Topic: Barack Obama

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that US President Barack Obama "thought it appropriate" to recognize Japan's atomic bomb anniversary as he wants to rid the world of nuclear arms.The United States, 65 years after a mushroom cloud rose over Hiroshima, ...

Ageing Hiroshima A-bomb survivors want Obama visit

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - The Japanese city of Hiroshima, reduced to ashes by a U.S. nuclear bomb in 1945, holds its annual commemoration of that attack on Friday, but this will be the first year that a U.S. representative will take part.U.S. ...
Atomic Apology? US to send first delegation to Hiroshima A-Bomb memorialSurvivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are welcoming a decision by the United States to send its first ever delegation to a ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks, ...

US to attend Hiroshima memorial for first time

Sixty-five years after a mushroom cloud rose over Hiroshima, the United States will for the first time send an envoy this Friday to commemorate the bombing that rang in the nuclear age.Its World War II allies Britain and France, both declared nuclear ...
Obama administration plans cut of up to 40 percent of stockpiled nuclear weaponsA government document reveals that the Obama administration is planning to cut the U.S. nuclear stockpile by up to 40 percent by 2021.The Energy Department document provides details of the ...

UAE airports 'refuse fuel to Iran jets'

Airports in Britain, Germany and the United Arab Emirates have refused to offer fuel to Iranian passenger jets after unilateral sanctions imposed by Washington, ISNA news agency said on Monday.IRNA, the official state news agency, said in a separate report that Kuwaiti ...

Obamas Nuclear Challenge

The author discusses U.S. President Barack Obama's political speeches in Prague, Czechoslovakia and in Reykjavik, Iceland encouraging a world with peace and without nuclear weapons. In these speeches, Obama discussed the possibility of a nuclear weapon-free world, and how the end of ...
The Obama Administration announced today that it will retain Thomas D'Agostino as head of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. The decision was met with dismay by many in the arms control and non-proliferation community, who fear that it will be harder to ...
The United States has decided not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear countries as long as they comply with their nonproliferation commitments under different international treaties. The new policy, announced today by President Barack Obama and contained in a long-awaited Nuclear Posture ...
The secretive JASON group of academic physicists have given a thumbs up to the current program of refurbishing nuclear warheads in the U.S. stockpile instead of building new, more reliable ones. The report should bolster efforts by the Obama Administration to keep ...