Tag: nuclear weapon
Iran Could Reach Critical Capability by 2014
During the next several months of 2013, Iran could shorten the timeline required for 'nuclear dash' to about one month. A recent report claims Tehran is expected to achieve a critical capability in mid-2014. "Preventing Iran from achieving a critical capability through sanctions, increased frequency of international inspections, and negotiations is a priority". The report understated.
The Failure of the Moscow Talks – What’s Next?
Before the Moscow talks began, President Ahmadinejad said that Iran would be willing to forgo enrichment to 20 percent, in return for fuel for the Tehran research reactor. After the negotiations failed, expecting Iran to abandon its indigenous enrichment in exchange of a supply of 3.5 percent enriched fuel for its Bushehr nuclear power reactor seems unrealistic.
America’s Misguided Foreign Policy Encourages Iran’s Quest for Hegemony
The biggest threat from a nuclear Iran is Teheran's becoming an 'invincible' power in the Middle east, protected by home made yet effective 'nuclear deterrence'. Most vulnerable would be the Arab countries and Gulf States with Suni majority. Israel will remain a side show in such inter-Muslim conflict
SS-NX-30 Bulava Tests to Resume This Week
Russia is set to resume this week the flight testing of its (RSM-56) Bulava Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) system (NATO code name SS-NX-30). According to...
Pakistan Test Fires Nuclear-Capable Hatf-VII Cruise Missile
Pakistan successfully tested Hatf-VII nuclear-capable cruise missile which flew up to of a range of 600 km. The missile, also called Babur (after the...
Will Fueling Bushehr Also Push the Shi’ite Nuke Bomb?
With the fueling of the Bushehr nuclear reactor initiated this weekend, the Shi'ite Mullahs mark the culmination of their nation's long ambition to acquire...
Should Israel Be Scared of Iran’s Future Nukes?
Israel is growing more and more exasperated with the Obama Middle East strategy, especially in his determined effort to use diplomacy in trying to...
A “Dirty Bomb” Is Currently al Qaeda’s Favorite Weapon
Denying terrorists access to radiological materials that can be used in a dirty bomb attack - one that could bring western economy to a...
Can, or Should Israel Disable Iran’s Nukes by Itself?
The big question posed these days, is not whether Israel is capable of taking out Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nukes, but if it should go ahead...
Bhutto’s Murder Spurs Al Qaeda’s Quest for Islamic Nukes
The assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has thrown Pakistan and its 165 million people into one of the worst crises in its 60-year...
Israel’s moment of truth: bracing for a nuclear environment
There is no argument whatsoever, that any government's job is to prepare for all contingencies and in Israel, being under constant threat from a...
Time to Call Ahmadinejad’s Provocative Bluff
A year ago, Iran inaugurated its experimental uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. This facility is an underground site that, according to Iranian claims, houses...
How the Kremlin Manipulated the 1967 War to the Brink of...
40 years in Retrospect...
"…if Israel produces the atomic bomb then I believe that the only answer to such action would be preventive war. The...
Bulava M – Submarine Launched Nuclear, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Bulava M is considered a sub-launched version of the Topol. The missile is being developed by the Moscow-based Heat Technology Institute, which ALSO designed...
