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Work started Thursday on a new ventilation system that will clear the way for more radioactive waste to be disposed of at the U.S. government's underground nuclear repository in southern New Mexico. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is the nation's only location for disposing of ...
Belgian police arrested eight anti-nuclear protesters after they entered an air base on Sunday in the east of the country, activists from Agir pour la Paix (Act for Peace) said. Suspecting the base houses U.S. nuclear weapons, the campaigners for a nuclear-free zone hauled themselves ...
Sergey Lavrov: West's 'Russiaphobia' worse than in Cold War but don't cross Moscow's 'red lines'
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday said the West's "Russiaphobia" was worse than during the Cold War and warned that Moscow has "red lines" that should be respected. "This Russiaphobia is unprecedented. We never saw this during the Cold War," Lavrov, fresh from a ...
Hawaii to resume Cold War-era nuclear siren tests amid North Korea threat
Hawaii this week will resume monthly statewide testing of its Cold War-era nuclear attack warning sirens for the first time in about 30 years, in preparation for a potential missile launch from North Korea, emergency management officials said Monday. Wailing air-raid sirens will be sounded ...
Albanians trying to come to grips with dark, murderous communist past
From his office in the shadowy "House of Leaves," Nesti Vako would listen to the private conversations of his fellow Albanians, spying for the state during the country's communist era. "I had a table, a strong coffee and some equipment," the 74-year-old said, as he ...
U.S.-North Korea crisis tests Cold War's nuclear deterrence doctrine
The doctrine of nuclear deterrence, put to the test in the standoff between Washington and Pyongyang, dates to the Cold War when the world's two superpowers seemed hellbent on "mutually assured destruction." The arms race between United States and the then Soviet Union saw a ...
In a vast network of tunnels carved into the rocks under the Maltese capital Valletta, faded maps of the Mediterranean hint at the place's role in directing key battles in World War II. Malta is now restoring the 28-km (17-mile) of tunnels, planning to open ...
Remembering Helmut Kohl's unfinished business
The late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was the man who put German history to bed, and helped lay the groundwork for the current confrontation between Russia and the West.
Ceausescu bunker offers a window into Romania's brutal communist past
The hermetically sealed heavy steel door to the bunker of Romania's late communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, opens with a squeak, releasing a burst of cool air. The bunker sits two levels beneath a lavish villa in an upmarket neighborhood in Bucharest, Ceausescu's private residence through ...
Some of North Korea's old friends take steps to isolate regime of Kim Jong Un
From kicking out North Korean workers and ending visa-free travel for its citizens, to stripping flags of convenience from its ships, Cold War-era allies from Poland to Mongolia are taking measures to squeeze the isolated country. More such moves, with prodding from South Korea and ...
Michael Douglas urges Obama to cement his anti-nuke legacy at Hiroshima
Hollywood actor Michael Douglas, a U.N. "messenger for peace," wants President Barack Obama to issue a strong message against nuclear weapons when he visits Hiroshima in Japan later this month. Douglas told reporters at the United Nations in Geneva, where nuclear negotiations have been stuck ...
Nuclear nightmare flows down radioactive Russian river
At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man, and the river flowing past his rural family home appears pristine. But Dambaev is riddled with diseases that his doctors link to a lifetime's exposure to excessive radiation, and the Geiger counter beeps ...
