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Peace And Disarmament

  • Experts split on Belgrade gas warfare

    U.S. and UN experts have challenged a Belgian scientist who reported that he had found evidence that Yugoslavia used chemical weapons on ethnic Albanian fighters and civilians in Kosovo during the

    • 26/12/1998

  • Pakistan claims it can make neutron bombs

    Pakistan has the capacity and expertise to build a neutrone bomb, a prominent pakistan nuclear scientist said Wednesday , following the disclosure by India it could also make the devices.

    • 19/12/1998

  • China has the neutron bomb

    China has claimed that it has mastered the technology for neutron bombs as well as miniaturised nuclear warheads for its missiles without any help from Chinese spying in the United States. In a

    • 16/12/1998

  • Plutonium shipment could enter South African waters within days

    Greenpeace arrived in Cape Town to warn the officials and the public about an imminent plutonium shipment which could enter South African waters. Two British-flagged vessels, the Pacific Teal and the

    • 08/12/1998

  • Scientists refute doubts over N-tests yield

    Chief designers of the Pokhran II tests have maintained that the total yield of the five nuclear tests on 11 and 13 May is around 58 kilo-ton and refuted the doubts raised by a group of Western

  • Missile programs burrow to evade U.S. eyes in the sky

    A commission appointed by Congress has concluded that North Korea, Iran and other countries are concealing their ballistic missile programs from U.S. spy satellites by using enormous underground

    • 30/07/1998

  • SOHO spacecraft located with ground-based radar

    Ground-based radio telescopes have been able to detect the new Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft and have found it rotating slowly near its original position in space, a

  • In search of buried poison

    Japanese chemical weapons from the World War II can still sicken and kill people in northern China. The dumping was part of a campaign to erase evidence of Japan's chemical war against

  • North Korea is barring full access to nuclear sites, U.S. report finds

    North Korea is refusing to allow international inspectors full access to its nuclear sites, raising concern that it will be impossible to determine if Pyongyang has hidden away enough plutonium to

    • 16/07/1998

  • Size does matter

    Remember those nuclear tests in May? By analyzing seismic data recorded around the world, scientists have measured the intensity of the blasts. Their conclusion: both India and Pakistan have

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