Categories: Nuclear Roundup

Nuclear Roundup: 4/6/2018

By Jodi Lieberman, April 6, 2018

A daily roundup of quality nuclear policy news.

North Korea

Russia says US pushing North Korea to “war” as photos show new nuclear reactor activity

Experts push back at Japanese claim on North Korean nuclear work

South Korea wants a denuclearization deal at Moon-Kim talks

America and China duel for influence over North Korea

China hopes North Korea leader’s summits with Trump, Moon will defuse tension

North Korea continues expanding its reactor capability for making plutonium

United States

The real story of the Hawaiian missile crisis

Activists raid nuclear submarine base with hammers and “baby bottles of their own blood”

The risks of nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia and the role of Congress

How the Navy punches a nuclear sub through the Arctic ice

International

What are Iranian hardliners saying on social media?

Russia, China denounce US efforts to change Iran deal, world trade rules

Heinonen: The IAEA’s right and obligation to inspect military facilities in Iran

Turkish nuclear plant is Russia’s revenge – opposition MPs

Outside the box: Israel’s strike on Syria’s nuclear plant

General Interest

JFK’s “secret” doomsday map revealed

Ira Helfand: We must step back from the brink on nuclear weapons

Send Jodi Lieberman items of interest for the Nuclear Roundup at brodnica67@gmail.com.

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