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As weapon experts improved missile accuracy, warhead yields decreased. As a rule of thumb, making a missile twice as accurate permitted an eightfold decrease in yield to achieve the same probability of destroying a target.
Take, for example, Rajiv Gandhi’s timeline: It is too distant to impel near-term steps, and yet near enough to generate resistance to its practical pursuit. Seeking an international treaty to affirm a time-bound framework for nuclear disarmament could also have the perverse effect of diverting efforts away from necessary, near-term steps.
Persuading India, Pakistan and Israel to sign onto the pact as non-nuclear weapon states "would be a significant achievement," the document states. "There is currently, however, no indication that these states would be prepared to join."
JAPAN'S nuclear industry has taken its second strategic stake in Western Australia's fledgling uranium industry in less than a year, after agreeing at the weekend to buy into Mega Uranium's Lake Maitland project in the Goldfields region.
"This is the first MOX transport to Japan for eight years. This will be the largest shipment of plutonium in history - the MOX fuel elements contain a total of 1.8 tonnes of plutonium.
The man who built Britain's nuclear bomb and masterminded controversial tests - witnessed by 20,000 troops - may have been killed by radiation from the blasts.
Regarding a classified material codenamed "Fogbank," a Government Accountability Office report released this month states that "NNSA had lost knowledge of how to manufacture the material because it had kept few records of the process when the material was made in the 1980s and almost all staff with expertise on production had retired or left the agency."
So the effort to refurbish and upgrade W76 warheads, which top the U.S. Navy's (and the British Royal Navy's) submarine-launched Trident missiles, had to be put on hold while experts scoured old records and finally figured out how to manufacture the stuff once again.
According to the Sunday Herald of Glasgow, Scotland, Fogbank is "thought by some weapons experts to be a foam used between the fission and fusion stages of a thermonuclear [hydrogen] bomb."
Obama budget kills Nevada storage site for used radioactive fuel rods piling up near power plants
In a pool of water just a football field {100 yards or 300 feet} away from Lake Michigan , about 1,000 tons of highly radioactive fuel from the scuttled Zion Nuclear Power Station is waiting for someplace else to spend a few thousand years.
Keep an eye on the proposed state-of-the-art recycling facility in India.
“We gave some devices, some centrifuges, for example for America, but what do you give us? Nothing,” said Abdelrahman Shalgham, who served as foreign minister for eight years before being named ambassador to the United Nations this month
While visiting Japan’s defense ministry in Tokyo, I saw plans for an atomic weapon. Experts believe Japan could produce a nuclear warhead in within three months, if it so decided. I also believe – though cannot prove – that Switzerland may have produced a few nuclear warheads in the early 1960’s and keeps them in one of its secret mountain forts as a sort of doomsday device.
Perle was against any accord, whatever. Speaking in Munich in late January 1987, not long before he resigned as Assistant Secretary of Defence, Perle ridiculed the idea of a nuclear-free world as “foolishness” that was “in no way mitigated by the conditions that Western statesmen routinely attach to its achievement in order to avoid dismissing the idea as the empty propaganda that it is”.
One fire station will be in the restricted test site town of Mercury, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The other will be about 22 miles north of Mercury on the vast nuclear weapons proving ground.
The U.S. Department of Energy's $4.86 billion MOX facility at SRS, scheduled to open in 2016, is designed to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus, weapons-grade plutonium by using small amounts to make fuel for commercial reactors. The termination of Duke's contract -- disclosed Feb. 27 in a company financial filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission -- raises questions about the government's ability to find power plants willing to use the fuel