Items related to nuclear weapons

The reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, just outside the port city of Bushehr south of the capital Tehran, Iran
Iran purports to have tested 1st nuclear fuel rod from own uranium
AFP 01 Jan 2012
Iran on Sunday said that its scientists have "tested the first nuclear fuel rod produced from uranium ore deposits...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died
AP 19 Dec 2011
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea announced the death of supreme leader Kim Jong-il and urged its people to...
Two members of paramilitary Basij forces, affiliated to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, stand on an abandoned US helicopter, and above a poster of US President Barack Obama, at the Azadai (Freedom) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, during a ceremony marking failed 1980 US rescue mission to free 52 Americans held hostage at the US Embassy in Tehran.  
Huge blast kills 17 at Iran military base
Reuters 13 Nov 2011
TEHRAN — A massive explosion at a military arms depot near the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday killed 17 ...
An image grab taken from the Hezbollah-run Manar TV shows Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivering a speech via closed-circuit video from an undisclosed location, Janury 23, 2011, a day before the Lebanese President Michel Sleiman consults MPs to name a new premier after the collapse of Saad Hariri's government.
Hezbollah leader blasts US over Iran, Syria, Hariri
AFP 12 Nov 2011
BEIRUT - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah accused the United States on Friday of ramping up pressure on Iran and Syria...
A general view shows the reactor building at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, 1200 kms south of Tehran, on August 20, 2010. After decades of delay and sanctions, Iran will launch on August 21, 2010 its Russian-built first nuclear power plant in the face of Western suspicion that its atomic programme has a covert military agenda.
Report: IAEA to say Iran nearing nuclear capability
Reuters 07 Nov 2011
Intelligence provided to the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency shows that Iran has mastered the critical...
Anti nuclear power protesters release ballons next to an effigy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside the Chancellery in Berlin, September 5, 2010. Merkel and heads of her coalition met at the Chancellery to hammer out an energy concept and to negociate the operation times of the countries nuclear reactors.
US's most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled
AP 25 Oct 2011
AMARILLO, Texas - The last of the nation's most powerful nuclear bombs - a weapon hundreds of times stronger than...
حسن يونس وزير الكهرباء والطاقة والسيد يوكيا أمانو  المدير العام للوكالة الدولية للطاقة الذرية
Energy minister discusses nuclear cooperation with IAEA head
Arabic Edition 22 Sep 2011
Electricity and Energy Minister Hassan Younis met on Wednesday with Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency...
Israel's secret nuclear facility at Dimona.
Heated confrontation erupts between Egypt and Israel at non-proliferation symposium
Wael Ali 10 Jul 2011
Sources at a European Union-hosted Middle East security symposium hosted on Wednesday said that a heated confrontation...
Al-Dabaa site is the site of the first nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes in Egypt,on January 10 , 2010 . Al-Dabaa located in northeastern Nile Delta, on the west of the port city of Alexandria .
Sunday's papers: Dubious nuclear claims, strained relations with Coptic church and rise in newborns
Noha El-Hennawy 14 Nov 2010
An Associated Press report on an international investigation into Egypt’s nuclear ambitions makes headlines in...
File picture dated February 4, 1998 shows an Egyptian security guard monitoring the area around the newly-opened nuclear research center in Inshas, some 60 km north of Cairo. Egypt's plan to build four nuclear powerplants by 2025 underscores the emerging interest in atomic energy across the Middle East, where even oil-rich nations such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are eyeing fossil fuel alternatives to satisfy growing demand.
UN General Assembly adopts two resolutions supporting nuclear weapons free Middle East
Arabic Edition 30 Oct 2010
The current session of the United Nations General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution submitted by Egypt concerning...