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Following is a full text of the English-language report on North Korea's KCNA news agency on Wednesday threatening to conduct a second nuclear test:
"Firstly, the DPRK will be compelled to take additional self-defensive measures in order to defend its supreme interests.
"The measures will include nuclear tests and test-firings of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
"Secondly, the DPRK will make a decision to build a light water reactor power plant and start the technological development for ensuring self-production of nuclear fuel as its first process without delay."
But senior Pakistani officials responsible for the safety of the country’s nuclear arsenal reject the American apprehensions, saying there is hardly any danger to either the security of the Pakistani fissile material installations or the safety of its nuclear command and control system. They claim that the un-constituted nature of the nukes, the enormous inter-organizational effort needed to reconstitute them and the secret location of their constituent parts, being maintained by the Strategic Planning Division (SPD) of the National Command Authority (NCA), make that possibility quite murky.
In the four papers Iran's delegation submitted for the May 4-15 NPT conference, Tehran says Washington is in clear breach of the treaty by developing new atomic weapons and providing nuclear aid to Israel and India. Neither country has signed the NPT, but India has nuclear weapons and Israel is presumed to have built up a nuclear arsenal.
"Universal adherence to the NPT itself, including by India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea ... remains a fundamental objective of the United States," Gottemoeller told the meeting, which hopes to agree on an agenda and plan to overhaul the treaty at a review conference next year.
X-posted.. Its an opinion . Dont jump on the guy....
jaladipc wrote:^^
NO.
Since the day one of Arrow development program it is costing the Israeli lives to fund the development.though US is helping hard to support the project.
Now US wants to come out of Arrow just mean that the change in US strategy towards Iran.Iran is going to end up building a couple of other reactors with the technology to make a bomb at any moment in handy.
And intelligence circles say the technology is neither based on the home-prisoned AQKhan`s failed enriched uranium design nor the under-powered north korean plutonium design.But suspected to be a hybrid design based on already successfully tested by few countries close to the nation.IT means its a matter of time to assemble the unit as they are preserving the raw material needed.
the new strategy now revolves around how long can US hold the Irans hand before it ditch them again considering its regional gains?
sooner than later israel do want to come out of the US help in funding and development of its own strategic systems.IT would trigger a new collaboration with a friendly country(.....)to achieve its objectives irrespective of US help.
Bottom line is that ,the game is a multiplayer game.IT is really hard than the monsoons itself to predict which player joins hands with whom and whose relation is going to be held concrete with adhesives.
"We plan to put the first regiment of mobile [RS-24] missile systems equipped with multiple re-entry vehicle warheads into service by the end of this year," Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov said.
The RS-24 ICBM, which will replace the older SS-18 and SS-19 missiles by 2050, is expected to greatly strengthen the SMF's strike capability, as well as that of its allies until the mid-21st century, Solovtsov said.
The missile will be deployed both in silos and on mobile platforms, and together with the Topol-M single-warhead ICBM will constitute the core of Russia's SMF in the future, he added.
"About half of our members disagree with ratification of the CTBT and, indeed, I believe some of them will be prepared to testify against the CTBT when it comes to the Senate," William Perry, who chaired the panel, said at a press conference yesterday."
David Cameron is considering abandoning the British Trident missile force, or going for a less expensive option, we learned last week. He has also indicated that he will undertake "a major strategic defence review once in office".
"We've all been looking around and chuckling and saying, 'We're all over 50,' " said Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state. She describes herself as a "Sputnik baby" who became fascinated with the Soviet Union after the 1957 satellite launch that fueled the superpower arms race.
The State Department is now scrambling to expand its team of arms-control specialists, depleted by retirements and the departure of several senior officials who felt politically sidelined.
"I'm seeking arms-control and nonproliferation experts to come back into the department," Clinton told senators in her confirmation hearing, saying those capabilities had been "significantly degraded" in recent years.
The Obama administration yesterday asked Congress to approve $9.9 billion for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration to carry out nuclear arsenal maintenance, nonproliferation operations and other work in fiscal 2010
While Yeafesh Osman did not shed light on the expected memorandum of understanding with Russia later this month for two 1,000MW power plants, he said, "Whomever we sign our deals with, it will be win-win for both. We do not want charity. We want to win and we want the other country to win as well."
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced his department's budget requests for fiscal year 2010. Amid a lot of fanfare about renewable resources and sustainability was a Bush-like $6.4 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration's continued work on nuclear weapons technologies, facilities, and designs.
This request is in line with the NNSA's longer term plans for upgrading the nuclear weapons complex over the next two decades, an endeavor that could cost tens and tens of billions of dollars. Besides being expensive, the plan for so-called Complex Transformation was crafted during the Bush administration, and is obsolete now that the Obama administration has pledged to dramatically accelerate the reduction of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. A $6 billion-plus budget for moving forward on nuclear weapons research and development while negotiating for nuclear nonproliferation and pledging a nuclear-weapons-free world sends mixed signals to allies, provides political cover to adversaries, and makes it more difficult to persuade Iran and North Korea to roll back their nuclear programs.
“We're going to operate it when we need to make an extraction,” he said. “We have enough tritium in the inventory to meet the demands we have for it.”
Tritium is produced in Tennessee and brought to SRS, where it is separated and used to recharge nuclear weapons with older tritium. Graham said the tritium facility at SRS will always be needed because the nation's nuclear weapons must be kept viable.
“That means replacing tritium gas, and that means making new pits,” he said.
What makes the project even more threatening is that it is unique. “Pakistan is really the only country rapidly building up its nuclear forces,” says a U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the issue
