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... Obama is set to lay out his vision for advancing toward a world free of nuclear weapons during a speech Wednesday at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. A senior administration official says Mr. Obama will propose the United States and Russia cut their number of strategic nuclear warheads by up to one third below the level agreed to in a 2009 treaty. That pact, called the New START agreement, calls for the two countries to reduce their arsenal to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads by 2018.

ISLAMABAD, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Pakistani Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Thursday Dr. QadeerKhan, the country's well-known nuclear scientist, had provided centrifuges to Iran, according to the official Associated Press ofPakistan. "He had given centrifuges to Iran in his individual capacity and the government of Pakistan had nothing to do with this," Rashid said in response to a question at a seminar on political reconciliation in the country. Rashid said it was duly acknowledged that Dr. Khan was involvedin proliferation at the individual level but added the Pakistani government would not hand him over to any other...

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=10146 Debate Score: Bush 1, Kerry 0 Written by Gregory Borse Monday, October 04, 2004 In order for the creeping dynamics of the race for the presidency to change as a result of the first presidential debate, two things had to happen: President Bush had to commit a major gaff and Democratic challenger Senator Kerry had to hit a home run. Neither happened. Still, this first debate offered an opportunity--as a result of the fact that the two participants performed so well--a real contrast between the candidates. For all the harping before the first of the three scheduled debates, about...

January 4, 2004 From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to PakistanBy DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD he Pakistani leaders who denied for years that scientists at the country's secret A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories were peddling advanced nuclear technology must have been averting their eyes from a most conspicuous piece of evidence: the laboratory's own sales brochure, quietly circulated to aspiring nuclear weapons states and a network of nuclear middlemen around the world.The cover bears an official-looking seal that says "Government of Pakistan" and a photograph of the father of the Pakistani bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan....

North Korea has announced it is breaking off its only regular military contact with the United States in protest at ongoing American military exercises with South Korean forces. North Korea and the US have no diplomatic ties, but military officials have held regular liaison talks at the South Korean border to discuss security issues. A statement by the North Korean army warned that the US military was "pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war" and accused it of violating terms of the 1953 armistice which ended the Korean war. The army warned it could take...