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Wednesday 11 January 2012
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Containers holding used nuclear fuel being stored under water for up to five years before the uranium and plutonium is reprocessed. Photograph: Don McPhee
A new index assessing the vulnerability of the world's stocks of weapons-grade nuclear material produces some surprising results
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The car belonging to Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan is lifted at the site of an explosion outside a university in northern Tehran. Photograph: STRINGER/IRAN/REUTERS
The latest assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist is identical to earlier killings, but comes at an even more dangerous moment for the region
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Tuesday 10 January 2012
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Alleged al-Qaida and Taliban detainees in orange jumpsuits kneel in a holding area at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This photo was released on 18 January 2002 by the US Department of Defense. Photograph: Getty/Shane T McCoy/AFP
The Caribbean gulag started life at a hasty improvisation, but soon turned toxic and is now proving very hard to get rid of
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Friday 6 January 2012
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A former UN weapons inspector argues that Iran is most likely doing what it claims - making fuel plates for the Tehran research reactor
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Thursday 5 January 2012
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The natural uranium rod appears intended for Iran's heavy water reactor, potentially stoking more tension with the West
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Wednesday 4 January 2012
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Transfers have been be discussed but shifting Taliban detainees out of the prison camp could be complicated
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Monday 5 December 2011
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Luckily for the MoD, the stolen plans were from 1943 and the target was occupied France during the second world war
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Wednesday 30 November 2011
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The damage to the UK embassy seems to have left little choice but shutting down the mission, but Iran's deepening isolation may only strengthen the radicals
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Wednesday 23 November 2011
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This is a transcript of the highlights of an interview with Masoom Stanekzai, head of the
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Monday 14 November 2011
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Time magazine quotes 'western intel source' as saying Mossad carried out blast at missile base near Tehran
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Wednesday 9 November 2011
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An Israeli Air Force F-16I jet fighter takes off from the Negev Desert. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA
Tuesday's IAEA report has rekindled the global debate over what to do about the Iranian nuclear programme with a familiar array of options on the table: engage, sanction or attack. The various protagonists are familiar too. Russia is complaining the IAEA report has spoilt the chance of renewed dialogue, the US, Britain and France warned a new push towards tighter sanctions, and Israel is threatening to strike unless the international community sorts the matter out in the next few months
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Monday 7 November 2011
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The UN nuclear watchdog will unveil details of an advanced warhead blueprint and a site where it may have been tested, reports say
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Tuesday 1 November 2011
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Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan In friendlier times Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
The Iranians will attend Wednesday's conference in Istanbul but sharply worsening relations with Turkey mean they will come to play the spoiler
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Sunday 23 October 2011
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The suspected nuclear facility site in Syria before (l) and after an Israeli air strike in September 2007. Photograph: DigitalGlobe/AP
Against the backdrop of the Syrian revolt, the IAEA will seek answers on a 'likely' nuclear reactor
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Tuesday 18 October 2011
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, inspects IR-1 gas centrifuges used to enrich uranium at the Natanz nuclear plant. Photograph: Iranian presidency/EPA
Two new reports suggest that Iranian scientists are having chronic difficulties obtaining materials for uranium-enriching centrifuges
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