| 2008. 3.25 | [U.S.A.] Pentagon admits mistaken nuclear arms shipment. Shipping by mistake electrical fuses for an intercontinental ballistic missile to Taiwan.Four of the cone-shaped fuses were shipped to Taiwanese officials in fall 2006 instead of the helicopter batteries they had ordered.
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| 2008. 4.25 | [U.S.A.]U.S. government sources say that Israel's decision to attack Syria on Sept. 6, bombing a suspected nuclear site set up in apparent collaboration with North Korea, came after Israel shared intelligence with President Bush this summer indicating that North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria.
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| 2008. 5.20 | [China]Earthquake in Sichuan province, nuclear sites damaged. Two nuclear fuel production sites and two atomic weapons sites, between 40 and 90 miles from the epicentre.
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| 2008. 5.22 | [U.S.A.]Fire onboard nuclear powered Nimitz class US Aircraft Carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Fire was detected in the morning near aft air conditioning and refrigeration space and auxiliary boiler room, spread to more places through electrical cable way. Ships crew as a team extinguished the fire after several hours of fire fighting. 23 crew members were treated for heat stress and one crew was treated for first degree burns.
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| 2008. 6.15 | [U.S.A.]Blueprints for a sophisticated nuclear bomb may have been passed in recent years to Iran or North Korea ? or even to terrorist groups. The bomb blueprints were discovered in 2006, but their existence has only now been made public. They were found on computers belonging to three Swiss businessmen under investigation for their ties to the smuggling ring directed by Khan, who is under house arrest for having sold nuclear secrets to Libya and other countries.
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| 2008. 6.27 | [DPRK] Destroys cooling tower at nuclear plant. Almost simultaneously, President George W. Bush announced that Washington was removing North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, and issued a proclamation lifting some sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
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| 2008. 7. 8 | [France] An accidental spillage of waste containing uranium occured at one of France's top nuclear plants. Some 30 cubic metres (over 1,000 cubic feet) of effluents containing 12 grammes (easily less than half an ounce) of uranium per litre spilled out at the Tricastin Nuclear Power Centre in Bollene in southern France.
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| 2008. 7. 9 | [Iran] Nine missiles had been fired in total, including a new Shahab-3, with a range of 2,000km (1,240 miles).
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| 2008. 7.9 | [Japan-Australia]The International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, a joint initiative of the Australian and Japanese Governments. It aims to reinvigorate international efforts on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, in the context of both the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, and beyond. Prime Minister Rudd and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed to establish the Commission.
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| 2008. 7.17 | [U.S.A.] Possible Nuclear Leak by U.S. Submarine. Japan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was informed by the U.S. Navy that a small amount of radiation might have leaked from the nuclear-powered USS Houston as it traveled around the Pacific.
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| 2008. 7.18 | [France] Another "Incident" at French Nuclear Plant. A security incident has occurred at a French nuclear site already under scrutiny due to other scares this summer. Two fuel units became snagged in a reactor at Tricastin in southern France when site workers were removing them for maintenance. The reactor building was evacuated.
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| 2008. 7.26 | [Iran]Remark by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran possesses more than 5,000 centrifuges, which can produce nuclear material suitable for a power plant or, if highly enriched, an atomic bomb.
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| 2008. 8.9 | [U.S.A.]Democratic Party Platform on Nuke and Nonproliferation Issues, approved.
Preventing the Spread and Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction:
A World Without Nuclear Weapons:America will seek a world with no nuclear weapons and take concrete actions to move in this direction. We face the growing threat of terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons or the materials to make them, as more countries seek nuclear weapons and nuclear materials remain unsecured in too many places. We will maintain a strong and reliable deterrent as long as nuclear weapons exist, but America will be safer in a world that is reducing reliance on nuclear weapons and ultimately eliminates all of them. We will make the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons worldwide a central element of U.S. nuclear weapons policy.
