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...European countries want the IAEA'S 35-member board to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for action over its failure, over a decade, to disclose various aspects of a program Tehran insists is for civilian energy purposes, but which Western governments suspect is a covert bomb program. But many members of the IAEA board are reluctant to foment a confrontation over the issue...
...Iraq, North Korea and Iran, ElBaradei has for years been sounding warnings over the limitations of the existing treaty frameworks to prevent nuclear-weapons proliferation. In an interview with TIME in 2003, he explained how "thirty years ago not many countries could get the technology required to make a bomb. Now 30 to 40 can." He advocates strengthening the non-proliferation regime by restricting access to bomb-grade fuel and by banning the enrichment of uranium except under international supervision...
...Despite the limitations of the existing treaty framework, ElBaradei believes that strengthening it remains the only plausible course of action because no single country or group of countries enjoys sufficient international trust. "You can't just bomb your way into every country that you suspect of harboring WMD," he said. "You need a system. The lesson of Iraq is that you need to have a working system in place...
Ford says he is familiar with these types of rules because in his high school in Colorado he was left out of practice emergency drills, including bomb drills...
Helsan Surapati sits on the glass-strewn pavement outside the gutted Raja restaurant, playing a blurry video clip of smoke and bloodied faces on his mobile phone. The Balinese vendor was buying a soda just down the street when a bomb hit the three-story building in Bali's popular tourist strip of Kuta. In a quivering voice, Helsan describes how he helped carry the wounded to taxis so they could be rushed to hospital. "There were people everywhere with bloodied faces," he says. "They were afraid of another bomb and were screaming and running." He shakes his head, repeating...