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...believe that the North will come clean in the material handed over Thursday about its alleged uranium enrichment program. In late 2002, the U.S. accused Pyongyang of hiding just such a program, an allegation that led to the North pulling out of talks and ultimately testing its nuke in October of 2006. It's also doubtful that Pyongyang will say anything about its apparent involvement in the construction of a nuclear reactor in Syria, which Israel bombed and destroyed in a bombing raid last September...
...diverse mix of renewables, integrated to compensate for individual faults - solar for when the wind doesn't blow, and vice versa. He also wants to focus on energy efficiency and micropower, shifting away from the old model of the massive central plant sending out electricity - i.e., your local nuke - in favor of smaller plants, even residence-scale ones, built close to population centers. Reducing carbon emissions, he argues, will be cheaper and safer if we turn away from nuclear in favor of alternatives. "The bottom line is that nuclear buys two to 10 times less climate protection than its competitors...
...accomodating. Today, it test-fired another missile (the fourth since 1998) toward South Korea - this time on the west coast toward China. Pyongyang also warned Washington to get off its back about an alleged uranium enrichment program, saying if it didn't, North Korea might not become a nuke-free country. On Thursday, Pyongyang told a dozen South Korean officials working at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a joint Korean economic zone situated just north of the DMZ, to pack up and go back to Seoul. "[North Korea is] ratcheting up the pressure," says Lho Kyongsoo, a professor of international politics...
...Keeping the lights on in Ankara seems to be more important than the prospect of an Iranian nuke. Little wonder after the Bush administration stunned the world with a National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran had given up building a bomb...
Less admirable than this loyalty is the Australian fetish of antielitism. If you want to nuke an enemy, call him an elitist, especially if he is an intellectual. The word is empty, since no society, including Australia's, has ever been able to function without elites of skill, intelligence and ordinary competence. Yet Australians can rarely bring themselves to say they value human superiority. It sounds undemocratic...