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Iran's economic crisis may be endangering its nuclear energy program, which the U.S. fears is a stepping-stone to the development of nuclear weapons. Negotiations for Chinese reactors are stalled over lack of money. Russia is selling Iran a light-water reactor -- despite U.S. objections -- for $1 billion, but Tehran is half a billion dollars in arrears with its payments for other Russian imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REVOLUTIONARY DISINTEGRATION | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

North Korea's delegation rejected a U.S. proposal to keep currentnuclear negotiationsalive and instead returned to Pyongyang today. Talks broke down over the issue of replacing North Korea's gas-graphite reactor with light-water models manufactured by South Korea. The plan offends North Korea's sense of propriety explainsTIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllister: "This may be their typical tactic of going back on an agreement or they may really be drawing a line in the sand." It is not yet clear whether North Korea will abandon its stand-still agreement with the U.S. andresume nuclear weapons development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH KOREA WALKS AWAY FROM NUCLEAR TALKS | 4/21/1995 | See Source »

...announced that the team, after six weeks of feverish activity, had successfully moved the material to the Oak Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana -- is a congressional appropriation that finances denuclearization in the states of the former Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Sapphire's Hot Glow | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...lunch with the Overseas Press Club later, Zhirinovsky added a kicker: an allegation that the1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster was an act of sabotage by certain KGB agents intent on destroying confidence in Soviet technology.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CHERNOBYL CONNECTION | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

...what of our most critical, nonnegotiable demand, that North Korea ship out of the country the plutonium-laden fuel rods that it brazenly removed from its reactor in May in defiance of the sternest U.S. warnings? From these rods North Korea can make half a dozen Hiroshimas. Did we get them? No. We got more promises. The rods, we are assured, will be out -- in the next century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romancing the Thugs | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

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