Proliferation
The U.S. government has shut down a Web site it set up in March containing documents captured during the Iraq war after arms experts and officials raised concerns it offered a guide to building a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
Reuters 3rd Nov 2006
New nukes
British Energy, the UK’s largest electricity generator, called on the government yesterday to initiate further public consultation on how much nuclear capacity the UK will need to install and by what date so that the country can meet its national objectives. In its submission on new nuclear energy to the government, the company said the leadership had established a need for nuclear power but had not consulted on the extent and the timing of the nuclear capacity that needed to be built.
FT 3rd Nov 2006
Trident
POLICE arrested a Shoreham grandmother as she took part in a blockade of a Scottish naval base for the second time.
Shoreham Herald 2nd Nov 2006
Iran
Iran flexed its military muscle yesterday by test-firing missiles capable of hitting Israel and local US bases in manoeuvres the hard-line regime codenamed “Great Prophet”.
Telegraph 3rd Nov 2006