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Editorial. Comments on U.S. President George W. Bush's justification of the invasion of Iraq by claiming that Iraq was planning to develop a nuclear weapon that might be used against the U.S. Discovery that the allegation was not true; Concern over whether Bush gave a good-faith account of the best available intelligence or knowingly deceived the public; Discovery that Bush was not aware that he was giving misinformation to the world; Finding that the only physical evidence the administration offered for an Iraqi nuclear program were aluminum tubes the government of Iraq set out to buy in 2001.

Looks at the statement made by President George W. Bush that the United States would maintain pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons program. Criticism made by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Bush's approach to foreign policy; Bush's emphasis on the efforts of the U.S. to cooperate with other nations to try to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

The article reports that North Korea has agreed to disable all its nuclear facilities by the end of 2007 in return for fuel oil and other economic aid. The decision is the second step of a six-nation agreement reached in February, 2007. The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush praised the announcement as a diplomatic victory. North Korea has not yet agreed to dispose of its nuclear weapons.

The article discusses what may have been a false assessment of North Korea's uranium enrichment efforts by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. The 2002 accusation was followed by the U.S.'s cutting off oil supplies and North Korea's retaliation by expelling international inspectors and detonating a plutonium bomb. The apparently faulty U.S. assessment of Korea's uranium program coincided with the administration's building a case about Iraq's unconventional weapons based on flawed intelligence.

This article discusses how the news about the United States' relations with Iran are beginning to sound more and more like its pre-war relations with Iraq. While U.S. President George W. Bush's administration officials insist that they are not taking the same approach, the insistence that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons is similar to the insistence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Americans, however, are much more skeptical about information concerning Iran's plans because of the erroneous Iraq warnings.

This article discusses a major change in George W. Bush's approach to negotiations with North Korea. Bush has always insisted that he would not negotiate with North Korea until they began the process of dismantlement of its nuclear weapons program. Now, Bush appears ready to agree to an approach that would allow peace negotiations while efforts to dismantle the nuclear program are still underway.

The author discusses the implications of a military solution to slowing Iran's bomb program. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney gave an ambiguous answer when asked, in a television interview, if America might resort to force to stop Iran. Iran could become a case study for pre-emptive military action against a gathering threat, under a 2002 policy announced by President George W. Bush. But the cost would be high. It would alienate allies and most likely make firm enemies out of many Iranians. And Iran has numerous ways of striking back.

Reports that U.S. President George W. Bush has reached an agreement with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to let India secure international help for its civilian nuclear reactors while retaining its nuclear arms. Significance of the agreement which, if approved by other nuclear countries and Congress, would remove a ban on civilian nuclear technology sales to India; Highlights of the agreement; Impact of the agreement on India's international status; Expectation that Pakistan will demand similar concessions; Concerns of nuclear weapons experts over weakening international controls on nuclear arms; Efforts of the Bush administration to improve ties with India.

Reports that the U.S. President George W. Bush administration is planning the government's first production of plutonium 238 since the cold war. Debate over the risks and benefits of the deadly material; Overview of the program at the Idaho National Laboratory, outside Idaho Falls, Idaho; How, in the past, plutonium has powered espionage devices; Comments of Timothy A. Frazier of the Department of Energy; Denials that any of the classified missions would involve nuclear arms, satellites or weapons in space; Fears that the production effort will threaten nearby ecosystems; Value of plutonium 238; Background on the government's use of plutonium 238. INSET: Up Close, a Plutonium Pellet And a Minor Slip of the Tongs.

Reports on the meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and South Korea President Roh Moo Hyun regarding North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Details of an offer made by Bush to North Korea as an inducement to return to the bargaining table to discuss nuclear development; Discussion of clarifying Bush's offer, which involved unspecific economic, energy and diplomatic benefits; Reasons for the talks between Bush and Roh.

Reports that China ruled out applying economic or political sanctions to pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, appearing to undercut a crucial element of the U.S. President George W. Bush's evolving North Korea policy. View of Chinese officials that they still wish North Korea to abandon their nuclear efforts and begin to disarm; Analysis of the announcement by China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jiancho, who rejected suggestions that it should reduce oil or food shipments to North Korea, calling them part of its normal trade with its neighbor that should be separate from the nuclear problem.

Discusses a recent stream of satellite photographs of North Korea that appear to show rapid, extensive preparations for a nuclear weapons test. Reports on how White House and Pentagon officials are monitoring the images, which included pictures of a test viewing stand; Comments from members of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration members, who say that the intentions of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il are unclear, and that it is possible that he is putting on a show for American spy satellites; Examination of the potential effect that a North Korean nuclear missile test would have on Japan and South Korea.

