industry all sorts of nuclear options. On another occasion it was Gough Whitlam and his wife, Margaret, who were shown the very spot where Teller wanted to detonate a nuclear charge some 200 metres below ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

India tests nuclear-capable missile "India ’s successful test on Thursday is the latest escalation of an arms race in Asia, where ... capable of reaching Beijing and Shanghai, India joined a small club of nations with long-range nuclear ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-20 15:05 - 0 comments

North Korea's missile: the China factor " Long before North Korea put the missile on a launch pad, right around the time that the U.S. was trying to get it to accept biscuits and food aid in exchange for curbing its nuclear program, a  very ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-13 15:13 - 0 comments

Japan weighed evacuating Tokyo in nuclear crisis "In the darkest moments of last year's nuclear accident, Japanese leaders did not know ... (Fukushima, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear fallout, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-29 14:02 - 0 comments

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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-29 13:49 - 0 comments

Iran taunts West with 'nuclear projects' "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to inaugurate 'important nuclear ... (Iran, Iran nuclear program, Iranian politics, Nuclear, The Australian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-13 14:17 - 0 comments

Table talk: Iran's nuclear threat "T his is a rare period of momentum and international unity regarding Iran. 'A peaceful ... (Iran, Iran nuclear program, Nuclear, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-31 14:29 - 0 comments

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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-16 13:51 - 0 comments

heading back to the Lodge to stockpile all of the food and cans of Coke for the inevitable nuclear ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

The case for bombing Iran shows hawks wrong all over again " I don't want a nuclear-armed Iran any more than Niall Ferguson does. ... (Iran, Iran nuclear program, The Daily Beast) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-09 14:25 - 0 comments

their nuclear way "It is not hard to see why Iran wants nuclear weapons. One reason is fear. Iran lives in a fractious region surrounded by nuclear-armed neighbours - Russia to the north, China to the north-east, ... (Iran, Iran nuclear program, Nuclear, The Age) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-06 14:03 - 0 comments

Washington has negotiated a special civil nuclear agreement with New Delhi, effectively making India a deal outside the global agreement to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Whereas India once cut a lonely ... of a nuclear weapon in the Rajasthani desert came just after Australia had decided against building its own ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

or geo-engineering. A source of energy that emits no greenhouse gases, is less hazardous than the nuclear industry, ...

The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

in Sydney by a band of inner-city radicals committed to resident action, nuclear disarmament and urban ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears "The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward ... (Iran, Iran nuclear program, Nuclear, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-03 14:09 - 0 comments

and despite international sanctions, has been developing capabilities intended for the production of a nuclear ... General item (Iran, Iran nuclear program, Israel, Nuclear disarmament, New ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-07 14:03 - 0 comments

rocket as part of an action of anti-nuclear activists. No one claimed responsibility for this attack, ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

(India, Julia Gillard, Nuclear power, Business Spectator) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-15 13:56 - 0 comments

for incremental steps. “Conventional nuclear thermal rockets are just not good enough, and they cannot be made good enough [for feasible interstellar space travel]. But the nuclear thermal rocket is the pick-up ... something of both the recent history and current thinking of interstellar space travel methods. Nuclear ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

policy issues that properly furrowed the brow were lofty and complex, like nuclear non-proliferation … ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-06-10 14:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

security in different ways to military build-ups or nuclear proliferation. It is this loose ...

Blog - Dennis Altman - 2011-11-29 13:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

China's nuclear power chief: A spy? "He is accused of selling secrets about China's nuclear power industry to foreign countries. ... (China, China nuclear program, Nuclear, Nuclear power, Nuclear safety, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-31 14:34 - 0 comments

with the city planners and then, by odd connections, as an adviser on nuclear policy with a cupboard office just ... Moorhouse, Gough Whitlam, Nuclear, Short Stories, United Nations) ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2011-11-04 16:04 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

stillness and silence, suggesting a nuclear winter or a new ice age, the lines etched in the rime took ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-12-01 15:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the Fukushima nuclear reactor into meltdown; the sovereign debt crisis in Europe; and the riots without apparent ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments