Thursday, June 19, 2008


Financial Times, UK - 1 hour ago
... of sensitive nuclear missile components, according to several government officials familiar with a secret Pentagon report on nuclear safeguards. ...

AirForceTimes.com, VA - 5 hours ago
By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer The Air Force failed to correctly track more than 1000 “classified items” during an inventory ordered by Adm. Kirkland ...


A nightmare of loose nukes
International Herald Tribune, France - 16 hours ago
A nightmare scenario has come true, to judge from the revelation that the smuggling network once run by AQ Khan, the so-called father of Pakistan's nuclear ...

US clueless on missing nuke parts: Report
Zee News, India - 6 hours ago
The British daily quoted one official as saying that the number of missing components was more than a thousand. Admiral Kirkland Donald, the US Naval ...


What Does a Nuclear Blueprint Look Like?
Slate - 7 hours ago
By Chris Wilson Lots of diagrams, instructions, and lists of materials. While the word blueprint may conjure images of white schematics on blue paper, ...


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US defense secretary notes importance of Air Force nuke mission
Xinhua, China - Jun 10, 2008
... Force's new chief of staff and secretary after the two predecessors both resigned last week over errors in the handling of nuclear weapons and parts. ...
Video: Gates Accepts Air Force Resignations AssociatedPress
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Nuke detectors being tested on private jets
USA Today - 3 hours ago
Based on a report about the threat from Oxford's office, Chertoff ordered that all "general aviation" planes from overseas be scanned when they land in the ...

Nuclear designs found with smugglers spur US fears
Reuters - Jun 16, 2008
By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - A nuclear watchdog's report that sophisticated warhead designs were found on the computers of Swiss ...


Nuclear weapons blueprint 'shared among smuggling ring'
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Jun 16, 2008
By Caroline Gammell Blueprints for advanced nuclear weapons were found on computers belonging to an international smuggling ring and may have been shared .



US concerned over N-design distribution reports
Pakistan Dawn, Pakistan - Jun 16, 2008
WASHINGTON, June 16: The White House has said it is concerned that the Khan network may have distributed designs of nuclear warheads and uranium enrichment ...


Mystery Over Nuclear Blueprints Grows
Washington Post, United States - Jun 16, 2008
The revelation that blueprints to build a smaller, easily transportable nuclear weapon were discovered on computers in a handful of foreign nations has set ...



Seattle Times
A nightmare of loose nukes
International Herald Tribune, France - 16 hours ago
A nightmare scenario has come true, to judge from the revelation that the smuggling network once run by AQ Khan, the so-called father of Pakistan's nuclear ...
Block those nukes Savannah Morning News
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Austin Bay: Firing up the Air Force
San Antonio Express, TX - Jun 16, 2008
The classic World War II-era poster reminded talkative dock workers that “loose lips sink ships.” Well, loose nukes present an even more imposing problem, ...



Pentagon admits to weakness in nuclear records
Financial Times, UK - 3 hours ago
By Demetri Sevastopuloin Washington The Pentagon has played down reports that the US military cannot locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components ...
Report: Hundreds of US nuclear components lost
USA Today - 5 hours ago
Hundreds of nuclear missile components in the US arsenal cannot be located, the Financial Times reports, citing unpublicized details from a Pentagon report. ...
Pentagon says its on trail of missing nuclear components: report
AFP - 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US military authorities are unable to find hundreds of nuclear missile components, The Financial Times reported in its online edition ...
Report: US Military Nuclear Weapon Parts Missing
FOXNews - 16 hours ago
The US Military cannot locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, officials close to the Pentagon say, according to a published report in The ...
US military 'loses nuclear missile parts'
NEWS.com.au, Australia - 18 hours ago
By staff writers THE US military has lost more than one thousand "sensitive" nuclear missile parts, officials close to the Pentagon say. ...
US unable to locate nuclear parts: report
Press Trust of India, India - 19 hours ago
London, June 19 (PTI) The Pentagon has been unable to locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components in the US inventory, according to top ...
1000 items could not be tracked in nuke investigation
AirForceTimes.com, VA - 5 hours ago
By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer The Air Force failed to correctly track more than 1000 “classified items” during an inventory ordered by Adm. Kirkland ...
Report: Pentagon Missing Sensitive Nuclear Components
Newsroom America, New Zealand - 6 hours ago
The Pentagon cannot locate up to 1000 sensitive nuclear missile components, several officials familiar with an internal military report on nuclear ...
Analysis: USAF counterinsurgency, Part 2
United Press International - 11 hours ago
By SHAUN WATERMAN, UPI Homeland and National Security Editor WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- To make the US Air Force more relevant to the military's new ...
Jewish General Named US Air Force Chief
Five Towns Jewish Times Online, NY - 11 hours ago
Defense Secretary Robert Gates named new top civilian and military leaders for the US Air Force earlier this month as part of a shake-up triggered by ...
What You Don’t Hear Is What You Get
NewsMax.com, FL - 12 hours ago
To understand the celebrated firings of the Air Force chiefs, one needs but hark back to Sherlock Holmes’ “curious incident” — the dog that didn’t bark. ...
Report: US nuclear weapon parts missing
RussiaToday, Russia - 13 hours ago
The US military has lost track of over a thousand sensitive nuclear missile parts, according to a report in a British newspaper. The story in the Financial ...
US Military nuclear weapon parts missing: Report
Thaindian.com, Thailand - 14 hours ago
London, June 19 (ANI): The US military cannot locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, officials close to the Pentagon have said. ...
Gates' get-tough strategy is a welcome one
Chillicothe Gazette, OH - Jun 17, 2008
In an administration that rewards loyalty and has been loathe to force out even the most incompetent of its appointees - remember Federal Emergency ...
Gates is exception in administration
The Olympian, WA - Jun 16, 2008
When Secretary of Defense Robert Gates fired the secretary of the Air Force and the service's top general ... , speculation about his motives focused on a ...
Show of force
Toledo Blade, OH - Jun 16, 2008
THE decision by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to fire the top chiefs of the Air Force suggests that the upper tier of the Bush Administration has at ...
US military loses nuclear parts
The Times, South Africa - 14 hours ago
LONDON - The US military has lost hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, in the latest embarrassment for the Pentagon, the Financial Times ...


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