During the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million so far on a highly classified program to help Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf secure his country's nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials. ...more

November 18, 2007

The Bush administration plans to push for new sanctions against Iran after the United Nation's nuclear watchdog agency reported Thursday Tehran is providing "diminishing" information about its controversial nuclear program, U.S. officials said. ...more

November 16, 2007

A congressional advisory panel said Thursday that Chinese spying represents the greatest threat to U.S. technology and recommended counterintelligence efforts to stop China from stealing the nation's manufacturing expertise. ...more

November 16, 2007

Last month, a group led by singers Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and Bonnie Raitt delivered a petition to the Senate denouncing nuclear energy. Their spurious arguments are off-key to say the least. They confuse nuclear weapons with nuclear energy, claim non-existent dangers, and misrepresent nuclear power's economics. Otherwise, it was quite a show. ...more

November 13, 2007

When the United States learned in 2001 that Pakistani scientists had shared nuclear secrets with members of al-Qaida, an alarmed Bush administration responded with tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment, such as intrusion detectors and ID systems, to safeguard Pakistan's nuclear weapons. ...more

November 12, 2007

North Korea is providing evidence to the United States aimed at proving it never intended to produce highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, undermining a key U.S. intelligence finding, South Korean and U.S. officials said this week. ...more

November 10, 2007

Regarding "Pakistan: An Uncertain Ally" (Nation/World, Nov.): Sam Rashid needs to be glad that he has been able to go to his native Pakistan every year up until a couple of years ago. I have not been able to go home to my native Kashmir since 1989. My wish to visit home may be nostalgic, but the rest of my family who lived in Kashmir for centuries were forced from their own land and had to live like refugees in their own country. Such has been the situation for two decades in Kashmir, where Kashmiri Muslim militants trained by Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Pakistan forced their Hindu neighbors to either leave or be killed. My father was shot by his Muslim friends on Aug. 24, 1990. ...more

November 8, 2007

For more than five months, the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world. ...more

November 4, 2007

Why is Pakistan important to the United States? Osama bin Laden may be hiding there. Intelligence experts say a resurgent al-Qaida and Taliban run training camps in tribal territories along the Afghan border. Their strategists operate openly in Pakistani cities. Also, the country possesses what the West most fears terrorists might obtain: nuclear weapons. ...more

November 4, 2007

Mr. Streeter's latest tirade against President Bush is, like his previous ones, utter nonsense. This country is not provoking Iran. It is they who are doing the provoking. They are the ones who are killing Americans every day. I have never heard of American roadside bombs killing Iranians. Why does Iran need nuclear weapons? If we are paying $90 a barrel for oil, it seems to me that we are doing a lousy job of "controlling and stealing" it. ...more

October 31, 2007