside the NPT
• 2007-01-07 New US warhead – hybrid design, $100 billion
• 2007-01-06 Egypt may develop nuclear weapons – Mubarak
• 2007-01-04 Kissinger, Schultz call for a world without nuclear weapons in Wall St Journ
• 2006-12-12 Arab-Iranian nuclear arms race begins – with Israeli support?
• Israeli PM lists Israel as nuclear weapon state
• 2006-12-08 Pentagon boss publicly confirms Israel has nuclear weapons – oops?
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• 2006-11-17 Iran interest in Australian uranium purchase: 1974
• 2006-11-14 Argentine report casts doubt on Iran role in ’94 bomb
• 2006-11-03 US govt publishes nuke bomb guide on Web
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• 2006-08-29 Nuclear Bunker busters won’t work – Union of Concerned Scientists
• 2006-08-25 Weapons grade uranium in Iran, supplied by the USA
• 2006-06-06 Kissinger worried about a Japan armed with nukes, in 1970s
• 2006-06-03 US unilateralism increases nuclear proliferation: Hans Blix
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• 2006-03-19 EU Code of Conduct for Arms Exports
• 2006-03-12 Israeli nuclear blackmail of US in 1973? Israel’s bomb “aimed at the US”
• 2006-03-09 UK officials sold Israel plutonium and heavy water for bomb in 1960s, without telling ministers
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• 2004-11-16 Pakistan hinders IAEA investigation of Iran nuclear program
• 2004-07-29 Sharon: U.S. Wants Israel to Have Nukes
• 2003-12-09 CIA says IAEA safeguards will probably prevent Iran building bomb – except if Iran has secret facilities
• 2003-10-10 Israel planning attack on secret Iran nuclear sites; leaks warning they have nuclear missiles on submarines with US Harpoon missiles; Iran can already make weapons grade uranium
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• EU Council endorses use of force in counter proliferation June 2003
• 2002-06-26 Israel’s ICBM: Pentagon experts say Shavit rocket can throw a warhead 7,200 km
• 2000-06-18 2000: Israel tests nuke-capable cruise missile in Indian Ocean, with range of 1500km
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