Radioactivity is dramatic. You can’t smell it, taste it, or see it. You may be powerless to avoid it. Nuclear history is a story of dramatic contrasts, of hope and tragedy.
Worldwide excitement over Marie…
Sorry captain, I thought the big red button made it go faster.
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The Coalition government is pressing ahead with a long, expensive and controversial programme to replace the Trident nuclear weapon system beginning with the procurement of a new fleet of submarines armed…
The fallout from North Korea’s nuclear test will reach beyond its neighbours to the south.
AAP/Yonhap
Overnight North Korea conducted its third nuclear weapons test. The test came in the wake of a successful long-range rocket launch in December and resulting condemnation from the United Nations Security…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s reign remains legitimate.
KCNA
The technical aspects of North Korea’s failed rocket launch
last week are less interesting than the political undercurrents swirling around this event.
Yesterday, the UN announced increased sanctions…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses Iran “Nuclear Day” gathering.
EPA/Press TV
Talk of a possible Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities has re-ignited debate over the right of self-defence under international law.
Some academics, including Anthony D'Amato and Alan Dershowitz…
It’s impossible to separate North Korea’s defensive ambitions from its leadership transition.
EPA/KCNA South Korea
In March, North Korea’s external propaganda mouthpiece Korean Central News Agency announced the impending launch of a satellite, the Kwangmyongsong-3, during a four-day launch window timed to correspond…
Gillard maintained the status quo in Seoul.
AAP/Office of the Prime Minister
Prime minister, Julia Gillard joined 52 other world leaders at the second round of the Nuclear Security Summit in South Korea.
In her address to the summit, she joined other participating states in advocating…
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White House in early March, 2012.
EPA/Martin H Simon
A key facet of America’s extended, depressing election campaigns is that every serious presidential candidate has to prove their fanatical, unswerving devotion to the Israeli government.
As part of this…
Iran is constructing nuclear power stations; that much is clear.
AAP
There is much concern that Iran is in the process of developing nuclear weapons. Such a development, we’re told, could induce Israel to launch a unilateral military strike with all types of unpredictable…
The aftermath of a bombing in Tehran that killed a nuclear scientist.
EPA/STR
Relations between Iran and the United States and its ally Israel have descended into the worst crisis in years. Concern is growing that the situation could quickly degenerate into conflict.
The origins…
A Pakistani missile launches during a 2008 test-firing. The country has a poor record on nuclear weapons.
AAP
Predictably, Pakistan is seeking equal treatment with India on uranium sales from Australia.
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Australia Abdul Malik Abdullah has argued that if Australia changes its policy…
You don’t need to take Iran’s nuclear facilities out by force. Just pass a virus onto them.
EPA
The latest round of chest beating over Iran developing nuclear weapons has seen renewed speculation over the possibility of military strikes on the Islamic Republic’s enrichment facilities.
Certainly…
