The mighty U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons, midwived by World War II and nurtured by the Cold War, is declining in power and purpose while the military's competence in handling the world's most dangerous arms has eroded. ...more

October 27, 2008

The Bush administration is nearing a decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist and may do so as early as Friday in a bid to salvage faltering nuclear disarmament talks, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

October 9, 2008

Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday. ...more

July 5, 2008

To Barack Obama's thrust that John McCain is running for George W. Bush's third term, McCain parries that Obama is running from Jimmy Carter's second. We are supposed to cringle in horror at the prospect. ...more

June 28, 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

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

As the sun sets, the sky slowly turns a deep orange rose over Dubai. Crates of merchandise - food, clothes, General Electric appliances, Hewlett-Packard computers - are loaded onto dhows, the traditional wooden vessels that still ply the ancient routes to Iran about 60 miles to the north. ...more

December 30, 2007

Israel's decision to attack Syria on Sept. 6, bombing a suspected nuclear site set up in apparent collaboration with North Korea, came after Israel shared intelligence with President Bush this summer indicating that North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria, U.S. government sources said. ...more

September 21, 2007