Word: nuking
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...comprehensive European economic assistance package. "It is an insult to the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad told United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan last week, rejecting the offer. The 49-year-old former Tehran mayor, who has no previous experience in international diplomacy, said he would come up with a nuke initiative of his own, once he had completed his cabinet appointments. That gave a glimmer of hope to some European officials. "Obviously, things haven't moved in the direction we'd all hoped," a French diplomat told TIME, "but all options and possible outcomes remain fully open." U.S. President George...
...didn't say nuke anything. I just said, 'Take out their holy sites.'" TOM TANCREDO, U.S. Republican Congressman, clarifying his comments last month on how the U.S. should respond to a nuclear attack by Islamic terrorists...
...didn't say nuke anything. I just said, 'Take out their holy sites...
...instance, India and Pakistan joined the nuclear armed club-which was worrying enough to the world. But 18 months later, Pakistan underwent a military coup, ejecting the Prime Minister and replacing him with a general. In its case it seems unlikely that the new government is going to nuke anyone, but the coup was a reminder to policy planners of how quickly a situation that just looks "bad" can get worse. Russia's thousands of warheads remain a worry, and some of the more concerned analysts fear that the country is just one bad winter away from an anti...
...stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons from spinning out of control. The Bush Administration has publicly declared that it is intolerable for states such as North Korea and Iran to get nuclear weapons, but few experts believe that either regime would risk annihilation by actually launching a nuke in anger. More terrifying is the possibility that malefactors operating without such restraints--such as the suicidal jihadists of al-Qaeda--might acquire atomic materials. It is the global terrorist threat that has made this the least predictable moment since the dawn of the nuclear age. Says Sam Nunn, the Democratic...