Secure Nuclear Weapons and the Materials to Make Them:We will work with other nations to secure, eliminate, and stop the spread of nuclear weapons and materials to dramatically reduce the dangers to our nation and the world. We will convene a summit in and regularly thereafter) of leaders of Permanent Members of the U.N. Security Council and other key countries to agree on implementing many of these measures on a global basis.
End the Production of Fissile Material:We will negotiate a verifiable global ban on the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons and work to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
End Cold War Nuclear Postures:We will work with Russia to take as many weapons as possible off Cold War, quick-launch status, and extend key provisions of the START Treaty, including its essential monitoring and verification requirements. We will not develop new nuclear weapons, and will work to create a bipartisan consensus to support ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which will strengthen the NPT and aid international monitoring of nuclear activities.
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| 2008. 9. 6 | [NSG] Approving by 45 members of The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to carry out nuclear commerce, ending 34 years of isolation of India.
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| 2008. 9.25 | [U.S.A.] U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier George Washington deployed in Yokosuka, 50 miles from metropolitan area of Tokyo.
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| 2008. 9.25 | [China] Launches 3-man crew into space China. Carries out first space walk.
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| 2008. 9.30 | [France-India] Signed a agreement for civil nuclear cooperation with France. With this pact, France became the first country to enter into a formal understanding with India after the Nuclear Suppliers Group exempted India from its guidelines earlier this month.
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| 2008.10.10 | [U.S.A.-India]US-India Nuclear treaty. The U.S. Senate ratified the deal 86 to 13 a week after the House passed it on 10.2.
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| 2008.10.11 | [U.S.A.]US removes North Korea from terrorism blacklist.@
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| 2008.10.18 | [Pakistan-China] China-Pakistan nuclear power plant deal. China to provide help to build two new nuclear power plants.
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| 2008.10.22 | [India]Satellite orbiting Moon unmanned.
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| 2008.11.4 | [U.S.A.] Barack Obama wins presidential election,pledging to move toward a nuclear free world.
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| 2008.11. 8 | [Russia]Accident on a Russian nuclear submarine. At least 20 people died in when a fire extinguishing system was activated by mistake.The dead are reported to be six sailors and 14 civilians.
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| 2008.11.12 | [Iran]Tests of new anti-ship missile in Gulf of Oman.
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| 2008.12. 2 | [United Nations]Resolution, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, adopted by the General Assembly.
175 in favour to 1 against(United States), 3 abstentions(India, Mauritius, Syria),and 14 absents (Angola, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Peoplefs Republic of Korea, Gambia, Haiti, Kiribati, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tuvalu).
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| 2008.12. 5 | [Russia-India]India-Russia nuclear deal signed. |
| 2009. 2.13 | [China]
Defense Minister Liang Guanglie, China's intention to build aircraft carriers.Reports state that two 50,000-60,000 ton aircraft carriers are due to be finished by 2015. |
| 2009. 2.3 | [UK- France]
Two British and French nuclear submarines collision in heavy seas in the Atlantic. Each carries 16 M45 ballistic missiles, weighs 35 tons each, carries six warheads and has a range of around 5,000 miles. |
| 2009. 2.25 | [Iran]
The first test of nuclear power plant. Tests were carried out at the Bushehr nuclear power plant using "dummy" fuel rods, loaded with lead in place of enriched uranium to simulate nuclear fuel. |
| 2009. 3.7 | [U.S.A.- Russia]
Russia and U.S.A. set out demands for a comprehensive new nuclear weapons agreement to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start I) of 1991. On June 6 President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev began talks toward reducing their nuclear arsenals by nearly a third. |
| 2009. 3.24 | [France]
FRANCE: The French government to compensate victims of nuclear tests for the first time. A draft bill to be submitted to parliament. On December .23 French lawmakers approved legislation to compensate victims of atomic tests carried out over almost 40 years in the Algerian Sahara and French Polynesia. |
| 2009. 4. 6 | [DPRK] Llaunching the rocket at 11:30 a.m. local time, or 10:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Early reports from the Japanese prime ministerfs office indicated that the three-stage rocket appeared to launch successfully, with the first stage falling into the Sea of Japan and the second stage into the Pacific. South Korea vowed a gstern and resoluteh response to the Northfs greckless act.h North Korean officials confirmed on February 24 that their country is making preparations to launch a communications satellite, a move that would also constitute a new test of North Korean missile capabilities. |
| 2009. 4. 6 | [U.S.A.]