Reports that the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said that American intelligence agencies believed North Korea had mastered the technology for arming its missiles with nuclear warheads. Implications of the assessment; Possibility that the North could build weapons to threaten Japan and perhaps the western U.S.; Highlights of the Senate testimony of Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, the Defense Intelligence Agency chief; President George W. Bush's concerns about the progress North Korea has made on its nuclear program under Kim Jong Il; Detection of an advanced nuclear testing site in North Korea by the U.S. in 2003; Pressure on Pakistan for details about the technology North Korean engineers might have been given; Issue of technical sophistication in building a nuclear warhead that can be delivered by a missile; Views of analysts.

Reports that Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon urged United States President George W. Bush to step up pressure on Iran to give up all elements of its nuclear program, according to U.S. and Israeli officials. Signs of tension between Americans and Israelis; Sharon's argument that European nations negotiating with Iran were softening their position; Evidence that Sharon presented to Bush, including aerial photographs of sites in Iran; Comments of an American official; How U.S. officials have interpreted the evidence differently than Israel; Other issues discussed by Bush and Sharon during talks at the president's ranch in Texas.

Reports on George W. Bush Administration's development of strategies to control North Korea's sources of income. Coordinating efforts to track and freeze financial transactions that enable the government of Kim Jong II to profit from counterfeiting, drug trafficking and sale of missile and other weapons technology; Kim's declaration on nuclear weapons of his country; China and South Korea's reluctance to impose penalties on the North.

Reports on the continuing emergence of new information on the nuclear network led by Pakistani metallurgist A.Q. Khan, chief architect of Pakistan's bomb, nearly one year after his house arrest. Discovery by experts from the United States and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency of blueprints for a ten-kiloton atomic bomb in the files of the Libyan weapons program; Concerns by the administration of U.S. President George Bush about destabilizing Pakistan, considered an ally, if it pushes too hard for access to Khan, who is considered a national hero in Pakistan; Description of Khan's nuclear network; Countries involved in Khan's centrifuge design and uranium-related activities, such as the Netherlands. INSET: A Nuclear Network Partly Revealed..

Focuses on the intelligence problems faced by the U.S. with Iraq and Pakistan. Prewar intelligence assessments of the country about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; Threat posed by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb according to many intelligence experts; Impact of the efforts of President George W. Bush to stem proliferation on the sanctions against Iran and Libya.

Focuses on the threats of terrorism worldwide. Belief of Iranians and Libyans that terrorists could have a nuclear device made of plutonium; Intention of Iran and Libya to go peaceful and are letting international inspectors crawl all over them; Amount spent by U.S. President George W. Bush to tighten the nation's security.

The article focuses on the possibility of nuclear drive from Iran due to its ongoing war with the U.S. It mentions that Iran would not be able to produce nuclear weapon for they do not have enough source of uranium. According to U.S. Senator Carl Levin, the U.S. government should strengthen the fight against Iran, which is considered as the joining force behind the growing violence in Middle East.

London THE decision by the United States and Israel to develop and then deploy the Stuxnet computer worm against an Iranian nuclear facility late in George W. Bush's presidency marked a significant and dangerous turning point in the gradual militarization of the Internet. Washington has begun to cross the Rubicon. If it continues, contemporary warfare will change fundamentally as we move into hazardous and uncharted territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

President Obama announced Wednesday that he would not put North Korea back on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, after a classified study determined that the country ''does not meet the statutory criteria'' for that designation. President George W. Bushremoved North Korea from the list as part of a deal in which the North began to take steps to dismantle its nuclear complex at Yongbyon. But in early 2009, it conducted its second nuclear weapons test and said it would begin reversing those steps. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CONAN O'BRIEN In a new interview, Dick Cheney says former President Bush ignored his advice to take military action against Iran's nuclear program. That's true. Bush also ignored Cheney's advice to attack Switzerland, Jamaica and Antarctica. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama plans to open negotiations on Wednesday to draft a new arms control treaty that could slash the American and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals by about a third and possibly lead to even deeper reductions, according to administration officials. As Mr. Obama arrived in London on Tuesday for his first European trip as president, American and Russian officials have privately indicated that they could agree to reducing their stockpiles perhaps to about 1,500 warheads apiece, down from the 2,200 allowed under a treaty signed by President George W. Bush. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

