US being unfair with Iran on nukes issue: Ted Turner

Ted Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation, said he is trying to make the world a better place to live. He spoke to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar in an exclusive interview for the global affairs show World View. Here's the transcript. SH: Welcome to the special interview here on Worldview. Now he was called Captain Outrageous once but now he's more of Captain Planet because when Ted Turner puts his ...
02:53 PM, Apr 02, 2012

US being unfair with Iran on nukes issue: Ted Turner Ted Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation, said he is trying to make the world a better place to live. He spoke to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar in an exclusive interview for the global affairs show World View. Here's the transcript. SH: Welcome to the special interview here on Worldview. Now he was called Captain Outrageous once but now he's more of Captain Planet because when Ted Turner puts his...  
02:53 PM, Apr 02, 2012

The world doesn't need nukes: Ted Turner

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UN visit to Tehran set for January 28 Vienna: A senior UN nuclear agency team will visit Tehran on January 28 with Iran saying it is ready after years of refusal to discuss allegations that it was involved in secret nuclear weapons work, diplomats said Thursday. Diplomats have previously said that International Atomic Energy Agency officials were discussing such a trip with their Iranian counterparts. But before the diplomats' comments on Thursday, no date - or indication that...  
03:37 AM, Jan 13, 2012

Decision on lifting uranium ban wrong: Ex-Oz PM Melbourne: Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser on Monday strongly criticised Julia Gillard for amending the long-standing Labor policy to sell uranium to India calling it a "shameful abject submission to US pressure." In an opinion piece published in 'The Age', Fraser, who led the country during 1975-83 as a Prime Minister, said "Canberra's abject submission to US pressure is shameful." He said Gillard has been "dead wrong" in doing...  
08:52 AM, Dec 12, 2011

Iran army tests defences as nuclear tensions rise Tehran: The Iranian army is conducting a four-day training exercise to test its defences, state TV reported on Saturday, amid rising international tensions over Iran's nuclear programme. Press TV said the war games started on Friday and were taking place over 800,000 square km in the east of the country. "The initial stage of the drills will assess the units' performance in setting up primary and secondary command centres and...  
12:11 AM, Nov 20, 2011

IAEA, Iran spar over bomb work allegations Vienna: The UN nuclear watchdog showed letters and satellite images on Friday as part of evidence pointing to military dimensions to Iran's atomic activities, diplomats said, but Tehran's envoy dismissed it as "lousy" intelligence work. Herman Nackaerts, head of nuclear inspections worldwide at the International Atomic Energy Agency, made an hour-long technical presentation of the IAEA's latest report on Iran's nuclear programme at a closer-door meeting for member states. The...  
02:44 AM, Nov 12, 2011

UN stresses diplomacy to solve Iran N-standoff
by IANS
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday expressed deep concern over the possible military-dimension to Iran's nuclear programme, and called for a diplomatic solution to resolve the issue. The secretary-general has expressed serious concern after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday accused Iran of conducting activities aimed at developing nuclear weapons, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said. "The secretary-general reiterates his belief that a negotiated rather than a...  
05:28 AM, Nov 11, 2011

Won't retreat from nuclear path: Iran President Tehran: Iran won't retreat "one iota" from its nuclear program but the world is being misled by claims that it seeks atomic weapons, Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday in his first reaction since a UN watchdog report that Tehran is on the brink of developing a warhead. Ahmadinejad strongly chided the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, saying it is discrediting itself by siding with "absurd" US accusations. "This...  
03:32 PM, Nov 09, 2011

'Pak will have 200 N-warheads in a decade' Washington: Pakistan has the world's fastest-growing nuclear stockpile and it could achieve 150-200 warheads in a decade despite the political instability in the country, two top American atomic experts have said. Pakistan is in the process of building two new plutonium production reactors and a new reprocessing facility to fabricate more nuclear weapons fuel, wrote nuclear experts Hans M Kristensen and Robert S Norris in the latest issue of Bulletin...  
10:46 AM, Jul 07, 2011

US fears Pak N-weapons falling into wrong hands Washington: US on Friday expressed apprehension that the nuclear weapons and technology of Pakistan might fall into the hands of terrorists and thus stressed on having the lines of communications open with Islamabad. "It's a country with an awful lot of terrorists on that border," Admiral Mike Mullen Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a joint Pentagon news conference with the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates....  
08:41 AM, Jun 17, 2011

Taliban aims to take over Pakistan, its nukes Washington: The Taliban has said they have no plans to attack Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, asserting that it is the only Muslim state possessing such weapons and the terror group aims to take over the country as well as its nukes. Taliban has stepped-up violent campaign to avenge Osama bin Laden's death has renewed fears that the country's warheads could be vulnerable. Declaring that "Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power...  
07:03 PM, May 28, 2011

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06:41 PM, May 25, 2011

No money to Pak till they get rid of nukes: Trump Washington: The US should not give any money to Pakistan until they get rid of their nuclear weapons, said Donald Trump, believed to be a top Republican contender for the next presidential elections. "Pakistan is a real problem because they have nuclear weapons. And I would say something that I haven't heard, I would say we don't give them any money unless they get rid of their nuclear weapons," Trump...  
10:08 AM, May 10, 2011

Pak doubles its nuclear stockpile: US report Washington: Pakistan has doubled its nuclear arms stockpile to 110 warheads, developing new weapons to deliver them and significantly accelerating production of uranium and plutonium for bombs to edge ahead of India. Islamabad's nuclear weapons stockpile now totals more than 110 deployed weapons in a sharp jump from an estimated 30-80 weapons fours years ago, 'Washington Post' reported. "Pakistan has expanded its nuclear weapons production capability rapidly", the Post quoted...  
06:32 PM, Jan 31, 2011

Pak's nukes may fall in terrorist hands
by IANS
Washington: American and British diplomats fear Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme could lead to fissile material falling into the hands of terrorists or a devastating nuclear exchange with India, the latest cache of US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks suggest. The leaked cables contain warnings that Pakistan is rapidly building its nuclear stockpile despite the country's growing instability and "pending economic catastrophe", according to various media reports citing the leaked documents....  
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Pak has more nukes than India: Report A report claims Pakistan has 60 nuclear warheads and can produce 100 more at a very short notice. ...  
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Obama seeks $ 80 bn to improve N-weapons Obama said he need the money to enhance the safety, security and reliability of the weapons of US. ...  
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