Obama's speach of the nuclear weapons-free world. He told a crowd of tens of thousands gathered in morning sunshine in Prague that America, as the sole country ever to fire a nuclear weapon in anger, bore the moral responsibility for launching a new era of nuclear disarmament aimed at eliminating nuclear stockpiles. His presidency, Obama declared, would see "America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons".Obama said he would downgrade the role ascribed to nuclear weapons in the US's national security doctrines. He pledged he would press the US Senate "immediately and aggressively" to ratify the comprehensive test ban treaty never fully endorsed by the Americans. "It is time for the testing of nuclear weapons to be banned," said the president. |
| 2009. 4.13 | [UN]
The Security Council condemnation for North Korea's missile tests. It said it will punish them with tougher sanctions.Although all 15 council members agreed, the statement was a weaker response than Japan and the US wanted - Russia and China opposed their attempt to go tougher on the communist state. |
| 2009. 4.15 | [DPRK]
Withdrawal from six-party talks, in response to UN condemnation of its launch of a rocket on April 5. The U.S. State Department confirmed that its inspection team, completely separate from the IAEA mission, had also been told to leave.International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, who monitored the disablement of a nuclear facility in North Korea, have left the site with surveillance cameras switched off on Pyongyang's demand. |
| 2009. 4.24 | [EU]
European Parliament approves with a majority of 177 votes against 130 an amendment introducing the "Model Nuclear Weapons Convention" and the "Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol" as concrete tools to achieve a nuclear weapons free world by 2020. |
| 2009. 5. 6 | [UN]
Recommendation by The third PrepCom for the 2010 NPT Review Conference. Reaffirm the commitments of States parties under Article VI relating the nuclear disarmament. |
| 2009. 5.13 | [Russia]
New national security strategy, an updated version of its 1997 policy, outlines major threats to the country's national security and defines its national interests. The strategy paper, "a comprehensive and fundamental document" intended to last until 2020, was approved by President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday and released by the Kremlin on Wednesday.
the United States' plan to deploy a missile defense system in Central Europe has remarkably reduced the possibility of safeguarding the global and regional stability. Therefore, Russia will pursue a "rational and pragmatic" foreign policy, avoiding costly confrontation and a new arms race, the document said. Russia will actively participate in multilateral cooperation and make its cooperation with Commonwealth of Independent States members a priority, the paper said. |
| 2009. 5.25 | [DPRK]
The second nuclear test. North Korea insists it has a right to nuclear weapons, it has staged a "successful" underground nuclear test.The state says it was more powerful than the previous one in October 2006. The North Korea gave no details of the test location, but South Korean officials said that a seismic tremor was detected in the north-eastern part around the town of Kilju - the site of North Korea's first nuclear test. The US Geological Survey said a 4.7-magnitude quake was detected at 0054 GMT, 10km (six miles) underground. |
| 2009. 6.13 | [DPRK]
Says it will start enriching uranium. A few hours after the U.N. Security Council slapped it with tough new sanctions for detonating a second nuclear device, the government of Kim Jong Il changed its tune, vowing that it would start enriching uranium to make more nuclear weapons.
