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After Failed Iran Nuclear Talks: What Now?
By not in system - AOL NewsISTANBUL -- The collapse of another attempt at international outreach to Iran on Saturday has left world powers with few options except to wait - and hope that the bite of sanctions will persuade Tehran to reconsider its refusal to stop activities that could be harnessed to make nuclear weapons. But their patience could be tested. While the U.S. and others say that Iran already is suffering from the wide range of financial and trade sanctions, travel bans and other penalties imposed by the U.N., the U.S., the EU and others, the Islamic Republic shows no sign of bending. Uranium enrichment ...
What's at Stake in US-China Summit? Pretty Much Everything
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsPresidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao have a lot to talk about. The Chinese leader arrives in the United States for a state visit at a time when Washington and Beijing are partners, adversaries or both on nearly every substantial international issue -- from Iranian and North Korean nuclear ambitions to disputes over subsidized steel and software piracy, from human rights and climate change to control of sea lanes and currency exchange rates. And the scope of U.S.-Chinese interaction itself has been evolving so rapidly that the White House has described the building of a better working ...
Iran, 6 Powers Talks Recess With No Signs of Progress
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GENEVA (Dec. 6) -- Talks between Iran and six world powers recessed Monday with no sign that Tehran was ready to discuss U.N. Security Council calls to curb its nuclear activities that could be harnessed to make weapons, an official at the negotiations said. While the two sides were scheduled to meet in a second session on Tuesday, the description of Monday's meeting by the official gave little reason to presume that Iran would relent and agree to talks specifically addressing the U.N Security Council demands. That, in turn, would dash hopes of a renewed meeting in the new year. The U.S. and ...
Iran Haggles With West Over Terms of Nuclear Talks
By not in system - AOL NewsGENEVA (Dec. 6) -- Iran and six world powers haggled Monday over the terms of negotiations that the West hopes will limit Iranian nuclear activities that could be used to make atomic weapons. As the meeting in Geneva - their first in a year - broke for lunch, there were signs that both sides were at least willing to listen, even though they may remain far part on how deeply the talks should tackle concerns about Iranian nuclear activities. Several officials from the six powers at the meeting - the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Germany and the European Union - said the Iranian delegation had ...
In War With Iran, B-1s Would Be Vital
By David Wood - Politics DailyA U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear weapons facilities might look just like this: a B-1bomber lancing along just above the desert floor at 900 feet per second, ducking behind mountains and beneath ridgelines to hide from enemy radar, carrying a bellyful of 2,000-pound satellite-guided bombs. Guided by radar linked to auto-pilot, the bomber is yanked up and down as it thunders over the rugged terrain at a precise altitude – 1,000 feet, for this training run over West Texas, but it can be set to a mere 200 feet above the ground. Even at 1,000 feet, impact with the ground is three seconds away ...
Was Stuxnet Designed to Wreck Iran's Nukes?
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Nov. 19) -- Experts analyzing a powerful computer worm that may have been designed to slow Iran's nuclear program have discovered the malicious bug was programmed in a way that could cause nuclear-fuel centrifuges to self-destruct. Since its discovery by a Belorussian anti-virus firm this summer, the Stuxnet worm has been found on some 44,000 computers worldwide, 60 percent of which are located in Iran. (Just 1,600 are in the U.S.) But the exact purpose of the world's first so-called cyberwarfare super-weapon -- a digital program designed to destroy a real-world target -- has puzzled ...
Iran Begins Injecting Fuel Into Nuclear Reactor
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 26) -- Iran started loading fuel today into the core of its first nuclear reactor, a key step in what Tehran describes as a peaceful drive toward nuclear-produced electricity but a move the West suspects is aimed at building weapons. The first of 163 fuel rods was injected into the core of one of the Bushehr power plant reactors this morning, and the plant will become fully operational once all of them are loaded, state-run Press TV reported. The reactor will begin generating electricity in early 2011, it said. That's later than expected. When Russia transferred fuel to Bushehr ...
Stuxnet Close-Up: All You Need to Know About the Mighty Malware
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- The virus lurked quietly over the summer, but last week, it dominated headlines around the world, and now it's arrival has been confirmed: Stuxnet attacked Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, which was scheduled to go online this fall. The news has led experts to speculate that the highly sophisticated software is an advanced cyberweapon being used to spy on and sabotage the Iranian nuclear program, although some say the infection was more an indicator of the Iranian plant's shoddy security. But just what is Stuxnet and why is it so feared? Below, Surge Desk answers five ...
Obama Slams Ahmadinejad but Pushes Talks With Iran
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Sept. 24) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be the United States' best bet for isolating and forcing change from Iran. President Barack Obama, in an interview today with the BBC service directed at Iran, lambasted Ahmadinejad for once again suggesting the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, even as the White House and its allies work to revive talks with Iran aimed at restricting Iran's nuclear program. "It was offensive. It was hateful. And particularly for him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a little north of ground zero, where families lost ...
Was There a Cyberattack on Iran's Nuclear Program?
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Sept. 22) -- The evidence may be scant and the claims seemingly far-fetched, but a cybersecurity expert is suggesting that a sophisticated new type of malicious software called Stuxnet may have been spread in the hope of bringing down Iran's nuclear program. "At least one expert who has extensively studied the malicious software, or malware, suggests Stuxnet may have already attacked its target -- and that it may have been Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, which much of the world condemns as a nuclear weapons threat," The Christian Science Monitor reported today, based on comments made by ...
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