WASHINGTON: It is a simple transfer of immense power.
On January 20, an unobtrusive military officer carrying a small leather-bound metal briefcase will follow President George W Bush up to Capitol Hill. After the inauguration ceremony, he will accompany President Barack Obama back to the White House.
Inside the attache, known as “the football”, are the codes [...]

VIENNA (Reuters) – A bid by Syria for aid in planning a nuclear power plant poses no proliferation risk and a Western move to block the project could discredit the U.N. nuclear watchdog, its chief said in remarks released on Tuesday.
Major Western nations want the project shelved because Syria is under International Atomic Energy Agency [...]

The Associated Press
Published: November 13, 2008
SEOUL, South Korea: Iran must restore international confidence in its nuclear program, South Korea said Thursday after the Middle Eastern nation tested a long-range missile.
The U.S. and many of its allies have accused Iran of using its nuclear program as a cover for weapons development. Iran denies the charge, saying [...]

AUSTIN, Texas—As part of a broad international effort to eliminate the testing of nuclear weapons, engineers at The University of Texas at Austin were awarded $511,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration to research better methods for monitoring and detecting covert nuclear tests.
Associate Professor Steven Biegalski and Assistant Professor Mark Deinert, [...]

VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea restored access on Monday for U.N. monitors to its plutonium-producing nuclear complex, a day after pledging to resume work to disable it in a deal with the United States, diplomats told Reuters.
“The (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors can access all facilities at Yongbyon again, including the reprocessing plant,” said one [...]

By GEORGE JAHN
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — North Korea declared Monday that it will resume shutting down its nuclear program and allow U.N. experts to monitor the process, including making sure the plant that produced plutonium for its test bomb remains disabled.
The moves, revealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, were a strong indication that Pyongyang [...]

Vienna (dpa) - North Korea allowed international inspectors back into its nuclear facilities Monday, two days after the United States struck the country from its terrorism blacklist, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
In addition, the reclusive Stalinist state said it would resume disabling the Yongbyong nuclear complex on Tuesday by continuing to remove nuclear [...]

By Jack Kim and Chisa Fujioka
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States and North Korea are near a compromise to save a crumbling nuclear deal, news reports said on Friday, while Japan said it could accept rewarding the North by taking it off a U.S. terrorism blacklist.
Indications of a fresh deal came [...]

By Kurt Achin
Seoul
A senior North Korean official says his country is beginning to restore a disabled nuclear facility capable of producing weapons material. Pyongyang says the United States has not fulfilled obligations under a multinational agreement to get rid of the North’s nuclear weapons. VOA’s Kurt Achin reports from Seoul.
North Korean diplomat Hyun Hak Bong [...]