Declaring that it would meet sanctions with "retaliation," North Korea also pledged to "weaponize" all the plutonium it could extract from used fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant, which was partially disabled last year as part of the North's agreement to win food, fuel and diplomatic concessions in return for a promise to end its nuclear program. |
| 2009. 7.2 | [IAEA]
Japan's Yukiya Amano chosen as the next head. He touched on the devastation U.S. atom bombs wreaked on his country in pledging to do his utmost to prevent the spread of nuclear arms.The decision by the 35-nation International Atomic Energy Agency board ended a tug of war on who should succeed Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, who saw his agency vaulted into prominence during a high-profile 12-year tenure. |
| 2009. 7. 6 | [U.S.A.-Russia]
The US and Russia agreement to work towards cutting deployed nuclear warheads to as few as 1,500 each.U.S.A President Obama and the Russian prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, signed a framework deal aimed at cutting warheads to a maximum of 1,675 within seven years of a nuclear arms reduction treaty coming into force.
Current treaties allow for a maximum of 2,200 warheads, though both sides are thought to have more than that deployed, or capable of launch. According to some expert estimates of current numbers, the new commitment would mean each side scrapping almost 1,000 warheads.
The pact signed also calls for the number of strategic delivery systems to be reduced to between 500 and 1,100 on each side, from 1,600 under current treaties. Such systems include intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched missiles and heavy bombers. |
| 2009. 9.17 | [U.S.A.]
US withdrawal of Central Europe Missile Defense Shield. The Obama administration quietly announced it. |
| 2009. 9.24 | [UN]
UN security council votes unanimously for a resolution on disarmament and non-proliferation.
The summit in New York represented the first time the security council had met to focus on the elimination of nuclear weapons. Barack Obama, who at the same time became the first US president to chair a council session, described the resolution as "historic", saying it "enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons".
The resolution calls for states with nuclear weapons to continue disarming, to ratify a ban on testing them and to agree a treaty stopping the production of fissile material. In return, non weapons states should accept stronger safeguards designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.The resolution, however, is non-binding, and there are many obstacles to its aspirations becoming reality. |
| 2009. 9.24 | [UK]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown signales at the U.N. General Assembly that he is prepared to scale back the country's Trident submarine nuclear deterrent as part of a "global bargain" to reduce the world's nuclear arsenal. |
| 2009. 9.24 | [UN]
Conference on Facilitating the Entry Into Force of the CTBT ). U.S.A. joined. |
| 2009. 9.25 | [Iran]
Iran admits secret uranium enrichment plant, sending. a letter to Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying it had established a second pilot uranium enrichment plant, parallel to the one monitored by the IAEA in Natanz. November 30 Iran authorizes 10 new uranium plants |
| 2009.10.14 | [France]
Reports of discovery of kilos of plutonium at a plant in Cadarache in the south of France which was closed in 2003. The discovery has brought to a halt the dismantling of the plant and raised questions over when the discovery was made.The plant at Cadarache produced MOX for nuclear reactors. It was shut down in 2003 and was in the process of being dismantled since March this year. |
| 2009.11. 6 | [Germany]
Agreement of the new German CDU (Christian Democrat) and FDP (Liberals) coalition on a policy of withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from Germany. |
| 2009.12. 2 | [UN]
U.N. General Assembly's adoption of a Japan-initiated resolution on abolishing nuclear arms that the United States joined as one of the proposing nations for the first time. Similar resolutions have been passed annually for the past 16 years, and this year was the first time in nine years for the United States to declare its support. While North Korea and India voted against, and eight other countries including China, France and Iran abstained, the resolution passed the assembly with 171 votes. |
| 2009.12. 5 | [U.S.A.- Russia]
Expiration of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1) signed by the United States and the Soviet Union on July 31, 1991, five months before the U.S.S.R. collapsed. |
| 2009.12.10 | [Norway- U.S.A.]
Barack Obama's Nobel Prize Acceptance. "Still, we are at war, and I am responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill. Some will be killed.War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man." " At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease - the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences. Over time, as codes of law sought to control violence within groups, so did philosophers, clerics, and statesmen seek to regulate the destructive power of war." " The concept of a "just war" emerged, suggesting that war is justified only when it meets certain preconditions: if it is waged as a last resort or in self-defense; if the forced used is proportional, and if, whenever possible, civilians are spared from violence. So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable truths - that war is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings." |