During the 2008 campaign, President Obama promised to deal with one of the world's great scourges -- thousands of nuclear weapons still in the American and Russian arsenals. He said he would resume arms-control negotiations -- the sort that former President George W. Bush disdained -- and seek deep cuts in pursuit of an eventual nuclear-free world. There is no time to waste. In less than nine months, the 1991 Start I treaty expires. It contains the basic rules of verification that give both Moscow and Washington the confidence that they know the size and location of the other's nuclear forces. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President George W. Bush, and his aides, could hardly wait to get rid of all those tiresome arms-control treaties when they took office. They tore up the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty to make way for a still largely pie-in-the-sky missile defense system. They opposed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and never made a serious effort to win a ban on the production of fissile material (the core of a nuclear weapon). Mr. Bush grudgingly signed his one and only arms-reduction treaty with the Russians in 2002. That means that today -- 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall -- the United States and Russia still have more than 20,000 nuclear weapons, with thousands ready to launch within minutes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Bush deflected a secret request by Israel last year for specialized bunker-busting bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran's main nuclear complex and told the Israelis that he had authorized new covert action intended to sabotage Iran's suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons, according to senior American and foreign officials. White House officials never conclusively determined whether Israel had decided to go ahead with the strike before the United States protested, or whether Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel was trying to goad the White House into more decisive action before Mr. Bush left office. But the Bush administration was particularly alarmed by an Israeli request to fly over Iraq to reach Iran's major nuclear complex at Natanz, where the country's only known uranium enrichment plant is located. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her North Korean counterpart on Wednesday for the first time, and prodded the government in Pyongyang to move quickly to dismantle its nuclear arms program. The meeting in Singapore between Ms. Rice, President Bush's top diplomat, and Pak Ui-chun, the foreign minister of the country Mr. Bush labeled as part of the ''axis of evil'' in 2002, occurred with surprisingly little fanfare, given the years of buildup. Bush administration officials said Ms. Rice and Mr. Pak spoke for a few minutes after an 80-minute official conference among the United States, North Korea, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea in Singapore outside a regional meeting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Increasingly tough warnings from President Bush and his European allies have done nothing to temper Iran's stance on its nuclear program, worsening the confrontation over what American officials and others suspect is a covert Iranian plan to build an atomic bomb. In Germany for meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Bush emphasized again on Wednesday that ''all options are on the table'' in any response to what is suspected of being Iranian research into developing nuclear weapons. Those options would include the possibility of military force, he said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Chancellor Angela Merkel plays host to President Bush on Tuesday and Wednesday, it will be well away from the bright lights of this capital. Closeted in the elegant Schloss Meseberg, the government's guesthouse northwest of here, Mr. Bush will be doing no walking tours in Berlin and giving no major speeches. Instead, he will use the time to talk to Mrs. Merkel, one of his favorite leaders in Europe, about the Middle East, energy security and, above all, Iran's nuclear program. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the annals of role reversal, the switch by the United Nations' atomic sleuths in Vienna and the American intelligence community has been striking. Having long taken a back seat to the Bush administration in publicly challenging Iran's nuclear program, the global inspectors last week moved into the driver's seat, demanding that Tehran come clean on any progress it has made toward building a bomb. What gives? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Bush said Tuesday that last week's disclosure of what senior American officials called evidence of a nearly completed nuclear reactor in Syria was intended to warn North Korea and Iran about the dangers of spreading nuclear weapons. Mr. Bush also defended his administration's decision to keep that evidence secret for more than seven months after Israeli bombers destroyed the Syrian building on Sept. 6. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Imagine if President Bush announced a plan for Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs that declared: They will cease accumulating nuclear weapons by 2025. We will accomplish this through incentives and voluntary action, without mandates. Mr. Bush would be ridiculed, but in essence, that's the plan he announced for climate change on Wednesday. He set a target for halting the growth in carbon dioxide emissions by 2025, without specific mandates to achieve that, and in the meantime he blasted proposed Senate legislation for tougher measures as unnecessary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

George Bush and Vladimir Putin, after months of acrimony and years of inaction, are suddenly ready to talk seriously about serious matters. We hope it is not too late, since both are nearly at the end of their presidencies. There are certainly a lot of things they need to address. For one, nuclear weapons. Since they agreed on the 2002 Moscow Treaty -- which will bring both sides down to between 1,700 and 2,200 fielded weapons -- there have been no talks about any deeper cuts or reductions in the thousands of weapons they keep as back up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's comments on U.S. President George W. Bush's visit in the Middle East. The author says that Bush went there to promote freedom and global democracy. In meetings with leaders, Bush condemned the National Intelligence Estimate, saying that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. According to the author, there had been three incidents of violence before the president arrived in the Middle East.

The article reflects on the latest U.S. national intelligence estimate (NIE) report about Iran. It is stated that the good part of the news being, Tehran halting its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003, so U.S. President George W. Bush has absolutely no reason to go to war with Iran. It is opined that it will be harder for international bodies to pressure Iran in curtailing its fuel program.

