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...White House announced last January that the U.S. "will join ... an ambitious international research project to harness the promise of fusion energy, the same form of energy that powers the sun. America will join negotiations with Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and China to create the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). This will be the largest and most technologically sophisticated fusion experiment in the world." Actually, it's the same consortium to which the U.S. had been party in the 1990s and from which it then bailed...
...policy. While Washington was obsessed with Iraq, Pyongyang admitted that it has an illicit nuclear weapons program, threw out international inspectors, formally renounced its international obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), took possession of and relocated nuclear materials that were formerly under international supervision and restarted the nuclear reactor that will enable it to produce more weapons-grade nuclear material in the future...
...disease and environmental catastrophe could be swept under the rug. Man-made famines in Russia in the 1930s and China two decades later were scarcely known outside their borders. But more recently the world has become too interconnected for deception of that magnitude. In 1986, when a nuclear reactor exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, the Soviet government initially tried to keep it quiet. But when Geiger counters in Scandinavia went haywire, Moscow had to come clean. This year the truth about SARS emerged after citizens infected in China traveled outside the country--and after the groundbreaking reporting of TIME...
...talks, Li, true to his script, informed Kelly that North Korea indeed possesses nuclear weapons, might well choose to export or "demonstrate" them and would base its decision on whether Washington meets a slew of demands, including lots more aid. Li added that the plutonium from the Yongbyon reactor?material that $400 million in U.S. heavy-fuel-oil payments was meant to keep "frozen"?was now almost completely reprocessed. North Korea then called off the third day of talks, explaining that the Americans "had nothing...
...effects of weightlessness on bone density. The Russian space program is currently the only means of sending humans into space since NASA's shuttles have been grounded until next year for certification. Cracking Up ukraine Officials conceded that the concrete-and-steel shell built to contain the damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is in danger of collapse before its replacement is completed. The new structure, costing hundreds of millions of dollars and partly financed by the international community, might not be finished until 2010. The admission was untimely, coming days before the 17th anniversary of the disaster at the plant...