Terrorists could use Internet to launch Nuclear Attack

According to research, terrorists groups could soon use the internet to help set off a devastating nuclear attack. This may be an easier alternative for terrorist groups than building or acquiring a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb themselves. Cyber-terrorists could provoke a nuclear launch by spoofing early warning and identification systems or by degrading communications networks. Full Story :  Technology.am….

India launches nuclear submarine

India has launched its first indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine capable of firing ballistic missiles. The submarine, once in service, will give the country the capability to fire nuclear weapons from sea besides land and air. India plans to build a fleet of five nuclear-powered submarines. Defense experts have estimated that India has between 50 and 100 nuclear warheads. VOANews.com….

N.Korea to build more nuclear bombs after UN vote

A defiant North Korea on Saturday vowed to build more nuclear bombs and to start enriching uranium for a new weapons programme after the UN Security Council imposed sanctions over last month’s nuclear test. The North Korea, describing Friday’s sanctions resolution as a “vile product” of a US-inspired campaign, said it would never abandon nuclear weapons and would treat any attempt to blockade it as an act of war. Full Story : YahooNews.com….

U.S. Accidentally Releases Secret List of Nuclear Sites

The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons. The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an online newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy. Full Story : NYtimes.com….

North Korea may launch long-range missile in weeks

North Korea may this month test a missile designed to fly as far as U.S. territory and may also be gearing up for skirmishes with the South around their disputed sea border, South Korean news reports said on Monday. Last week, North Korea conducted a nuclear test that put it closer to having a working atomic bomb, test-fired a barrage of short-range missiles and threatened to attack the South, raising tension to one of its highest levels since the 1950-53 Korean War. Full Story : YahooNews…..

Venezuela, Bolivia Supplying Iran With Uranium For Its Nuclear Program

Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The two South American countries are known to have close ties with Iran, but this is the first allegation that they are involved in the development of Iran’s nuclear program, considered a strategic threat by Israel. Venezuela and Bolivia are close allies, and both regimes have a history of opposing U.S. foreign policy and Israeli actions. Full Story : HuffingtonPost.com…..

North Korea begins extracting plutonium

North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear arms plant, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, further raising regional tensions already stoked by its defiant rocket launch this month. It has expelled U.N. and U.S. nuclear inspectors at Yongbyon, located about 100 km (60 miles) north of Pyongyang, who had been overseeing steps to put the entire plant out of operation for at least a year. Full Story : Reuters.com….

North Korea quits nuclear talks, vows to resume nuclear program

North Korea on Tuesday announced that it was walking out on six-party talks to end its nuclear program, and vowed to resume operating its nuclear facilities. The decision comes a day after the 15-member United Nations Security Council condemned North Korea’s April 5 rocket launch, which critics argue was a long-range missile test. Full Story : ChristianscienceMonitor……

Iran to study atom talks offer from U.S

Iran said it would review an offer of talks on its nuclear program from the United States and five other world powers. The United States, Russia, China, France, Germany and Britain said on Wednesday they would ask European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana to invite Tehran to a meeting to find “a diplomatic solution to this critical issue.” Full Story : Reuters.com….

US intelligence : Israel is wrong about Iranian threat

Iran has not produced the highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon and has not decided to do so, U.S. intelligence officials told Congress. Israel’s chief of military intelligence, has a different view about Iran’s nuclear programme, he told cabinet ministers, “Iran continues to stockpile hundreds of kilograms of low-level enriched uranium ….” Full Story : Washingtonpost….

What if your city were Nuked?

Sydney-based design firm CarlosLabs created a A Google Maps mash-up which shows what nuclear explosions would do to cities all over the world. The mapplet,shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press ‘Nuke It!’

Iran makes first test-run of Bushehr nuclear reactor

Iran said on Wednesday it had carried out successful tests at its Bushehr nuclear power plant in a step toward its launch. The Bushehr power plant was built by a Russian firm. Even though the west has been critical about Russia’s involvement in building the plant, Russia says it is purely civilian and cannot be used for any weapons program. The construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant was started in 1975 by German companies. However, the German firms abandoned the project after the imposition of a US embargo on high technology supplies to Iran.

North Korea Announces Plans for ‘Satellite’ Launch

North Korea said Tuesday it is preparing to launch a satellite into orbit, its clearest reference yet to an impending launch. The statement from the North’s space technology agency came amid international concern North Korea is gearing up to fire its most advanced Taepodong-2 missile. North Korea’s last test of its most advanced long-range missile was in 2006, a few months before the nuclear test.

@ a glance : North Korea plutonium ‘weaponised’

North Korean has “weaponised” enough of its stock of plutonium to make up to five nuclear bombs, a US arms expert has said.Full Story : Aljazeera……

@ a glance : United States sanctions those connected to nuclear scientist

The United States on Monday slapped sanctions on people and companies connected to the black market nuclear network led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, urging the world to be vigilant against the future spread of nuclear know-how. Full Story : USAToday…….

@ a glance : US joins rush to supply nuclear equipment to India

The United States will enter the fray against France and Russia this week in the scramble to supply nuclear power equipment worth an estimated $150 billion to India.  Full Story : Times Online……

Russia Tests Stealth Missile Capable of Penetrating US shield

As tensions rising with Nato, Russia shows its might by test fired a a long-range ’stealth’ missile, Topol RS-12M. With a range of 9,500 Kms, Topol puts Europe and much of the US within its reach. The missile can carry one 550-kiloton nuclear warhead. Col Alexander Vovk of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces said: “The launch was specially tasked to test the missile’s capability to avoid ground-based detection systems.” Earlier,Vladimir Putin, said that Moscow was working on new types of nuclear weapons to boost the country’s defense against the threat of the US shield.

US mistakenly shipped Ballistic missile parts to Taiwan

United States shipped four electrical fuses for Minuteman nuclear missile warheads to Taiwan, instead of sending helicopter batteries. The mistake was discovered only last week a year and a half after the shipment. Officials said the nose-cone fuses contained no nuclear material and were similar in function to the ones used for conventional munitions, though these were designed specifically to send an electrical signal to the trigger of the MK-12 nuclear warhead as it was approaching the ground.

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