The article comments on the U.S. approach towards Iran's nuclear program. While President George W. Bush is talking about World War III in the context of the Iranian nuclear program, striking the nuclear facilities will not be a solution, comments the article. This is because Iran reportedly has sophisticated centrifuges beside what it has at Natanz facility, comments the article. Bombing is unlikely to deter Iran from pursuing its program, comments the article

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush has cited the encouragement of the nuclear weapons development program of Iran as a risk to the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Speaking at an American Legion meeting in Reno, Nevada, Bush also cited that the withdrawal will ease activities of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Middle East.

The article reflects on the prolonged controversy between Russia and the U.S. regarding deployment of nuclear weapons. It has been anticipated that U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin will put an end to the long term business of nuclear weapons in their meeting at Bush's family house in Kennebunkport, Maine.

The article comments on the lessons that the U.S. can learn from its successful negotiations with North Korea. North Korea has agreed to move toward dismantling its nuclear weapons program in exchange for fuel oil and international acceptance. The U.S. government had insisted that U.S. President George W. Bush had not compromised on anything because the Chinese, Japanese, South Koreans and Russians were also involved.

The article reports that John D. Negroponte, nominated as U.S. deputy Secretary of State, has advocated U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign policy with Iran. The U.S. has refused to hold direct talks with Iran over two major issues, namely its nuclear programs and its stance toward Iraq. The administration of Bush declared that talks with Iran will be initiated only if Tehran suspends its enrichment of uranium.

The article reports that Iran's proposal about capturing terrorists, resolving nuclear disputes and stabilizing Iraq has been rejected by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Iran offered the proposal in exchange for the U.S. lifting sanctions and warming up to Iran. The article suggested that rejection of Iran's offer could be fatal to the U.S. interests.

The article informs that Iraq has started enriching uranium in a second network of centrifuges in defiance of a demand by the United Nations Security Council that it halt its nuclear program. United States President George W. Bush has stated that though the network is doubled by them, the idea of Iran having a nuclear weapon is unacceptable.

The article reports on U.S. President George W. Bush's vow to strictly monitor North Korea's nuclear program. After the nuclear test by North Korea, Bush declared that the U.S. will hold the country accountable if it shared nuclear material. Bush's vow will require high level of intelligence and international diplomatic cooperation. For the purpose, the U.S. will have to invest in technology for fingerprinting of nuclear materials.

Focuses on criticisms against the decision of U.S. President George W. Bush to legitimize India's nuclear program.

Comments on the opposition of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration to the spread of nuclear weapons.

Focuses on efforts of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to identify a dozen possible strikes it views as most plausible or devastating, including detonation of a nuclear device in a major city, release of sarin nerve agent in office buildings and a truck bombing of a sports arena. Background on the document, known as the National Planning Scenarios; Comments of Matt A. Mayer, acting executive director of Homeland Security's Office of state and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness, which is in charge of the effort; Why President George W. Bush requested the list of priorities; Overview of the 15 descriptions of hypothetical terrorist attacks, disease outbreaks and natural disasters to help set spending priorities and focus emergency planning efforts. INSET: 15 Nightmares for Disaster Planning.

Focuses on a report which describes U.S. intelligence on Iran as inadequate to allow firm judgments about weapons programs. How the panel's report comes as intelligence agencies prepare a new formal assessment on Iran; Warnings from the President George W. Bush administration about what it says are Iran's efforts to build nuclear weapons; Denials by Tehran's government; Background on the nine-member bipartisan presidential panel, led by Laurence Silberman and Charles S. Robb; Expectation that the panel will be sharply critical of U.S. intelligence on North Korea; Mention of a review by the Senate Intelligence Committee into the quality of intelligence on Iran as an effort to pre-empt any repeat of the experience in Iraq.

Reports that President Bush said that he and German, British, and French leaders had discussed negotiating tactics to try to get Iran to give up its suspected nuclear weapons program. Possibility that Mr. Bush would consider offering incentives to dissuade Iran from its nuclear ambitions; Reference to the fact that the tactic of incentives, favored by the Europeans, was rejected by the Bush administration as recently as two weeks ago; No indication that the U.S. would directly join in the talks; Efforts by President Bush to repair relationships in Europe ruptured after the war with Iraq and to soothe growing fears that Iran would become the next battleground for the U.S.

Focuses on the U.S. and the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. How lines have blurred as nuclear technology has spread; Suggestion that the President George W. Bush administration has sent conflicting signals about what it will do if diplomacy fails to disarm Iran and North Korea; Reference to Israel, India and Pakistan and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Comments of analysts; Question of how far the Europeans are willing to let the Iranians go in developing a civilian nuclear capability that could be converted to military use; Outlook.

Reports that U.S. President Bush has said that the United States did not intend to attack Iran to crush a nuclear weapons program.