AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
uranium
On Eve of Talks, Iran Says It's Mining Own Uranium
By not in system - AOL News
TEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 5) -- Iran delivered a resolute message Sunday on the eve of talks with six world powers: We're mining our own uranium now, so forget about stopping our nuclear ambitions. The Islamic Republic said it has produced its first batch of locally mined uranium ore for enrichment, making it independent of foreign countries for a process the West fears is geared toward producing nuclear arms. No matter the U.N. sanctions over the program, "our nuclear activities will proceed and they will witness greater achievements in the future," Iranian nuclear chief Ali Salehi told state-run ...
Is a Beleaguered Iran Ripe for Nuclear Negotiation?
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Dec.1) -- Iran enters next week's negotiations with the United States and other world powers boasting a long record of outfoxing opponents of its nuclear ambitions. But this time Tehran comes to the table under nearly unprecedented international and domestic pressure to relinquish enrichment of uranium and other activities the West and the United Nations suspect are aimed at producing nuclear weapons. That leads some participants to hope for some kind of breakthrough. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today that she's "encouraged" by Iran's agreement to meet with diplomats from ...
Belarus to Scrap Uranium Stockpile
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Dec. 1) -- The former Soviet state of Belarus said today that by 2012 it will scrap its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium -- a Cold War vestige that President Barack Obama has sought to eliminate. The country's foreign minister, Sergei Martynov, made the promise today at a European security conference in Kazakhstan. The announcement marks a victory for the Obama administration, which has made nuclear nonproliferation a priority in its dealings with former Soviet states. Washington has been encouraging countries to convert nuclear power plants to run on low-grade enriched uranium, rather ...
North Korea Trumpets Advanced Nuclear Facilities
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Nov. 30) -- North Korea described in detail today the advanced state of its nuclear program, boasting that it has thousands of centrifuges dedicated to uranium enrichment. While it's not clear whether the centrifuges could produce weapons-grade material, the claims are sure to spook officials in the U.S., South Korea and even China, which -- according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks -- is growing increasingly frustrated with its ally's erratic behavior. Pyongyang's account of its nuclear capability raises the stakes in a regional crisis that culminated last week in the ...
Yellow Dirt: Uranium's Legacy in Navajo Country
By Judy Pasternak - AOL News
(Sept. 21) -- Yazzie Mesa on the Navajo reservation in Arizona is not nearly as dramatic as the spindly rock spires and sandstone arches in Monument Valley to the west, where classic John Wayne movies were filmed. Nor is it as imposing as Comb Ridge, the sheer-walled mass rising high to its east that slashes through 80 miles of desert in Utah and Arizona. But the relatively unassuming mesa played a vital Cold War role for the U.S. government, supplying uranium for atomic bombs. And to the Navajos who have dwelt for generations at its base, it is the wounded center of their world. Free Press ...
Iran Announces Building of New Nuclear Site
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran (Aug. 16) -- Iran said Monday it will begin building a new site to enrich uranium in March, moving ahead with a plan that defies international efforts to curb its nuclear development. Enriching uranium creates fuel for nuclear power plants but can also, if taken to higher levels, produce the material for weapons and Iran's growing capacity in this process is at the center of its dispute with the international community. Atta Kenare, AFP / Getty Images Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi, here in 2009, said Iran will begin building its third uranium enrichment plant in early ...
Russia Ready to Fuel Iran's 1st Nuclear Reactor
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- Russia said today that it will begin loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant next week, defying U.S. calls for a delay amid suspicions that Tehran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Russia signed a $1 billion contract in 1995 to help build the Bushehr plant in southern Iran but has long dragged its feet in the construction. Moscow has cited technical reasons, but there's also been pressure from Washington, which wants the plant delayed and suspects Iran of trying to develop atomic bombs. The United Nations has slapped four rounds of sanctions on Tehran because of its ...
Obama's Nuclear Summit: Invisible for Conservatives?
By David Corn - Politics DailyOn Monday and Tuesday, President Obama convened a historic gathering in Washington to deal with the most urgent threat facing the globe: nuclear terrorism. Never before have so many world leaders gathered to discuss together how to thwart one of the greatest nightmares imaginable; 47 nations were represented. Though no sweeping treaties or agreements were reached, Obama did succeed on two important fronts. He placed the issue of controlling and securing nuclear material that could be used by terrorists (including al-Qaeda and its allies) at the top of the global to-do list. And he encouraged ...
Leaders of 47 Nations Gather for Washington Summit on Nuclear Weapons
By David Sessions - Politics DailyLeaders of nearly 50 countries gathered in Washington on Monday to discuss the threat nuclear weapons could pose to global security. The summit comes just after President Obama signed a treaty with Russia last week in which both nations agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals. On Sunday, Obama met with leaders of Pakistan and India, the two nations seen as most likely to significantly expand their production of weapons-grade nuclear material. The summit is the largest gathering of leaders convened by an American president since Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the 1945 meeting that led to the ...
Iranian Gamesmanship Sets New Test for West
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Feb. 8) – Iran's diplomatic contests with the West over its nuclear program have often been compared to poker and chess, while the back-and-forth of its most recent rhetorical shots more aptly evokes ping-pong. Whatever the metaphor, the Iranian leadership is once again making clear it won't concede the game. Tehran's latest move came Monday, when the country's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency informed the U.N. watchdog that Iran would go ahead with the enrichment of uranium to the level of 20 percent – just above the IAEA threshold for "highly enriched uranium" ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Romneys Love Fancy World of Dressage Riding
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- More Stories »
- The 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
- Know Your Enemy
- Cannes’s Mischief Maker
- Cut It Out, Internet Bullies!
- Cut It Out, Internet Bullies!
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics