WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The Obama administration is planning a series of "game changing" moves on the issue of global nuclear disarmament, members of an international commission said at the weekend.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The recommendation of a State Department advisory panel that the United States band together with other existing nuclear powers to build safeguards into the growing market for reactor capacity risks fanning nationalistic hostility in the Third World to global anti-proliferation regimes, say some critics.

WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- The United States should embrace a global expansion of civil nuclear power generation, in order to ensure that it and other supplier nations can build safeguards into the growing market, says a report from a State Department advisory panel.

WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- A report from a State Department advisory panel says a coming large expansion in global nuclear power generation poses proliferation risks, but the United States must embrace it to ensure that nuclear supplier nations build safeguards into the growing market.

WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- A new blue-ribbon commission set up by Congress to offer the next administration advice about keeping nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of rogue states and terrorists held its first meeting in Washington last week.

WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Russia is considering opting out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces missile disarmament treaty, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

BRASILIA, Brazil, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Brazil denied any wrongdoing Friday following reports that it may have obtained its nuclear centrifuge technology from a rogue Pakistani scientist.

WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) -- The large stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium in the United States and Russia represent an enormous security challenge that is not being adequately addressed by either country, according to think tank analysts who specialize in nuclear non-proliferation

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