Vice President-elect Joseph Biden said Barack Obama would be quickly tested by a dangerous world, with the test coming from anywhere. In a possible warning not to underestimate him, Obama has filled his national security team with centrists and relative hawks. And his willingness to talk to America's adversaries will actually make their lives harder. "What Obama absolutely must prove early on in his administration is that he cannot be played for a patsy, that he has the strength ... and that he understands his No. 1 duty is as commander in chief and protector of the United States," said Robin Niblett, the director of Chatham House, the London-based think tank. Obama's foreign policy test might come from anywhere, but there are signs that some of America's most strident foes are not eager for a fight. ...more

January 4, 2009

North Korea kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors from a plant that previously produced weapons-grade plutonium and notified the nuclear watchdog that it would restart operations as early as next week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday. ...more

September 25, 2008

India and the United States moved a decisive step closer to implementing a landmark nuclear deal Friday after approval of an inspections plan by the International Atomic Energy Agency. ...more

August 2, 2008

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday his country dramatically expanded the number of machines at its disposal producing enriched uranium, defying demands for the country to halt the production of nuclear material. ...more

July 27, 2008

North Korea agreed to disable its main reactor by the end of October and allow international inspections to verify its nuclear disarmament in a deal reached Saturday at the end of six-nation talks. ...more

July 13, 2008

U.N. nuclear sleuths probing allegations Syria is hiding secret atomic activities expressed hope Sunday that a trip to Damascus will be the start of a thorough investigation of the accusations. ...more

June 23, 2008

U.S. and international investigators say that they have found electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to a nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist. ...more

June 16, 2008

Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report. ...more

May 27, 2008

Egypt will begin taking bids in February to build the country's first nuclear reactor, the state-run news agency reported Saturday. ...more

January 27, 2008

Iran has promised the U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector it will answer all remaining questions about its past nuclear activities within four weeks, including secret activities the United States suspects were linked to a weapons program, officials said Sunday. ...more

January 14, 2008