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You are here: Home / Blog / Iran Installs 600 High-Tech Centrifuges, Boosting Nuke Technology – What We’re Reading Now

April 17, 2013

Iran Installs 600 High-Tech Centrifuges, Boosting Nuke Technology – What We’re Reading Now

IRAN

Diplomats: Iran installs 600 high-tech centrifuges, boosting nuke technology
Associated Press, The Washington Post – April 17, 2013

Technicians upgrading Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility have tripled their installations of high-tech machines that could be used in a nuclear weapons program to more than 600 in the last three months, diplomats said Wednesday. They say the machines are not yet producing enriched uranium and some may be only partially installed.

NORTH KOREA

Japan ready to sign South Korea military agreement in light of North Korea’s aggressions
John Hofilena, Japan Daily Press – April 17, 2013

Koro Bessho, the Japanese ambassador to Seoul, revealed on Wednesday that Japan is ready to sign a bilateral military intelligence agreement with South Korea “at any time”. The ambassador is urging the South Korean government to sign the pact to improve both countries’ security measures in light of the increasingly warlike threats coming from North Korea.

North Korea bars delegation
Associated Free Press, News24 – April 17, 2013

North Korea on Wednesday barred a delegation of South Korean businessmen from delivering food and supplies to 200 of their staff inside the closed Kaesong joint industrial zone.

Obama Doubts That North Korea Can Make a Nuclear Warhead

President Obama said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he did not believe that North Korea yet had the ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon to fit atop a missile, and he said nothing would shake him from a strategy of refusing to “reward” the kind of provocative behavior exhibited by Kim Jong-un, the North’s leader.

MISSILE DEFENSE

U.S. vows funds for Iron Dome, as 2 rockets are fired into Israel
Cheryl K. Chumley, The Washington Times – April 17, 2013

Budget cuts won’t impact U.S. funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, as the Pentagon has vowed $220 million for fiscal year 2014. Israel’s Missile Defense Agency reports that the funding comes in addition to $204 million from the Pentagon for the program in 2011 and $70 million in 2012. Meanwhile, Agence France-Presse reported, the United States is also calling for another $176 million for Iron Dome in 2015.

Opinion: A reality check for missile defense
Laura Grego, Politico – April 16, 2013

It’s time to take a clear-eyed look at what U.S. missile defense systems can and cannot do.

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