1.
Prodigy, 21, about to become doctor
WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has urged the international community to criminalize proliferation and close nuclear loopholes.
Such loopholes, he said, allow countries like Iran to produce weapons-grade nuclear material.
Powell presented the proposal as part of a seven-point action plan he laid out before the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday, underlining the Bush administration's strategy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
Such measures, he said, had become unavoidable after the uncovering of "one particular nefarious network -- that of A.Q. Khan," a Pakistani nuclear scientist.
Khan was Pakistan's chief nuclear scientist and is considered the father of his country's nuclear bomb. Last month he confessed to selling nuclear secrets and technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea, nations that are considered "the rogue states" by the U.S. administration.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Additional Top News Stories | |
CHICAGO, June 4 (UPI) --
A 21-year-old Chicago-area man is about to become the youngest person ever to receive a medical degree from the University of Chicago, officials say.
|
LAS VEGAS, June 4 (UPI) --
Nineteen-year-old Miss Rhode Island USA Olivia Culpo was named Miss USA 2012 at a pageant in Las Vegas.
|
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 4 (UPI) --
An oil discovery in the Texas Panhandle could be one of the better performing wells drilled in the Lower 48, the top executive at Chesapeake Energy said.
|
Students get city to allow chickens ... Waitress gets half-million-dollar refund ... Italy introduces ice cream for dogs ... High school junior brings 'Bieber' to prom ... Watercooler stories from UPI.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption
