Progress Energy Florida has asked federal regulators to extend the life of its nuclear plant in Crystal River another 20 years. ...more

December 20, 2008

Progress Energy Florida has asked federal regulators to extend the life of its nuclear plant in Crystal River another 20 years. ...more

December 19, 2008

North Korea has begun reassembling its main nuclear complex, its only known source of bomb-making plutonium, the South Korean government said Wednesday. ...more

September 4, 2008

When Barack Obama feeds rhetorical fishes and loaves to the multitudes in the football stadium tonight, he should deliver a message of sufficient particularity that it seems particularly suited to Americans. One more inspirational oration, one general enough to please Berliners or even his fellow "citizens of the world," will confirm Pascal's point that "continuous eloquence wearies." That is so because it is not really eloquent. If it is continuous, it is necessarily formulaic and abstract, vague enough for any time and place, hence truly apposite for none. ...more

August 28, 2008

The confrontation between Iran and the United States seemed to sharpen Thursday as Iran said it tested missiles for a second day and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States would defend its allies and protect its interests against an attack. ...more

July 11, 2008

An Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would be a high-risk move that could destabilize the Middle East, the Pentagon's top military officer said Wednesday. ...more

July 3, 2008

The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned that Tehran would respond to an attack against it by barraging Israel with missiles and restricting a key oil passageway in the Persian Gulf, said a newspaper report published Saturday. ...more

June 29, 2008

President Bush moved Thursday to drop North Korea from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism and lift some trading sanctions after the isolated totalitarian state turned over a long-delayed report that includes details of plutonium production in its nuclear program. ...more

June 27, 2008

Iran rejected a six-nation offer of incentives to stop enriching uranium on Saturday, prompting President Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to jointly warn Tehran against proceeding toward a nuclear bomb. ...more

June 15, 2008

Israel will attack Iran if it doesn't abandon its nuclear program, a Cabinet minister hoping to replace embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted Friday as saying. ...more

June 7, 2008