Aussie Uranium won't be used in Russian Nukes

Australia is a large producer of uranium

and is Kevin Rudd is making

decisions to which countries australia

will sell to. ( australia will not supply uranium to India)

Aussie Uranium won't be used in Russian Nukes

"Australia would effectively be relinquishing responsibility for supplying the raw ingredient for bomb fuel to a nuclear weapons state with an acknowledged lack of transparency in its civil-military arrangements," spokesman Bill Williams said.

- Nimisha Gupta

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Obama's nuclear summit

Today was the second and final day of a nuclear security summit hosted in Washington by President Obama.  The two major objectives (as well as I can tell) were to address the risk of nuclear terrorism, and to rally support for sanctions against Iran.  It sounds like the summit was more successful on the former than the latter.  While none of the final agreements between nations are legally binding, many nations pledged to destroy weapons-grade nuclear materials and work towards better nuclear security. 

On the question of Iran, China has been advocating a diplomatic approach rather than sanctions. It's a little unclear where China stands at the moment, but Obama claims there has been progress on the question of sanctions.  China imports a lot of oil from Iran, and it's also at odds with the U.S. over currency issues at the moment, so there are some significant roadblocks to full cooperation with the Obama agenda on Iran. 

A decent summary article from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/13/obama.hu.nuclear.meeting/?hpt=T1

An interesting Fox News article about the U.S. taking on all the nuclear material of the world:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/13/popular-destination-worlds-unwanted-nuclear-supply/

I LOVE OBAMA THIS WEEK!

"Saying that the prospect of nuclear terrorism had emerged as one of the greatest threats to global security, President Obama called on world leaders “not simply to talk, but to act” to secure or destroy vulnerable stockpiles of nuclear materials.

...

Seeking to lend force to his warning, Mr. Obama said that dozens of countries held nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen, and that a weapon fashioned from an apple-size piece of plutonium could kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people"

Here

-Cat

Like Ike...

Apparently Eisenhower had a similar nuke policy, this is really interesting...

"On Monday, President Obama announced, in his Nuclear Posture Review, a new American approach to nuclear war that comes right out of Eisenhower’s playbook."

-Cat

New regulations for medical radiation equipment...

I AM HYJACKING THIS BLOG

:)

-Cat

"Even as the two presidents hailed the treaty, however, they found no common ground on American plans to build an antimissile shield in Europe to counter any Iranian threat. Mr. Obama refused Russian demands to include limits on missile defense in the treaty, nearly scuttling the agreement. In the days leading up to the ceremony here, Russian officials alternately claimed the agreement would bind the program or complained that it did not and threatened to withdraw if it went forward.

The treaty, if ratified by lawmakers in both countries, would require each country to deploy no more than 1,550 strategic warheads, down from 2,200 allowed in the Treaty of Moscow signed by President George W. Bush in 2002. Each would be limited to 800 total land-, air- and sea-based launchers — 700 of which can be deployed at any given time — down from 1,600 permitted under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 1991, or Start."

Here.

-Cat